Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [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 | Although the right had advocated foreign withdrawal they were well aware that the retention of some American troops was needed to prevent communist domination — ‘ Under Shtikov 's proposal , [ a ] strong Korean Communist Army in [ the ] North of Korea would be free to sweep down on the virtually unarmed south and quickly over-run it . ’ |
| 3 | The trade of elephant catching and training is likely to die out in the very near future . |
| 4 | He backed out of Nisodemus 's presence and was glad to get out into the bitingly cold air . |
| 5 | Badly paced , with a familiar climax ( The Silence Of The Lambs meets Cape Fear ) , but if you stay awake look out for the relatively complex treatment of the IRA early on , the Gulf War references and Sean Bean 's sunglasses |
| 6 | No oceanographer , when Balboa first strolled down to the gently lapping waters on the morning of that day , he had no reason to suppose that the ceremony — which would involve him standing ankle-deep in the water , the better to annex it — could not begin on schedule . |
| 7 | The principal results in Section 17.3 go over to the more general case with only minor modifications . |
| 8 | The Sea Urchin chair One step up from the ever popular bean bag , the Sea Urchin ( bottom right ) featured in an exhibition of ‘ prototype ’ furniture at the Design Centre , London , in 1967 , and typical of the futuristic mood of the times . |
| 9 | He suggests that the sense of the aesthetic arises out of the extremely rapid and continuous focal comparisons of data made during perception . |
| 10 | But it will be harder to crack down on the really powerful and harmful culprits in the shadow economy — the state bureaucrats who use their privileged access to goods heavily subsidized by the state to make fat profits for themselves . |
| 11 | Several spoke out against the harshly self-righteous tone of the original motion . |
| 12 | She needs to find someone or something to blame for the catastrophe that has overtaken her , so she looks for reasons , because she may not yet be ready to face up to the extremely anxiety-provoking fact that life itself is unpredictable and the world is an insecure place . |
| 13 | They both sat down in the deeply cushioned cane chairs and looked out over what was left of the original coconut grove , now a building-site . |