Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , local government and even more directly administered or corporatist elements of state action at the local level ( DHSS local offices , Manpower Services Commission , Health Authorities ) are , as Goodwin ( 1986 : 3 ) puts it , ‘ important in administering and implementing locally the decisions reached in central government , where weaker and subordinate groups are not dominant ’ . |
| 2 | Mercifully the traffic progresses for fifty yards before it stalls again , and the Rasta does not pursue her further , but Robyn keeps a nervous eye on her rear-view mirror . |
| 3 | Presumably the replicators act as some kind of mould or template . |
| 4 | Slowly the lagoons filled with accumulated sediments and the sea retreated . |
| 5 | Eventually the breeders settled for solid red , though small touches of white were acceptable , and a dual-purpose type with the emphasis on milk . |
| 6 | But as the wheel slows , the energy of the ball decreases , and eventually the ball drops into one of the thirty-seven slots in the wheel . |
| 7 | In a few years , the sward may become dominated by the coarse tussock-forming grass , Brachypodium pinnatum , and eventually the vegetation turns into some form of scrub and possibly woodland . |
| 8 | Eventually the convulsions subsided to some extent and he could hear what she was saying . |
| 9 | Altogether the homelands accounted for 13 per cent of South Africa 's land area — see map . ) |
| 10 | It bursts at internals to release into the atmosphere an enormous number of rusty-red spores which are carried on the breeze to germinate in distant damp timber , starting the process afresh . |
| 11 | To have the spokesman for science take on the churches seemed to many neither congenial nor wise . |
| 12 | In France , fertility decline within marriage began a century earlier , in the 1780s ( Wrigley 1983 ) , without industrialization on the scale of Britain's. furthermore the decline began in many rural areas at the same time as in towns . |
| 13 | Better to let the novel die away in disenchantment ; better the downbeat reminiscing of two friends than a swirling salon-picture . |
| 14 | They sat and waited in silence , listening to the scuffling of leaves that drew steadily nearer , until suddenly the bird stepped from nearby undergrowth into the clearing . |
| 15 | The tank is usually well planted but suddenly the Kissers tore up most of the plants and began to wrap their bodies around each other . |
| 16 | Apparently the party returned to Nice because Zborowski had failed to sell enough paintings to pay the rent . |
| 17 | Keep careful track of how long the adventurers spend in this Tower during each visit . |
| 18 | Patterns of swastika meander — especially the variety based on four adjacent swastikas — in conjunction with concentric , linear borders , are not common outside the region , although some notable parallels do exist . |
| 19 | Australia has also developed its own milking Shorthorns , especially the Illawarra based on nineteenth-century British imports ( see Australian section ) . |
| 20 | Unhappily the city fell into partial ruin in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century , but restoration has been carefully continuing since it was begun by Viollet-le-Duc in 1844 ( 445 and 447 ) . |
| 21 | A Western consultancy attempting to track down the money lost in this way said that much of it was being deposited in foreign banks . |
| 22 | These were helping to break down the barriers to access for those companies , such as small scale , under capitalisation , lack of knowledge of quality assurance and shyness in making approaches to the big operators . |
| 23 | The West German leader , far from seeking to slow down the process leading to monetary union , said the treaty revision should be agreed by the end of 1991 and put into force by the time the EC single market was completed at the end of 1992 . |
| 24 | After night has fallen , I will climb down the slopes to walk about unseen round the hotel and retrieve what the People have discarded . |
| 25 | There will also be an interest in breaking down the numbers according to such familiar variables as age , sex and socio-economic status , and there will be a curiosity about whether ( and , if so , how ) religious affiliation or observance correlates with other kinds of behaviour . |
| 26 | Looms are most frequently indicated by loom-weights , annular in form , for weighing down the warp threads on upright looms ; they are occasionally found in rows in the base of sunken buildings where they may have fallen or been taken off the loom , or originally stacked in a column . |
| 27 | Suggest that perhaps the meeting reconvene in half an hour after studying the material . |
| 28 | Cos if you see the , the theory was that if you left it there indefinitely , er obviously the money declines in real value , does n't it , because you 're getting no increase on it . |
| 29 | Obviously the progress made in educational thinking just prior to 1973 , and in its interpretation , had been quite dramatic and the way was clear for the first time to develop long-term objectives for education . |
| 30 | After c.973 all the pennies struck at numerous mints throughout the country ( including York ) bore the king 's name and portrait , and were produced from iron dies distributed by the government , so that all looked alike . |