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 | She ran through the last few streets and saw with relief the familiar tall building rising against the night sky . |
| 9 | A FORMER spokesman for the EC Commission today blamed the British Government for the lack of European funding coming to the province . |
| 10 | How far these findings apply to short-term contract working in the manufacturing sector is the subject of the following section . |
| 11 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | A gang of workmen put a fence up across the private lane leading to the house in Beaconsfield . |
| 14 | Beneath him the woman 's face was pale and passive , her arms bent above her head , her rich hair spilling over the pillow . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | It comprises a tractor-mounted injection unit in the field which is fed through an umbilical hose running from the storage point . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Madeleine Albright , 55 , currently teaching at Georgetown University , was a political scientist specializing in the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There is now an extensive literature reporting on the various life-generating experiments , backed with much speculation and theory . |
| 22 | But motorists , explorers and connoisseurs of beauty will follow the usual route departing along the A.83s . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Now let us take Midgley at her word and ask what Griffin , as a representative scientist specialising in the field of animal thinking , has to tell us about possibly the most basic attribute of all animals , namely , consciousness . |
| 25 | A narrow lane branching off the village street led to it . |
| 26 | At the end of a narrow lane leading to the Embankment was a tilting building with ‘ Wines from the Wood ’ in flaking gold letters arced across its glass . |
| 27 | A private buyer bidding in the room purchased two appealing lots , a large ‘ Allegory of Abundance ’ ( lot 73 ) by Domenico Piola ( £180,000 ; $288,000 ) and a Venetian ‘ Masked Ball ’ by Giovanni Antonio Guardi ( lot 80 ) for £305,000 ( $488,000 ; est. £180,000–200,000 ) . |
| 28 | There is no stabilized figure corresponding to the later producer or director , who does not really appear in theatre until the late nineteenth century . |
| 29 | But modern crocodiles possess the imperfect four-chambered heart in which freshly oxygenated blood from the lungs is separated from the used blood returning from the body . |
| 30 | Remembering how responsive Faye 's blood glucose level was to stress , she was about to monitor its level , but , as she got out the kit , Tom arrived , his tall figure catapulting into the room and only a slight untidiness to his dark hair betraying the fact that he had so recently been locked in Marise 's arms in the garden . |