Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new Fifa president , Joao Havelange , had been elected after campaigning vigorously among the less powerful countries , promising them an expanded tournament to meet their increased ambitions . |
| 2 | Allowing for a level of coding somewhere between the highly specific and detailed CODOT scheme and that of OPCS , in which are sometimes to be found rather heterogeneous categories . |
| 3 | But despite flying back to the more forgiving climate of Cairns , his fever showed no signs of leaving him . |
| 4 | In fact , the NRPB had taken the unusual step in 1987 of moving ahead of the notoriously conservative International Commission on Radiological Protection , which provides the generally accepted international standards , and had recommended dramatically reduced radiation dose limits both for people living near nuclear power stations and those working inside them . |
| 5 | Here 's a tough but effective way of honing in on the most meaningful elements of your life . |
| 6 | Six paratroopers accused of running amok in the mainly republican town of Coalisland , Co Tyrone , after an IRA bomb badly injured a colleague were yesterday cleared of all charges . |
| 7 | But the seats that Common Wealth began to win were often seats which Labour would have stood little chance of winning even under the most favourable conditions . |
| 8 | In the Russian Federation , for instance , the Tatar Republic adopted a declaration of independence in October 1991 and declared its intention of affiliating independently to the newly established Commonwealth . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As you can see , unless you feel that there is something suspect about the property , such as an extension which you feel may be badly constructed , or it is very old ( say , 18th century ) it is really not worth paying out for the more in-depth survey in the initial stages , which costs twice as much as the ordinary valuation survey . |
| 11 | He milks every dramatic gesture for all it is worth , extending sections such as the dolce con grazia ( 5'08 ’ ) till they seem to stretch into infinity , before sprinting away in the more volatile or highlycharged pages with an immaculate bravura and articulacy . |
| 12 | Coburn wrote his first four part storyline in two sections , starting with the quest for fire plot , which he named ‘ The Tribe of Gum ’ before going back to the very first episode , which had to be a more collaborative effort with the Script-Editor and the Producers . |
| 13 | Before moving on to the more advanced aspects of wave riding let us consider what should happen in the first attempts . |
| 14 | We might feel tempted to say that Wittgenstein 's account may be true of sensations ; but that there is no such thing as a sensation of blue , and so there is no reason why a private linguist could not start by naming the way things look to him before moving on to the more difficult talk of the way things actually are . |
| 15 | This pattern reflects both the tendency for school-leavers to leave the more rural and remote parts of the country and the fact that many people at or near retirement age see advantages in moving away from the more expensive and congested metropolitan regions . |
| 16 | There was something about cutter work — glamour , adventure , battling the elements , or just plain escapism — call it what you will , but once you had experienced it you had great difficulty in settling down to the more prosaic existence ashore . |
| 17 | Much of the work in the first two years of school will concentrate on looking backwards at the relatively recent past ( life 50 – 80 years ago ) , using oral history , photographs , objects , and looking at the locality , the family , home and school . |
| 18 | It 's very amusing , and you 've explained it amusingly to us , but er , there 's a lot of truth , I think in er , what you say and er how can we , er make the best of these unwelcome guests who insist on turning up at the most inopportune times , when we 're trying to enjoy ourselves . |
| 19 | She had taken to growling menacingly at the more impressionable of the remedials to keep herself occupied . |
| 20 | At the same time , however , he earned massive public support for standing up to the most widely feared and despised Soviet institution . |
| 21 | It is worth shopping around for the best quote possible . |
| 22 | The guide prices indicated are the manufacturers ' recommended retail prices — it 's worth shopping around for the best buy . |
| 23 | Such economies of attention are achieved by dealing only with the most superficial aspects of an experience . |