Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The driver sat drumming his fingers nervously on the steering wheel while the attendant busied himself filling the tank , checking the oil and radiator , and wiping the windscreen . |
| 2 | To promote OTC products successfully through the high street chains nowadays , you have to have a substantial turnover ( £10–15m or so ) to be able to afford the TV advertising . |
| 3 | Therefore for these people it may be sensible to attend both Fellowships right from the start . |
| 4 | But clearly we can not blame a single organic agent for the simultaneous extinction of all the varied and unrelated groups of dinosaurs , the pterosaurs , the marine reptiles , the ammonites , the belemnites , the rudistids and many minor groups besides at the end of the Mesozoic . |
| 5 | Few can rival the Natural History Museum 's offer of drinks beneath its dinosaur , but Christmas and new-year parties have become a nice little earner for museums and galleries right across the country . |
| 6 | So you 're kicking against the pricks right from the start . |
| 7 | If there is a tunnel , then I reckon it 'll come out in the woods somewhere to the north of the fence an' close to it . |
| 8 | It 's really exag it 's really exaggerated , they really make erm , I can make all the country folk showed as real louts most of the people in the pub Tony and then the servants are really stupid and then |
| 9 | They are very tolerant about boys ' mess in the home and untidiness generally , and in a sense they lay the foundations right from the very beginning of boys growing up to think of women as kind of household servants — this attitude , you know , boys will be boys and they make a mess and poor mum has to do all the washing . |
| 10 | Not only is the snow cover likely to remain comfortable in the high resorts right into the start of May , but the lower the temperature , the safer the snow . |
| 11 | Its activities enabled the Heseltine campaign to seize the initiative and sustain a momentum which kept its opponents mostly on the defensive . |
| 12 | What specifically seems to have worried the Russians most about the Marshall Plan was the temptation it represented for eastern European states . |
| 13 | She ran her fingers slowly over the stubbly , woven texture of a wall-hanging , part woven , part collage . |
| 14 | When they started to gather for another push , the second wave of mounted police went in , scattering the pickets right across the field . |
| 15 | ARIES — A YEAR dominated by Uranus , Neptune , Saturn and Pluto can not be easy , and Arieans must expect to face some difficulties and setbacks somewhere along the line . |
| 16 | ‘ We were about twenty minutes altogether from the point where we realized they could n't get us down to the time when we stepped on to the roof . |
| 17 | But institutions right across the new unified higher education sector will be free to compete on fair terms , and the same will apply in Wales . |
| 18 | Let's see if England can win four Triple Crowns in a row and win six Five Nations titles outright in the next decade . |
| 19 | Cos a I I 've got the contracts right in the Body Shop , we got Karen she used to work in Superdrug , and she came in there the other day and I 'm saying , och , do you know Michelle ? |
| 20 | It finally eases off on the very top of Rudland Rigg , a majestic shoulder of land running north to south , with views right across the moors . |
| 21 | It handles all products right through the whole chain from hydrogen cyanide to ‘ Perspex ’ and ‘ Diakon ’ plastics and newer added-value materials such as ‘ Asterite ’ and ‘ Avron ’ . |
| 22 | Cos you see if you put your ace down , ace of clubs right on the top and I put the rest of the clubs , put it down |
| 23 | At Ellon , where the modern road forks right over the bridge on the A92 , and a pretty walk runs along by the river Ythan , the landlady of an inn where they breakfasted wished she had remembered to show to this great doctor ( of whom they had heard ) a child of hers with a chronic lump in his throat . |
| 24 | One of the most important reasons for this is that the Latin American elites reacted quickly and in most cases effectively to the social and economic changes brought about by the industrialisation , urbanisation and immigration of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 25 | Mr Roger Ward , chief executive of the Polytechnic and Colleges Employers Forum , said it was regrettable that Natfhe seemed determined to take on the employers right across the sector . |
| 26 | What are we doing in terms of establishing contacts right across the range with Russia , to keep it closely tied in with western Europe ? |
| 27 | ‘ I did n't explain the rules properly at the outset so it 's only fair we should start again … ’ |
| 28 | Creative and productive thinking was taking place in many authorities right across the political spectrum , while the relationship between councillors , officials and the public was changing . |
| 29 | In March a draft anti-abortion bill in the Sejm had been signed by 171 deputies mostly from the ZChN and the Centre Alliance . |
| 30 | Take a holistic view of the business and manage operations effectively across the key functions ( e.g. Finance , Human Resources , Information Systems and Marketing ) |