Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may in part be a function of the teacher 's own practices , and when this is so an analysis of his or her use of time , from the broad organizational strategies right down to the minutiae of moment-to-moment interactions with the children , could help both in creating more time and in making for a more effective and efficient context for learning . |
| 2 | right down to the tips of your fingers . |
| 3 | They 'd put a terrible strain on the council : if they all wakened up , right down through the layers of time , there 'd be cavemen mouthing mindless questions in the barren , gameless desert of streets and traffic , and it would be the end of the world . |
| 4 | We sat right down by the ashes of a fire , and I looked at them , and I did n't wonder who could have made them . |
| 5 | We had a phone call erm a year or two ago Mrs did a lot of work on this with petition 's and so on about the costs of pensioner 's for animal treatment , because the P D S A no longer operates in Harlow and the nearest one I think is Edmonton , which makes it impossible . |
| 6 | He even managed to compliment Dawn Allenby on the silk headscarf , printed all over with the heads of Scottie dogs , which she wore twisted into a turban about her dark hair . |
| 7 | Huy looked thoughtfully out through the curtains of the litter at the night sky , bright in the silence with the light of a million stars . |
| 8 | In business it is not uncommon for a seller ( X ) to sell large quantities of a commodity to a buyer ( Y Ltd. ) in the knowledge that Y Ltd. will be able to pay for them only out of the proceeds of re-selling them . |
| 9 | This presumption can be rebutted by any words indicating that the preferential dividend for a year is to be payable only out of the profits of that year . |
| 10 | They are ‘ normal events ’ , arising almost naturally out of the circumstances of the employment relationship itself : ‘ A wildcat can break out in perfectly normal conditions , and the structure of the relations between employers , trade unions , governments and workers guarantees that some strikes will grow from small beginnings into mighty struggles ’ ( p.241 ) . |
| 11 | When by 1292 John of York had become too old and infirm to perform the duties of his Forest office , Edward I granted him a pension of ‘ three pence daily out of the issues of the forest , at the hands of the Justice of the Forest north of Trent , and six cartloads of firewood in the said forest by view and delivery of the foresters there ’ . |
| 12 | Always he made her uneasy , as if he could see right through to the deeps of her scheming soul . |
| 13 | Yesterday he endorsed his doubles standing when he and his partner Jim Grabb , already through to the semi-finals of the Nabisco Masters doubles championship at the Royal Albert Hall , finished their round-robin group matches unbeaten when they defeated the Australians Mark Kratzmann and Darren Cahill 7-6 , 6-1 , 6-4 . |
| 14 | A believer in market forces , she differs from Thatcher in her interventionism , and it is a safe bet that what the French euphemistically call ‘ positive actions ’ will be brought to bear to shake the best out of the likes of Thomson . |
| 15 | This means making decisions very early on about the contents of the whole essay ( e.g. by writing an initial synopsis ) . |
| 16 | The early Pop artists — Lichtenstein , of course , but Warhol too — were fascinated early on by the possibilities of comic illustration . |
| 17 | Long distance convoys from America and the U.K. traversed thousands of miles through hostile waters to converge in the Atlantic and land the assault forces directly on to the beaches of Morocco and Algeria . |
| 18 | Here , permission was neither required nor sought , and the position provided a steady stream of trains running in my direction , along Pyrmont Bridge , with the evening sunlight streaming from back left , directly on to the sides of the carriages . |
| 19 | Here , permission was neither required nor sought , and the position provided a steady stream of trains running in my direction , along Pyrmont Bridge , with the evening sunlight streaming from back left , directly on to the sides of the carriages . |
| 20 | ‘ XYZ ’ is rooted much further back down the racks of dog-eared discs in the second-hand shops where Moose once worked , back to C&W , maverick balladeers and songwriters like Jim Webb , Lee Hazelwood , Gram Parsons and Fred Neil ( whose ‘ Everybody 's Talkin' ’ gets charmingly worked over here ) rather than soundscapers . |
| 21 | When stratigraphers discovered facies ( way back in the days of Gressly ) , then all differences in lithology tended to become synchronous . |
| 22 | Since he began first-class cricket way back in the mists of 1966 he has bowled some 80,000 balls and taken well over 1,200 wickets . |
| 23 | With the growth of towns , the coming of the Industrial Revolution , and the improvements in surface transportation , the pattern in all but the staple industries changed and the whole industrial and commercial structure grew ( and grows ) increasingly more diverse and complex , to the extent that it moves ever more out of the realms of the local researcher into those of the economic or social historian working at national , or even international , level . |
| 24 | A national curriculum centrally determined is about to be imposed on the schools , and this is bound to encapsulate a philosophy of education , its nature and purpose , that arises directly out of the discontents of the last twenty years . |
| 25 | They 're open , right up to the timbers of the roof and it 's no end of a job trying to keep the place clean . |
| 26 | THE FFESTINIOG Railway wants to see the scenic Welsh Highland Railway ( WHR ) reopened in its entirely from Porthmadog across Snowdonia to Dinas and with an entirely new section running from there right up to the walls of Caernarfon Castle . |
| 27 | ‘ There they raid right up to the walls of the fortresses , and within . ’ |
| 28 | Gemayel became president of war-torn Lebanon on 23 August 1982 , while the Israeli army were still occupying large parts of the country right up to the outskirts of Beirut . |
| 29 | I 've been trying to get routine security stepped up but you come right up against the lords of the wallet : who 's going to pay for it ? |
| 30 | To overcome this problem one enterprising manufacturer now produces narrow contoured baskets which fit snugly on to the shelves of all popular designs . |