Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LENNOX LEWIS , whose credentials as a world heavyweight title contender have been almost as disputed as his British citizenship , has devastatingly emerged as the most dangerous hybrid in the division . |
| 2 | Melanie had not been down to the work-room since her very first morning ; she tried not to look at the partially assembled puppets , hanged and dismembered , on the walls . |
| 3 | Clarke is now tournament professional at the K-Club , Straffan , County Kildare — he has just switched from the equally fashionable Mount Julliet , County Kilkenny — and manager Andrew Chandler believes a European victory is definitely on the cards for Ulster 's emerging star . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's five times what Sun has ever sold as the most successful Unix vendor . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's five times what Sun has ever sold as the most successful Unix vendor . |
| 6 | Such an argument , in implying that the problem is simply a question of the lack of history or of its presence , as if history were some undifferentiated entity that could just be added or taken away , stepped into or got out of , skates over the fact that the real question has always focused on the much more difficult issue of what kind of history , and of what status can be accorded to historical thought . |
| 7 | LIVERPOOL super-featherweight Jimmy Owens , who in August was involved in an acrimonious split with his manager Carl Moorcroft , has come up fighting with the most important contest and biggest payday of his career . |
| 8 | It would be unfair and inaccurate to suggest that PageMaker was the first desktop publishing program , that honour probably goes to the now defunct Studio Software 's DO-it which actually ran on a PC rather than a Macintosh and , of course , there had been electronic publishing systems based on workstations and mainframes available for several years . |
| 9 | The ultimate criterion for the presence of pollution in law , in contrast with other more familiar forms of offence , is a test carried out according to the supposedly ‘ objective ’ precepts of natural scientific ( predominantly chemical ) analysis . |
| 10 | The way in which Germanisation was carried out gave to the newly released serfs , the put-upon peasantry , the tiny Polish middle class which felt itself to be discriminated against , and the ambitious and inflexible Polish nobility a rallying point — probably their only rallying point . |
| 11 | Whereas the nineteenth-century state concerned itself with the common affairs of all capital owners , the growth of giant industrial corporations and of large financial combines has now led to the almost complete exclusion of other capitalist fractions from influence over the state . |
| 12 | provide fast repairs to the very highest standards and |
| 13 | provide fast repairs to the very highest standards and |
| 14 | provide fast repairs to the very highest standards and |
| 15 | However , the thin cut of the marble shift here contrasts with the slightly thicker gauge of the shroud ; is the sculptor thus implying that the shift is of linen and the shroud of flannel ? |
| 16 | What 's happening to the local government this time of the democracy and they have been savagely attacked savagely attacked at the locally controlled Labour councils . |
| 17 | It may consider it will get better marketing support from Novell and the Univel partnership than it has previously had from the relatively small SCO operation here . |
| 18 | We are taught not to focus on the more difficult aspects of what we know about other people . |
| 19 | The wealth of scholarship in which the book luxuriates sometimes deflects from the far simpler scientific story ; that seismicity in the different regions of Iran varies through time , and that it is possible , from a complete analysis of the history , to find patterns in this shifting activity . |
| 20 | The sharp end of routine policing always falls on the economically marginal , those who live out their lives in public places which routine police patrols regulate , and those who are not integrated into the mainstream institutions of economic and political life . |
| 21 | While a number of writers have profited from Eco 's example , they seem less exercised by the specifically creative problems with which , if we are to follow the Reflections , he was faced as a working author , not least the problems of how to say anything about anything without sounding unbearably false : |
| 22 | The front page of the People 's Daily and every other major national newspaper last week featured a picture of the new Politburo standing committee meeting with actors from a People 's Liberation Army theatre troupe made up to look like the dead founding fathers . |
| 23 | Those Illyrians who did not assimilate probably moved to the less hospitable mountainous areas , but little is known of their fate . |
| 24 | As a painter , I have become somewhat dismayed about the potentially bleak future of acrylics . |
| 25 | From his window at the Queen 's Head , and as he had sauntered around Keswick , he had become affectionately disposed to the amiably brackened rumps of the Skiddaw range : here in Borrowdale were the volcanic rocks . |
| 26 | What most Directors of Social Services are worried about is that the group of children that we 're now finding in children 's homes , are so disturbed , because of their past family backgrounds er and so , so problematic er with their behaviour , er that they 're now concerned to make sure that the children 's homes of the future are properly geared up to deal with the very difficult group of children . |
| 27 | It would have been all too easy for the residents ' views to weigh lightly compared to the supposedly more objective professional assessments but , avoiding this pitfall , the author looked for ways of tapping the experiences of the residents themselves and sought to complement these with staff assessments of social and psychiatric functioning . |
| 28 | Nor could Creggan see that with that return of some sense of a spirit of life that can never die there came to the nearly lifeless wings of the close-caged Minch a sudden struggle and slight flutter of purpose — not much , but enough to make the Man look down in surprise and tighten his grip on the carrier cage . |
| 29 | They just let you go on buying on the never-never . |
| 30 | And so finely tuned is its sense of hearing and its appreciation of timing that it will go on feeding until the very last minute , only springing to safety after the rattler has launched its otherwise deadly final strike . |