Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [vb -s] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know they can be affected by wind and frost and it turns the leaves brown and kills off the buds , but why is only one affected ? |
| 2 | The insect jerks itself free and hangs on the empty pupa case , its body trembling . |
| 3 | thank you , now we 're going to bind this up , you take the long edge , sorry that goes down the long edge comes first of all over the two fingers and round the base of the thumb |
| 4 | The interior is in a poor state but much of the four tiers of the exterior arcade walling is intact and illustrates clearly the Roman building method of using arch and order , with the entablatures continuing in unbroken horizontal bands round the whole amphitheatre and the columns lined up one above the other . |
| 5 | Alison plans to vote Labour but thinks nationally the Conservatives might squeeze a victory on April 9 . |
| 6 | Had the management sided with the latter , it would have had to stop the operators from ‘ tampering ’ with the machine controls — perhaps by withholding a key that switches on the editing equipment . |
| 7 | The changes that have been made simply automate the paste-up process to a greater degree , even the stylesheet/tagging system is unobtrusive and operates exactly the way that a traditional art studio would expect . |
| 8 | The animosity of the community to the king is evident and reflects perhaps the resentment of a dependent people . |
| 9 | The leader carries that alone and carries too the anxieties , ambitions and the fear of failure that leadership brings . |
| 10 | ‘ SEEMS LIKE Morrissey himself gives up the songs half-way through when he stops the vocal and uses up the rest of the needletime with yodelling . ’ |
| 11 | The economy introduced by the suffix notation may be illustrated by writing out in full as follows Now the direction of dS in the coordinate axes ( 1 , 2 , 3 ) is given by the direction cosines . |
| 12 | It makes it over-anxious and gives out the message that , if something happens , YOU wo n't be able to handle it . |
| 13 | Taken together this evidence indicates 675–704 for the reign of Aethelred and makes reasonable the conclusion that Wulfhere did not reign seventeen years but died in his seventeenth year , so that his reign will have been 659–75 . |
| 14 | The basic Wealden house structure is rectangular and joins together the central hall , which is open through its two storeys , and the cross wings , whose upper floors are ‘ jettied ’ ( meaning that they oversail the floor below ) . |
| 15 | It is detailed , concrete and enables even the most unimaginative writer to eliminate gross bias without gross inelegance . |
| 16 | The child becomes frightened and holds back the faeces making the constipation worse ( Levine and Bakow 1976 ) . |