Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When pressed down half-way , at which point it can be caught in a notch , the note is raised a semitone ; when pressed down farther to the second notch the note is raised another semitone . |
| 2 | This led to a good deal of overlapping and interdepartmental rivalry , notably between the foreign and war offices : propaganda in the neutral states which it was most important to influence was in fact carried on largely by the British diplomatic missions there , often supported by groups of expatriates and local anglophiles . |
| 3 | The Hochhauser Season had come along just at the right time , a time when she needed a little excitement , a little glamour , a little of the old camaraderie that she had known with her friends in Vienna . |
| 4 | But his mind had clouded over again at the wrong moment and now it was too late . |
| 5 | The recollections of those who worked with him in the war years show a striking convergence : volunteers were won over instantly by the self-assured prophetic tone in which he discussed the war and by his knack of making them feel that they had been singled out to receive a confidence . |
| 6 | evidence , er I would however like to point out this is n't included into the report , but much of these have these days that incidence of complaints received er by organization such as ours from the general public and I 'm happy to report this indeed can be verified factually that the incidence of complaint against the highway service has dropped off enormously in the last two or three years , certainly within the last two years when we concentrated so much of our time and effort and improved in the quality and immediacy of the service of practice , er the level of complaints these days , and these are general complaints , not |
| 7 | Offiah , back in action against Widnes last Friday after missing two matches with hamstring trouble , was carried off early in the second half after pulling up in agony . |
| 8 | Since July profits have picked up slightly for the first time in 18 months . |
| 9 | I mean they 're probably booked up now for the next three or four years anyway |
| 10 | Consequently she never stopped bellyaching to Daisy about how all the other Pony Club members had at least three ponies , and how humiliating it was having to hack to meetings when everyone else rolled up either in the latest horse boxes with grooms , or driving Porsches with telephones . |
| 11 | Because I am a writer caught up willy-nilly in the polluted air of our own times , because I can not avoid entirely the language , assumptions , behaviour and weirdly chiliastic bombast so typical of a corrupted age , I can force myself to imagine by what tormented mental process an educated and rational man of some sensibility moves from the cerebral subtleties of Keynsian economics to the animal crudities of purchasing unsatisfactory and momentary sexual release from a cheap little whore . |
| 12 | Our other major domestic market , the distilling industry has come back strongly from the low levels of production of the early 1980s and appears full of optimism , if the huge rise in the share prices of quoted distilling companies is a fair yardstick . |
| 13 | There is no golden rule about how this " muddling mass " should be sorted out apart from the absolute necessity for patience and sympathy . |
| 14 | I do not think that people in Cornwall want to allocate blame at the moment , but they do want to ensure that the environmental clean-up is carried out both in the short term and the long term without hold-ups . |
| 15 | As for the time investment , planning the layout , preparing the plot by digging and manuring , sowing the seeds and watering those crops that needed extra moisture were all carried out well within the weekly ration of 60 minutes . |
| 16 | The market research exercise may be carried out independently of the actual site investigation . |
| 17 | Settlement of transactions in government securities is now carried out largely through the Central Gilts Office . |
| 18 | In a smaller agency many of these tasks are carried out either by the managing director , the finance department or a general manager , with help where necessary from other members of other departments . |
| 19 | No investigation is known to have been carried out either by the Indian or Sri Lankan authorities . |
| 20 | In the rest of the UK , these functions are carried out separately by the National Council for Vocational Qualifications ( NCVQ ) and a variety of awarding bodies . |
| 21 | Today 's mission was the first to be carried out entirely by the British army . |
| 22 | But wherever they end up , there 's a good chance they 'll be moved on again in the next few weeks — 28 groups have been moved on in the last 18 months and the County Council is moving on another group from Kirtlington , north of Oxford tomorrow . |
| 23 | These were first written down maybe in the twelfth century , but now survive , often in a fragmentary state , only in the Icelandic prose sagas of the thirteenth century and later , the most famous of which is Heimskringla , a series of lives of kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson ( d.1241 ) . |
| 24 | They 'd all grown up together on the same corpy estate , been to the same sink school , gone out with the same dreary lads . |
| 25 | Business has been built up steadily over the last 12 years in Germany , Denmark , Spain , France , Eire and Greece , and more recently in Eastern Europe , the Czech Republic and Slovakia . |
| 26 | They trembled not from fear , but from anger and resentment which had built up rapidly in the 24 hours since he had heard the ridiculous order from Washington . |
| 27 | Guests ' bills are written up daily from the duplicate vouchers which are debited to the visitors ' tabular ledger and it follows that the balances shown on the guests ' bills must correspond with the balances in the visitors ' tabular ledger . |
| 28 | ‘ Why have you turned up again like the bad penny ? ’ |
| 29 | Wedges of oceanic crust are thrust up on to the overlying sediments of the subduction zone and uplift ensues ( Fig. 3.16 ) . |
| 30 | South Shields , St Helens and Birkenhead all shot up quickly during the first half of the nineteenth century . |