Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] [vb base] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | er there is no chairman following the er management buy out the position is , still remains open |
| 2 | Patrick Benson 's illustrations match both the humour and the tenderness of the words . |
| 3 | We both push and heave and the man 's shoulders scrape over the rim ; his arms drag up and over as Andy pushes , grunting , feet slipping on the old leaves and soil . |
| 4 | Mr Ishaq has also been at work on the Sindh assembly , in which Miss Bhutto 's supporters make up the biggest group . |
| 5 | Ann , in 1913 , would have been the same age as Edward 's mother and , from family hearsay , Ann 's sentiments resemble closely the practical , optimistic piety of Mary Elizabeth Thomas . |
| 6 | Their duty is to tell blacks that although group political activism can stop discrimination , growing rich , wise and safe is then up to the individual — to hammer home a message of homework , punctuality , saving and self-discipline , the things that helped America 's immigrants get off the floor . |
| 7 | Charlie 's departure is the first of several , and this event is succeeded by the announcement of a further theme when the rabbi 's thunderings pass over the heads of his congregation and the writer notes : ‘ in later years I would wonder how different my life might have been if a few people , those closest to me , had been frightened — just a little . ’ |
| 8 | With a group of other Australians , I first went there in 1973 , to see Graeme Langland 's Kangaroos take on the Lions before a much smaller crowd than honoured Ellery 's boys last year . |
| 9 | The Museum 's displays take up the story of Britain 's canals in 1793 — the height of canal mania — the year when more proposals for the building of canals were put before Parliament than ever before . |
| 10 | Hong Kong 's people wonder why the Vietnamese are housed and clothed , while illegal immigrants from China are sent packing . |
| 11 | It can be disconcerting at auction if the vendor or agents acting on the vendor 's behalf bid up the price from the floor in the early or even later stages of the auction . |
| 12 | Alison 's favours break down the boundaries of class ; any man who can lay her in his bed is like a lord , as Absolon says as he anticipates her kiss : Kolve 's interpretation of potentially religious images within the tale is fine as far as it goes , and can justly be quoted against the allegorizers , but there is at least one aspect of the tale that refers irreducibly to a moral frame within which the tale is set : recurrent swearing of oaths by " " Seint Thomas of Kent " " , which reminds us of the framing narrative with its realistic and morally symbolic journey towards Becket 's shrine in Canterbury and the judgement of the tale-telling game just as much as John 's calling upon St Frideswide locates the tale effectively within Oxford . |
| 13 | The home side 's run of four straight wins in which they scored 10 goals counted for nothing as Brian Flynn 's men put up the shutters to keep a clean sheet for the fourth time this season . |
| 14 | I 've sent orders for the gates to be watched while Simon 's men round up the rest . ’ |
| 15 | Otherwise the loudspeaker cables should be transferred to terminals on the Stax energiser which has the necessary loudspeaker/headphones changeover switch on the front . |
| 16 | But the results can be absolutely invaluable if one 's colleagues look over the draft and , with no holds barred , pick on every doubtful point . |
| 17 | The sun 's rays dry up the moisture which amphibians , such as frogs , toads and newts , need . |
| 18 | Teachers ' notes illustrate where the resource fits within the new national guidelines for environmental studies for pupils aged 5–14 . |
| 19 | Long extracts from the inspectors ' reports conjure up the smells of the 17th century in sickening detail : the open graves , the streets piled high with faeces , the butcher 's shop ‘ full of all kinds of filth , excrement , guts and other muck ’ , and so on . |