Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain you could not do better than to pick out from the varied products of the author John Wainwright , an ex-policeman , those of his books that are in the police procedural mode . |
| 2 | ‘ You know , Frank , ’ she said , ‘ I 'm going to take a great delight in telling her , much more so than facing up to the big boy himself , because she it is who has paved the way for all this . ’ |
| 3 | Members of the project carry out their own maintenance , as few sites would survive long if handed over to the local authority . |
| 4 | Firstly , it was accepted by all Scots that the coronation of their king was valid only if carried out upon the Stone of Destiny , and in spite of the Christian ceremony accompanying it the right to place the crown on the new monarch 's head belonged irrevocably to the Earl of Fife , premier layman of the realm . |
| 5 | Martigues will soon be all but swallowed up in the new harbour constructions planned to stretch west from Marseille . |
| 6 | Barely waiting for a reply , Candy all but ran off down the garden path , leaving Rory feeling more alone and more vulnerable than she ever had in her life . |
| 7 | This was the principal reason for the remarkable development whereby detinue was all but wiped out by the encroachment of trover . |
| 8 | I became numb again to discomfort to a useful degree and plodded on methodically taking continual bearings , breathing carefully , aiming performance just below capability so as to last out to the end . |
| 9 | The evidence from elsewhere in America and Britain is that exhibitors increasingly took the masses for granted and were always investing in better and better cinemas so as to hang on to the more respectable lower middle-class audience . |
| 10 | In contrast , in Crowhurst v. Amersham Burial Board , the defendants planted on their land a yew tree which grew so as to project over onto the land of the plaintiff on which cattle were pastured . |
| 11 | I even considered swooning so as to get out of the room when suddenly a secret door just behind the throne was thrown open and the most incredible sight emerged : a man , black as night , well over two yards high . |
| 12 | Rather than face up to the horrendous alienation implied by such strong electoral support for Sinn Fein , the Government has closed its eyes and now compels the population to do the same . |
| 13 | Whilst other people recognise that the alcohol-induced sense of unconditioned acceptance is a false sensation , the sufferers from addictive disease may cling to it even to death rather than face up to the reality of the need to accept any conditions in life . |
| 14 | In such a universe , in which the expansion was accelerated by a cosmological constant rather than slowed down by the gravitational attraction of matter , there would be enough time for light to travel from one region to another in the early universe . |
| 15 | Consequently increased emphasis needs to be placed upon the role of assessment , rehabilitation and transfer rather than discharge back into the community . |
| 16 | Mrs Duffy left at once , but Clare felt it would be more polite to linger for a while , rather than rush out after the couple , as if the wedding had been an annoying chore . |
| 17 | There was a suggestion at the inquest that he sought to relieve himself out of the window rather than trudge down to the jakes in the basement , a distressing but not unprecedented recourse for chaps well gone in their cups . |
| 18 | It has a double effect : it reduces the fear in the cat itself and enables it to stay where it is , rather than move off into the distance ; it also prevents any counter-staring by the cat , which would spell defiance and possibly provoke further hostility . |
| 19 | It was natural that reformers should attack latifundia , where the under-utilization of the land and the pressure of population were obvious , rather than settle down to the complicated legal technicalities involved in the consolidation of vast numbers of dispersed strips . |
| 20 | But this will have to involve levelling up to the more advantaged rather than levelling down to the lesser , although future benefits can be reduced so long as diminution is applied equally to both sexes . |
| 21 | Most people in the territories feared the PLO was in danger of rushing into some unsatisfactory settlement rather than holding out for the right conditions . |
| 22 | When she did finally reach for the food , or lure , all she would do was lean over and rip off a piece , rather than step on to the glove . |
| 23 | Perhaps it is better , rather than roaming back into the recesses of geological time to consider the sudden and simultaneous extinctions that happened in Our geological yesterday . |
| 24 | Nor is it necessarily fatal if you give notice to terminate your contract and work that notice out , rather than walking out on the spot . |
| 25 | When voices started rising and violence seemed inevitable , Kalchu told me that it would n't be resolved for hours and , rather than waiting around in the cold on the off-chance of getting some meat , we might as well set out for home . |
| 26 | She parked outside the high brick wall rather than driving on to the forecourt , and as if he sensed her reluctance to enter the house again he did n't attempt to invite her inside — but neither did he make any attempt to get out of the car , and they sat in silence in the light from an overhead street-lamp . |
| 27 | I wanted to put that in , rather than going on about the deprivation and the tragedy of divorce and broken families . ’ |
| 28 | Whenever that happens , rather than going back to the track I play something else that will fit , or I leave it as an improvisational section , so to speak . |
| 29 | These were films that had been grafted onto the Gaumont-British production programme , rather than emerging out of the script department as projects with potential that called for higher expenditure . |
| 30 | He was claiming that next year his chairmanship would last a day longer than set down in the rules . |