Example sentences of "be throw [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're thrown in at the deep end , and have to develop skills quickly . |
| 2 | There is no doubt that there will be teething problems and that some things will be thrown back at the International Board . |
| 3 | THREE Ipswich Witches youngsters will be thrown in at the deep end on Thursday when Foxhall Stadium stages the Star of Anglia on the opening day of the 1993 speedway season . |
| 4 | ‘ You must think I 'm an inconsiderate devil if you 're expecting to be thrown in at the deep end to struggle as best you can . ’ |
| 5 | Training will be given and wherever possible the new representative will be thrown in at the deep end . |
| 6 | Kharif could be thrown in for the Arpal Chase at Kelso ( 1.40 ) . |
| 7 | All the responsibility has been thrown on to the regulatory body OFTEL , when it might have been possible to help the market work better . |
| 8 | So far its class-based line has been almost exclusively animated by a critique of race awareness training — a practical strategy which has been thrown up in the grating between the first two tendencies . |
| 9 | She had been thrown in at the deep end and it was a question of sink or swim . |
| 10 | Lodging-houses these , not of the ruthlessly spotless kind kept by Sairellen Thackray but terrifying places — even to Cara — where men and women slept twenty or thirty together on whatever mattresses or bundles of rags had been thrown down on the rotting floor , tramps , drunkards , lechers , syphilitics , crude young whores , wan little virgins turned out of charity-schools who would not be virgins in the morning , packed side by side in the dark and in a horrible proximity which made Cara shudder . |
| 11 | When the field-glasses were finally passed to her she was able to confirm that every roof and every wall of the monastery church and of the little community they had left only that morning had been thrown down by the violent commotion . |
| 12 | Being in control of the finances of an organisation can pose a major headache for some people , especially if they are thrown in at the deep end with little or . |
| 13 | Clods of earth were thrown on to the stout elm coffin , and the mourners began to leave . |
| 14 | Now , suddenly , those who clung to these notions were thrown on to the defensive and soon outnumbered . |
| 15 | These were thrown down by the Persian invaders in 480 , and shattered remains preserved for us in terraces and foundations of the fifth century . |
| 16 | CHILE were thrown out of the 1994 World Cup by Fifa yesterday after forcing their decisive 1990 qualifier against Brazil to be abandoned in Rio when their players walked off claiming that the Chilean goalkeeper , Roberto Rojas , had been injured by a flare . |
| 17 | Paul 's argument is that if you can get the word ‘ only ’ into your Christian thinking , then it will really help to sort out the dilemmas that were being thrown up by the different groups within the church . |
| 18 | ‘ I would n't want any child of mine to have to cope with being thrown in at the deep end like that . |
| 19 | ‘ Talk about being thrown in at the deep end ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I am being thrown in at the deep end against Blackburn and I am really looking forward to the game . ’ |
| 21 | The full burden of long-run equilibriation is thrown on to the slender base of the real balance effect . |
| 22 | ( c ) The charge If the conveyance or transfer does not fall within the provisions of s83 , one is thrown back on the previous stamp duty position : ( i ) conveyance or transfer on sale This incurs a charge to ad valorem stamp duty at 1 per cent unless the conveyance can be certified at £60,000 or less ( see below ) ( Finance Act 1984 , s109 and Finance Act 1993 ) ; or ( ii ) conveyance or transfer " of any other kind " In such a case fixed stamp duty of 50p is payable unless the instrument can be certified as being one within The Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1987 ( SI No 516 ) . |
| 23 | The English response was ineffective : the campaigns of the 1340s and 1350s had been essentially plundering raids , launched into enemy territory from secure bases ; but after 1369 England was thrown on to the defensive in Aquitaine , and she had little idea how to fight a defensive war . |
| 24 | Two weeks ago , a television was thrown out of the flat window and there had also been fights . |
| 25 | A bill to legalize the marriage of Jews and Christians was thrown out by the Hungarian Diet in 1883 . |
| 26 | Lottie was thrown in at the deep end : |
| 27 | I now have 4 years ' teaching experience although I too was thrown in at the deep end — my only advantage over others was that I had studied languages myself and knew how difficult it could be . |
| 28 | Our housework was hard and long and laborious and erm we 'd got two children to look after and then I 'd got my brother who did n't leave home until he was thirty and er , you had n't got the time , you know , to do too many things , so er my interest was the young wives ' and it was really a as regards the erm the Guild itself , I was thrown in at the deep end when this lady who was with my mother , mother was treasurer , she was secretary , erm she used to come down for me and , I know you should n't canvass but she used to canvass and say erm you know the voting , you know , will you , will you come and vote ? |
| 29 | Well I was thrown in at the deep end Different persons came in maybe if we had a job in a hurry and they would say , Oh you 're on at such and such a time at this . |
| 30 | Liberals had argued for a wider franchise for years and Unionists had demanded a redistribution , so both sides got something of what they wanted and proportional representation was thrown in with the present mood of Labour in mind , so that the anti-socialist parties would be able to consolidate their position if necessary . |