Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This morning she had started out late for Pack Meeting , so instead of going by the woodland path , which was a long way round , she 'd taken the direct route by road and arrived in time . |
| 2 | In this section we look at some ways of doing this , and more generally of getting from the planning stage to the writing stage . |
| 3 | The suggested move towards a centrally-determined curriculum , however , was still out of keeping with the spirit of the times . |
| 4 | The surroundings were wholly out of keeping with the importance of the people there and the nature of their task . |
| 5 | I 'd hate anyone to think that I did well out of dealing with the problem page . |
| 6 | From his self-imposed exile in America , the Lebanese Maronite poet Khalil Gibran — whose verse and drawings have an uncanny similarity to the work of William Blake — was moved to write an angry , ferocious poem quite out of keeping with the gentle , philosophical message for which he is generally remembered : |
| 7 | In the new context , these were quite out of keeping with the times , for the poor had to change as well as everyone else . |
| 8 | In these conditions I wanted to get rid of about a third of the original sail area and so that 's it , now I 'm sailing much more happily instead of struggling against the boat I 'm sailing in harmony again . |