Example sentences of "the [adj] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they broke out of the covert on to the open parkland the bright sun made them squint . |
| 2 | By far the rarest type of post-medieval coffin is the gable-lidded tapered shape ; this is frustrating , especially as they are so well known in contemporary art from the fourteenth through to the seventeenth centuries . |
| 3 | Yesterday , the management threatened to issue dismissal notices to the 300 out of the 400 workforce , and about 200 demonstrated at the locked factory gates in an attempt to return to work . |
| 4 | We combine these by choosing just a few random points in them , say two or three , and copying from the first string up to the first point ; then copying from the second up to the second point ; then copying from the first again ; and so on , switching between them at each point . |
| 5 | He followed the match on the 6th up to the green players , caddies , referee , steward and camp followers . |
| 6 | Cross these two over , placing the two stitches from the left on to the two empty needles at the right , finally place the remaining two stitches on to the two needles at the left . |
| 7 | The rise of Class War , who have no distinctive ideology apart from rabid anti-authoritarianism , represents an obvious reaction to the marxist-leninist model of political organisation which prevailed on the left up to the early 1980s . |
| 8 | Tim Watkins ' spell of 3–23 kept the game in the balance before Gareth Finney hit the winning runs in the penultimate over with the last pair at the wicket . |
| 9 | ‘ Representative processes , ’ says Hallowell , ‘ are at the root of Man 's capacity to deal with the abstract qualities of objects and events , his ability to deal with the possible or conceivable , the ideal as well as the actual , the intangible along with the tangible , the absent as well as the present object or event , with fantasy and with reality . |
| 10 | Eleven papers were given — which dealt with aspects of the history of popular culture from the 16th through to the 20th centuries in areas as diverse as early modern Germany , 19th century Russia and 20th century Mexico and India . |
| 11 | So who 's the best out of the three ? |
| 12 | This latter measurement was taken from the distal end of the sphincter up to the respiratory inversion point , which is the level at which the end expiratory pressure changes from a positive to a negative deflection . |
| 13 | If we followed the rules er the M R C rules strictly one of the lower risk group of patients was a G three P T one tumour and that patient er progressed and in fact all the patients who progressed , all the four out of the hundred and fifty nine patients who progressed erm from the total group had either G two or G three P T one tumours at diagnosis , and I think there 's a very strong case for making these a totally separate group of patients erm for follow up . |
| 14 | James McConnell , one of the four out of the first seven who did not survive the war , wrote with foreboding : |
| 15 | Chandos 's brave and important Parry series , conducted with sterling musicianship and remarkable insights by Matthias Bamert , adds another choral disc to the four out of the five symphonies so far issued . |
| 16 | If they had been working logically , they would have built the new on to the old stopping here . |