Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bank , by rejecting offers at r 1 , is in effect reducing its demand for bills ( D 1 to D 2 ) , and thereby drives up the rediscount rate to r 2 . |
| 2 | The saliva dries and hardens quickly and with repeated flights , the bird slowly builds up the line into a low wall . |
| 3 | There is also evidence that TV , as a technology which works by electronic scanning , effectively shuts down the functioning of those parts of the brain that reason and think actively and logically — the skills that have been associated with the left hemisphere of the brain . |
| 4 | The hon. Member for Barrow and Furness ( Mr. Franks ) in the course of an extremely lengthy spech did not answer the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) about fourth , fifth , sixth , seventh and eighth Trident nuclear submarines , which only points up the fact that this nation needs a programme of conversion from arms manufacture to material for peaceful purposes . |
| 5 | The first merely points out the difficulties with scepticism ; the internalist would accept this and say that these difficulties have to be faced and not ignored . |
| 6 | You should remember that a fridge does n't kill bacteria , only slows down the rate at which they multiply . |
| 7 | A good catalogue , therefore , makes life easy for its user , and so builds up the supplier 's reputation . |
| 8 | A plan like this not only shows up the priority areas and assists a sensible organisation of the workload ; it also shows where effort should be concentrated and helps in the measurement of success . |
| 9 | One species of beetle in Brazil , when alarmed , immediately folds up its legs and flattens itself sideways , exposing its white underside and so takes on the appearance of a bird dropping . |
| 10 | The gaming world in part consists of four main islands ( there are rumours of more ! ) and this nicely breaks up the game and avoids the feeling of a bland and repetitive world , ( why does that Island concept ring a bell ? ) and you move from Island to Island by looking at a map and selecting your destination ( sounds VERY familiar ! ) . |
| 11 | Compact benefits students by offering them " value-added " jobs when they have attained their goals , and so opens up the realistic prospect of job satisfaction and career progression . |
| 12 | The sea is a jeweller and cutter of gems who daily draws back the green felt covers and displays his precious work and then jealously hides them again with the green covers of the waves . |
| 13 | My father gently picks up the nearest little one and begins to fit its harness on . |
| 14 | We were together all the time : played languid games of tennis on the court behind her house , swam , went on picnics , went for long walks up the lower slopes of Kinabalue , the mountain whose green and mauve shadowed mass loomed over Jesselton . |
| 15 | Indeed the Customer Service Charter featured below sets out the level of service we strive to sustain . |
| 16 | Indeed the Customer Service Charter featured below sets out the level of service we strive to sustain . |
| 17 | Indeed the Customer Service Charter featured below sets out the level of service we strive to sustain . |
| 18 | Indeed the Customer Service Charter featured below sets out the level of service we strive to sustain . |
| 19 | Indeed the Customer Service Charter featured below sets out the level of service we strive to sustain . |
| 20 | Indeed the Customer Service Charter featured below sets out the level of service we strive to sustain . |
| 21 | Indeed the Customer Service Charter featured below sets out the level of service we strive to sustain . |
| 22 | Indeed the Customer Service Charter featured below sets out the level of service we strive to sustain . |
| 23 | Section 0403 below sets out the procedures to be followed in determining if a client is a corporate finance client . |
| 24 | In other words , rather than introducing other , more persuasive factors , he merely sets up the court as the arbiter of a medical issue , and decides that , of all the criteria involved , the crucial ones for determining how the individual is to be regarded by the law are the biological criteria . |
| 25 | As one trade union succeeds in a wage claim and so moves up the ‘ league table ’ , other unions immediately put in similar wage claims in an attempt to restore their relative positions . |
| 26 | Two of those are being heated by burning blast furnace gas and the third one has the cold air blown through it and the brickwork inside gives up the heat to the er cold air , warms the air and then that 's blown into the blast furnace . |
| 27 | The use of a fifteen obviously fattens out the sound , helping to temper the natural brightness of the aluminium speakers , with the small driver accentuating the upper range . |
| 28 | However , this necessarily locks out the unemployed , who are the dark side of this culture . |
| 29 | And David in , that psalm which we read earlier , in psalm twenty three , he paints the picture of how the good shepherd , not only seeks out the lost sheep but once he has brought him back , once he has rescued the , a lost sheep , he care for it . |
| 30 | But this merely brings back the idea of particulars as distinct from qualities or ( mere ) configurations of qualities , and we find ourselves up against the very difficulties the theory was trying to eliminate . |