Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , Yon reiterated his government 's oft-stated demand for negotiations with the USA alone in order to replace the current armistice agreement , in force since the ending of hostilities in 1953 , with a full peace treaty to end the Korean war . |
| 2 | This case covers perhaps in classic form the problematic use of a woman 's previous sexual history in determining the outcome of a rape trial . |
| 3 | In order to win an election , a party would make extravagant promises , doing so in order to outbid the other party . |
| 4 | Traditionally they had looked to the Reich to trade their lumber , wheat , furs and amber , and they had every intention of continuing to do so in order to spite the Polish state . |
| 5 | Lip tricks were less intricate then of late and were really only in order to achieve the main goals of big airs and hands plants . |
| 6 | Determined that such a calamity never be repeated , several of the survivors had banded together in order to cleanse the Fifth of all magical knowledge . |
| 7 | Evolution as a ladder of progression , where the tiny and simple aggregate together over time to become the large and complex . |
| 8 | Some of the passengers must have been up just after dawn to watch the huge liner ease its way gently alongside the dock , and those who were n't were beginning gradually to emerge on the upper decks , or to enjoy breakfast by one of the pools . |
| 9 | Variables such as the degree of ‘ distance ’ between state enterprises and central state agencies , the internal coherence of management and unions , the ability to inflict costs on government , and conversely of government to bear the political costs of disruption , will affect the way objectives are transmitted ; as will wider relationships between social classes and the state . |
| 10 | Although the new term was only days old , the youngsters at Fowey Community School were soon in action supporting the local community . |
| 11 | Two other unlikely ‘ coolies ’ were already in make-up having the final touches applied ; one was Bert Weedon , the other Duncan Goodhew — both good-natured souls . |
| 12 | Bookchin responded , just in order to rescue the new environmental consciousness from itself , with the notion of Social Ecology , aiming at advancing ‘ a serious challenge to society with its vast , hierarchical , sexist , class-ruled , status appa-ratus and militaristic history ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ You have arrived just in time to witness the final stage of the experiment . |
| 14 | We arrived just in time to see the first members of the brass band — a trombone and a tuba — come round the corner of the lane . |
| 15 | Gus Hambro wheeled about with unexpectedly authoritative aplomb , just in time to see the well-groomed young head duck out of sight . |
| 16 | He looked up just in time to see the two red tail-lights drop behind the hill . |
| 17 | To their dismay , they arrived at the departure platform just in time to see the express pulling out . |
| 18 | Just in time to preserve the high quality of sport and curtail poaching and illegal fishing . |
| 19 | Riled by the peremptory note of command in his voice , Rory opened her mouth to give him a scathing reply , but just in time caught the sideways glance slid her way by Candy and bit her tongue . |
| 20 | She was just in time to catch the overnight Red Eye for Heathrow . |
| 21 | Photographer Bill Roberton started industrial photography in 1971 just in time to catch the final act by the workhorse of the Scots mining industry . |
| 22 | Cheryl stepped forward to deliver another blow — just in time to catch the dead body of her husband as it fell from the locker . |
| 23 | On August 6 … he reported to an officer in London and was told that he was just in time to catch the 3.06 p.m. train to Bletchley where he would be met by someone . |
| 24 | To start with , he generally studied the objects in his still lifes from slightly above eye-level , so that the spectator sees them in their most informative aspect ; this high viewpoint was probably assumed largely in order to limit the pictorial depth and ensure the unity of the picture surface in so far as that looking downwards on to the subject one 's eye is not allowed to wander off into limitless space . |
| 25 | The more with fury burns the blazing fire . |
| 26 | It gave a great sense of shared purpose among the senior managers and staff to agree procedures and instructions quickly in order to get the critical mass of a system operational . |
| 27 | At present he was with a party of police officers visiting the United States and Inspector Blakelock was totally in charge doing the two jobs , not only receiving the exhibits , making out the register of court attendances and preparing the statistics , but discussing the cases with the detective in charge , explaining what the Laboratory could hope to do , rejecting those cases where the scientists could n't help , and checking that the final statements for the court were complete . |
| 28 | The recent shouting matches between Charles and Diana , and the revelations about Fergie and her men friends have upset her dreadfully , but have only served to strengthen her resolve that her own deep love for her children must be put aside in order to protect the royal heritage she has always made her priority . |
| 29 | Got home in time to watch the last couple of overs on the television , but then discovered that the highlights were not on TV until 1am . |
| 30 | Hubel and Wiesel showed that the properties of the neurons in the visual cortex were drastically changed by restricting the visual experience of an animal , provided that these restrictions took place during a few months early in life called the sensitive period . |