Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So are you saying then effectively that looking towards the post two thousand and six scenario , and bearing in mind that that review will not be let , will , is likely to take place at the most within the next five years ? |
| 2 | Of course , making an unauthorized copy of an Esperanto– English dictionary would infringe copyright , if only that subsisting in the typographical arrangement . |
| 3 | " No , I suppose not , " He was only half listening to the bookseller . |
| 4 | With old people , the physical condition has so much bearing on the mental state . |
| 5 | All this is said so nonchalantly , with so much gazing across the water and into the cloudy sky , that a spectator might be convinced we really did bump into each other in our lunch break . |
| 6 | There 's so much going for the self-contained freestanding format that we 've put our best designers to work on our range . |
| 7 | We 've got so much going through the big wire , put another little wire on as well . |
| 8 | As the duties were light and rapidly becoming merely nominal owing to the continued refusal of the war to start , Charles fetched Clarissa from her theatre nearly every night to take her dancing at one famous rendezvous or another . |
| 9 | The second major set of structures start from the late Palaeozoic ( though may also be much older ) and relate to the collisions and less obvious splitting along the line of the Mediterranean/Tethys . |
| 10 | Do n't you , do n't you find he 'd rat he 'd much happier sitting in the car ? |
| 11 | They are not necessarily all living at the same level on the shore . |
| 12 | In saying that an event c caused an event e , or that e was the effect of c , we typically have in mind but do not say that a set of things including c , but not necessarily all occurring at the same time , was required for e . |
| 13 | While it is relatively simple to establish moving water in the garden , it can be somewhat hazardous deciding upon the necessary equipment without a little background knowledge or the advice of a fellow gardener with a similar feature . |
| 14 | Only those acting at the second and third stages have been described in the present chapter , but the most important agents for small mammal bone accumulations are those operating at the first stage of taphonomic modification . |
| 15 | They could go into the chapel , and the Adam library , and the red drawing-room , and with a bit of luck they 'd be so busy looking at the Chippendale and the Hepplewhite they would n't notice the holes in the rugs . ’ |
| 16 | You 're sometimes so busy looking at the wood that you do n't smell the trees are rotten . ’ |
| 17 | I was so busy looking at the coach . |
| 18 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
| 19 | Now the director — like most people in East Germany — is so busy adapting to the transition to a market economy and to the West German Deutsch Mark than none of his undertakings has been honoured . |
| 20 | Reports in the Guardian and the International Herald Tribune of Feb. 23 claimed , however , that Saudi Arabia was eager to prevent Iraqi Shia Moslems based in Iran , especially those belonging to the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution of Iraq ( SAIRI ) under Ayatollah Mohammad Bakr al-Hakim , from gaining influence amongst Iraqis . |
| 21 | The movies , though , had been born into a far more complex and certainly a more highly politicized era than the earlier fictional forms and many familiar themes , especially those dealing with the problems of wealth or with sudden reversals of financial fortune , would have to be treated more sensitively . |
| 22 | Of the other contributors , some expressed outrage , some were more optimistic , but I believe that these views of Cornall , Lawton and Hewlett typically reflected professional concerns of curriculum developers and teachers , especially those grappling with the persistent problems of how to implant enlightened ideas into a traditional subject-based curriculum . |
| 23 | The rules for the cameras in committees are essentially the same as in the House , except that it is recognised that it is not possible to exclude shots showing the public , especially those sitting behind the witnesses in a select committee . |
| 24 | Many of the claims of the developing world , especially those relating to the establishment of a new international economic order , fall into the category of articulation of needs for economic development . |
| 25 | I had spent , and indeed continued to spend , many hours trying to persuade the blind to see , or in other words to convince rich men of the virtue of causes close to my own heart , especially those relating to the arts . |
| 26 | If the Minister had given those figures , would they not have shown — especially those relating to the number convicted of terrorist offences — that , over the past decade , there has been a consistent and significant decline in the number of people convicted ? |
| 27 | Senator David L. Boren , the committee 's chairman , said that the delay would give the panel time to examine the " flurry of allegations " concerning Gates , especially those relating to the Iran-contra affair . |
| 28 | Parker was famous for his Thursday lunchtime services designed for men , especially those working in the City , and among his guest speakers in 1877 was Gladstone . |
| 29 | At every stage in the development of the Minoan culture , the potters — and especially those working in the temple-precincts — were producing work to please their patrons . |
| 30 | We would be split into different groups , with perhaps ten sitting round the blackboard for one lesson and the others in another part of the room working at something else . |