Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though civilization crumbles , let those who are civilized remain so to the end ! |
| 2 | There is paper everywhere , some spread all around the office in every conceivable place and untidily on the few shelves available . |
| 3 | Of the 40 guests at Cannigione , slightly more than half sail mainly on the windsurf programme . |
| 4 | 12 Look carefully at the edge of your protractor . |
| 5 | But some get closer to the feeling , the experience or the thought than others . |
| 6 | The first six relate directly to the Earth Summit , the last two provide an opportunity for people to get more involved in practical initiatives and to help to raise more pledges for the Tree of Life within your local community . |
| 7 | The information system is classified according to 14 problem categories ( Figure 5.2 , excluding categories 7.4 and 15 ) and these correspond directly to the enquiry statistics described in Chapter 2 ( Figure 2.1 ) . |
| 8 | These change slightly with the music as the plot unfolds and allow Giselle to develop from a simple peasant dancer in love with Albrecht to a tragically distraught maiden and finally to the ethereal Will . |
| 9 | These depend only on the distance between the two points and not on their location or the orientation of the line joining them . |
| 10 | Monosaccharides carry several hydroxyl groups ( OH ) and , when a disaccharide is formed , two of these link together with the loss of the elements of water . |
| 11 | Yes , there are other buttons and settings to use on the machine or carriages , but these deal more with the needle selection of the design , rather than with the way the actual stitch is formed . |
| 12 | In the meantime , you can continue to do hand work in the quiet moments and these serve also as the time to embellish your quickly-made basic garments . |
| 13 | Since their work covered such a vast range of subjects , it is necessary to limit the discussion to topics which have arisen within the traditional limits of anthropology , and to leave to other studies an examination of Marx 's and Engels 's views of such periods as feudalism or ancient Greece and Rome , since these fall more under the orbit of historical studies . |
| 14 | These relate largely to the ability of budget-holding GPs to determine and control what hospital treatment is supplied to their patients . |
| 15 | A balding Brummie called Martin throws his arms around Sue , and Samantha suggests that we all head upstairs to the room that locks from the inside . |
| 16 | Pertinent comments made by linguists and grammarians all focus however on the meaning of the verb of perception alone . |
| 17 | And so we all look forward to the day the renovation will be finished . |
| 18 | All of which explained that when I arrived at the BMC 's International Meet halfway through the week , the climbers that drifted into breakfast that morning looked like they 'd been on the receiving end of a very nasty artillery barrage . |
| 19 | The latter operate solely through the state apparatus ; the former are active both in the individual workplaces and in the wider arena represented by the state . |
| 20 | ‘ Fucking squaddie culture , yeah ; adoration of the fucking Maggie and pit bulls and getting some scoff down your neck and let's get pissed on lager and all moon together from the bus and camouflage jackets in the high street and yeah-well-I'm-inarestid-in-martial-arts-in't-I ? |
| 21 | Many wander aimlessly in the shopping centre , or play games machines in the arcades . |
| 22 | In various birds species , such as ruffs and black grouse , the males all cluster together in the breeding season on a special patch of ground called a lek or arena . |
| 23 | The runner soon returns and we all shuffle soggily into the hut . |
| 24 | Er , naturally we 're disappointed you 're proposing to take er , twenty thousand of our twenty three thousand carry forwards in the registration service . |
| 25 | So for example when I 've given a pint of blood instead of giving it into a plastic bag with sodium citrate to stop it clotting I 've actually given into a plain glass bottle and when I asked what this for the erm transfusion nurse said that they 're going to let the red cells all clot together at the bottom and use the serum that was left for blood grouping purposes which of course is very important . |
| 26 | Taylor 's slip catching had suddenly become a worry , though he recovered his poise with a good take late in the match , no longer rigid as he threw himself low to his right . |
| 27 | The first of these described two arduous journeys from Constantinople via Salonika ( taking in Mount Athos , which he climbed ) across the Scardus and Bertiscus ranges , then further north into Montenegro and across the Mirdita country of central Albania ; while the second described a journey from Samsun across the Anatolian plateau , through Cappadocia , past Lake Van to Erzerum , and so back to Trebizond , the latter stretch roughly across the route taken by Xenophon and the Ten Thousand . |
| 28 | The simplest form of steps in a sloping site are those cut directly into the ground . |
| 29 | Echoing Marvin Gay 's best albums , ‘ What 's Going On ’ and ‘ Let's Get It On ’ , the team that unleashed the most emotive house singles of the late Eighties dig deep into the groove and spiritual foundations over 15 songs . |
| 30 | Clauses 1 , 2 and 3 of Precedent 3 deal respectively with the identity of the parties , the period of validity of the agreement , and the general purpose of the agreement , all of which are self-explanatory . |