Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Minister is not prepared to shoulder the burden on behalf of the British taxpayer , is the time not right for him to work with the European Community in establishing a Europewide diversification initiative ? |
| 2 | I was by no means ill , and the ground by the road was firm enough for me to get to the Land Rover without too much of a struggle . |
| 3 | The train stopped there long enough for me to run along the line and climb up into the great diesel engine driven by Bert Coad from Perth and Hilton Hinchcliff from Kalgoorlie . |
| 4 | It was just warm enough for us to sit at the table outside and drink cool wine in the fading sun . |
| 5 | What was really wrong with Eldorado was that nobody really cared much about what happened to the characters . |
| 6 | It took his appearance and speech on 30 September 1942 to dispel such rumours , only for them to recur in the winter of 1942–3 and especially after the Stalingrad disaster . |
| 7 | Noticing the creative/fantasy element in their talk , the teacher encouraged them , once the castle was finished , to make up a story together about what happened in the castle , while she wrote their ideas down for them . |
| 8 | There would be less and less for him to do without the outlet at the Amtel clinic . |
| 9 | She had forgotten that he was off duty until her vision cleared sufficiently for her to take in the fact that he was wearing a dark suit , the jacket unfastened to reveal a white shirt . |
| 10 | ‘ This point can be proved by the constable dealing with the case describing the place sufficiently for it to come within the definition of ‘ street ’ at ( B ) 2 ante . |
| 11 | Computers do not have the knowledge and experience of the average human reader , so for them to cope with the ambiguities shown above they need to have access to repositories of the different sorts of knowledge . |
| 12 | You should find that your taste for salt becomes less as you progress through the diet programme . |
| 13 | They 're designed to take the heat out of the dispute by getting the husband and wife to talk sense rather than war , especially about what happens to the kids and the money . |
| 14 | In between we pass through the inevitable stages of people disappearing because they know too much . |
| 15 | ‘ Then there are few enough of us left to the cause . ’ |
| 16 | Their main virtue in this respect is their currency , since they provide a pointer to likely public demand ( much of it stemming from the reviews themselves ) . |
| 17 | On most of the nationalisation stock ( paid to compensate former owners ) and earlier long-term borrowings they inherited at nationalisation ( much of it raised at the low interest rates of the 1930s ) they paid only 3 per cent . |
| 18 | Then she said , still with her back turned , ‘ Have you any idea , Robina , why your parents are so against you going on the stage ? ’ |
| 19 | For comparison purposes , there are fundamentally two choices , ie either the attainment levels can be assessed against an agreed target , or relative comparisons can be made , eg against what happened in the past if records are available , or what is happening at the start of the exercise compared with what happens at selected future points in time , effectively establishing better or worse levels , as summarised in Fig 13.6 . |
| 20 | A man and a woman watched as we came alongside with myself leaning over the side of the open bridge of Venturous . |
| 21 | The second concerned the shops ; ‘ They were still like a jumble sale inside with everything crammed on the rails . ’ |
| 22 | Indeed it is a credit to Wilko that the board have been confident enough in him to compete at the highest levels in the transfer market . |
| 23 | However , the price is a little too expensive compared to the best similar games on the Amiga and there 's not enough in it to compete with the likes of Sega games . |
| 24 | The ash raining down from it added to the misery of the people in the area — the Sir Robert Sale reported lumps the size of pumpkins falling on her decks , and she was at least forty kilometres distant . |
| 25 | I appreciate Mr it 's now five years ago but how long did it take from when the door went down to you getting to the main bedroom ? |
| 26 | Similarly the question of the need to store the goods in third party premises , if the buyer can not accept delivery when they are ready for delivery , really comes down to who pays for the storage charges . |
| 27 | Peter should of course , be copied in on anything sent to the others . |
| 28 | So I sat down beside her to wait for the others . |
| 29 | These are the affirmations that were being made as Jesus trotted in Jerusalem with this little donkey , his followers gathered all around him looking from the heights of the walls of Jerusalem , there must have been one or two curious , astonished , worried eyes , the Sanhedrin , the Chief Elders , |
| 30 | I do n't think the consumer would ev say that and I think sometimes one forgets er people forget the consumer I mean the erm er but obviously by us going onto the Hong Kong route we are going to reduce British Airways and Cathay Pacific 's profits on that route considerably , we we think that because our costs are considerably less than British Airways , and I suspect considerably less than Cathay Pacific , that the player that er could be around in thirty or forty years ' time is Virgin Atlantic . |