Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is still the definitive cinematic story of the attack and , for all the commercial flaws of the film , it stands alone in technical accuracy and the actual attack scenes are among the finest put together for an aviation film . |
| 2 | Tom , who worked for the British Caprotti poppet valve-gear manufacturers , Associated Locomotive Equipment Ltd , was instrumental , not only in the original design of 71000 , but also in the rebuilt carried out by the Trust . |
| 3 | And the deaf suffered along with the rest . |
| 4 | The home team , well filled with credited Wallabies , led 24–4 before Sole roused the Scots to fight back to a 24-all draw . |
| 5 | The usual sail up in the " Columba. " the story is absurdly long already . " |
| 6 | I very much regret that both the Syrians and the Lebanese stayed away from the multilaterals and that , although present , the Palestinians did not join in in a positive way . |
| 7 | But the inherent political weaknesses of the struggles , the chronic inability to attract support from other sections of labour , and the social composition of the unemployed led directly to a collapse of militancy after state intervention . |
| 8 | As I banked to port to make a full beam attack on the nearest 88 I sighted the 109s coming down on the other three . |
| 9 | While the English waited patiently for a fetch to appear , as a summons for mortals to proceed to the grave , it is interesting to note that the word was adapted by the Portuguese as fetisso ( magician or oracle ) , and involved a concentrated worship of idols to determine the future , including the time of death . |
| 10 | Until the English clamped down on the custom my forefathers all used the prefix ‘ ap ’ in front of their names — the last king of South Wales , for instance , was Rhys ap Tewdwr . |
| 11 | He 's wirily built , not tall : large feet in huge old leather boots , and here , as later on the steep pull up onto the Crazy Pinnacle , he climbs with a deft , urgent economy . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , the British edged closer to the Triple Alliance and might still be persuaded to take the strain of direct opposition to Russia , if Russia moved . |
| 13 | From their Edwardian dominance of golf and tennis , the British slipped back to the second rank . |
| 14 | Its precise effect on the allocation of investment resources would depend on the detailed working out of the disciplines , and the Treasury certainly took no chances on a complete return to the free market in investment capital . |
| 15 | The passionate concern for their fellow countrymen shown by the French contrasted sharply with the stiff upper lip of the British . |
| 16 | As they left the turn the French paddled off at a tangent and tried to run the Romanians into the landing pontoon in front of all the VIPs . |
| 17 | Thirty years later , the rapid reconquest of the duchy by the French owed much to the threat posed by the French king 's artillery against the defences of towns which preferred to surrender than to make a fight of it . |
| 18 | Their enterprising approach brought them profits ; the Hudson 's Bay Company got 10 beaverskins for a gun at its posts on the Bay , but to the Indians this was the final stage in a complicated pattern of inland trade , so that when the French travelled out to the central hunting areas they were able to save the Indians all the transport and trading costs and could get 30 beaverskins for a gun . |
| 19 | Helped by his immense clubbability , Sinclair 's influence in the higher reaches of Whitehall by the mid-1930s extended well beyond the Foreign Office . |
| 20 | In view of the abrupt falling on in the numbers of husbandmen above £20 , plus the fact that this figure coincides roughly with the wealth of the average yeoman , farmers assessed at and above it can pragmatically be counted as yeomen . |
| 21 | This has had major impacts on occupational structure and the social make up of the town , on lifestyles , culture and politics . |
| 22 | In ten days he aims to teach the six to walk properly on a lead , sit when told , lie down and stay and return to their owners from any distraction . |
| 23 | However , even those murders in real life that rise above the simple snatching up of the kitchen knife in the middle of a husband and wife row are much , much less cunningly contrived than that . |
| 24 | The bowyer came out of the back of the shop , the bow case which he had been selecting in his hands . |
| 25 | A MURDER trial was adjourned last night after one of the accused broke down in the witness box as she said her fellow defendant had suggested using shovels to bury a woman alive . |
| 26 | So the next morning , they ran down to the fence and watched the 9.15 come out of the tunnel . |
| 27 | The next morning , the 9.15 came out of the tunnel and the old gentleman put down his newspaper , ready to wave at the three children . |
| 28 | The first process depends on the carbon dioxide concentration and the path length from the external air to the chloroplasts , the second depends only on the amount of radiation absorbed , and not on the CO 2 concentration or the temperature . |
| 29 | The difference between them is that the first regress can only be stopped by certain ( = infallible ) beliefs , while the second insists merely on the existence of beliefs which are non-inferentially justified . |
| 30 | The 560 differs also from the later machines , in that when the machine is turned on , the same configuration of lights will come on as were on BEFORE the machine was turned off , including any of the pattern variation switches numbers 3 to 6 that were on . |