Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [adj -er] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is almost certainly because the decision to send them in during the later stages of the accident was political ( western-made robots might have been used instead , had the new Soviet leader , one Mikhail Gorbachev , been willing to let the West learn the extent of the disaster ) . |
| 2 | Then he staggered off the pavement into the street , throwing a glance down towards the brighter lights at the junction . |
| 3 | In a few hours I felt reborn and replete with new powers , washed clean and cured of a long sickness , finally ready to enter life with joy and vigour ; equally cured was suddenly the world around me , and exorcised the name and face of the woman who had gone down into the lower depths with me and had not returned . |
| 4 | GM schools will be able to change their character if that is what parents clearly want and the change fits in with the wider needs of the local area . |
| 5 | ‘ No doubt , ’ said Mr Harold Brooks-Baker of Burke 's , ‘ it fits in with the freer ways of today but some feel that freedom is an over-used word . |
| 6 | A similar but more conventionally coloured filter , model 2207 , is still available in Eheim 's familiar green livery , along with the larger models in their range . |
| 7 | Their quarterly meetings were anodyne affairs , chaired by a genial buffer named George Mackie ( later Lord Mackie of Benshie ) , whose deliberations were too often bogged down in the drearier aspects of Liberal Party policy . |
| 8 | Swiftly and almost silently she ran along in the darker shadows beneath the gable to the granary and from there to the dovecot . |
| 9 | He also says that Caesar started off in the lower classes and built himself up to where he stood and could only look down on the lower classes by turning his back on his friends and former colleagues . |
| 10 | All settings up to about 8 ( out of 10 ) on the master volume elicit a clear , punchy tone , right down to the lower notes on my 5-string , and live it proved well able to compete with two rawk'n'rawl guitar players and a loud drum kit on an R&B pub gig . |
| 11 | The two men combed the moors , squelching through the soggy ground until they were satisfied that all the sheep had been rounded up and brought down to the lower pastures to safety . |
| 12 | The severe drop down to the lower parts of the garden means it is sensible to provide a physical barrier and this has been cleverly achieved with a seat and barbecue that matches the sweep of the terrace itself . |
| 13 | But anyway , this is a very amusing film , but , but the idea of mission control is the concept of the ego , where it is portrayed in a very amusing way in this film by Woody Allen , that the consciousness , Woody Allen 's consciousness , is portrayed as mission control at Houston erm and er erm it , that particular scene ends with er when er control erm mission control sends a message down to the lower parts of the body , I wo n't mention which , says we 're going around again boys , and they think oh my God they 're very amusing . |
| 14 | The industrial revolution and the creation of parks around the country houses have taken us down to the later years of the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | However , the performance of monocrystalline cells drops off with the longer wavelengths of light in this spectrum . |
| 16 | Although Simmel is quoted , there is none of the subtlety of his analysis of the necessary contradictions of industrial society , and the emphasis on goals of happy homes and cohesive families appears cut off from the wider realms of social action . |
| 17 | But later he stigmatised them as ‘ the social scum , the passively rotting mass thrown off by the lower layers of the old society . ’ |
| 18 | By such a mechanism , in which family ties played an important part , a relatively rapid ascent was opened up for the younger sons of the prosperous Catalan farmers who must leave the farm to the chosen heir ( the hereu ) ; within a generation a man could make a modest fortune , exposed to the risk of loss as well as the hope of gain . |
| 19 | The 1986 and 1987 figures show a rapid pick up for the larger firms in particular . |
| 20 | The gaps between the walls of the coral skeleton have been filled with calcite , showing up as the lighter colours of the sections . |
| 21 | Such attitudes were reinforced by the increased contact with more remote societies as tropical Africa was opened up during the later decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | But when they brought him up into the higher reaches of the Warden 's Tower and shut him into his new prison he was stupefied to find it all they had claimed . |
| 23 | Soon , below them , they began to smell the revolting hot stench of the Gruncher 's breath , and the orange-red smoke was now billowing up into the lower branches in thick clouds . |
| 24 | It may be that they were climbing up into the older parts of the mine above the Grand Level to ascertain whether all the worthwhile ore had been taken out . |
| 25 | In the wild they spawn in fast-flowing streams , and the fry grow up in the slower reaches of the river . |
| 26 | For Alfred Watkins , it was not a sudden flash of inspiration from the beyond but something which had been building up within the deeper levels of his being throughout a lifetime of contact with his native countryside . |
| 27 | This proposal was worked up within the broader terms of the long-promised priority care package . |
| 28 | Those who were brought up on the older theories of the Westminster model in which , despite party loyalties , there was a balance between the executive and the legislature as a whole , expect that the House of Commons will still regard its main functions as being to consider and amend legislative proposals from the government ( and from private members ) , to scrutinize public expenditure and to expose government policies to continual questioning and debate . |
| 29 | My work-rate was speeded up by the further drops of rain that fell on me . |
| 30 | One sanitary inspector reported that ‘ far from being carried on in the poorer types of dwelling , outwork was taken to supplement their resources by many people whose names one would never expect to find on an outworkers list ’ . |