Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The methods he used then had altered little over the years , but he was aware change was in the air . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Countryside Commission says its plans have been calculated especially so the path avoids the beautiful National Trust village of Buscot . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I mean bearing in mind that all the resources were broken down presumably the were separate gangs we could n't really make |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But the funny thing is they fell in exactly the same way . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Sideshows have varied little over the years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We have considered so far the daily rhythms of humans in health . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We 've just rolled over exactly the same rule , exactly the same provision . |
| 17 | De Gaulle believed that the Cold War , which had frozen not just the superpowers but the rest of the world in a paralyzing confrontation between two blocs , was coming to an end and that , within each bloc , the hegemony of the respective superpower was dissolving . |
| 18 | Unlike its classic American predecessor , from whom Rudner and Bergman have shamelessly pinched not only the basic scenario but also many a vignette along the way , Peter 's Friends never unfolds its characters with any psychological depth or surprise . |
| 19 | He had come home late the previous evening from a tedious conference to find Sylvie in a strangely seductive mood , a champagne bottle at the ready , her favourite music pulsing through the house . |
| 20 | Katherine 's mother had come home only the day before they were due to leave . |
| 21 | Mary seems at first sight to have carried still further the process of reversion : ‘ numbers cause great confusion , ’ remarked Count Feria , Charles V 's ambassador . |
| 22 | Thatcher 's administration eventually wound up both the PAR system and CPRS . |
| 23 | Nothing , though , could have clouded out completely the romance of David Gower 's successful return to the fold after 17 months in the wilderness . |
| 24 | The sooner this is sorted out then the sooner we can go our separate ways . ’ |
| 25 | Despite his remark that ‘ The superego seems to have made a one-sided choice and to have picked out only the parents ’ strictness and severity , their prohibiting and punitive function , whereas their loving care seems not to have been taken over and maintained , ’ he states elsewhere that ‘ The superego fulfils the same function of protecting and saving that was fulfilled in earlier days by the father . ’ |
| 26 | So far most research and development programmes have addressed comprehensively only the science and technology phase . |
| 27 | It was the target of an IRA bomb in December 1991 , just before the pantomime and was reopened yet again the following spring . |
| 28 | The new provinces occupied pretty much the same areas as they do today . |
| 29 | If the process is carried too far the material will however be weakened and eventually broken . |
| 30 | Promoted to a senior lectureship in 1973 and to his professorship in German some 10 years later , he was one of the few remaining full-time members of the staff to have witnessed not only the coming of age of the University , but also the massive expansion of the Modern Languages Department and its impressive rise to prominence as an exponent of the applied approach to the teaching of languages , involving a marked shift of emphasis from a near exclusive preoccupation with literary studies in one foreign language to the development of communication skills in at least two . |