Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have n't revealed their presence because our solar system is being treated rather like a nature reserve — that they do n't want to interpose themselves and spoil a very classic example of study of a lesser civilization growing up . |
| 2 | We were most often directed to library skills and study skills lessons in which children were being taught rather unimaginatively a range of things from the Dewey Decimal Classification to the use of the full stop ! |
| 3 | The methods he used then had altered little over the years , but he was aware change was in the air . |
| 4 | Since each inter-probe distance need be calculated only once the execution time is dependent primarily on the number of probes , not the number of clones . |
| 5 | Between Hendaye-Plage and its parent of Hendaye , there is much water side , because Hendaye is hidden defensively away a mile from the sea , on the wide estuary of the river Bidassoa . |
| 6 | The Countryside Commission says its plans have been calculated especially so the path avoids the beautiful National Trust village of Buscot . |
| 7 | To activate the stylus it must be pressed down so the microswitch in the tip makes contact , the on-screen cursor now follows the motions of the stylus round the grid . |
| 8 | I mean bearing in mind that all the resources were broken down presumably the were separate gangs we could n't really make |
| 9 | Allen thought that if they were delayed long enough the Friar would return and then something might be done … unless it was the Friar who had betrayed them . |
| 10 | But the funny thing is they fell in exactly the same way . |
| 11 | In all the examples given so far the syllabic has been following another consonant ; sometimes it is possible for another consonant to precede that consonant , but in this case a syllabic consonant is less likely to occur . |
| 12 | If you did get economies of scale then we would n't see small , erm , small independent producers right we , we 'd see a , an increase in the concentration of the industry , like we have witnessed in virtually every other sector |
| 13 | Sideshows have varied little over the years . |
| 14 | We have not stressed so frequently the importance of liaison with our own colleagues , arguing ( with sometimes dubious validity ) that because it ‘ happens all the time ’ it does not need to be explicitly provided . |
| 15 | From the late seventies , to the nineteen eighties or rather from the from the seventies , not just late seventies , to the nineteen eighties , it 's come down about a thousand broad terms , a thousand dwellings a year fewer being built . |
| 16 | The commission responsible for undertaking this revision was convoked only once a week by its president , Ottaviani . |
| 17 | ‘ You will perceive by the accompanying prospectus that I have commenced another work of much greater magnitude [ than the Century ] ; for my own part I should have been more anxious to have gone on with unfigured foreign birds and by that means have added so much the more interest to the science of ornithology , but the greater number of the subscribers to my other work not paying attention to birds generally but limiting themselves to those of our own country , they have frequently reiterated their request that I should commence a similar work on the Birds of [ 'this country ’ crossed out ] Europe and this has been the only motive for my undertaking so laborious a task . ’ |
| 18 | Thus , if Brazil was already the major producer of coffee , the state of São Paulo , which is predominantly identified with this crop in our century , as yet harvested only about a quarter of the production of Rio and at most a fifth of the entire country ; about half the production of Indonesia and only about twice as much as Ceylon , where the development of tea-culture was still so negligible that exports were not separately registered until the second half of the 1870s , and then in tiny quantities . |
| 19 | Perhaps out of guilt , Harriet discontinued her writing and stopped seeing Mill , with whom she had dined alone twice a week , in order to nurse her husband . |
| 20 | They had left the paddock gate open , and Joe had taken advantage of it to go in search of more of the nice green apples he remembered having enjoyed so much the previous day — but this time he did n't reach Jessica Turvey 's orchard ; he got himself trapped in the marsh . |
| 21 | We have considered so far the daily rhythms of humans in health . |
| 22 | Since January , when the package went on limited release in the US , the company says it has been installed in over a dozen sites including MCI Communications Corp , Xerox Corp and American Express Co . |
| 23 | Ryan had come along just a few weeks after they took the braces off her teeth and the tits started to look like something ; in those few weeks Jo had had more attention from boys than she could handle . |
| 24 | Donaldson , whose previous works have included a biography of the Canadian skier , Steve Podborski , has quizzed just about every available friend , colleague and observer of Villeneuve 's . |
| 25 | She reckoned that she 'd considered just about every possible course . |
| 26 | These included not only the psychiatric cases but also those suffering from tuberculosis ( nineteen patients in 1945 ) and others con fined to hospital for long periods . |
| 27 | This car has rewritten the rules that underline the supermini concept , since it won European Car of the Year in 1983 ( Peugeot 205 was second ) and it has won just about every award possible . |
| 28 | On the other hand , Charles Mackerras ' wonderful pot-pourri of tunes from the Gilbert and Sullivan operas for Pineapple Poll displayed how well he has caught not only the humour but also the pathos of The Bum Boat Woman 's Story . |
| 29 | He had rolled over just a little , and opened his eyes . |
| 30 | We 've just rolled over exactly the same rule , exactly the same provision . |