Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 31 | That these movements were still essentially Atlantic in their orientation , is shown by the great accumulations of syn-orogenic and post-orogenic sediments down through the Appalachian belt of the United States . |
| 32 | On the third table sat Princess Anne in between the prime minister of Greece , Constantine Mitsotakis , and Irish prime minister , Albert Reynolds . |
| 33 | Manville brooded morosely on this topic as the driver manipulated his four-wheeled war chariot in between the busy traffic of the four-lane highway . |
| 34 | Now in terms of the cr the need for development , I 'm sure the panel will have read all the evidence which has been put in about the long history of the varying impact studies o on development on around Greater York , and those date back of course to the February eighty nine report which I I think you 'll have seen copies of . |
| 35 | Inevitably , the pace of legislative change slowed down after the hectic activity of the first Hundred Days . |
| 36 | This was The Who touching down after the conceptual splurge of ‘ Tommy ’ , knocking out faves like ‘ Magic Bus ’ and re-reading touchstone '50s songs in a deranged but affectionate way . |
| 37 | In expanding their empire , the British had habitually sought out local agents through whom to impose their authority , and though these arrangements often broke down after the initial period of contact , sometimes they did not . |
| 38 | It had been wounded , and was struggling to stay afloat with its snout jutting horizontally above the water , its dark mane of bristle bobbing up and down amid the white rise of the current . |
| 39 | In general , too , rhythmic and temporal features of speech are ignored in transcriptions ; the rhythmic structure which appears to bind some groups of words more closely together than others , and the speeding up and slowing down of the overall pace of speech relative to the speaker 's normal pace in a given speech situation , are such complex variables that we have very little idea how they are exploited in speech and to what effect ( but , cf. |
| 40 | They have been punished by being stripped of their ability to claim benefit and by the pushing down of the real value of their training allowance . |
| 41 | But the fact that the legislature refrained from creating a jurisdiction to make orders against a third party under section 6(3) and ( 4 ) does not justify a cutting down of the ordinary meaning of section 6(2) . |
| 42 | The observation of slowing down of the orbital rotation of the binary pulsar 1913+16 is also discussed . |
| 43 | The memory of the outcome brought a smile to her face on that Saturday morning as she walked down towards the crouching figure of Aggie . |
| 44 | His car , led by a police escort , swung in past the craggy statue of Field Marshal Montgomery . |
| 45 | The other hand , also in a clenched fist position , is tucked in against the opposite side of the body , with the thumb and fingers facing upwards . |
| 46 | Large plants and containers make this impractical , and it is then a case of loosening the soil-ball at the sides with a stick pushed down against the inside wall of the container . |
| 47 | As they set up the now empty suit with its back to the door , half slumped over a control panel , he settled down behind the curtained entrance of the showers . |
| 48 | Flames and smoke from nearby chestnut-sellers and the bare-chested fire-eaters flickered and drifted into the dark grey sky , and Meredith just hung on to Lucenzo , lost for words , overwhelmed by the volume of sound , the bustle , the glamour , as they walked along beneath the arched walkway of the Procuratie Nuove . |
| 49 | Since last week 's bumper post bag caused our 50-storey multi-plex office block to cave in under the sheer weight of ever-hopeful readers ' entries , we here at Bizzerk have had to temporarily relocate to a Hawaiian island where cargo boats deliver letters by the sackload for our native postal workers to process . |
| 50 | Since last week 's bumper post bag caused our 50-storey multi-plex office block to cave in under the sheer weight of ever-hopeful readers ' entries , we here at Bizzerk have had to temporarily relocate to a Hawaiian island where cargo boats deliver letters by the sackload for our native postal workers to process . |
| 51 | In this way , many birds ensure that they cross the Mediterranean at its narrowest point , the Straits of Gibraltar , or circumvent the sea altogether by travelling east into Asia across the Bosphorus and then down along the eastern shore of the sea by way of Israel . |
| 52 | ‘ We will continue down along the eastern slope of the ridge . ’ |
| 53 | With his other hand he slid one finger along the line of her temple , the slender arch of her neck , and then down along the soft swell of her breasts at the V-neckline of her dress , pausing at the small gold St Christopher gleaming against her freshly tanned skin , in the warm hollow of her cleavage . |
| 54 | The chairman , Chris Patten , will shortly sit down with the new head of the Downing Street policy unit , Sarah Hogg , to write the first draft of Mr Major 's manifesto . |
| 55 | Billy Corgan is down with the current spate of female bands ; he does n't begrudge them success and thinks groups like Babes in Toyland deserve their kudos . |
| 56 | He put the phone down with the usual feeling of life at present , that he could strike forward forever and only land up farther behind . |
| 57 | In improvising , a player can often create spontaneously something much superior to what can be written down with the crude approximation of notation . |
| 58 | Teaching art , thinking about , writing about , looking at art , with very little time for anything else , except the daily round , has meant that my visual faculties are numbed , rubbed down with the hard graft of making art a living . |
| 59 | Before returning , a look down into the tremendous ravine of Ling Gill below the bridge will reveal a most impressive scene , the beck hurrying along a bouldery bed fringed by trees and cliffs on its way to join the Ribble ; several minor caves have been found and explored along its banks but the rough terrain is a deterrent to walkers who prefer to travel sedately . |
| 60 | Sky , clouds , then down into the closed world of water sound distortion . |