Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] and [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the anterior of many other dinosaurs was aligned alongside and parallel to the posterior bone ( the ischium ) , instead of pointing forwards as with the saurischians . |
| 2 | The Civil Engineering Department have toiled long and hard with the exit from Keighley and soon their efforts should be rewarded . |
| 3 | He 'd walked round the engine sheds , he said , where he 'd looked long and lovingly at the old locomotives , and where he 'd seen schoolboys and middle-aged men carefully recording numbers and wheel-arrangements in their note-books . |
| 4 | The new Renault/Volvo operating company will be 65pc owned directly and indirectly by the French state and 35pc by Volvo , Renault said in a statement released at a joint news conference in Paris . |
| 5 | Certainly there are 130 new routes on a number of good quality , though generally small , buttresses scattered here and there throughout the valley — but not a lot to take the breath away . |
| 6 | Undertaken sensitively and carefully by an experienced operator in controlled circumstances , regression therapy should be a beneficial and restorative experience for the subject , enabling him to be rid of a serious problem that may have been troubling him for years and indeed possibly ruining his life . |
| 7 | But in addition to the church 's calling to be the invisible yeast leavening the whole dough and the salt savouring the whole meal , it is also called to be a light placed prominently and strategically upon a lamp-stand so as to light the whole house . |
| 8 | All are built somewhere and hence within the province of the local historian . |
| 9 | The successful transfer of such experience from teacher to pupil is taken to require a sense of a " community of interest " which " would be felt instinctively and immediately by the pupil " : |
| 10 | It is however I think relevant to the debate on policies I five and I twelve , to the extent that the County Council adjustments to the wording of policy I five which would provide for the distributional strategy and its emphasis on directing development to locations in and adjacent to main urban areas , main towns and small towns , to be modified so as to pe permit major employment allocations to be made elsewhere and indeed on a scale which effectively improved distributional strategy . |
| 11 | The boys , being the largest , managed to grab them , while we got pushed further and further to the front , nearer to the teachers . |
| 12 | ‘ As I dealt with the conditions and consequences of affluence , ’ he explained , ‘ under which the existence of the poor had been buried , the poverty I had set out to write about got pushed further and further towards the back of the book . |
| 13 | Africans were moved further and further from the line of rail , reflecting the fact that in settler territories their main economic contribution was to be labour for the Whites . |
| 14 | And , in the country at large , the administration is seen more and more as a high-tax collector . |
| 15 | As she had suffered one setback after another-no money , another still birth , one or other of the boys in trouble with the police — she had turned more and more to the church . |
| 16 | The popular press could not compete and has been pushed more and more into the ‘ human interest ’ dimension , interviewing friends and relations of players , stoking up dressing-room feuds and seizing upon the sex lives of the young , virile , and wayward . |
| 17 | It is suggested that such students should be encouraged to publish during the tenure of their studentships , so that new findings may be incorporated quickly and permanently into the literature of the subject . |
| 18 | It is suggested that such students should be encouraged to publish during the tenure of their studentships , so that new findings may be incorporated quickly and permanently into the literature of the subject . |
| 19 | Temiar gardens consist of a wide range of plants , apparently grown haphazardly and far from the regimented uniformity of plantation agriculture . |
| 20 | Reference to chimpanzees and apes has been made here and there throughout the preceding chapters and it seems appropriate to relate just one example of their mental processes in these pages . |
| 21 | There are more than 350 lots , which were on view at Sotheby 's in New Bond Street , London , earlier this month and which can still be seen today and tomorrow at the Assembly Rooms before the sale begins . |
| 22 | In 1983 , at the time of the introduction of the new Mental Health Act , seen then and now as a breakthrough for patients ' rights , users were barely involved in the mental health debate . |
| 23 | Although the processes were used spasmodically after that , they were not applied consistently and effectively until the Dark Ages and the medieval period . |
| 24 | The plea or defence to this was that the notes were made jointly and severally by the defendant 's father , John Revill , and by Samuel Revill , as well as by the defendant , and that before the action the plaintiff , without the defendant 's knowledge or consent , struck out the name of Samuel Revill on the notes and wholly discharged him from liability . |
| 25 | ‘ Splendid , splendid , ’ he had said cordially and automatically at the time . |
| 26 | The muffled bellows were the only sounds he could make as his face was pushed closer and closer to the glowing rings . |
| 27 | Perhaps the Minister can clarify whether the provisions of the Bill will be operated specifically and only by the transport police . |
| 28 | However , we were received promptly and courteously by the Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities yesterday when we explained the situation to him . |
| 29 | The truth of the matter was that even before she had agreed to take over the club she had been plagued more and more by a feeling that she had done all she could do in the music business . |
| 30 | Without them , as the White Paper ’ Custody , Care and Justice ’ says , ’ there can be no assurance that resources ’ — which means money , and I wish that people would say ’ money ’ rather than ’ resources ’ — ’ devoted to the prison service will be used effectively and efficiently in a way which fulfils the obligations of the prison service . ’ |