Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Side by side with the suspicion that Masailand somehow emasculated its administrators , there grew up in East Africa a conviction that the proud Masai could be successfully handled only by the finest type of Englishman , whose qualities of honesty and good judgement they instinctively recognized and respected . |
| 2 | All members of the central team at Merrion House ( the Education Department 's offices ) were severely stretched in terms of both time and the range of roles they were expected to encompass , and it was therefore inevitable that some aspects of their job could be successfully accomplished only at the expense of others . |
| 3 | As this review of change in Europe and the USA has shown , there were a number of important experiments in the 1940s and 1950s which , coincident with the development of mood-stabilizing drugs , suggested that a significant number of long-term patients could be successfully boarded out in the community . |
| 4 | George Stephen remembered how as a youth he heard ‘ many a semi-domestic debate as to the extent to which parliamentary manoeuvring could be successfully carried out with the ministerial benches ’ . |
| 5 | The waterfall is usually held to be slowly flattened out by the erosion of the river so that the new section of the profile occupies successively the positions 1 to 6 ( Fig. 9.10A ) . |
| 6 | Many different groups are involved in the pollination of modern angiosperms and , in rain forest , this seems to be rather bound up with the level in the forest at which the flowers are presented . |
| 7 | to be laughingly bundled up to the template , |
| 8 | Thousands of people will be effectively priced out of the system , no matter how strong their cases may appear . |
| 9 | The ORTF had become too big to be effectively controlled politically by the Information Minister or effectively managed by DGs ( three between 1958 and 1964 ) ; the latter , whether top civil servants , ‘ conseillers d'etat ’ or not , were not broadcasting professionals and had too short a ‘ run ’ to master the vast and complex , heavily unionized and bureaucratic juggernaut that the ORTF had become . |
| 10 | The plant will be effectively sealed off from the world apart from periodic inspection and monitoring visits by skilled staff . |
| 11 | We always had to be properly dressed even in the wee small hours when we were only looking forward to being relieved so we could fall into bed . |
| 12 | Somehow we survived it all , just as I have survived 20 years of a lead-piped water supply and a further 20 years as an adult working in a concrete hut insulated on the inside with sprayed-on asbestos ; to say nothing of a like period supervising students using the Haldane gas analysis apparatus , a machine that not infrequently spewed mercury from its taps into the air , whence it fell onto the bench , or sometimes the floor , to be duly swept up by the lab boy at the end of the session for recovery . |
| 13 | About half of them loosen up enough to allow the foreskin to be gently pulled back by the time the boy is a year old . |
| 14 | Atlanta , Georgia , the expo site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works . |
| 15 | Atlanta , Georgia , the show site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works . |
| 16 | Any'ow it 'll be all cleared away by the time she gets 'ome . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The sandwiches 'll be all curled up at the edges , ’ his mum complained . |
| 18 | The charge is let in or out of each capacitor by its own switch but the charge continually drains away so it needs to be constantly topped up from the mains or battery . |
| 19 | There were times , however , when I felt that something , more active , more positive was needed , to be much used later in the year . |
| 20 | If you are a purist , you may be somewhat put off by the lame , if not sticky English translations of words in Bach 's Cantatas Nos. 201 & 68 , but do n't be , for the exceeding purity of Dame ‘ Bella 's ’ voice overcomes all . |
| 21 | Anyone whose experience of Liszt does n't extend much beyond the odd Hungarian Rhapsody , paraphrase , Liebesträum , and les Prèludes will , I imagine , be somewhat taken aback by the relative harmonic conservatism , and unadorned purity of style . |
| 22 | Maybe , I thought , Ash would be so turned on by the sounds of frantic coupling emanating from Gav and Aunt Janice in the bedroom that she 'd tear my clothes off . |
| 23 | Not that the Manner — which he intended should be so admired later in the week on Parents ' Evening — was particularly in evidence on the Monday , as he sat at his study desk and went over the plans for that event with his wife . |
| 24 | Similarly the " stopping rate " is the maximum stepping rate which can be suddenly switched off without the motor overshooting the target position . |
| 25 | MMRC and MCC decisions can be sensibly implemented only with the knowledge and good will of staff . |
| 26 | They seemed , Spruce thought , to be extremely laid back about the whole affair . |
| 27 | If used constructively , instructional programs can be very effective but they can be very boring if they are used merely to transfer work to the microcomputer which would be better carried out in the traditional manner . |
| 28 | Nils may be a good cook , but his time will be better spent away from the galley . |
| 29 | The first of these concern a judgement as to the likelihood of the pupil returning to school which in turn is seen to be crucially influenced both by the nature of the pupil 's case history and the record of the school in re-admitting pupils . |
| 30 | ‘ We hope , and believe , that the concept of ‘ dishonest appropriation ’ will be easily understood even without the aid of further definition . |