Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most amateur gardeners are ‘ afraid of the knife ’ and do not prune hard enough , leaving too much old wood , with the result that the growth buds that grow on are at the top end of 3 or 4 or more inches ( 8 or 10 or more cm ) of the previous season 's growth . |
| 2 | Such initiatives petered out in the decades after the war ; indeed , it has only been since the mid 1980s that new attempts have been made , in Nell 's words , ‘ to regain the higher ground ’ , re-establishing the Underground as an influential patron of public art as well as improving the passenger environment . |
| 3 | Fran had only been to the luxurious floating restaurant a couple of times , but knew from experience that the food was excellent and very expensive . |
| 4 | While on furlough in England my thoughts had naturally been on the new tasks ahead . |
| 5 | Jaromil has discovered that writing can be what reading has familiarly been for the ordinary person : an escape , a shelter , a door to the alternative self . |
| 6 | California has long been at the green cutting edge , and had the bill been passed , other states and possibly nations may have followed in its wake . |
| 7 | Reform of the rating system has long been on the political agenda . |
| 8 | As the royal party came through the school gates , however , an entire youth brass orchestra , who again had obviously been at the ready for several hours on a cold wintry day , burst into life in the playground . |
| 9 | You produce a good magazine each month ; the readers ' letters alone are worth the annual subscription . |
| 10 | The committee urged that the emphasis should henceforth be on the special needs for education of certain groups of children — those with learning difficulties — rather than on various categories of handicap . |
| 11 | Since calls must be made close to a node , then why not simply find a telephone kiosk — must work these days and the cost will only be at the standard rate . |
| 12 | If he retires then , it will only be from the public arena . |
| 13 | Yes the chassis mounts will take the 4203 The engine will give a lot more torque but you will need an overdrive or the top speed will only be in the mid forties |
| 14 | But this would only be in the major things , Cassie . |
| 15 | It should , in my opinion , only be in the rare cases where the very issue of interpretation which the courts are called on to resolve has been addressed in Parliamentary debate and where the promoter of the legislation has made a clear statement directed to that very issue , that reference to Hansard should be permitted . |
| 16 | Well , yes , but in the long run that it , that wo n't be , it will only be in the short term , when we 're really honing out . |
| 17 | This need not necessarily be for the pure career-orientated reasons suggested by Niskanen — whether teachers or social workers have suggested policy changes that increase expenditure for pure self-interest or through the genuine altruistic belief that a greater supply of their services will benefit their society , such groups have occupied central roles in the expansion of their services |
| 18 | This was equally , and perhaps more , marked in local politics in the cities , dominated as these naturally were by the bourgeois ( i.e. normally Liberal ) notables of the place . |
| 19 | Were , we 're not attached to any sort of department , like housing or leisure , were actually in the organisation , were in the general management department and were not alone erm , the planning er originally the general manager 's department and the winners and equality unit are in that department as well and the general manager has his own erm policy , officer and secretarian , so were in the general manager 's department and in other Council 's that would be known as the Chief Executive Department . |
| 20 | " Will " is driven by love and desire and so is like the Holy Ghost . |
| 21 | Apparently was on the local news |
| 22 | Presumably he had become as immune to disgust as he obviously was to the sweet-sour smell of his mortuary . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the resolution might still have won a majority had it not been for the stolen goods in the outhouse . |
| 24 | Surely no more than that the Ketterings were splitting up , like so many of their acquaintances , as even the Pargeters might have done , had it not been for the late , unexpected , unplanned arrival of Jacqueline . |
| 25 | Had it not been for the financial support of the telecommunications giant , AT & T , and the local banker and real estate mogul , Malin Burnham , the ACOC would have been wound up long before now . |
| 26 | Had it not been for the psychic tracer , they must surely have lost themselves in the labyrinthine entrails of what was not one vessel but many , some of these enormous in their own right . |
| 27 | … it could have no real importance after the visit to Osborne in the course of which Napoleon III having tightened the alliance with England had nothing much to say to the Emperor of Russia , his enemy of the day before yesterday , his friend of yesterday — but not his ally of today , which he might have become had it not been for the recent drawing together of the Courts of the Tuileries and St James . |
| 28 | If it had not been for the horrific blunder by their goalkeeper at Ibrox , Howard Wilkinson 's men would go into Battle of Britain II at Elland Road seeking merely to confirm the superiority of the English domestic game over the Scottish . |
| 29 | He would have been handsome had it not been for the close-set eyes and the petulant cast to his mouth . |
| 30 | I do not wish to convey a sense of complacency ; I am merely saying that the Northern Ireland economy has done very much better in the latest recession — and would have done better still had it not been for the appalling IRA atrocities that make inward investment so difficult . |