Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Well , I have done the photography for the front cover and er of this particular book , but countryside books , who are the publishers , were asked a number of years ago to republish the old Berkshire village book and that has started a whole series of countryside village books , which now cover , I think , about thirty five different counties . |
| 32 | Mansell had taken pole — a record 14th in a season — but Senna 's stunning lap , good enough for the front row , while perhaps having more to do with the driver than the car , revealed that McLaren was closer than usual this year to Williams . |
| 33 | Then he noticed an open gate and beyond it a side door which he approached ; here he was told that his tickets were only good for the front door while the side doors were reserved for members . |
| 34 | Outside , the world was waiting for Mr Major 's victory oration and shortly after 1.00 he made for the front door . |
| 35 | Evelyn was heading down the hall for the front door . |
| 36 | I did n't really imagine he 'd chosen the paint for the front door on that basis , but I liked the door being that colour , though it hurt stupidly by making me remember a lot of things . |
| 37 | He got to his feet and pulled on his jacket , heading for the front door . |
| 38 | The two women jumped out and sprinted for the front door of the cottage , Donna struggling with the key . |
| 39 | She started as though to make for the front door , but Mr Hunter held up a hand to stop her . |
| 40 | She rose gracefully to her feet and made for the front door , with Melissa following . |
| 41 | Then she was bounding out of the room , heading for the front door and rushing outside into the garden . |
| 42 | Shiona parked at the front , instead of at the side of the house where everyone normally parked their cars , and , pushing back her hair , headed for the front door . |
| 43 | Well I need thirty for the front door do n't I ? |
| 44 | Ten for the front door and ten for the till . |
| 45 | I crept downstairs and was outside and successfully making for the front gate when Ted sprinted around the side of the house and grabbed me . |
| 46 | I find it easier to use the front ( pointed ) end of the iron for the front panel and the heel of the iron for the back . |
| 47 | Cover the cake with the appropriate pieces of fondant — for the front side with the holes , gently press on before neatly cutting around the holes and removing the pieces of surplus fondant . |
| 48 | That is unlike the Opposition , who have at least three conflicting policies — one for the Front Bench , a second for Back-Bench CND Members and , most disgraceful of all , a third for the electorate in Barrow . |
| 49 | I can understand the designers ' reasoning , in that the knobs for the front pickup are to the front , and so on , but consciously or subconsciously , guitarists work from the selector switch , and my feeling is that that should point towards the pickup controls currently in use . |
| 50 | When I was at college I did a pastiche of the student magazine , doing the fold , and it was called Shell , so we renamed it for that one issue Rolling Shell , and I ever so carefully did the lettering for both the title boxes , then I got really disappointed when it came to set the type for the front page article underneath the big photograph which we printed as duo tone , because I could do it on the I B M — I could actually do it in Times and I thought it was going to be really , you know , I 'd have to really struggle and find |
| 51 | More complicated was the situation at Queen 's , where designs for the front quad were prepared by Hawksmoor , but the scheme executed by Townesend ( 1710–21 ) appears to have been almost entirely the joint work of himself and Clarke ; while for the new building at Magdalen , the original design by Edward Holdsworth [ q.v. ] was revised by Townesend in 1731 under Clarke 's direction . |
| 52 | Although he grew beautiful flowers for competition in his tiny greenhouse on the allotment , he was content for the front garden to consist of a small shaved lawn and empty flower bed with two statutory rose bushes and a border of tedious alyssum . |
| 53 | His description was that ‘ it is easy to aim for the front room and find yourself in the kitchen ’ . |
| 54 | Yes I think it 's fair to say at the moment that , that , that is being looked at Mr Trotter , together with er the broader range of issues on the er the operating concept er for E F two thousand but it is of course standard practice to buy not just the number you need for the front line but to buy sufficient aircraft to keep that front line in field for about twenty five , thirty years , whatever the life of the aircraft happens to be , taking account of er attrition , taking account of training requirements and engineering needs and support needs and all that kind of thing and all that work er is , has been done , is being done at the moment and er final figures will be put to that in in due course . |
| 55 | Most likely to irk the feminists is ‘ F O long blonde hair , ’ referring to women attractive enough for the front office . |
| 56 | In this case , it would seem natural to establish an accounting system that records the annual debts ( principal and interest ) , in which each year 's debt charges signal the property tax rate ( having taken account of rateable value ) and which subsequently accounts for the actual expenditure and actual revenues ( to determine whether next year 's taxes need adjusting ) . |
| 57 | Video-recording can make use of tape , film or discs for the actual storage of the recorded material . |
| 58 | This would be made up of something between £50 and £70 a foot for the actual development cost , and the balance for the site cost . |
| 59 | Having settled the principle , the partners must make provision for the actual event . |
| 60 | Then repeat the calculations for the actual construction programme , making due allowance for exceptionally adverse weather and delays which are at the contractor 's risk . |