Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [vb base] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , any remaining lead of the futures price over the spot price is due to either new information being reflected first in the futures market ( price discovery ) , or to recording and reporting lags for the index . |
| 2 | Not only did the fragrances of the essences cover up the putrid smells of gangrenous wounds , they also suppressed them by retarding putrefaction . |
| 3 | In November 1940 the Vichy government abolished the ineffective Commission de Châlons , intending to replace it with an organisation called Le Bureau de Repartition du Vinicole de Champagne , but in April the following year the Germans set up the CIVC . |
| 4 | Hour by hour the birds move up the wedge |
| 5 | Notwithstanding the former grandeur of the Cathedral , Johnson wrote no more than a page on Elgin , concluding with an attractive clue to a traveller in his wake : ‘ In the chief street of Elgin , the houses jut over the lowest story , like the old buildings of timber in London , but with greater prominence : so that there is sometimes a walk for a considerable length under a cloister , or portico . ’ |
| 6 | The ordeal is over : the Namibians show off the Sicily Trophy after beating Hong Kong 26–12 in the catania final . |
| 7 | All of the planets circle around the Sun elliptically in the same direction as the Sun itself rotates . |
| 8 | All the stars in the galaxy are slowly moving around its centre just as the planets move around the Sun , taking some 200 million years — a ‘ galactic year ’ — to make a full circuit . |
| 9 | For example , the researchers set up the apparatus hours and even days before they took the final readings . |
| 10 | As the bells beat down the dark . |
| 11 | 3 A long funnel with a slippery surface inside so that the animals fall down the funnel . |
| 12 | The sensors pick up the change which is then fed back directly to alter the temperature or some other variable . |
| 13 | Normally see as people as the cars come out the lights change . |
| 14 | ‘ The cars come down the bank there very quickly . |
| 15 | Swales , the target for much of the fans anger over the past few weeks , is likely to resist Lee 's offer . |
| 16 | The pool is filled with water and bubbles and the kids scoot down the slide attached to the climbing frame into the bubble bath and the arms of a playworker who picks up one of the children and kisses his little red bum . |
| 17 | The sun has warmed the walls of the garden , the cherries hang on the tree . |
| 18 | As the backswing progresses , the shoulders turn around the spine angle which is pre-set at the address position . |
| 19 | Along the road , another glimpse of the Buller of Buchan : they claim that in stormy weather the waves crash over the top of the Buller , a full two hundred feet . |
| 20 | We duck into a gulley and the waves curl around the boat . |
| 21 | As all the voices hammer out the same syllables together , the accentuation is at its sharpest ( Example 64 , overleaf ) . |
| 22 | I kept on down to the river and stood for a while to watch the coal-barges slide along the black , shiny water . |
| 23 | The beaters stir up the water with enough force to loosen the berries which float to the surface forming brilliant , crimson lakes . |
| 24 | The authors hold out the hope that at a future date , when the processes involved are better understood , the damage done to the ozone layer may be reversed . |
| 25 | The chapter appears to be based on the famous nursery rhyme about Tweedledum and Tweedledee for at the end the brothers fight over the rattle and also the crow appears . |
| 26 | Soon the words come off the subjects , the cone becomes a ‘ Kone ’ with its mass sliced through with layers of transparent plastic to make a more categorisable kinetic work . |
| 27 | The sharp reductions in prices to the middle-sized customers that have occurred in the 12 months since the new market system came into effect have naturally been greeted by the beneficiaries with satisfaction , but the strategists worry over the implications for the long- term health of the industry and the economy . |
| 28 | When the archeaologists dig up the ruins in France at the turn of the next millennium , they may well be confused about what was going on in our time . |
| 29 | At first the belts slip round the flat pulleys — they 're meant to — but as soon as I squirt the gum they grab and the shafts pick up speed real fast , and the spokes on the pulleys blur and disappear . |
| 30 | The headlights pick up the shiny worn sleepers . |