Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , it clearly focuses on where the physical symptoms of the problem are . |
| 2 | Curiously these metabolic processes seem to anticipate the homeothermic organisation of mammals , thus hinting that dinosaurs carried on where the reptiles left off . |
| 3 | Premier John Major is prepared to lead an unprecedented series of bruising encounters at Number 10 to allow warring departments to agree on where the Treasury axe will fall . |
| 4 | Where vendors can not agree on where the problem lies , they will at least inform the customer in writing of the reason . |
| 5 | As the chief location of tin mining , conditions confirm that an abundance of cheap labour tended to stimulate industrial growth , although naturally mineral extraction has to be carried on where the workable reserves happen to be located , using imported labour if necessary , as , it would seem , was precisely what was done in Penwith . |
| 6 | And now the fat bellies in the cities are carrying on where the white folk left off . |
| 7 | As she came through the side roads to her house she heard a few trial notes on a wind instrument of some sort — a clarinet , was it ? a run of notes that seemed to carry on where the last solitary trill of the bird had stopped , and then a beat , beat , beat of a bass and a drum slowly swinging in , and the band , trying out their numbers high up in a house , lilted together into a piece , melancholy at base with gay little twiddles from the clarinet bravely calling that nightfall was not the end of hope , not a closure — a little bit of swing filtering over back gardens to draw people out , out into the spring night , a beat along the channels of their blood suggesting that this hour , as the light dies , as the dusk creeps along the ground , is not an ending but a beginning . |
| 8 | ‘ Where the processes carried on or the machinery installed are such as could be carried on or installed in any residential area without detriment to amenity of that area by reason of noise , vibration , smell , fumes , soot ash , dust or grit ’ . |
| 9 | Anyway , life must go on or the terrorists will terrorise us into changed patterns of living , bastards that they are . |
| 10 | The cost of a new one of these could n't be offset by this contract you are working on or the next , come to that . ’ |
| 11 | Well you either put one bar on or the lot is on or it 's very dim like this is low and you ca n't see it at all . |
| 12 | All shell suits are cotton lined , except from the knee down where the nylon replaces the cotton for ease when slipping over shoes . |
| 13 | Tug sat down where the Woman pointed , but Doyle began to walk round the room , peering at the table from all angles . |
| 14 | The songs too had jokier titles : Down Where the Cross-Eyed Claras Grow , I 'm the Good Man that Was so Hard to Find . |
| 15 | Down where the chef worked , a temperature gauge on the wall stood at 102° Fahrenheit , but tall willowy Angus , whose high hat nearly brushed the ceiling , looked cool and unperturbed . |
| 16 | It 's basically a 6-string guitar with two sets of crossed strings underneath and another set of plucked strings down where the volume and tone controls would be . |
| 17 | Go through a normal working day and write down where the pressures are most difficult . |
| 18 | ‘ Rode through forty nights of the gospels ' rain Black sky pourin' snakes frogs And love in vain You were down where the river grows wider Baby let me be your soul rider . ’ |
| 19 | We retreated to the crest of the island , and sat down where the turf was clean and dry . |
| 20 | It was Isabelle who triumphed , cruising past the move low down where the other two failed . |
| 21 | I 'm sure you 'll find one down where the dross and scum gather . ’ |
| 22 | Then somebody calls out and they find Andy , round the bend in the river , down where the water reappears from a crust of ice and snow and swirls , lowered and reduced , round the rocks and wedged tree-trunks before the lip of the falls , which sound muted and distant today , even this close . |
| 23 | I think to myself , if the walls were ivory instead of mauve , and if I put fine ash floorboards down where the fat grey carpet used to be , would I then be happy and unafraid ? |
| 24 | down where the steps expired , tired of counting , |
| 25 | ‘ I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not unreal , ’ wrote Shaw . |
| 26 | Here was the strong arm of the law moving in where the seemingly soft-hearted and soft-headed welfare state feared to tread , the unwitting accomplice in benefit banditry . |
| 27 | Having said this , it is worth while letting you into a secret — few examiners , in fact , work out any of the topic frequencies and decide either to fill in where the lines in the table are thin or to repeat a question on the " dead certs " . |
| 28 | I find it sad that the business of getting practitioners , medical or alternative , to provide evidence of the efficacy of the treatments they use is left largely to consumer organisations , and to a financially hard pressed charity like HealthWatch , which has to step in where the professionals seem afraid to tread . |
| 29 | ‘ I try not to be as foolish u the doctor , and not to blunder in where the Inspector wishes to go quietly . |
| 30 | Nothing was heard apart from the sound of lead boots walking up and down or the revving of a motorbike . |