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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Sideshows have varied little over the years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We have considered so far the daily rhythms of humans in health . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Katherine 's mother had come home only the day before they were due to leave . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | So far most research and development programmes have addressed comprehensively only the science and technology phase . |
| 15 | It was the target of an IRA bomb in December 1991 , just before the pantomime and was reopened yet again the following spring . |
| 16 | The new provinces occupied pretty much the same areas as they do today . |
| 17 | If the process is carried too far the material will however be weakened and eventually broken . |
| 18 | If the D6 roll is more than the distance you have veered away then the Doom Diver has over compensated and the template is moved over and beyond the target the full distance roll . |
| 19 | For with ‘ grossing up ’ he is deemed to have given away both the gift and the tax on it so that his total giving reaches quickly to astronomic heights . |
| 20 | She had felt most wonderfully the power surging up behind her eyes gushing like a warm fluid inside her skull , and her eyes had become scorching hot , hotter than ever before , and things had come bursting out of her eye-sockets and then the piece of chalk had lifted itself up and had begun to write . |
| 21 | I recall how disappointed I was in the morning to discover that the pebbles I had collected so lovingly the evening before were just a pile of dull stones now that they had dried and were away from the beach . |
| 22 | Only in Kempe 's noted version on EMI ( 2/88 ) have I felt so strongly the main attributes of Lohengrin : here Robert Heger , the very epitome of the Kapellmeister manner at its best , give to the many passages of formal utterance a grandeur and intensity so often missing in studio performances , culminating in a magnificent outpouring at the final greeting to Elsa in Act 2 . |
| 23 | Surprised at being disturbed so roughly the nag jerked forward suddenly , the jolt snapped the rickety bodged-up slatting and the gramophone fell into the bottom of the cabinet . |
| 24 | In a country where education had expanded so rapidly the gap between young and old had accelerated so teaching the adults to read and write was becoming urgent . |
| 25 | But , to her relief , the voice that greeted her from the other side of the oak door , though indistinct , was that of the porter she had met so briefly the evening before . |
| 26 | And even if Harvey had written just about the whole of Amaranth 's damn speech , she would , were it to be successful , be more in need of his favours than Harvey 's . |
| 27 | Sometimes when we 'd been out to clubs Bernie would give me a lift home to my parents ' , right out in Greenford where we 'd moved just about the time I started keeping twilight hours . |
| 28 | I mean you do n't see any school chu , I mean I have n't seen hardly any the odd one or two since I left school all those years ago . |
| 29 | If shares are priced accurately then the market will be allocatively efficient in terms of channelling funds towards those companies that are the most productive . |
| 30 | If the job is to be done well then the drafting and negotiating of the sale agreement should involve the least time in the entire exercise . |