Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the Gaijin rear Jotan 's five hundred were a solid mass cutting off the line of retreat . |
| 2 | The Presidential Council initially appeared designed to supplant the CPSU central committee politburo as the main centre of political decision making in the Soviet Union . |
| 3 | The embroidery , a pattern of golden lily-flowers dotted here and there , each one at a fair distance from the other , would be confined to the shoulder band and to a broad sash fastening at the back in as large a bow as Miss Dallam would tolerate , its ends falling to the hem of her skirt . |
| 4 | IBM 's Pennant Systems last week announced the extension of its Advanced Function Printing into the AIX/6000 environment and WISIWYG viewing on PS/2 screens under Windows . |
| 5 | Certainly the driver seemed satisfied enough , she accorded with relief as with a smile he pointed to an illuminated notice indicating that her hotel was at the end of a narrow passageway leading from the main street . |
| 6 | Notice the narrow snout extending beyond the mouth which helps it to seek out small rodents , reptiles and invertebrates . |
| 7 | This sort of task is very common in process control situations where the operator often makes a preliminary three-way decision corresponding to the worldwide system of red , amber and green traffic lights . |
| 8 | It is wisest to treat each variety according to the details and information that will be contained in the better kind of catalogue — the sort of information which will also influence your decision where to order . |
| 9 | She ran through the last few streets and saw with relief the familiar tall building rising against the night sky . |
| 10 | A FORMER spokesman for the EC Commission today blamed the British Government for the lack of European funding coming to the province . |
| 11 | How far these findings apply to short-term contract working in the manufacturing sector is the subject of the following section . |
| 12 | I think that in the nineteen nineties , there is agreement that some reform is need is needed that there should be a better balance between the different groups at conference , and that decision making in the parties should be seen to be democratic open and based on one person one vote . |
| 13 | In addition to an expansion of existing services in the financial sector , many more services are now available ( e.g. professional drain clearing through the franchise operation ‘ Dynorod ’ ) . |
| 14 | Mediated enforcement through intermediatory , quasi-governmental bodies such as the BBC and the Bank of England and quasi-non-governmental such as the Press Council bring advantages of administrative economy and reduced political responsibility attaching to the government : ‘ It is the essence of these organizations , therefore , that their relationships to state authority remains ill-defined ’ ( Winkler , 1977 , p. 54 ) . |
| 15 | A gang of workmen put a fence up across the private lane leading to the house in Beaconsfield . |
| 16 | An essay is made up of parts , each part relating to the parts around it , with a forward movement so that what comes first leads to what comes next . |
| 17 | Beneath him the woman 's face was pale and passive , her arms bent above her head , her rich hair spilling over the pillow . |
| 18 | For the training of teachers in art , further education colleges have traditionally offered the one-year full-time course leading to the Post-Graduate Certificate in Education ( Art Education ) , formerly the Art Teacher 's Diploma ( ATD ) or Certificate ( ATC ) . |
| 19 | It comprises a tractor-mounted injection unit in the field which is fed through an umbilical hose running from the storage point . |
| 20 | You can make a little money selling off the thinnings from the Norway spruce as Christmas trees . |
| 21 | In one other sense fear was promoted by abolitionists as a motive for demanding abolition in the national interest — fear of divine judgement falling upon the guilty nation as a whole . |
| 22 | Madeleine Albright , 55 , currently teaching at Georgetown University , was a political scientist specializing in the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe . |
| 23 | What caused a crop of broken limbs , however , was his brainwave of making men do backward rolls out of a 15-cwt. truck speeding across the desert at 30 miles per hour . |
| 24 | Later that day , after many interviews with ladies who looked as if they 'd come straight from an enthralling hour knitting at the foot of the guillotine , we found our garret . |
| 25 | There is now an extensive literature reporting on the various life-generating experiments , backed with much speculation and theory . |
| 26 | Males sit in groups of three or four , the largest male calling from the centre of the group while the others act as silent satellites . |
| 27 | Erm It 's really only a case of each function sifting through the information that they 've pulled together from the annual report . |
| 28 | But motorists , explorers and connoisseurs of beauty will follow the usual route departing along the A.83s . |
| 29 | Only stare up at the gaping hole in his cage and feel the terror of the sky beyond and look at where the broken end of the great branch that had fallen spiked out into the wild sky above as if broken part lay about him , its smaller branches and torn bark fretting on the cold wind . |
| 30 | Rodgers has little difficulty reading between the lines of Hytner 's stylish staging , which apes the hairpin role-reversals of Mozart 's convoluted Masonic fable by itself , neatly reversing the racial and sexual stereotypes of the original . |