Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , the impact on overall unemployment tended to bear most heavily on the most peripheral conurbations ( Merseyside , Tyne side and Clyde side ) . |
| 2 | The cuts under the MacSharry proposals would fall most heavily upon the very big millionaire farmers — we do not have those in Wales . |
| 3 | The work referred not only to the seemingly private areas of our lives like the family album but also the more public construction of motherhood ( baby food ads and Mothercare catalogues ) . |
| 4 | But it was only because much , too , bore very directly upon the most urgent domestic questions that it made an impact at home . |
| 5 | This technique has been around as a possibility for these machines for years , dating right back to the very early 1970s and the S42 , or ‘ peg-board ’ machines . |
| 6 | His Inspector Purbright is a very ordinary man , distinguished only perhaps by the mildly quizzical view of life and humanity he possesses . |
| 7 | She had seen the children in other families break away entirely from the too zealous claims of an old nurse and when the time came , as it surely must , she wished to protect herself from the pain which rejection could cause . |
| 8 | The school system was expanded more rapidly under the more liberal regime of the governor-general , Admiral Saito Makoto , in the 1920s . |
| 9 | Written entirely in two parts , the lower of which is made of standard accompanimental figures ( mostly Alberti bass ) , it is nevertheless somewhat more expansive and faintly more interesting than the ‘ Eckard ’ The following Corrente ( which demands a keyboard compass of F' to d'' ) , while made exclusively out of the rather mechanical formulas of the first few bars , at least generates plenty of energy with its leaps and crashing octaves . |
| 10 | This is not the doctrine adopted by Finnis and I would have to show that the arguments applied here could be applied equally effectively to the very much more sophisticated account presented in Natural Law and Natural Rights . |
| 11 | Friendly Society membership throughout the period , however , came almost exclusively from the more secure , respectable stratum of the male working class , those who earned enough and regularly enough to contribute . |
| 12 | It is seen quite easily on the specially stained smear tests ( Papanicolaou smear ) for cancer of the cervix . |
| 13 | Any thoughtful linguist must wonder from time to time if such a legacy can have been shaken off completely in the relatively short time during which scientific linguistics has existed . |
| 14 | In absolute levels , we have fallen off only from the historically high 1980 figures . |
| 15 | Individuals have to search more intensively for the most favourably priced goods , and firms have to determine their new prices ( not easy when production costs are continually changing ) and then disseminate the information . |
| 16 | Some of the larger birds , like the blackbirds and thrushes , often risk a little dive-bombing , in which they swoop down on the owl from a distance of about 30 feet , heading straight for it , and then swerve aside only at the very last moment , when they are no more than a foot away . |
| 17 | He took the wheel after that and drove at a furious speed back to San José , where he turned right on to the Pan-Am . |
| 18 | One result of this attitude was that the strain placed by warfare on the economies of most European States was less than the mere number of men engaged in fighting might seem to indicate , since these were drawn so largely from the least productive elements of society . |
| 19 | To see this we need to look more closely at the essentially simple idea , taken from mathematics , of the property space . |
| 20 | This seems rather illogical , because it seems to belong more naturally to the rather irregular box-shape of Auriga . |
| 21 | Remember — it 's always worth turning up even for the most popular events , but we suggest that you check with the Box Office on availability first . |
| 22 | Thin blue smoke poured straight up from the freshly mortared chimney of the McCullochs ' house in Weem . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh well , ’ he said , going as always for the muddly middle way , and hoping to struggle along it to safety . |
| 24 | The low flute-notes here stand out clearly against the almost inaudible muted trombone chord . |
| 25 | Rev Stanley Boreman conducted the simple Congregational marriage ceremony , and as we left the church the sun shone quite perfectly for the rather amateur cameras who had survived the bombing the record that happy event . |
| 26 | Pluralist theories allow for greater scope for individuals , but they also have a far narrower conception of ‘ the political ’ in society These studies tend to focus almost exclusively on the constitutionally legitimised areas of political action to discover where power lies . |
| 27 | rushing round inside of the literally going round the worlds and then down and then . |
| 28 | Not that the atmosphere was gloomy : it is a curious fact that as a general election approaches , excitement builds up even in the most hopeless fight . |
| 29 | For there is a dilemma along the way — expressed so poignantly by the very young pregnant schoolgirl who , in response to the question : " But did n't they tell you about sex in school ? " replied " Oh yes , they told me what to do — but nobody said how much I 'd want to do it ! " |
| 30 | To the unaided eye , the jug does appear slightly restored , but the true extent of the restoration is starkly revealed by the X-rays , which pass more easily through the relatively light plaster make-up than through the denser ceramic . |