Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , when the farmer had left the house , his wife went out to the stable and saddled the pony. then she put on her husband 's best clothes , tied the turban high so as to look as tall as possible , jumped astride the pony , and set off to the field where the tiger was waiting . |
| 2 | He chooses to tap his fag packet round and round on the tabletop again rather than speak to me , so I say , ‘ Well , I 'm not sure about that , but it 's certainly somebody who knows me ; I mean , I think that card with my writing on it proves that . |
| 3 | Another American firm , McDonnell Douglas , has a smaller product range , and by the mid-1980s was wondering whether to get out of the industry entirely rather than compete in the next generation of civil airliners . |
| 4 | This is why changing the voice of the verb in 9a from active to passive — which has the effect of interchanging the valency slots that the noun phrases occupy — removes the anomaly as effectively as replacing see or table . |
| 5 | All you need do is have a lift-up lid instead of a solid base or shelves added under the actual seat part and you have immediately doubled the usefulness of the piece as well as gained some footage . |
| 6 | As fig. 5.12 shows , these subjects learned the test more readily than did control subjects that were trained on the same task but had received initial Pavlovian training in which the tone and clicker were uncorrelated with reinforcer type . |
| 7 | The planet Mercury orbits the Sun more closely than do any of the others . |
| 8 | ‘ I am very far from saying that in every case in which a child is proving difficult to manage , a parent is entitled to strike the child so hard as to cause injuries of the kind in this case . |
| 9 | The tunes were in a slow waltz time but played with that characteristic thump which accentuates the first beat of the bar so strongly as to obliterate everything else , reducing any melodic line to a tribal dance . |
| 10 | A hydrogen atom ( a ) is invaded by a muon , μ - ; ( b ) which orbits the proton more closely than does the electron . |
| 11 | There was very little inconvenience in leaving out the butter and salad cream , and I have enjoyed the diet even more whilst watching the inches disappear , and enjoying being complimented on how much slimmer I look . |
| 12 | It may be necessary to stamp the boot more firmly when using French technique on harder slopes , but it is important that the edge of the boot is n't kicked in as it would be when not wearing crampons , as this only uses half the available points . |
| 13 | ‘ It is an invitation to hoof the ball forward rather than use the goalkeeper to play the ball from the back , as Tottenham prefer to do . ’ |
| 14 | The baby Citroen tends to give the game away only when started from cold . |
| 15 | The young man lying there was short of stature , blond , and though he had been in the ground much longer than Erceldoun the body , though swollen and green-tinged , had hardly begun to decompose . |
| 16 | " I want you to experience the news as well as read it , " Ron Evans used to say . |
| 17 | BTW the season as far as scoring concerned started on Dec 27 . |
| 18 | Well a cup of whatsername stuff I poured down the sink upstairs rather than get it kicked over because if they come back in a silly state then they 'll knock it all over books . |
| 19 | The later Mariner 10 probe , launched in 1974 , confirmed that the dense sulphuric clouds moved across the sky so rapidly as to create violent storms at the surface . |
| 20 | No group in society , however , symbolized the alienation of key institutions from the government more clearly than did the university teachers . |
| 21 | Lawyers are adamant about the need to remain independent of the state so far as licensing for practice is concerned . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , he not only refuses his tithes but seems to have a source of wealth which enables him to distribute alms , to mend the church as well as have it painted and refurbished . ’ |
| 23 | Leech was examined on 18th August 1669 to see if he was able " to instruct the youth so far as to fit them for the universities " by a panel composed of Dr. Slater , Mr. Watson ( Schoolmaster of Sutton 's Hospital ) , Mr. Holmes ( Schoolmaster of Christ 's Hospital ) , and Mr. Crumland ( a master from St. Paul 's ) . |
| 24 | He must be careful that the new rules he lays down fit well enough with rules established by others or likely to be established in the future that the total set of rules will work together and make the situation better rather than pulling in opposite directions and making it worse . |
| 25 | Was it not a benefit to him to have the crew sail the ship home rather than abandon him and it in a foreign port ? |
| 26 | The transport is also better , with the airport considerably closer than say it would have been in Manchester . |
| 27 | These new committees have greatly strengthened the House so far as controlling the Executive is concerned . |