Example sentences of "[adj] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The bulletin said the number of employees in plants in the Scottish electronics industry in 1991 was about 45,300 — 1,200 down on the previous year . |
| 32 | He was 5-3 down in the fourth game against Peter Hill before winning 9-1 , 9-0 , 2-9 , 9-5 in a patchy , not to say puzzling , match . |
| 33 | The current poor economic climate has been blamed for total admissions of only 420,000 people , some 300,000 down on the 1988 total and the lowest figure since the show moved to the National Exhibition Centre from London in 1978 . |
| 34 | On Monday morning Shelley was early down at the medical centre . |
| 35 | Bates , 5–4 up in the first set tie-break broke a racket string in the middle of the next point and eventually lost the tie-break 7–5 . |
| 36 | Under Alexander III up to the 1905 revolution , particular efforts were made to Russify the European peoples of the empire , to stretch , in Seton-Watson 's evocative phrase , ‘ the short , tight skin of the nation over the gigantic body of the empire ’ . |
| 37 | We combine these by choosing just a few random points in them , say two or three , and copying from the first string up to the first point ; then copying from the second up to the second point ; then copying from the first again ; and so on , switching between them at each point . |
| 38 | It was also one of the top three ports for barley , handling 68,000 tonnes — 30,000 up on the previous year . |
| 39 | Six up from the first leg … |
| 40 | If the Iranian operation worked , the hostages would be freed , terrorism would cease , Iran and Iraq would make peace ( the grand climaxes were often not connected , but somehow self-generating out of the golden atmosphere ) , and Iran would be secured in the American , rather than the Soviet , camp . |
| 41 | Another waiter came , and together they threw Soapy out into the cold street . |
| 42 | The outcome meant that the SPD was now in government ( either alone or as the dominant partner ) in 10 out of the 16 Länder . |
| 43 | You could pass that off as the real thing . |
| 44 | I would like to end with a plea to all those out there of similar mind to keep alive the trivial names , the odd stories , the quirky characters and the strange anecdotes , and to pass these on to the next generation with a simple message . |
| 45 | Weld has left three in at the four day stage with Steel Chimes looking the most probable runner . |
| 46 | Similarly on deck and on the navigational side we had all that was necessary but everything was very basic down to the manual anchor winch . |
| 47 | He said : ‘ We were three down after the first leg against Stuttgart , but there was a great feeling we could do it . |
| 48 | Ziegler was now cut off on the wrong side of the Brussels road , but that predicament did not worry him . |
| 49 | Marketplace , an advertising agency with blue-chip clients such as Sainsburys , took the brave decision to move south of the river and bought an Edwardian warehouse in Holyrood Street , hard up against the high-level railway lines leading into the station . |
| 50 | With a little sigh , she slid her arms up and around his neck , her hands caressing his nape , allowing him to pull her hard up against the delightful seduction of his manhood . |
| 51 | I mean it may be that Ken has not drawn these up in the right way . |
| 52 | The maximum penalty for the offence is now three years ’ imprisonment or a fine , or on summary conviction , imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine up to the statutory maximum . |
| 53 | The emphasis was on the termination of parental rights in favour of long-term fostering and adoption ; Tunstill comments that , in three out of the four case histories in the guide to the assumption of parental rights , the only possibility of a ‘ happy ending ’ was by means of such steps . |
| 54 | Between 1889 and 1910 fifty-eight clubs moved into new grounds , though there was often continuity of land use in the sense that , at least 35 out of the current league grounds were recreational or sporting grounds in some form before the clubs moved in ’ . |
| 55 | Joe 's task was to write these out in the forged handwriting of the deceased . |
| 56 | And I believe that the growing trend erm of people going to the cinema , erm cinema owners reconverting cinemas they 've cut into three back into the large auditoria , erm will continue and a night out at the cinema has something to do with the the building you 're in , erm this building if refurbished would have a restaurant , would have a bar , would have a cinema club , would be a real asset to the town . |
| 57 | A further extension through this horizon is then possible up to the next surface on which or at which the space-time again splits into two separating gravitational waves which are the time reverse of the initial approaching waves . |
| 58 | For it was , in truth , as if his legs followed a route from which he could not turn them back — along the sales signs in Oxford Street occupied by a bedraggled army of Christmas bargain hunters , and off that up to the grandiose frontage of the hotel . |
| 59 | I think I 'd rather leave that up to the private sector . |
| 60 | ‘ Do you know , ’ said Sir George , ‘ that up to the eighteenth century the major industry in this part of the world was rabbit-warrening ? |