Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | United had one more chance six minutes before the end when Martin Foyle did well to turn on the ball ; in the edge of the penalty area he hit a shot low and hard towards the corner of the net but it just drifted wide of the far post and United 's chance had gone . |
| 32 | By beating this they could drive themselves through the water but their heavy foreparts must have kept their heads low and close to the bottom . |
| 33 | To control the power keep the sail low and close to the water to decrease its effective area and slide one or both feet into the straps whilst lying in the water . |
| 34 | This was discussed with the Jones who resolutely maintained that now that ‘ the problem ’ was solved they were going back to normal and apart from the period of intervention they had not changed what they did at all . |
| 35 | He had seated himself in an armchair adjacent to the settee to which Elisa had naturally returned although now she was sitting rather prim and upright on the edge . |
| 36 | , A blind , underground-dwelling spider species long thought to be extinct , Troglodiplura lowryi , has been found alive and well under the Nullabor Plains desert in South Australia . |
| 37 | This was introduced by Heseltine in the Department of Environment in 1980 and later in the Ministry of Defence . |
| 38 | My hon. Friend has been an effective and persuasive advocate in private and now in the House of the interests of his constituents . |
| 39 | There are times when the word unbelief is used to describe the doubts of those who are definitely believers but only when they are at a stage of doubting which is rationally inexcusable and well on the way to becoming fullgrown unbelief . |
| 40 | like that and eventually with the help of my mum I could join sentences together to make a real piece of writing . |
| 41 | And er we used to all do that and then in the week in the weekday |
| 42 | And we believe we already offer that , I think the figures indicate that and therefore in the medium and the longer term I believe that our attractions will undoubtedly benefit and I would finally say that if you er , go back and look at the history of Disney in America , after the establishment of Disney Parks in America there was a big improvement in extension of the amusement parks in the rest of America which er , the traditional theme parks , so called , in America grew in the period after the establishment of Disney Land in California and I think a similar sort of thing is going to happen , not perhaps just in this country er , but also in Europe generally . |
| 43 | If you know that you feel fit and well during the course of the day , then you are getting sufficient sleep for your own needs . |
| 44 | This particular move towards ‘ honesty ’ was seldom so kindly interpreted ; but at least it was then Americans , not contras , who could play hard and fast with the money . |
| 45 | I had learned to fly in the Fleet Air Arm in 1940 and immediately after the war I spent nearly two years in South America flying for the Shell company . |
| 46 | Some theatre staff take over on the patient 's arrival in the theatre suite and keep the patient until he is fully recovered and conscious , while in other theatres the ward nurse remains with her patient until he is fully anaesthetized fin some cases the ward nurse assists the anaesthetist ] and returns to collect the patient who is not fully conscious and still under the effect of the anaesthetic . |
| 47 | The cross we have to bear in Darlington is Durham County Council which due to years of Labour Party domination has become unaccountable and virtually under the control of its officers . |
| 48 | His voice was pure seduction , drawing her deeper and deeper into the spell of passion , and she shook her head with a desperation born of fear — fear not of him but of what she would do if he continued this heady , drugging assault on her senses . |
| 49 | The seventeenth century witnessed a tremendous expansion of the lord 's demesne at the expense of some of the tenants ' arable and possibly at the loss of their commons as well . |
| 50 | There was a long silence and then a deep sigh from Fernando and when he spoke again his voice was soft and almost at the point of exhaustion . |
| 51 | Everything may be getting bigger , brighter and better in the network world , but the most important single trend is probably standardisation . |
| 52 | This is very brief and solely for the record , Chairman , at the York greenbelt local plan inquiry the City Council made one objection , and one objection only , in respect of sites , and that was a site that straddled the York Selby boundary , that was there only expressed concern on sites specific objection , one site in the entire plan . |
| 53 | The miner … lives in communities detached from the society at large and often from the absentee employer as well … . |
| 54 | The domes are not hemispherical but spheroidal in shape and are elongated towards the top ; the pendentives are also elongated and more in the form of squinches . |
| 55 | The GT 35s were immediately comfortable and even on the backpack , with one very long day in the heat , I suffered no blisters and little foot discomfort . |
| 56 | By following the punchcard instructions you will be moving the lace carriage sometimes to the left and sometimes to the right . |
| 57 | We can make it difficult for the respondent to do this by randomizing the direction of the successive ratings so that ‘ desirable ’ is sometimes on the left and sometimes on the right . |
| 58 | The loose-boxes were set around three sides of a square and away to the right , half-hidden , was a neglected-looking dwelling . |
| 59 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 60 | The Bean family was large and noisy and much under the thumb of father Bean , Nutty 's ‘ Uncle Knacker ’ , a fierce fat man with silver hair and a red face . |