Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | The Doctor followed the narrow road down through a small valley , before climbing back up towards a bare hilltop where he could make out a number of tiny wooden crosses , like a forest of lifeless bonsai trees . |
| 5 | Once past her garden , Clare turned off the narrow lane on to a path hedged high with hawthorn , which led up the gently rising hill behind the cottage to the wood . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | and the salt-cracked slipway down from the jetty . |
| 9 | " 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | It was a gentle climb through the sub-Alpine forest on to the melting snowline . |
| 12 | ‘ Get the damn thing out of the way ! ’ yelled Harold Shoosmith . |
| 13 | By the time he reached the low bridge on to the wharfs , he had decided to try and see Julie that afternoon . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She glanced round her , there were boots to be tapped , heavy working boots belonging to Cleg the Coal with the sole hanging off like a ragged tongue . |
| 16 | He is the odd man out at the ball , he only wants one kiss , but it always eludes him . ’ |
| 17 | So from a view of the president as impotent and ineffective and helpless you have a view of the president as being er the action man , the crisis manager and it 's Lincoln 's view , the Linc Lin Lincolnian view of the presidency which has survived er an and developed with , with the odd , the odd hark back to a previous , a previous age . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The boy threw the sticky grain up into the air and the pigeons swooped down after it . |
| 20 | There could be no quicker way than this to appreciate how different things are climatically on the two sides of the mountains , because not only do you exchange cold cloud for sunshine but also the lush greenery of the high valleys to the north for the grass less , stony and , in summer , almost waterless river valley which leads on the Spanish side down to the small town of Bielsa ( a little trippery , inevitably , but a place of some character ) . |
| 21 | I would n't be surprised if they were the sort of people who had the stolen bicycle down in the bushes . |
| 22 | Calm and quiet , Trent picked him as the technical adviser along for the trip but without direct responsibility for the outcome . |
| 23 | The oral shield has an irregular shape , although it may sometimes be hourglass shaped , and extends from the oral frame on to the interradial area . |
| 24 | The problem with the political-business cycle literature lies in the fact that it attempts to deal with the popularity of governments and the nature of public policy-making solely on the basis of a consideration of economic variables alone and so isolates the economic dimension out of the larger political context and ignores the vital part played by non-economic factors in contributing to electoral success . |
| 25 | but he keeps going up to the gnomes and saying hello is that no he come home the other night and the , we , no the other day Sam he tipped all the bloody soil out of the earth and done something else , he said he 's a naughty boy and she 's said to Sam he wants a smacking he said I 'm not smacking him |
| 26 | Get the bloody thing back in the k ! |
| 27 | the bloody postman down as a |
| 28 | I also know how to get the red-tailed buzzard out of a tree at night , so if it flies off I stay by the tree in which it settles until dark , then I go and fetch sticks and a torch so that I can see what I 'm doing . |
| 29 | Does it have to enrol , turn up at a classroom , do homework , remember to take the right equipment along in a bag ? |
| 30 | Remember to rub the right date off with a copper coin of the realm or you ca n't go anywhere . |