Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The net result is that the Scottish Office and the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland are trying hard to get the message across — tackle the forms immediately with the 15 May deadline in mind . |
| 2 | Cos a I I 've got the contracts right in the Body Shop , we got Karen she used to work in Superdrug , and she came in there the other day and I 'm saying , och , do you know Michelle ? |
| 3 | The statutory assignment has the advantage of enabling the purchaser to enforce the contracts directly against the supplier rather than through the vendor . |
| 4 | The Dwarfs were hard pressed at first , but eventually saw the Orcs off with the help of their formidable cannons . |
| 5 | So they 're carrying out the checks initially on the the capabilities and the financial soundness of the , of the proposed supplier . |
| 6 | AIDS must have been exceedingly rare before the mid-1970s anywhere in the world . |
| 7 | When they started to gather for another push , the second wave of mounted police went in , scattering the pickets right across the field . |
| 8 | When they were close enough they threw the ropes up to the men at the front of the crowd , and all of them pushed from behind . |
| 9 | Drop the anchors overboard in the correct position and the bottles will float , holding the anchor rope on the surface and ready to tie to the punt every time you fish that swim . |
| 10 | The Greek word axioma originally meant " request " ; the reader is requested to accept the axioms unquestioningly as the rules of the game . |
| 11 | I 'm stood at the tee throwing the clubs up in the air and whooping away and he just turns to me and says , ‘ Do n't get too excited , Jacky . |
| 12 | And the flames all round the pontoon . |
| 13 | The hunger that made Charlie , Charlot , chew the boiled slices of boot , moustache toing and froing under his nose , I understood as well or as little as the hunger of the grown-ups around me , my mother eating the woodworms along with the oats and the silence as everybody stopped to watch her . |
| 14 | Lewis 's and Blackler 's burnt out , and Lime Street — you ca n't hardly move for the hosepipes all over the ground . ’ |
| 15 | His successor , Majorian , apparently overthrew this arrangement , pushing the Burgundians out of the environs of Lyons in 458 . |
| 16 | Martin 's not coming after school today , his granny Jean 's going to meet him because his mum has to go to Scotland with her work so Trevor has to push the triplets home in the buggy . |
| 17 | And though she cherished the times when Friend soared in companionship beside her through forever , always — reluctantly , it seemed sometimes , but always — he would pluck new motes of light and weave them into new shapes for her to read , but the shapes only made sense in their beauty , not in the real world where the coarseness of eating and cleaning and going to the toilet squashed the meanings out of the corners of her eyes . |
| 18 | Rio Tinto has bought into all the mines only in the past few years ; and it has its sights set on expansion . |
| 19 | At the same time it received a B.2 trolley mast , hoops over the end of the upper deck , folding platform steps and slatted gates between the bogies instead of the wire cages . |
| 20 | If you do not want to lose the patterns currently in the knitting machine , you can upload them to DesignaKnit and save them on to disk , ready to be downloaded back to the knitting machine when required . |
| 21 | As Divisional Construction Manager , Jim Gillespie says : ‘ The contractors are not taking the estates away from the tenants , but working with them , to improve their environment . ’ |
| 22 | He followed the signs out to the airport to the north . |
| 23 | One engineer made the fatal mistake of putting Bluecol anti-freeze in the header tank of the toilets instead of the main engine fresh water header tank . |
| 24 | Husayn was aware of the dangers long before the Uprising . |
| 25 | ‘ We have got to do a great deal more about restrictions on motor vehicles and give the cities back to the people . |
| 26 | The fighting continued , spreading off the great curve of the ramparts down into the buildings below . |
| 27 | But Kendall 's patience with his struggling stars ran out after the dismal defeat at Sheffield United edged the Merseysiders closer to the relegation zone . |
| 28 | Perhaps it is for that reason that Britain will find greater interest in discussing the problems of the former Soviet Union and in establishing the rouble stabilisation fund — even though it will mean us pledging about $600m to help keep the Reds out of the red . |
| 29 | He will take action in the courts equally for the State as for the individual against any local authority acting ‘ ultra vires ’ , that is , beyond their powers . |
| 30 | To help the courts in sentencing decisions , the Government also proposes that the legislation should place a new duty on the Secretary of State to inform the courts annually of the costs of implementing penalties … |