Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her natural passivity , encouraged by her religion and perhaps by the fact that she was pregnant , committed her to a mood of acceptance that was sweetly and hermetically selfish . |
| 2 | Can you make these sounds in isolation and also in the context in the word in the language under study ? |
| 3 | If Iran , weary and broke after its war with Iraq , has waved goodbye to its proselytising days , this is a valid reason for easing it out of its isolation and back to the position in Gulf politics which , from the shah on , it has craved and which reflects the size of its population and length of its coastline . |
| 4 | A number of schools in each county are selected annually , partly by the County Schools Association and partly by the Local Education Authority . |
| 5 | The newest Object was passed as a Resolution at the Special Delegate Conference held in March 1993 i.e. ‘ To establish equality of opportunity for all members within the Association and also in the workplace ’ . |
| 6 | to establish equality of opportunity for all members within the association and also in the workplace . |
| 7 | In 1937 the type was tested on twin-floats , setting several more records in this configuration , and during 1942 numerous examples were used in combat after being modified with various armament configurations involving guns mounted on the wings or fuselage and even on the undercarriage spats . |
| 8 | Brown released his safety belt and removed his gloves , and with a crippled leg from the war , scrambled onto the centre section of the fuselage and then onto the wing . |
| 9 | So , when you cut a punchcard at the bottom , cut into the card and not through the holes . |
| 10 | Red card and back to the subs ' bench for Jim . |
| 11 | He kept rolling , still hanging on to his weapons , and fell over the front of the Jeep and on to the pavement outside . |
| 12 | Since the causal chain passes through perception and on to the rest of the nervous system , perhaps triggering action , it must become physical again . |
| 13 | The following weekend I cemented capping stones round the top of the new pond and also round the header pools . |
| 14 | By raising or lowering these gates , one could control the flow of water both into and out of the pond and thence into the sluice , at the other end of which was the pipe which fed the turbine in its house below . |
| 15 | This means that local weekly papers vary tremendously in the size of their circulation and therefore in the size of their income and their staff . |
| 16 | We can take our students beyond that stage of technical feedback and on to the levels of self-enlightenment and self-emancipation , through encouraging ever-wider and higher levels of self-criticism . |
| 17 | It is not a psychological concept in that it is a product partly or the process of consciousness and partly of the structure of the mode or production ( the division of labour , and the domination of one class by another ) . |
| 18 | The Act will only apply where the damage was caused partly by the fault of the defendant and partly by the fault of the plaintiff . |
| 19 | Although it could be argued that it is not really chronology continuing ( as suggested by the chapter title ) because there had been insufficient time specification before 1950 , the sequence of this chapter proceeds from the basic foundations , to the alternative models , to sea level changes , Quaternary geography and hence to the prospect of environmental change . |
| 20 | Hollywood had always been prepared to use social realism in the service of melodrama and especially in the service of making prestige films out of literary classics and this practice remained in evidence during these years and led to such notable films as An American Tragedy and All Quiet on the Western Front . |
| 21 | 2 The trick is to soften it even further — use the tiniest dab of dark aubergine or amethyst shadow and brush it over the lid , up into the crease and lightly over the eyeliner , to blur the edges . |
| 22 | Quinn was forced into the back seat and down to the floor , then covered with a blanket . |
| 23 | All over the continent and all over the States and that . |
| 24 | Let your imagination roan with your desperately running heroine firmly in the centre of your mind and then from the incidents that will ( if you have a ration of luck ) spring up , arrange them in order of difficulty , if your intuition has not done that already for you . |
| 25 | I felt a strange sensation in my stomach as I made my way down the sloping gangway and on to the tarmac , If I had felt like this on the morning of the 6th June , Lord Lovat would probably been going ashore without his bagpipe music . |
| 26 | This line can he traced , rather precisely , from New England , through south-west Ireland , via south Pembrokeshire and the Gower Peninsula , under the University College of Swansea , then south of the Kent coalfield to the Boulonnais and on as the Grande Faille din Midi far into the European continent . |
| 27 | The hands Maria had raised to Luke 's shoulders strayed eagerly to the back of his neck and up into the thickness of his dark hair , her fingers pressing themselves to the perfect shaping of his skull as she sought and claimed a deeper kiss , drawing him far into the warm moist depths of her mouth . |
| 28 | Concerned at the way neither she nor her friends wore ‘ Laura Ashley ’ clothes ( too many frills , too much lace , all up to the neck and down to the ankles , they said ) Laura asked them to come up with suggestions for the sort of outfits they would like to wear . |
| 29 | The first people in each team place the keys down their neck and out through the bottom of their trouser legs or slacks . |
| 30 | He places strong emphasis on empathy and optimism and less on the need to investigate the unconscious mind . |