Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of the project carry out their own maintenance , as few sites would survive long if handed over to the local authority . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Martigues will soon be all but swallowed up in the new harbour constructions planned to stretch west from Marseille . |
| 4 | This was the principal reason for the remarkable development whereby detinue was all but wiped out by the encroachment of trover . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He was claiming that next year his chairmanship would last a day longer than set down in the rules . |
| 7 | Railways somehow symbolized the fact that Americans never did anything by halves , and this was more than borne out by the architecture of American railway stations . |
| 8 | In August Chapman signed his former half-back George Hampson from Northampton , and although his previous visit to Northampton had failed to secure Walden — he went to Tottenham in April for £1,750 — the developing form of Bainbridge at outside-right more than made up for the disappointment . |
| 9 | Objectively , Karen was prepared to go almost as far as her predecessor , and her eager greed more than made up for the thrill I used to get from subjecting dogged , cow-like Manuela to the same routines . |
| 10 | But , in spite of the Royal Navy , Jones , after a voyage to be described later , sailed safely back to France , where his reception more than made up for the much cooler one he had received after his ‘ Whitehaven ’ cruise 18 months before . |
| 11 | Kate was down in the pit lane for the Friday qualifying session , her nerves nearly as wound up as the drivers ' , knowing that Ace was waiting to live up to his name with the fastest lap . |
| 12 | A possible framework for comprehensive assessment is offered through the concepts of quality of life and risk : two related , multidimensional concepts which can be translated into statements of purpose and scope as well as broken down into the factors which constitute quality of life and risk . |
| 13 | Even when made up with the finest cosmetics money could buy it would never be beautiful , but still … not bad for an ugly duckling , Sally thought , smiling wryly . |
| 14 | These emphases , particularly as brought out in the typical case histories in a host of texts , revealed , we may suggest , the fear of masturbation as actually fixed in the minds of middle-class parents , disturbed by their sons ' unwillingness to live by the respectable sexual ideology , and attend to their duties and to future marriage . |
| 15 | Although they will grow on successfully when put out into the garden in spring or summer , the flowers you get in future years may well turn pink if you are not on an acid soil . |
| 16 | The deployment of a relatively big budget and the use of a really big screen ( Cinerama in major cities , Super Panavision 70 where projection facilities were available ) , together with a show of ‘ serious ’ ideas comparable to printed sci-fi , raised the status of the whole genre , and it has never since sunk back to the level of , say , stalk-and-slash movies in critical regard . |