Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Communist Party could apparently hope for little from the Socialist League and for nothing from the Labour Party . |
| 2 | I mean they , people er , the hairdresser 's for instance , they seemed to be there for evermore at the far end , towards I mean er , er , and then there was half way along on the other side and |
| 3 | Yet it is hardly likely that even if links had been made a ramshackle group of peasant armies using antiquated military techniques could have stood out for long against the Red Army . |
| 4 | 15 She had good reason to suspect that it would , for long before the 1924 show opened , she had decided to try to convince the critics to change their ideas about her work by changing the nature of what she exhibited . |
| 5 | Finally , it should be noted that high U/Pb does not survive for long in the convecting mantle ; otherwise the magnitude of Pb isotopic heterogeneity in basalts would be greatly increased . |
| 6 | This fantasy world of natural lust , ironically , can scarcely ever have been more closely realized than in the appalling conditions of the urban poor in the sordid back streets and alleys of prosperous Victorian cities ; but it could not , of course , be permitted to endure for long in the theoretical world . |
| 7 | The simple fact that it 's not an adequate form of research does n't count for much in the commercial field . |
| 8 | I knew the course because of playing it in my army days , and I knew where the worst of the rough was , but that did n't count for much after the first day . |
| 9 | The goal came after midway through the second half … |
| 10 | ‘ Then what are you doing out here in the first place ? ’ |
| 11 | stopped at the tea rooms after completely over the top ordering . |
| 12 | Something else you become very aware of all over the Basque country is the bracken . |
| 13 | The first order condition ( 16 ) representing the WD curve is affected by the altered distribution of only through the median member 's ‘ reputation-commitment ’ term , . |
| 14 | The Minister promised that this order would be taken care of shortly after the new year . |
| 15 | ‘ But I see no reason for him to be hounded from office for endeavouring to restructure the BBC to meet the needs of tomorrow rather than the needs of yesterday under the thinly-veiled guise of impropriety. ’ — PA |
| 16 | The Pompeian house does , of course , only depict the Roman home of up to the first century A.D. and in later years , as can be seen at Ostia , the plan was developed . |
| 17 | We can but suppose that he practised the middle-class virtues of Samuel Smiles — those of hard work , thrift and sobriety — and embodied the very quintessence of what we would speak of today as the Protestant Work Ethic . |
| 18 | I assumed you 'd want to know that wreckage of a dinghy was washed up a few miles north of here on the Welsh coast last night . |
| 19 | ‘ We got a real tight schedule if we 're going to make it out of here before the Big Bang . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Well , come on ; let's get out of here before the happy couple arrive . |
| 21 | But remember , Scots have the worst record for deaths from cancer of anywhere in the developed world and skin cancer rates have seen large increases recently . |
| 22 | For once in the treacherous business of intelligence gathering , the question of mutual trust had been answered on sight . |
| 23 | Edward III agreed that the realm of Scotland ‘ shall remain for ever to the eminent prince Lord Robert , by the grace of God the illustrious king of Scots ’ , and he renounced any right he might have in the realm of Scotland . |
| 24 | Individual officers might come and go , but the organization was there for ever for the thirty-year man . |
| 25 | He returned to this theme again in 1953 , declaring : ‘ There is no hope for the safety and freedom of western Europe except by the laying aside for ever of the ancient feud between the Teuton and the Gaul . |
| 26 | But this was only one of a variety of vessels , some of them much larger , it seems , used by the Vikings , and it is the accident that they still used them for burials which has enabled a small number to survive — the conversion to Christianity may be said to have deprived us for ever of the best evidence we might have had of medieval navigation as it developed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 27 | At Versailles you can walk for ever in the enormous park and gardens ; if you hire a car , there is instant access to countryside , and a mass of sights , including Chartres Cathedral , lie within half an hour 's drive . |
| 28 | The young Beatrice Webb was convinced of the importance of family life for women and during the 1880s desperately desired an intimate relationship with the leading politician , Joseph Chamberlain , yet she knew that to marry him would cut her off for ever from the purposeful life of work that she also wanted . |
| 29 | The committee is planning a number of events for early in the new year , including a Skittles Night on Saturday 20 February in the Corstorphine Inn . |
| 30 | These horses are part-Arab , part-Basque and part-English , the English blood having been mixed in on the orders of Napoleon 1 , while the Arab strain has been traced , perhaps fancifully , to the horses left behind by the Saracens , who were badly defeated near here in the eighth century . |