Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [noun sg] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why do n't you bust right through the wall next time . ’ |
| 2 | OSF turned over $55m in 1992 , of which $28m came from sales of technology licences — predominantly for the Motif graphical user interface — the other $27m being the $4.5m a year membership dues paid by each of the six remaining founders , Digital Equipment Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , Hitachi Ltd , IBM Corp , Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG and Groupe Bull SA . |
| 3 | It was not fun enough for the fans , nor artistic enough for the art loving public ( or so it seemed from the vulgar poster and catalogue ; actually , it contained some wonderful and rarely seen pieces of silver ) . |
| 4 | Robert had a headache and stayed behind : he wanted to be well enough for the Opera that evening . |
| 5 | The bravest of the brave : Fullback Jim Staples prepared to clear his lines as All Black skipper Sean Fitzpatrick — who lost the best part of two of his front teeth to an Irish fist — hems him in during the record 59–6 loss to New Zealand in Wellington . |
| 6 | I 'll give you another , it 's reckoned that ninety million tons of water , I 'll repeat that , ninety million tons of water , sufficient to supply the needs of this immediate area for over a hundred years , cascaded down off the moor that morning . |
| 7 | The whole house sat down after the Rosary one evening to pick the hospital she would go to . |
| 8 | For example , long after the News International judgement some authorities had still not reinstated the The Times newspaper , and the defence was , perhaps correctly , that they could no longer afford the subscription . |
| 9 | He knew that when the circle was spinning fast enough against the standing magical field of the discworld itself in its slow turning , the resulting astral friction would build up a vast potential difference which would earth itself by a vast discharge of the Elemental Magical Force . |
| 10 | The pound is up at one point seven nine dollars , and down against the Deutchmark two point eight four marks . |
| 11 | Yeah you can drive down , drive from Marbella to Gibraltar it 's all along the coast beautiful seaside sceneries |
| 12 | Near enough with the gas last time . |
| 13 | In the meadows by the Lugg , driven by its own weight ever closer to the edge of the water , and trapped by its own trampling ever deeper into the quaking marshy turf , the mass of struggling , hampered men and horses wallowed like a bogged ox . |
| 14 | Strong-willed producers previously housed under the Rank umbrella , like Filippo del Giudice , George Archibald , Joseph Somlo and Sydney Box all left , along with the prestige directorial talent , and their companies were consolidated into J. Arthur Rank Productions . |
| 15 | Scientific examination adds another dimension of evidence to authenticity studies which , taken together with the art historical evidence , can allow us to make an attribution with much more confidence . |
| 16 | As a non-physicist I have often wondered if the difference in photon energy ( E' — E = hf' — hf ) of the shifted and unshifted light could be wholly accounted for by the effect of the surface velocity ( v ) acting together with the particle equivalent mass of the photon . |
| 17 | ( This grouping now consisted of the PK — as successor to the FPD — together with the Peasant Christian Alliance and the Christian Democrat Party , both of the latter being members of the government coalition . ) |
| 18 | Together with the World Wide Fund for Nature and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , they were one of the three main partners in the conservation consortium who tried unsuccessfully to buy the estate . |
| 19 | I would have liked to have done better in the League this season , but I can see light at the end of the tunnel now . |
| 20 | The Pittagora women did not yet swim , and airless midsummer found them sequestered in their shuttered , marble-floored apartment in Rupe , emerging only before the sun gathered strength to go to market or to Mass , or after its heat had dimmed in the evening to stroll under the acacia trees with the rest of the town 's gentry , while their servants sat in doorways on wooden chairs , commenting aloud . |
| 21 | • After serving 18 months in the wilderness as punishment for running Michael Heseltine 's leadership challenge , East Hampshire MP Michael Mates was welcomed in from the cold this week when he was given a ministerial post by the Prime Minister . |
| 22 | MATT EDWARDS used the Coca-Cola Cup to finally come in from the wilderness last night . |
| 23 | I said you 've got your kids , you 've got a grandchild , of course her grandchild was born that night in the middle of the night , no , in the , four o'clock in the morning New Year 's Day |
| 24 | It 's really I suppose only in the y'know nineteenth century that the perspective starts to shift , the perspective starts to shift towards understanding rape as a crime of violence . |
| 25 | Some of the greens , sown only in the autumn that year , were described as near perfection less than a year later , although on balance it was accepted the course had to mature , the turf being described as a little scarce in places . |
| 26 | At first , when I put the phone down in the darkness that evening and returned to my pupil in the study , I was not too worried . |
| 27 | So and I went down in the pool this morning |
| 28 | Sit down in the corner nice breakfast . |
| 29 | Susan : ‘ Well , Vera , I was down in the Bank this morning paying my ESB and you know what happened — an old gentleman came in with flowers for a member of the staff — it was lovely to see ’ . |
| 30 | The slowing down in the world industrial economy in the 1970s changed the whole environment in which many firms worked . |