Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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1 | but y I ca n't I have to say and I know right ca n't give her what she wants is somebody to sit down somebody to sit her down and talk to her and you ca n't give her the benefit of that because it 's a little battle right between the two silly little girls if you like and if that j if that happens had won right and that 's the way will feel it |
2 | Cor he is good , there 's no doubt about that , look at that , right between the two . |
3 | The correct way to cut this type of joint is right through the two points where the sections of border intersect , although care must be exercised to avoid marking the main wallcovering where it would show . |
4 | The Civil War was over , but the social repercussions of external and internal war and revolution flowed on right through the 1920s . |
5 | This combination of fights , action and music proved equally unstoppable ( and profitable ) right through the '70s , Roundtree slugging his way through a TV series and a couple of further movies , stopping , at one point , to gain the vocal assistance of The Four Tops as he blasted a gang of unfortunate slave traders . |
6 | The unit operated very effectively during the 1980s on the Namibia/Angola border against infiltrating bands of SWAPO guerrillas who were attempting to destabilise the country by ambush and assassination . |
7 | No Bishop of Durham could ever forget , or was ever allowed to forget , how one of his predecessors Westcott mediated in a bitter strike ; how a vast crowd stood outside Auckland Castle , seeing the owners through the windows of one room and the miners through the windows of another , waiting for five hours as they watched the bishop go to and fro between the two rooms ; until he brought the parties to a happy agreement , and when he came out among the crowd he received an ovation . |
8 | He ran vigorously to and fro between the two kitchens . |
9 | The truth probably lies somewhere between the two . |
10 | A relaxed horse will be somewhere between the two , with little tension in the head , neck and tail , maybe a rested hindleg , but still showing interest in his environment . |
11 | Then she ran into a problem : everyone she had wanted to ask originally was currently dead or no longer kayaked or was in a state somewhere between the two . |
12 | As a simple rule of thumb we could say that major differences in thermoregulation are determined by whether heat is derived solely from the environment , or is entirely internally generated , or is somewhere between the two . |
13 | I therefore need a different sound somewhere between the two . |
14 | Also with other beacons often within receivable range on frequencies only one kHz apart , sometimes if the aircraft is somewhere between the two , both become unusable . |
15 | While a study such as Festinger , Rieken , and Schachter 's When Prophecy Fails ( see p. 73 ) is clearly not a community study , and one like Frankenberg 's Village on the Border clearly is , others , such as Whyte 's Street Corner Society , fall somewhere between the two . |
16 | Most of us , male and female , will find a place somewhere between the two ends of that continuum . |
17 | A seminar , for example , might come somewhere between the two poles . |
18 | The division between open and closed villages was not always as clear-cut as this may imply — many villages lay somewhere between the two — and it was less extensive in the upland areas where less labour was employed and more workers ‘ lived in ’ on the farms . |
19 | It has been thought a monument of the new democracy , immediately after the expulsion of Hippias in 510 ; by others placed , perhaps most convincingly , somewhere between the two , around 500 . |
20 | She added , ‘ He 's very good to Margaret ’ , and I felt that simultaneously she had nodded towards the past while affirming the present and that I had fallen somewhere between the two : nothing but the body of a ghost , nebulous and deserted . |
21 | I suppose that the true position lies somewhere between the two . |
22 | The old rate would still apply to essential imports , but it was planned to set in due course another new rate ( somewhere between the two ) for non-essential imports and possibly some types of export . |
23 | The true form was somewhere between the two . |
24 | He ought , whether he remains technically an employee or is treated as a partner or is classified as somewhere between the two ( eg taxed under Sched D on his " salary " ) , to be in a position to know enough about his firm to judge what amounts to a reasonable restriction and not to need the court 's protection if he should have agreed to covenants in stringent terms . |
25 | We have put in an offer but it seems there is a vacuum somewhere between the two naval ministries . ’ |
26 | It was the thought of her that had drawn me back to the Lodge with my dream , and if this odd enterprise had any meaning at all it must lie , I believed , somewhere between the three of us . |
27 | Only the United Kingdom economy performed as badly during the seventies and it has always been near the bottom of the league . |
28 | Insiders admit that by both external and internal measures , it has failed badly during the 1980s to live up to its promise . |
29 | Couples with children also fared badly during the 1980s , but their risk of poverty still remains much lower than that of lone parents ( 18 per cent in 1988 , up from 9 per cent in 1979 ) . |
30 | Those dependent on state benefits have fared particularly badly during the 1980s , eligibility conditions having been made more stringent and the rates of many of the benefits having been cut . |