Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [subord] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The class gets used to performing at a particular speed and also the movement becomes greatly disturbed if not at the right tempo . |
| 2 | Whites price was obviously done whilst NOT in the first team . |
| 3 | But Kitty — who sensed her young friend 's perturbation — only talked as always about the woods , the animals , the nights . |
| 4 | He had never felt so abandoned as here at the top of this tall silent house on Usher 's Quay . |
| 5 | He called his acceptance of human sexuality and respect for the female energy Red Thread Zen , acknowledging that life itself would not exist if not for the umbilical cord that connects us to the feminine . |
| 6 | The experience of witnessing psychosocially normal people from a wide range of abilities and backgrounds telling the stories of their individual experience and what has been done to them , would be the best method of ensuring that sufferers from addictive disease are not treated as dismissively in the future as they have tended to be in the past . |
| 7 | The active principles of cannabis were not purified until well into the twentieth century , but one of Kraeplin 's pupils was among those who made early studies of mescaline , isolated from the Mexican Peyote cactus in 1896 . |
| 8 | May be she did not do as well in the major championships as in previous years but in 1990 she still managed to win one Australian , get in to the final of the French and the US Opens , and the semi final of Wimbledon . |
| 9 | The Conservatives did not do as badly in the South East as elsewhere ( average swing to Labour , 4.7% ) , whereas Labour performed much better in another traditional area of weakness , the South West , with the Conservative vote dropping substantially in Bristol ( -6.7% ) , Exeter ( -8.8% ) , Penwith ( -11.6% ) , and Torbay ( -17.4% ) . |
| 10 | A simple reason why the younger activists are not seen as often on the picket line as their elders were , is that they are too busy pursuing the same goals by other means . |
| 11 | Smoking was more common among Welsh parents , accompanied by an attempt not to smoke while close to the baby . |
| 12 | Prices had not climbed as fast in the first place and were less dependent on volatile international buying . |
| 13 | The stiff rein indicates that the horse is not carrying or pushing as much with that inside hind leg and so it is easier for him to shy ( and so stop going forward ) , if he is not working as well in the first instance . |
| 14 | Perhaps some wore jackets this time and perhaps some restaurants pampered their customers with radiant ceiling heating slanting down on their open galleries , but the Tivoli lights still swung as gently in the trees , the musicians played as sweetly , and the Pantominteatret still stood in all its glory , its magnificent ‘ curtain' of a peacock with fan-shaped tail unfurled waiting dramatically against a sky of indigo velvet for the second performance of the evening . |
| 15 | In the streets , vehicles clattered along on tyreless wheels , with the day not so far of– when even at the front the airforce would be forced to encase plane wheels in wooden clogs when being wheeled from the hangar , just to save precious rubber . |
| 16 | This , approximately one-fifth of the nation 's farmland , was expected to keep engineers in the newly formed water authorities fully occupied until well into the next century . |
| 17 | Cranston made the man repeat the message as he reluctantly took than out of the main hall and up the wide , spacious stairs to one of the duke 's private chambers . |