Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This galloping course will suit his action and he is not badly treated at the weights on his best form . |
| 2 | He went on gazing into the flames and she knew his thoughts were too far away for her words to reach him . |
| 3 | Reports said that the Dec. 6 attack on the mosque was effectively abetted by the guards , some 200 paramilitary troops of the state-controlled Provincial Armed Constabulary ( PAC ) which was known for its pro-Hindu leanings ; they had allegedly stood aside and allowed militants to demolish the mosque 's structure . |
| 4 | The local authority 's mortgage was duly registered in the charges register . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , most of the early studies on owl digestion have been carried out on species that do little damage to the bones of their prey . |
| 6 | It follows that ‘ those sensations must be all that we can , at bottom , mean by their attributes ; and the distinction which we verbally make between the properties of things and the sensations we receive from them , must originate in the convenience of discourse rather than in the nature of what is signified by the terms ’ . |
| 7 | In the event , the CEP evidence was eventually given by the individuals responsible under the banner of the then Cornwall-based campaigner George Pritchard , although it would undoubtedly have helped its status to be seen as part of the local councils ' case . |
| 8 | Now the increasingly hard-nosed tactics of the popular press have driven society gossip underground , and gossip columns are mostly filled with the doings of the lower echelons of café society on the make . |
| 9 | The transcripts were handed over to the Serious Fraud Office , and duly and properly given to the defendants in the criminal proceedings . |
| 10 | They all heard the noise of feet at once , and instinctively leaned over the battlements , craning to see . |
| 11 | What is the point of maintaining a proper legal framework for trade unions if law-breaking unions can not be properly punished by the courts ? |
| 12 | That is indeed part of their strategy but the fact of the matter is that the county council is wholly implicated in the efforts that have been made in this erm county over the last couple of years to get large scale inward investment . |
| 13 | Jack was very much in the groove , rarely deviating from the fairways and the centre of the green , but was a mere one shot under par , while Miguel was one shot better . |
| 14 | Proposals to improve the quality of life coincided with the tenure of the National Unity Government under the initial premiership of Shimon Peres , widely regarded outside the territories as the most promising Israeli proponent of a peace settlement . |
| 15 | The most economically prosperous parts of the UK at the present time are widely regarded as the towns and cities located on a broad axis extending from Cambridgeshire to Dorset and Avon . |
| 16 | This meant that in spite of their class selfishness and legalistic pedantry they were widely regarded as the defenders of liberty and established rights ( the two were still largely synonymous ) against royal autocracy and ‘ ministerial despotism ’ . |
| 17 | In a statement yesterday , the police chiefs said : ‘ The association wholeheartedly agrees with the views expressed by Mr Adair . |
| 18 | Although attention was naturally directed towards improving the ‘ dirty ’ areas , the Sierra Club successfully pressed through the courts that the EPA should ensure that ‘ clean ’ or attainment areas should not suffer further degradation ( Stern , 1977 ) . |
| 19 | The arrangement , however , was successfully pressed by the friends of the Duke of Montrose , in order , hopefully , to heal the threat of division in the county , lest feelings of dislike be aroused to the point of threatening the stability of the Montrose interest in parliamentary politics . |
| 20 | In their place she pinned up a poster of a starving black child and a chart which eventually recorded a handsome donation to the Biafran famine relief fund , amassed by the girls from a summer fair , Christmas carol-singing and a sponsored fast during which Suzie Chamfer histrionically fainted in the lavatories . |
| 21 | There are regular guided tours of the state rooms of the chateau , whose contents and decoration were mostly arranged during the restorations of the nineteenth century and are not very remarkable , with the exception of the tapestries . |
| 22 | The sharp opposition of state and civil society was fundamentally altered in the years of the Weimar Republic when a much friendlier set of public bodies served partly as framework for the Bauhaus , and for Brecht 's and Piscator 's theatre . |
| 23 | This price might initially appear uncompetitive , but may be justified in the market place by additions to the features associated with the product such that consumers perceive the product to be effectively differentiated from the alternatives available . |
| 24 | Self 's victory was bitterly resented by the engineers and , on his return , Pask tried ( unsuccessfully ) to overturn it . |
| 25 | Several doors opened off the landing and there were ladder-like stairs which presumably led to the attics . |
| 26 | This lack of Bolshevik militancy ( and the reluctance to comply with Moscow 's directives ) was particularly galling for the Comintern since , as one of its own documents acknowledged , ‘ the Chilean Communist party is the one with the most influence amongst the masses out of all the South American Communist parties ’ . |
| 27 | But not even Michael had known about the other sum — smaller , but just as regular — that Holdfast had dourly diverted to the fighters on his own side of the great divide . |
| 28 | Two of them , Pompeii and Herculaneum , which were located on the lower flanks of Vesuvius , were particularly badly shaken by the shocks , and some damage was done , but the townspeople were not especially alarmed . |
| 29 | Two of the younger ones rather shyly explained about the workings of the creamery . |
| 30 | In some ways employers effectively connived with the unions in sustaining costly work practices . |