Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | References to the delírio , the madness of hunger , can be found as early as the sixteenth century in the writings of Portuguese navigators , and it is a recurring theme in Brazilian literature right up to the present day . |
| 2 | Professor Ienaga pledged to fight the case right through to the Supreme Court . |
| 3 | The ongoing development is continued in the story right up to the present day and it is very interesting to see the numerous designs which have been tried , tested and put into operation . |
| 4 | Scribbling changes in the margin of his text right up to the last minute , Mr Clinton insisted the burden of his new taxes were spread fairly across American society . |
| 5 | Ensis fluid , however , does the trick nicely apart from the unfortunate side effect of turning everything treated with it a rather rusty colour ! |
| 6 | In its $289,000 million bill the Senate dealt its most severe blow so far to the beleaguered 1983 Strategic Defence Initiative ( SDI ) . |
| 7 | Although there has been a good response so far to the environmental technology innovation scheme , there are no plans to increase the current allocation of £12 million . |
| 8 | ‘ There is no intrinsic reason for another reorganisation so soon after the last , and there is certainly no popular demand for it . |
| 9 | It also meant constant fighting right up to the last day , and for Bomber Command no let-up in the night by night sorties into enemy skies . |
| 10 | They could even have suspected me had they not found the two sets of footprints in the soft snow right up to the very hedge where Martin was hiding . |
| 11 | Do you know she said she was n't coming to our wedding right up to the last moment , and when she did consent to come she behaved as if all the guests on my side were mud beneath her feet , though our family 's always been very well thought of around here , as I 'm sure you know , and my father could have bought her up a hundred times and not noticed the difference , and what was her father in New Zealand I wonder , some sheep dipper or other I would n't mind betting — you know the type that went to the colonies then — or perhaps he was a convict ! ’ |
| 12 | From there the road was downhill , so we were able to coast noiselessly down into the sleeping suburbs , then dismount and push the bike into the city centre . |
| 13 | That he got into his stride so quickly at the pre-Wimbledon Queen 's Club tournament was evidence of his timing ability , an ability that holds good for both sports . |
| 14 | I 'm sure your enlightened civilizing mission which is bringing modern communications and industry so unselfishly to the Annamese people will make sure that no such conflict will ever be necessary here . |
| 15 | But he is soon forced to the conclusion that in this case it is impossible to keep the aesthetic side entirely apart from the biographical . |
| 16 | So that was why he 'd been in the club so often over the past few weeks — he 'd been checking out the lie of the land , assessing the place as a possible investment . |
| 17 | And you keep the person in that condition long enough for the damaged red cells to be replaced . |
| 18 | Beveridge , however , studied the German experiment more closely during the next year and concluded that the contributory insurance principle could not only reduce costs ; it could also eliminate reliance on means tests . ’ |
| 19 | I had paid my rent early on with the last inelastic cheque I 'd written , had n't paid my Poll Tax , had tried to find bar work but been unsuccessful , and was borrowing off Norris , Gav and a few other pals to buy food , which comprised mostly bread and beans and the odd black pudding supper , plus a cider or two when I could be persuaded to squander my meagre resources on contributing to the funds required for a raid on the local off-licence . |
| 20 | Make-up effects and melodrama straight out of the 1920s Yiddish theatre ? |
| 21 | The answer was that she was not taking the carriage far enough past the patterning panel on each row . |
| 22 | Erm I think possibly just the trees themselves are we you know , th okay they 're olive trees , so they 're a little bit unusual , we do n't get too many olive trees growing in this country , but I 'm not so sure that they 're as er that attractive to make a , a photograph solely out of the olive trees . |
| 23 | Another point-less return really would leave them squinting for light deep down in the Second Division 's dark vale . |
| 24 | It may be that he was influenced in his thinking yet again by the British , whose officer class cultivated the honourable wound , and whose subalterns had lately contributed in altogether disproportionate numbers to the casualties suffered by the British army in France . |
| 25 | Dyson peered down into the darkness after it , driving the car steadily out across the white line in the middle of the road . |
| 26 | Yes I would agree , would favour that because I think it would force another issue , if , if the independent rule too often against the deferred pensioners I suspect they 'd organise themselves . |
| 27 | The car picks up speed very quickly in the lower gears thanks to a 16-valve turbo engine and soon we were finding out how to negotiate winding country lanes at 60 . |
| 28 | ‘ Aquarius , Taurus , Leo and Scorpio figure very strongly in the Royal Family 's charts and very strongly in Diana 's , so when you get a powerful connection like that with marriage partners it can either be the most sensationally passionate ‘ I ca n't leave you alone for a minute ’ or it 's ice . |
| 29 | It was , however , Weber and Durkheim who based their work most firmly on the comparative method . |
| 30 | Pull the dumb-bell slowly back to the overhead position , then breathe out . |