Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basically , the FS-77 offers control over the Quad X 's main features in a very no-nonsense fashion . |
| 2 | This really is not as difficult as it sounds as the strong lights black out the background and the cameras are surprisingly easy to ignore . |
| 3 | Remove the shoot tip to leave a cutting about 9 inches ( 23cm ) long , and then trim away the lower leaves to leave only the top two . |
| 4 | I got into the car ; we started to reverse the fifty yards back up the drive . |
| 5 | Once an integrated representation of the clause as a unit is created , the specific words making up the clause can be discarded from memory to make way for the words of the next clause . |
| 6 | Well , I I still look ahead , and I recognize the loyalist paramilitaries have now the potential to become the major force . |
| 7 | The ability of the loyalist terrorists to track down the location is an illustration of how much better their intelligence on the IRA has become . |
| 8 | Selecting the right personnel to carry out the PR function . |
| 9 | He was very nearly as tall as her , but she put an arm under his shoulders and supported him to the untidy room which served as the stable office , calling to one of the stable girls to take over the class . |
| 10 | The problem is , it seems that the , both the Liberal and the Labour budgets do precisely the opposite , they 've obviously decided to adopt an approach of spend , spend , spend now and hang the consequences for the future . |
| 11 | As the mouldboards lifted and inverted the soil , the tines on the powered rotors broke up the furrow slices . |
| 12 | There were candles on the altar , on the pulpit , on the deep stone ledges of the windows , and the glossy leaves gave back the candle flames ' reflections . |
| 13 | A two-game tour Hong Kong in January , including one international , ended with the embarrassed hosts wondering how the Taiwanese had learned to roll mauls and ruck with such proficiency and ferocity . |
| 14 | The uphill fairways kill off the old boys . |
| 15 | The English archers broke up the Scottish positions and the Earl of Dunbar and Robert the Steward fled with their troops . |
| 16 | The 2 friends took up the tandem around 5 months ago especially for the race . |
| 17 | The Siege of Praag lasted throughout the spring and summer , during which time the brave defenders held back the greater part of the Chaos forces . |
| 18 | We can reiterate the conclusion drawn in Section 6.8 that the metric connections replace both the inertial and the gravitational forces of classical mechanics . |
| 19 | Twelve of the 30 units making up the new HND in Social Care . |
| 20 | The British Isles linger off the shores of continental Europe , uncertain whether to be apart or a part , and their cattle have developed to some degree in isolation but also with many strong two-way links with the cattle of the Continent . |
| 21 | Mistakenly thinking it would do no harm to put her at her ease — she was a plain woman with the faintest smell of spirits on her breath even at ten o'clock in the morning — he had mentioned the interesting photographs hung on the stairway leading to the stalls . |
| 22 | The French forces won back the city , but when they reached the residence of Ho Chi Minh they found he had gone . |
| 23 | The different definitions open up the possibility of divergent interpretations . |
| 24 | It smelt of camphor as if the old clothes hanging on the racks had just been taken out of ancient chests . |
| 25 | The old men started up the music and the eunuchs began to dance . |
| 26 | The social sciences took up the challenge and , importantly for the development of International Relations , paraded economics as an exemplary application of scientific method to human affairs . |
| 27 | Face rubbed against face , the taller ones squelching down the shorter ones , the darker ones overshadowing the lighter ones . |
| 28 | This is because the dark scales soak up the sunlight , to warm the butterfly . |
| 29 | It has rubble-stone walls and its steeply pitched roofs make the granite-capped chimneys seem all the higher . |
| 30 | The annual demands to bring back the rope , the murmurings about repatriating immigrants , the calls to purge the nation of social welfare scroungers , were for them a sojourn in purgatory . |