Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 As this review of change in Europe and the USA has shown , there were a number of important experiments in the 1940s and 1950s which , coincident with the development of mood-stabilizing drugs , suggested that a significant number of long-term patients could be successfully boarded out in the community .
2 George Stephen remembered how as a youth he heard ‘ many a semi-domestic debate as to the extent to which parliamentary manoeuvring could be successfully carried out with the ministerial benches ’ .
3 There has been no tipping here for many years , and already the bank seems to be slowly settling back into the earth from which it came .
4 The waterfall is usually held to be slowly flattened out by the erosion of the river so that the new section of the profile occupies successively the positions 1 to 6 ( Fig. 9.10A ) .
5 If you want to get in close enough to see the detail of his beautiful body markings , you wo n't be able to include much of his neck which will be mostly sticking out through the top of the frame .
6 Many different groups are involved in the pollination of modern angiosperms and , in rain forest , this seems to be rather bound up with the level in the forest at which the flowers are presented .
7 to be laughingly bundled up to the template ,
8 Thousands of people will be effectively priced out of the system , no matter how strong their cases may appear .
9 The plant will be effectively sealed off from the world apart from periodic inspection and monitoring visits by skilled staff .
10 Somehow we survived it all , just as I have survived 20 years of a lead-piped water supply and a further 20 years as an adult working in a concrete hut insulated on the inside with sprayed-on asbestos ; to say nothing of a like period supervising students using the Haldane gas analysis apparatus , a machine that not infrequently spewed mercury from its taps into the air , whence it fell onto the bench , or sometimes the floor , to be duly swept up by the lab boy at the end of the session for recovery .
11 About half of them loosen up enough to allow the foreskin to be gently pulled back by the time the boy is a year old .
12 Atlanta , Georgia , the expo site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works .
13 Atlanta , Georgia , the show site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works .
14 ‘ The sandwiches 'll be all curled up at the edges , ’ his mum complained .
15 The charge is let in or out of each capacitor by its own switch but the charge continually drains away so it needs to be constantly topped up from the mains or battery .
16 If you are a purist , you may be somewhat put off by the lame , if not sticky English translations of words in Bach 's Cantatas Nos. 201 & 68 , but do n't be , for the exceeding purity of Dame ‘ Bella 's ’ voice overcomes all .
17 Maybe , I thought , Ash would be so turned on by the sounds of frantic coupling emanating from Gav and Aunt Janice in the bedroom that she 'd tear my clothes off .
18 Similarly the " stopping rate " is the maximum stepping rate which can be suddenly switched off without the motor overshooting the target position .
19 They seemed , Spruce thought , to be extremely laid back about the whole affair .
20 If used constructively , instructional programs can be very effective but they can be very boring if they are used merely to transfer work to the microcomputer which would be better carried out in the traditional manner .
21 Fitness was , as ever , a big problem and is a deficiency which will not be easily made up during the Championship .
22 When trading in or throwing away an old " fridge " try to make sure that it is not going to be just broken up without the CFC gas being properly collected first .
23 I certainly want teachers to respond closely to the situation in which they are — but they need to be clear about the overall function of RE , what it is about , in order to respond in a way which is meaningful so as not to be just taken over by the latest influence .
24 Other aircraft of note included : Mil Mi-6 , Tupolev Tu-22M Backfire , Tu-134 , Tu-154 and Ilyushin II-62 , all of which seemed to be just parked out on the airfield amongst the overgrown grass .
25 Consultants are to be appointed shortly to examine its role as an executive agency and to consider how its work might be best carried out in the future .
26 Almost by definition , crises are periods when the normally routinized operations of the bureaucracy are insufficient or can not be relied on , when decisions have to be quickly pushed up through the chain of command , and where unusually large and direct role in controlling policy implementation has to be taken by political leaders .
27 Once the design is safely stored a way on tape or disc it can be quickly loaded back into the computer 's memory .
28 Intel is therefore reportedly telling its OEMs that the P6 will be purposely held back from the market , despite its state of readiness , to allow them to recoup their investment in Pentium .
29 Whatever you decide , you 'll be suitably bowled over by the excellent quality however much you 're paying .
30 ‘ It 's certainly wiser to be more covered up in the sun , ’ she says .
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