Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | any new constitutional arrangement must provide what the 1920 Government of Ireland Act tragically failed to achieve : tough guarantees of basic rights for the minority as well as for the majority community , together with accessible and representative institutions to enforce them . |
| 2 | These were military followers apparently of considerable social status and influence , though probably to be distinguished from the greatest magnates of the realm , many of whom had military followings of their own , and might be expected to fight for the king both inside and outside his kingdom . |
| 3 | Macintosh software is also generally cheaper than its PC counterpart ; both Word and WordPerfect are over £400 for the PC yet less than £300 for the Macintosh . |
| 4 | If so , she had prepared for the event more thoroughly than he could ever have imagined . |
| 5 | If the painter were to use the same intensity of blue for the sea both near and far then the effect would not be at all realistic . |
| 6 | He had taken a sample of blood from the plump flaccid arm , feeling for the vein as carefully as if she could still flinch at the needle 's prick . |
| 7 | So this is why I emphasize the fact that when you become retired your circumstances are all always going to change for the worse as far as adjustments are concerned . |
| 8 | This had repercussions for the papacy as well as for the parishes . |
| 9 | Once inside , their objective would be to make directly for the basement as speedily as possible , to seize and hold the Control Room , thus preventing the detonation of the fire bombs . |
| 10 | The two archbishops thought that Ramsey would be an excellent bishop but it was not right , it was bad for the Church as well as for the study of divinity , to take him out of the Cambridge chair after so short a tenure . |
| 11 | If a car suddenly swerves round the corner while I am standing in the middle of the road , the right thing for me to do is to jump for the pavement as spontaneously as a cat . |
| 12 | Men teachers claim to understand what was required for the review slightly better than women , to experience slightly more preliminary discussion about the review and to take more part in staff questionnaires as a review strategy . |
| 13 | Or — and this thought only occurred to me when I was out on the street and running for the hill as fast as I could — as if there was something else behind his eyes , looking out at the world , waiting for the awful moment when it would start to take apart our little corner of the planet , piece by shabby piece . |
| 14 | ‘ The Enterprise ’ was a fine label for the monster as far as Hakim was concerned , because it was a business generating a particularly arcane and subtle set of accounts ; but for North this was ‘ Project Democracy ’ , available anywhere and at any time for freedom-fighters of any description . |
| 15 | Better housing means a better quality of life for the new residents , ’ says marketing manager Ken James ‘ The work spells excellent news for the community as well as for Wimpey . ’ |
| 16 | Where the official receiver receives a request for a meeting of creditors to be held in a case where he had decided not to summon such a meeting , he must withdraw any notices given by him that he did not intend to summon such a meeting and fix a date and venue for the meeting not more than three months from the date of the request and proceed as if he had decided to summon a meeting . |
| 17 | Sunderland , he said , might get as few as 17,800 tickets for the final possibly more if Portsmouth beat Liverpool in tonight 's replay . |
| 18 | A particular focus of the scheme in Birmingham is to include information Technology training for both staff and students , because this will be a key tool for the future both inside and outside the University . |
| 19 | No , it was clothes for the living as far as I was concerned . |
| 20 | Remedies for infringement are as for the design right generally and are injunctions , damages and accounts of profits " or otherwise " ( section 229 of the 1988 Act ) . |
| 21 | ‘ I am pleased and thankful that the medical practice have sought to accept their responsibility for the oversight as soon as possible . ’ |
| 22 | It is impossible to watch the towplane and the ground ahead during the climb out so that in the event of a launch failure the glider pilot has to look for a field , whereas in the normal tow position he has a good view of the fields ahead all the time . |
| 23 | Did you know that we imported cereal from Ethiopia during the famine just so that we could have our meat ? |
| 24 | His followers are determined he will be revealed as the messiah as soon as possible . |
| 25 | ‘ Alex is a natural leader and I wanted the others to begin relating to him as the captain as soon as possible , ’ said the national coach . |
| 26 | Sophie was a small frail woman who moved about the lounge as silently as a cat , greeting everyone in whispered French . |
| 27 | We 've both written about the riverbank down here as I have — so there 's a lot of connections . |
| 28 | Old Black Hannah put in an appearance , and one or two other women from the village who remembered Martha as a child , and who , perhaps , shared her liking for the Old Faith ; but apart from them , it was just Mr Drew ( who galloped through the service as fast as he could ) , Jennifer and the two gravediggers , who came in after the blessing and carried the coffin out underhand , dumping it without much reverence into the mortice they had prepared for it . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , and he 's going to rush it through the lab as soon as possible , he says . |
| 30 | They may provide a comprehensive guide to the reference literature , but they generally do not attempt to guide the user through the literature either selectively or critically . |