Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Westminster Abbey being a Royal Peculiar and not falling within the Archbishop 's domain , I write as one who like you , Sir , is happily independent . |
| 2 | Apparently warming hugs can be most ungiving and greedily grasping for the self . |
| 3 | In years past this contest was unregulated and often resulted in the destruction of large parts of Altdorf and widespread carnage amongst the civilian population . |
| 4 | Preparations were incubated with the primary antibody for 60 minutes , rinsed in Tris buffered saline and then incubated with the secondary antibody ( mouse anti-rabbit , diluted in Tris buffered saline/normal human serum ) for 30 minutes . |
| 5 | As the government itself was to admit in its response to the resultant Griffiths Report on Community Care , the ‘ rapid growth of residential and nursing home care ’ had been ‘ unplanned and largely based on the availability of social security benefits ’ . |
| 6 | As an architect he is one of the most interesting and least known of the Victorian Gothic Revivalists . ’ |
| 7 | They like nothing more than wallowing in a cool mud bath in the mornings when the sun is not too high and then resting in the shade of an acacia tree during the scorching heat which follows . |
| 8 | This one is about three hours old and still lying in the foetal position in which it emerged from the egg . |
| 9 | Politically , between-ness ‘ help[s] to abolish the frontiers of misunderstanding with frequent changes of partners loyalties convictions , free and easily stepping over the old boundaries ’ ( 43/437 ) . |
| 10 | In our survey of the financial arrangements of NEP as they applied to the Smolensk guberniia , it was noted how they were unstable and poorly defined from the outset , leading to economic and social tensions at the lower levels . |
| 11 | Built in the hybrid style which has been dubbed ‘ artisan mannerism ’ , the house is exuberantly detailed and entirely lacking in the Italianate sophistication of the court style of Inigo Jones [ q.v . ] . |
| 12 | The surrounding volcanic cones are gently sloping with few gullies to the south , but increasingly steep and heavily gullied towards the north . |
| 13 | Whichever the case , things are so awry that God himself is afraid and immediately jumps to the conclusion that they mean to seize the power that properly belongs to him . |
| 14 | Therefore , if the origin of the phenomenon is as recent as the late eighteenth century , it is difficult to explain how it could have become so geographically widespread in so short a time : it was already highly salient and overtly stigmatized by the latter half of the nineteenth century ( for some citations see Phillipps , 1984 , 136–9 ) . |
| 15 | Reports about light aircraft landing accidents often say that the aircraft bounced or ballooned , pitched nose-down and then flew into the runway in a series of worsening crashes , smashing the nose gear and engine . |
| 16 | There is , of course , nothing new in the development of what might be called a farm-centred community , distinct and largely separated from the village , particularly in the pastoral and upland areas of England , where this kind of settlement pattern has traditionally been more common . |
| 17 | The remainder ( except for parts devastated by war and now being renewed ) retains its Romanesque characteristics and is accessible and attractively sited amongst the trees in a park ( 321 ) . |
| 18 | The toilets and urinals were to the left of this section — the urinals being roofless and thus open to the elements . |
| 19 | ( Oct 24-Nov 22 ) With the Sun and Mars blocked away in the most sensitive and private area of your solar chart , you , in turn , are bound to be feeling restricted and rather frustrated at the moment . |
| 20 | In these scenes an unknown actress , impersonating Harlow 's voice , speaks the lines with her back to the camera or with her face hidden by a wide-brimmed hat ; at the sight of this , Boy simply got up and left the living room , left the end of the film unwatched and just sat in the kitchen with a pot of tea . |
| 21 | The older growth of roses becomes by-passed , deprived and finally starved to the point of die-back only slowly ; the transition is gradual , which means that some not inconsiderable part of the plant 's energy is wasted in trying to sustain growth that can no longer produce the best bloom . |
| 22 | Yet we all of us swim between the outside world and the internal , trying to look at ourselves from the outside and also looking from the inside at the world , having a sense of ourselves and how we look that may be variable and dependent on many things — mood , confirmation from others , self-esteem , changing trends in what is considered attractive . |
| 23 | to know story from life of friend that is authentic and clearly related to the goal of the session . |
| 24 | One is therefore guided to a considerable extent by the appearance of the joint and also relies upon the inspection procedure during manufacture . |
| 25 | But samples of the new species discovered in colonized territories were routinely brought back to be described , classified and perhaps displayed in the great European museums and zoological gardens . |
| 26 | Half the English feed fast and early and then go down the pub to drink beer , the other half eat a slow meal late and drink wine before , during and after . |
| 27 | I took early and late turns with the Chief Clerk , you see , and er well there were two lads who did a middle turn but I need n't mention that , but they did a sort of nine to six you see |
| 28 | I 've never found that a congenial notion ; it seemed to me that there were ways to be quite contemporary and yet go at the art in a fashion that would allow you to tell complicated stories simply for the aesthetic pleasure of complexity of complication and unravelment , suspense , and the rest . |
| 29 | The road was long , narrow , straight and utterly deserted in the pre-dawn half-light . |
| 30 | It was certainly a spectacular display of what dancers could do with their legs whilst merely marching but the ports de bras were very limited and merely swung at the sides or sprang to attention . |