Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is the total mark up on the jars ? |
| 2 | If the retailer sells the sugar at 52p per bag , what is the total mark up on the bags ? |
| 3 | Briefly , the field is the total event together with the purposive activity of the speaker or writer ; the mode is the function of the text in the event , including spoken or written , extempore or prepared and its genre or rhetorical mode such as narrative , didactic , persuasive , phatic communion ; the tenor refers to the type of ro∘le-interaction , the set of relevant social relations among the participants . |
| 4 | Now , as you all know , we 've got a big job on , and we 're going to have to work every hour there is to get The Hooded Owl up to the standard I know it can reach . ’ |
| 5 | In other words , the logarithm of the price level , p , appears on the right-hand side instead of the first derivative of its natural value . |
| 6 | A BP oil tanker was blocking the narrow lane down to the Old Forge , towering over the thatched cottage to which it was attached by its pipe-line as though with an umbilical cord . |
| 7 | But the liquid spreading rapidly on the pretty floral sheets was n't the sweetish , colourless amniotic fluid . |
| 8 | At the present time we correct the condition by surgery — pushing the displaced organ back to the right side and tacking it there with sutures . |
| 9 | and the salt-cracked slipway down from the jetty . |
| 10 | We explored various explanations of the present situation — such as Schumpeter 's analysis , the growth of government and the role of technology as an autonomous and primary force — and concluded that the root of the problem lay in the basic tension within humanism — the prevailing philosophy today in the Western world — namely the conflict between the desire to control and the desire to be free . |
| 11 | We explored various explanations of the present situation — such as Schumpeter 's analysis , the growth of government and the role of technology as an autonomous and primary force — and concluded that the root of the problem lay in a basic tension within humanism ( the prevailing philosophy today in the Western world ) namely between the desire to control and the desire to be free . |
| 12 | ( It is arguable that life expectancy in 1984 would respond to the prevailing GNP sometime in the past , but we shall ignore that refinement here . ) |
| 13 | " Yeah , they have to spend so much of the galactic year out of the Milky Way or the galactic tax federation hammers them for gigacredits , but instead of paying for expensive inter-galactic travel they camp out on some backwater planet still in the galaxy and just hide , see ? |
| 14 | He could taste the charred wood , the burned sap still in the air , sniff the sourness of the indigo where it had been trampled and soaked into the ground . |
| 15 | Only the male , in turn , can represent Christ , the paradigm of perfect humanity united to the Word of God.s According to Augustine , women also lack the image of God in themselves , and are related to the divine image only under the male ‘ who is their head ’ . |
| 16 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that there is general support for the emphasis that the Foreign Secretary has placed on the importance of keeping the European Commission out of the nooks and crannies of our national life ? |
| 17 | It was a gentle climb through the sub-Alpine forest on to the melting snowline . |
| 18 | ‘ Get the damn thing out of the way ! ’ yelled Harold Shoosmith . |
| 19 | The cafés of the Zuid hum late into the night as the young and fashionable regard each other 's clothes and sip De Koninck , the chestnut-coloured local ale . |
| 20 | He 'd probably had an extra delivery to make , perhaps at the occupied row further along the road . |
| 21 | By the time he reached the low bridge on to the wharfs , he had decided to try and see Julie that afternoon . |
| 22 | The low light here in the room seems to draw the walls in closer . |
| 23 | In a remarkable inversion of Soviet vocabulary , he accused radicals of pressing for power using the " neo-Bolshevik tactic " of taking the political struggle on to the streets . |
| 24 | Formed in the aftermath of the 1931 financial crisis , PEP exemplified that liberal-reformist strand of ‘ middle opinion ’ that was to grow in the 1930s and provide the basis for the political shift leftwards during the Second World War . |
| 25 | In the main it is the superstar golfers that the camera catches in the classic position halfway on the downswing with the hands almost in the hitting area and the clubhead still up by the right shoulder . |
| 26 | There obviously was er the odd incident actually inside the flats . |
| 27 | It may produce the odd shower later in the afternoon with the heating but erm a fair part of the day will be dry . ’ |
| 28 | He is the odd man out at the ball , he only wants one kiss , but it always eludes him . ’ |
| 29 | After a successful sting , like El-Jorr 's in Los Angeles , the DEA agents would turn the counterfeit currency over to the Secret Service and both could claim credit for the seizure . |
| 30 | The boy threw the sticky grain up into the air and the pigeons swooped down after it . |