Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain the scanty government services provided to the nation 's merchants had come until the 1860s almost entirely from the board of trade . |
| 2 | International organisations , though on a bread-and-butter level becoming from the 1860s rapidly more important and active , were still very much on the fringes of conventional diplomacy . |
| 3 | SCOTLAND 's preparations for the crucial World Cup qualifying tie against Malta at Ibrox on Wednesday bordered on the farcical yesterday when Rangers ' Richard Gough and Stuart McCall were forced to withdraw from Andy Roxburgh 's squad and Ally McCoist was given less than a 50-50 chance of playing . |
| 4 | I accompanied her during house visits , at day and night , during surgery , and various other sessions with ages ranging from the newborn right through to the elderly and retired . |
| 5 | Among these are its smoothness and coolness to the touch , a degree of translucency , and colours ranging from the white most highly esteemed by the Chinese to the various shades of green , yellow , orange , red , blue , mauve and black imparted by mineral components . |
| 6 | It came to the fore most strongly when she faced the fact that some day Dimity might marry . |
| 7 | This chapter deals with the two most formally complex types of lexical configuration , namely , hierarchies and proportional series . |
| 8 | Charles 's Navy had fought very well against the Dutch in the 1660s until the money ran out , and had kept going in the 1670s satisfactorily enough . |
| 9 | Thus the " domino " theory , later articulated by the Americans , was anticipated by the British as early as 1948 – 49 . |
| 10 | Waking up at night I ca n't actually differentiate between the two very easily . |
| 11 | And a lot will depend on the 27-year-old tomorrow when he gets his first taste of League of Ireland football . |
| 12 | She also knew that some of her preferences were base in the extreme , and that her affection for Peter de Salis sprang at the first most ignobly from his delightful name . |
| 13 | I do n't know like , some of it 's just real hard , most of it 's just easy anyway it goes in the big diddly diddly diddly bit at the end , just |
| 14 | His eyes settled on the automatic once again . |
| 15 | If the price goes up 9% and his costs stay about the same maybe up 5% or so , er his actual bottom line is his income at the end of the year will in fact increase by about 60% . |
| 16 | People commonly chose between the two most frequently cited phrases — ‘ For People and Fatherland ’ , and ‘ For Führer , People , and Fatherland ’ — to praise and justify the sacrifice of their loved ones . |
| 17 | Africa emerges from the eighties worse off in living standards , education and health services , agriculture , mining , industry , inflation and balance of payments . |
| 18 | So it is cut to the finest as far as the females are concerned . |
| 19 | The theory is that if I stay among the faceless long enough , I become faceless myself . ’ |
| 20 | The metrics in both regions are unaltered , since a null electromagnetic field is defined by the metric only up to a constant duality rotation . |
| 21 | This structure is similar to the interface structure , information being retained for the five most recently recognised words . |
| 22 | The trouble with this and other moralistic creeds is that they do not allow for the righteous manifestly not enjoying the fruits of their exemplary conduct . |
| 23 | Rigel in Orion has 60000 times the luminosity of the Sun , and even at its distance of 900 light-years it still shines as the seventh apparently brightest of all the stars ; its magnitude is 0.1 . |
| 24 | ‘ We had to get into the stable very early in the morning to feed and braid up the horses . |
| 25 | Other rodents , especially mice , gerbils , guinea pigs are loved by the million so why not the wild brown ones ? |
| 26 | , if it is a left-hand circuit , overtake on the right ; if right-hand , overtake on the left i.e. always remain outside the slower aircraft |