Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adj] [conj] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Backpackers need to keep the weight high and close to the back , but ski-mountaineers and climbers need the weight to be kept lower to increase stability , although weighty things should be kept close to the back .
2 Now before we step the mast , we need to turn the boat more or less into the wind and that 's a good chance for us to start thinking about where the wind 's coming from .
3 Because assessments of the spirit of community depend so much on highly variable subjective preferences and values , which may fluctuate according to the individual and the village concerned and even to the mood of the individual at a particular time , it is virtually impossible to generalize about whether there has or has not been a perceptible ‘ decline of community ’ in the English village .
4 The chiefs of the commissions were often older Bolsheviks of the nationality concerned and often on the Left — that is , opposed to the Party line on the national question .
5 To control the power keep the sail low and close to the water to decrease its effective area and slide one or both feet into the straps whilst lying in the water .
6 held several commands in the parliamentary navy in the period 1646–52 and again during the second Dutch war .
7 She shook her head , pointed to the baby first and then to Sycorax as if her maternal cares in both their cases meant she could not stir a moment from their side .
8 To the Jew first and also to the Greek , the Spirit of the Messiah is available through the preaching of the good news of what the Messiah has done .
9 Sometimes the fungi is n't growing in the soil proper but just under the ground on the decaying foot or stump of a tree , so a little investigation is necessary in these cases .
10 The ball is thrown to the number one and then to two and so on .
11 Because you get that silence in the room and mmm you want to fill it so but you 're right the use of the pause effective and particularly with a variation in pitch that gives that emphasis the two combined together can be very very effective .
12 And any join Well not anyone but most of the joiners did the undertaking more or less in the area they were in .
  Next page