Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fall asleep hours later to the sound of their engrossed murmuring on the night air . |
| 2 | The Persian empire made and used coins only in the part of its territory which adjoined the coin-using lands of Greece . |
| 3 | Most direct-dialled calls anywhere within the UK will be charged at local rates from 3pm to midnight . |
| 4 | No , I think erm , in the , certainly in the consumer area which affects both Penguin and to some extent Royal Doulton , there are definite signs now of the U S economy turning around and that is likely to continue as , as the year goes on . |
| 5 | The formation of planetary systems and the size and chemical composition of each member are , then , remarkably regular : given a sun-sized star a computer generally comes up with a similar range of planets to that in the solar system , with small rocky planets closest to the star and the large gaseous ones further out ( due to the effects of gravity , orbits would later space themselves out along the lines of our own solar system ) . |
| 6 | They are particularly prominent in the early stages of development at Godmanchester where , following the demise of the fort , a system of regular plots was apparently laid out , extending as a series of broad strips well into the territory surrounding the settlement . |
| 7 | Anti-communism thus united the interests of the US Occupation , the Japanese state and private employers especially in the face of a united front of public and private sector workers . |
| 8 | Melinda waded out after me and we climbed up one of the mooring ropes on to the deck . |
| 9 | Throwing mooring ropes out to the Continent to balance Britain 's over-strong anchor cables to America made sense to many people . |
| 10 | He enclosed a list of the 28 political prisoners still at the prison . |
| 11 | She savoured the prospect with a tiny smile — half rueful , half triumphant — which widened into greeting as Sam introduced his wife , Anna , and Merrill put her private plans firmly into the background . |
| 12 | Perhaps a stake in a popular club would give profitable returns indirectly through the sale of drink . |
| 13 | The late-fourth century rebuilding at Chedworth , with the use of stones from the nymphaeum , and associated coins up to the House of Theodosius , clearly indicates a continued occupation of the site , presumably as a small farm . |
| 14 | And we 've tried to get something for everyone , we 've got 2 classical music concerts , for instance , the Johannis Piano Trio , and then a specially sort of brought together rainforest orchestra , where professional musicians all over the county can come together to create a programme . |
| 15 | One by one , he put the drowsy birds on to the top perch . |
| 16 | Mr Rushdie said that leaders of Labour parties elsewhere in the world had declared overt passionate support for this issue . |
| 17 | Such references will be used where the entry term is a relatively common term , and where the use of specific entries instead of the one general reference could lead to extensive ( undesirable ) lists of specific references . |
| 18 | It had a strange and thrilling resonance , as if the singer were standing in a large room or a courtyard built of stone in one of the ancient palaces left by the Mogul emperors further to the west . |
| 19 | From the Roman Forum , once the city 's most important political and social centre , to the Colosseum , perhaps the city 's best known monument , to the soaring Baroque dome of St-Peter 's and the Vatican city with its superb collection of paintings and sculptures , to the Trevi Fountains and the Spanish steps through to the twentieth century Victor-Emmanuel monument built to commemorate the unity of Italy — the list is endless and no amount of reading about the Eternal City can substitute a visit there as Rome speaks for herself . |
| 20 | They bloody speakers all over the place . |
| 21 | He says we need to get private cars out of the city centre and make it into a place which is safe for pedestrians and cyclists , not polluted and where the buildings are n't being torn apart by traffic . |
| 22 | He hurried up the narrow steps on to the parapet of the curtain wall . |
| 23 | Boomer Maclean 's recovery stemmed from two thunderous winners late in the third game . |
| 24 | With this arrangement it is possible ( and desirable ) to keep the manufacturing details and the technical considerations together in the same file . |
| 25 | He also wanted voters to have the right to cast their ballots anywhere in Namibia , rather than in towns and villages where voters can be recognised , and to keep the tallymen from Namibia 's political parties away from the polling stations and from places where votes would be counted . |
| 26 | Greenpeace is an international environmental pressure group which maintains complete independence from all political parties anywhere in the world . |
| 27 | Both Governments regard the current upsurge in loyalist murders as an urgent incentive to get the political parties back around the negotiating table . |
| 28 | The project , which is to create an unprecedented space for the products of Scottish artists up to the present day , needs all the friends it can get , as it has still to be sold to government and any private benefactors . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Swivelling round in his chair , he dropped a pile of X-rays and accompanying notes on to the desk beside him . |