Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Controls on illegal trade in animals and plants will effectively disappear with the introduction of the European single market at the start of 1993 . |
| 2 | The fact that the " adornment " theory was entertained for so long deserves some explanation and its appropriateness can not be altogether dismissed in the case of " artificial " styles cultivated by such Renaissance mannerists as Sidney and Lyly . |
| 3 | This galloping course will suit his action and he is not badly treated at the weights on his best form . |
| 4 | That is a document which is effectively given for the protection of the Vendor . |
| 5 | So , too , the feeling that life was becoming ‘ Americanised ’ has been used unsparingly to describe the process of ‘ permissive ’ rot and the collapse of traditional authority — most forcibly registered in the adoption of the term ‘ mugging ’ to disown as ‘ un-British ’ the old-fashioned crime of street robbery . |
| 6 | Where are we to account for the hints , implicit purposes , assumptions , social attitudes and so on that are effectively communicated by the use of language , not to mention the figures of speech ( e.g. metaphor , irony , rhetorical questions , understatement ) that have preoccupied theorists of rhetoric and literature ? |
| 7 | The larger falcons are among the birds of prey most favoured for the sport of falconry . |
| 8 | There could be no doubt that the Burgundian was the leading ruler in Gaul between 511 and 516 , and he may well have been the barbarian king most favoured by the court of Constantinople . |
| 9 | MP for 20 years , when he successfully fought against the closure of Shildon wagon works . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , most of the early studies on owl digestion have been carried out on species that do little damage to the bones of their prey . |
| 11 | It follows that ‘ those sensations must be all that we can , at bottom , mean by their attributes ; and the distinction which we verbally make between the properties of things and the sensations we receive from them , must originate in the convenience of discourse rather than in the nature of what is signified by the terms ’ . |
| 12 | Glumness apart , he nonetheless would like to be thought of as a comic writer and indeed , though its themes are class , race and sex , what most impresses about The Buddha of Suburbia is that it is full of humour . |
| 13 | He had naïvely stumbled into the middle of a very complicated and dangerous situation . |
| 14 | Joe Maitland his boss was very often out buying and selling and he rarely interfered with the running of the store . |
| 15 | The Threadfin Goldie Nemanthias carberryi is mostly received into the U.K. from shipments originating in The Maldives . |
| 16 | Gilgamesh went on to search for the secret of immortality and according to the legend he almost succeeded . |
| 17 | Another mechanical argument against Copernicus concerns loose objects such as stones , philosophers , etc. resting on the surface of the earth . |
| 18 | He was obviously moving left or right depending on the fall of the coin . |
| 19 | And he said no , buy a badge now with a dog 's head on depending on the breed of dog you 've got , and it says on it I live here . |
| 20 | For the different theoretical conceptions of the company have been intimately embroiled in the effort of company law to justify the vesting of substantial power in corporate management . |
| 21 | Now the increasingly hard-nosed tactics of the popular press have driven society gossip underground , and gossip columns are mostly filled with the doings of the lower echelons of café society on the make . |
| 22 | This pump-leak system allows K + ions to recycle across the basolateral membrane , promotes hyperpolarisation of the parietal cell , and thereby contributes to the maintenance of the electrochemical gradient that favours Cl - exit at the apical membrane during acid secretion . |
| 23 | Bentham ( 1748–1832 ) is properly regarded as the founder of utilitarianism . |
| 24 | It seems clear that the value of the whole state of consciousness is not properly regarded as the sum of the value of its parts . |
| 25 | Epogam , a product containing this oil , is widely prescribed in the UK for treatment of atopic dermatitis ( AD ) . |
| 26 | I could n't blame him ; only a few days before an eminent surgeon had been badly mugged in the entrance to his Harley Street office in the middle of the afternoon . |
| 27 | He was a little shaken by the strain of the near accident but hoped concentrating on his new plan would help to calm him down . |
| 28 | A neatly printed card , discreetly placed at the hem of the embroidery , told that the contents of the case had been donated by Jurgen Danziger , in 1933 . |
| 29 | Golden lads and lasses had just breakfasted on golden toast , a little blackened at the edge in some cases , spread with golden shred or golden syrup . |
| 30 | The transcripts were handed over to the Serious Fraud Office , and duly and properly given to the defendants in the criminal proceedings . |