Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry Pascoe returned from these sporting festivities scratched all over from fighting among the gorse bushes on Pencarrow Head , and found his new wife in her new kitchen . |
| 2 | While this is inefficient from the viewpoint of both the union and the firm , in that both could be made better off by shifting onto the contract curve , there is some justification in using a model where the union determines wages while the firm determines employment ( see Oswald and Turnbull , 1985 ) . |
| 3 | She was not up to coping with the motion of the train . |
| 4 | A bigger problem that converting between video standards is that fact that most older monitors are simply not up to working with the high resolutions that the PC needs . |
| 5 | But the Germans really had little to boast about ; they too had made a major blunder early on by concentrating on the construction of Zeppelins , and their maintenance of technical superiority during most of the war was almost entirely thanks to the brilliance of a twenty-five-year-old Dutchman , Tony Fokker . |
| 6 | The suggested move towards a centrally-determined curriculum , however , was still out of keeping with the spirit of the times . |
| 7 | The surroundings were wholly out of keeping with the importance of the people there and the nature of their task . |
| 8 | What they saw , as one put it , were two people who were n't up to boating in the bath , never mind on the Thames in spate . |
| 9 | I 'd hate anyone to think that I did well out of dealing with the problem page . |
| 10 | From his self-imposed exile in America , the Lebanese Maronite poet Khalil Gibran — whose verse and drawings have an uncanny similarity to the work of William Blake — was moved to write an angry , ferocious poem quite out of keeping with the gentle , philosophical message for which he is generally remembered : |
| 11 | In the new context , these were quite out of keeping with the times , for the poor had to change as well as everyone else . |