Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the descriptive matter printed below an illustration , mostly referred to as a caption . |
| 2 | From being a peripheral aspect of police practice , unrecognized in the courts and rarely adverted to as a ground for arrest , detention followed by interrogation has become a central pivot in the battle against crime . |
| 3 | ‘ And I am Lio ! rt Dragonlord , ’ said the hanging man , pronouncing the word with the harsh click in the back of the throat that Rincewind could only think of as a kind of integral punctuation . |
| 4 | While neither a saint nor a psychopath , he clearly had some of the characteristics of both — ; chiefly what Lydia could only think of as a sort of selfless solipsism . |
| 5 | Following its defeats in municipal elections and in elections to the House of Councillors in July 1989 [ see pp. 36800-01 ] , the LDP had embarked upon a programme aimed at reasserting and regaining the political influence which had been damaged not only by the scandals but also by the imposition of an unpopular 3 per cent general consumption tax [ GCT — see p. 36618 , where it is wrongly referred to as a value added tax ] and by the liberalization of import controls in the agricultural sector [ see p. 36800 ] . |
| 6 | The symptoms , only hinted at by a headache earlier that could easily have been nothing , and by mild swelling that was normal in hot weather , had intensified with frightening suddenness , and Belinda was in no doubt about what it meant . |
| 7 | She sank down , hugging her sides , praying that Tom , Amos and Oseri would n't suddenly appear from behind a boulder or a fold in the hillside . |
| 8 | And then the stairs the stairs are facing you like that , so you 've only got about about a metre of in between the bottom of the stairs and your front door and you s just sort of go in through there an and you 're in the living room . |
| 9 | Corns are better dealt with by a chiropodist . |
| 10 | Like all the best puzzlers it 's simple enough to get into without a struggle , so addictive you 'll always want ‘ just one more go ’ and , you guessed it , frustrating in the extreme ! |
| 11 | This includes a bag of invaluable tools from Norton Utilities , all finished of with a drag and drop desktop which works rather like Windows . |
| 12 | Their bodies were only discovered after about a fortnight ; it was not clear whether Kelly 's death was part of a suicide pact . |
| 13 | So the distance makes something look rather fainter , and similarly if you have something like a particular kind of start that you can identify by some property — which we 'll perhaps talk about in a moment — if you can identify it and you know how bright it is , then the fainter ones are further away and you can estimate the distance by how faint they are . |
| 14 | The computer holds the microprograms in what is normally referred to as a control store . |
| 15 | The DC refers to modules which are already referred to by a DC activated via another package ( this check prevents the occurrence of conflicting modifications ) . |
| 16 | They are , however , most closely associated with the Russian town of Bokhara , which was traditionally used as a marketing centre for their wares , and today any item employing a gul design is generally referred to as a Bokhara rug . |
| 17 | Lhote , who had already established a certain independent reputation , mixed cautiously in Cubist circles , but from 1911 onwards was generally referred to as a Cubist , although his somewhat academic style often gained him exemption from the unfavourable criticism directed at the other painters . |
| 18 | The room is at its best looked at as a whole . |
| 19 | These were perceived as tools of management , [ who ] were only interested in productivity and in milking as much as possible out of their work force and were thus responded to by a work force who were determined to ensure that their rewards were as high as possible , and thus there was a perceived necessity to fool the time and motion man . |
| 20 | He thought of his wife and child whom he had not seen for over a month . |
| 21 | A relatively static subject like this is best shot from off a tripod which would enable you to keep well back and work the zoom towards the telephoto end of the range for close-ups without risking spoiling your shots through camera-shake . |
| 22 | Bad enough to feel the way she did , let alone have to spend time with a man who treated her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone . |
| 23 | Her prosecutor was looking at her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone . |
| 24 | In Chalatenango , for example , the FMLN forces maintain that by preference , sexual relations should not occur outside of a matrimony ( understood in a broad sense and not implying either a civil or religious ceremony ) . |
| 25 | Indeed , sound is perhaps best thought of as a wave , or series of waves , of stress passing through a substance at its natural speed . |
| 26 | Many data are collected regularly and routinely , particularly by government agencies , local authorities , etc. , so that , again , we have These observations are best thought of as a time series rather than a longitudinal study since the whole community of a country or region ( rather than a sample ) is generally involved . |
| 27 | Excavation is best thought of as a postmortem examination of an archaeological site , and involves a detailed dissection of a site in order to gain as much information as possible . |
| 28 | I know this I just know about about a sort of friend of ours is making money meanwhile in Germany . |
| 29 | If fleas or mites persist they can be easily dealt with by a fly spray . |
| 30 | Recording error on the part of staff , either purposeful or accidental , is less easily dealt with in a study such as this . |