Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The forms tell strongly on the curving surface and the figure-zone is widened for them , its background left bare or scattered with small flower-shapes , a calyx of pointed leaves or petals at the base and the areas of fine lines reduced to narrow borders of two or three ( figs. 7 and 8 ) . |
| 2 | At the same time , the earthworms burrow deep into the subsoil bringing minerals to the surface , churning and mixing mineral and organic matter in their gizzards , depositing the excavated material on or near the surface in very stable crumbs exactly the right size for optimum exploitation by plant root-hairs . |
| 3 | By providing sentencers with one set of criteria relating to the circumstances of the offence in question , and a different range of criteria taking into account relevant characteristics of the offender , the guide-lines operate rather in the manner of a road mileage chart , enabling the appropriate , or ‘ presumptive ’ , penalty to be simply ‘ read off ’ from the matrix supplied . |
| 4 | The flames spread quickly through the workshops of this scrap yard at Elmstone Hardwick near Cheltenham . |
| 5 | A detailed study of figure 1 will show that in the first three minutes after outbreak , the height of the flames grow approximately to the height of the ‘ level ’ of racking on which the fire started , by five minutes some four levels have been involved , and by seven minutes to eight minutes the flames will be breaking out at the top of the racking . |
| 6 | Last night angry shareholders called on the Deanses to go now for the good of the 117-year-old club . |
| 7 | The topology of the three helices in the NMR structure , and the assignment of the residues that make up the helices agree well with the crystal structure . |
| 8 | He added to the estates received directly from the Crown by acquiring the estates of landowners indebted to Jews . |
| 9 | I am thinking of domestics , porters and maintenance staff , who are grossly underpaid and who are suffering badly as a result of administration of hospital trusts and the attempts to break away from the national negotiating machinery . |
| 10 | As Table 5 shows , 66 per cent of the investigations conducted alone by the Team resulted in partial or complete substantiation , 20 per cent were judged to be unsubstantiated and well intentioned and 14 per cent were unsubstantiated and suspected of being maliciously intended . |
| 11 | Vocational school pupils in the cities come mainly from the urban working class . |
| 12 | At last , while the shadow of the ramparts reached quickly over the grass , they gathered up the debris of their afternoon and skipped or ran or walked or grumbled up the slopes to home . |
| 13 | Not only our farmers but everyone else would suffer if we followed the views expressed yesterday by the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 14 | The big financial sections in the dailies owed more to the growth of appropriate advertising in the 1960s than to a surge of reader interest . |
| 15 | Herzen believed that the reputation of the courts suffered more from the way in which they transacted their business than from the verdicts at which they arrived . |
| 16 | The ducks gazed thoughtfully at the sky and flapped their wings , but not so much as a peep was uttered by any of them . |
| 17 | Henri and I sheltered them for a while , but of course it was very risky with the Germans billeted everywhere except the smallest cottages . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's probably one of them , ’ said Lydia , ‘ — one of the lunatics giggling away in the night . ’ |
| 19 | He took a deep breath , then slammed the piano lid down so hard the notes reverberated all round the theatre . |
| 20 | Her only pleasure in it now was the notes left all over the place by her father : cheery instructions in a classical scholar 's hand , written on the gummed labels used by the more pious English government departments to get a second use out of old envelopes . |
| 21 | High fences around Admiralty installations gave good views as the birds perched briefly on the wires , taking their bearings . |
| 22 | Similarly , damage to the ancient Chinese fang ding and the lead solder used to repair it are clearly visible on the radiograph ( fig. 8.8c ) , in which the X-rays pass easily through the restorer 's plaster and false patina . |
| 23 | Certainly , in St Ann 's , the condition of the houses bears immediately on the lives of the people . |
| 24 | The houses date mostly from the 1910–20 era , and are in poor condition . |
| 25 | The remaining four review the plans put forward by the business units and challenge them ; as one company commented , ‘ playing devil 's advocate ’ . |
| 26 | In Cheshire the plans put forward by the boundary commissioners were opposed by local Unionists and counter-proposals put forward by their chairman , Sir Alan Sykes . |
| 27 | The Lions eased away after the anticipated all-action start from North Harbour and a 70-yard touch kick by Rob Andrew set up the first score in the ninth minute . |
| 28 | I saw two or three of the knights haled away into the woods . |
| 29 | In the course of its provincial party convention on March 9-10 , the ruling Liberal Party in Quebec adopted the Allaire report which called for almost full political autonomy for the province , contrary to the proposals put forward in the Meech Lake Accord [ for collapse of which in June 1990 see p. 37519 ] and despite the opposition of the party leader and Quebec Premier , Robert Bourassa . |
| 30 | Mrs Angela Rumbold , Education Minister , said in a BBC Radio interview that there was no question of reviving the proposals put forward by the Higginson Committee for a ‘ leaner and fitter ’ five-subject Alevel . |