Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I left twenty minutes later I felt I had come off with rather the worst of the bargain but another of my father 's aphorisms came to mind : shnorrers no choosers . |
| 2 | The services carried out by both the All- weather and Inshore lifeboats over the years are well documented and , as usual , Jeff Morris 's book can be recommended to anyone with an interest in the work and history of lifeboats in the area . |
| 3 | The significant feature of privatization has been that the transformation has usually been carried out by broadly the same teams that had worked under nationalization . |
| 4 | At the same time he was turned down by both the Civil Service and the Foreign Office . |
| 5 | It also masks the fact that Anglo-Saxon ‘ villages ’ probably moved about in roughly the same area from generation to generation . |
| 6 | Noel Blake was kicked out for exactly the same reason — he could nt handle being in a squad . |
| 7 | One lucky spin-off from the system is that it reproduces intelligible sound at normal pitch , when the tape is played back at twice the intended speed . |
| 8 | It would be much more sensible if , as a staff writer in Ekonomska politika ( 15 February 1988 ) has suggested , the minimum point for assessing personal income tax were to be brought down to approximately the average income of each republic or province , and the scale of progressivity were to be less steep . |
| 9 | This has gone up in virtually the same proportion as the labour cost . |
| 10 | Human awareness of this truth , he may have concluded , was passed on with just the same loose and haunting persistence as the rhythms and phrases of English poetry , surviving from Anglo-Saxon times to Middle English and ‘ The Man in the Moon ’ , and on again to Shakespeare and Milton and Yeats and nursery-rhyme , without intention as without a break . |
| 11 | Using the no boundary condition , we find that the universe must in fact have started off with just the minimum possible nonuniformity allowed by the uncertainty principle . |
| 12 | So I remind myself that it does n't really matter about things being put back in exactly the same place in the cupboard , or precisely the same brand of tea being bought , or the carrots being cut to exactly the right dimensions . |
| 13 | honourable member what he 's really saying as I understand it Madam Speaker is there 's too much bureaucracy and the bureaucracy is going to prevent anybody acting because they 're all overlapping , they 're all paid out of presumably the public purse as well , there 's a there 's a enormous number of public off officials that is preventing er a a clear direct , exes executive arm . |