Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm trying to find out what sort of emotional state your daughter has been in over the past six months . |
| 2 | She knew that her presence and unwavering support was as important to the outcome as all the physical and psychological preparation that Lennox had been through in the past few months . |
| 3 | But along with Oxford United they 're out of the new Anglo-Italian Cup Competition … |
| 4 | You 're out from the very top drawer . |
| 5 | Yes we 're back to the inner inner northern routes are n't we ? |
| 6 | With regard to the flats I mean , one o erm the flats have been up since the late sixties and erm now they 're gon na be coming down . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
| 8 | Since I 've understood what management was about — I suppose that must have been back in the early 1950s — I 've had the philosophy that if I go into a job I must do it better than the bloke who 's been doing it before me . |
| 9 | Brutally suppressed by bluecoats led by Rope Thrower , known to whites as Kit Carson , in 1863 , they had been out of the major Indian Wars because the Reservation lands given to them were so arid and dreary that even the white man did n't want to kick them off to somewhere else . |
| 10 | The man had n't been out of the top four since 1980 but he did n't have the luck to win a title — in ‘ 86 he lost the crown when his helmet strap came undone . |
| 11 | Tim , who has never been out of the top two in the competition in the last six years , then went on to clinch an exciting final by a narrow margin . |
| 12 | Otherwise , it will be down to the usual international brinkmanship in Rio itself , and that 's no way to run a planet . |
| 13 | In the past , Freud has had very little place in such sociological reappraisals , but he needs to be in alongside the other major thinkers about society . |
| 14 | Although direct debits and cash dispenser machines had been around since the late 1960s , promotion campaigns made them farmore popular during the mid-1980s . |
| 15 | The day was faintly foggy ; lights were on on the tall hazy meccano sculptures of oil rigs moored in the Firth . |
| 16 | She enjoyed being out in the crisp fresh air , enjoyed every moment of stepping out on well-worn pathways with trees all around . |
| 17 | Three grates and half a ton of jackdaw muck later , they were back to the colossal 17th-century hearth . |
| 18 | The few managers of nursing who were around in the late 1960s , early 1970s will not wish to relive those experiences and yet unless alternative solutions are found quickly , the problem which prevailed then will soon be upon us again . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , the race is on among the other cosmetic companies to come up with even more original ways of helping you to make the right make-up choices . |
| 20 | So in the words of the rap , it 's down to the real nitty gritty to keep the flames of the scouting movement burning bright . |
| 21 | But , as Jon Edgson says : ‘ All we can do is start the ball rolling , after that it 's up to the individual concerned . |
| 22 | ‘ Now it 's up to the so-called bigger clubs to make their move , ’ he said . |
| 23 | There is history and culture there , and a trip worth making is out to the old Portuguese colony of Macau , far less prosperous than Hong Kong , probably far more like the real China . |
| 24 | After all that , it 's back into the fabulous chauffeur-driven limousine for the trip home . |
| 25 | It was down by the old meat-packing warehouses . |
| 26 | Marjorie Bousfield was up against the national fours championship rink and lost 17–28 , Dulcie Harbin lost 25–14 , while Pearl Wright , after drawing 9–9 at ten ends , went 22–15 . |
| 27 | That was back in the early sixties . |
| 28 | That was back in the early 1600s and things had been improving gradually ever since . |
| 29 | He stressed that GRE was back in the black due to significant improvement in its non-life insurance business , particularly in the UK . |
| 30 | No one who was around in the late 1960s can have avoided the flood of changes which swept through the dress , sexual codes , language , food styles , cinema , literature , music , and other generative aspects of the new counter-culture . |