Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This fits in with the traditionally tight control that local authority finance directors like to keep . |
| 2 | And already in similiar circumstances in France last summer he had been presented with the kind of opportunity to prove himself that many young pianists must dream of in vain : he was called on , again at very short notice , to stand in for the even more illustrious Sviatoslav Richter at Richter 's own festival at the Grange Meslay near Tours . |
| 3 | These then go out into the environment , are reflected back in a multitude of different ways according to the objects encountered , are picked up by the most amazingly refined hearing organs , matched against an inner mind structure capable of interpreting this data as a full and complete three-dimensional world and used as a major sensory means of perceiving their watery or aerial world . |
| 4 | Try to find out at the very least what position the interviewer holds with the company and whether you will be working directly with him or her . |
| 5 | Using a non-brittle stone , such as jade , shaping could only be carried out by the infinitely more laborious process of grinding . |
| 6 | Gordon John Sinclair is Gregory , a gangling , amiable misfit who falls in love with Dee Hepburn but eventually cops off with the infinitely more desirable Clare Grogan on a balmy evening in East Kilbride — which looks like heaven . |
| 7 | But it is equally true that there is no way of foreseeing the health status of the very elderly of 2010 or 2022 ; people grown up in the historically exceptionally prosperous period since World War Two may have very different health expectations than those currently aged over 75 who were born before 1911 in a very different environment from the present . |
| 8 | After the very earliest period of relative non-differentiation of functions , in which the ‘ literary ’ or ‘ artistic ’ had not or not fully separated out from the more generally ‘ cultural ’ , there had been this phase of specifically instituted artists , which should not really be described in terms taken from later phases , such as ‘ official recognition ’ or ‘ patronage ’ . |
| 9 | McDonald 's came out as the most parentfriendly restaurant , with Forte as the best hotel chain . |
| 10 | Lennox also hit back at critics , who claim he should have avoided the dangerous Ruddock and hidden himself away for a world title shot , snapping : ‘ I know the British fight fans will respect me for going in against the best instead of facing an easy touch . |
| 11 | PJ , however , is lining up with the very best . |
| 12 | He too builds up at the very least a case to answer . ) |
| 13 | It does not matter whether the golden spike is hammered in somewhere in England or in France or in China , so long as we can make an arbitrary decision , stop arguing about words and get on with the much more difficult ( but much more rewarding ) task of correlation . |
| 14 | One important global issue can be summed up in the now widely used expression ‘ limits to growth ’ . |
| 15 | An increase in the real money supply can be brought about by the far more direct route of central bank intervention to increase the nominal stock of money by an amount sufficient to attain full employment . |
| 16 | I went down to the straight away to the coal dealer and said , Take him a load of coal , and he took him . |
| 17 | Taking their lead from the ‘ gee-whizzers ’ of American journalism , a more colourful , gossipy style of writing took over from the rather self-consciously poetic late Victorian style with its ‘ hapless custodians ’ and ‘ leather spheroids ’ . |
| 18 | Heralded by a deafening midnight firework display and a cacophony of ships ’ hooters and truck horns , P&O 's Pride of Kent , the first ferry arrival of the New Year , docked in the port 's Number Two berth and the first trucks rolled off onto the otherwise virtually empty quayside . |
| 19 | Ignoring this , the present Government has cut back on the already poorly resourced Youth Training and Employment Training programme . |
| 20 | Discussions of film and television genre habitually nod towards the broad stylistic categories fundamental to literary aesthetics since Aristotle — epic , lyric , drama , comedy , tragedy — and quickly move on to the more immediately recognizable categories under which industry products are branded and sold — horror , western , musical , soap opera , crime series . |
| 21 | After bathing and dressing we wander down to the surprisingly well attended dining room for Christmas lunch . |
| 22 | At the same time , however , he earned massive public support for standing up to the most widely feared and despised Soviet institution . |
| 23 | Hungary stood out as the most environmentally aware country in Eastern Europe , with over half of its companies having implemented environmental policy . |
| 24 | This alone improves NEC by around £70/kW/ year and the final NEC works out at the much more favourable — £93/kW/year . |