Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bannen tried to take his son 's hand , but his fingers passed right through the simularity field . |
| 2 | With a dado rail you would hang all of one type first , but we did n't do this as we needed both pieces wet so we could cut right through the overlap point with a sharp knife and remove both pieces of waste to leave a perfect butt joint . |
| 3 | ‘ There is a solid look right through the Portadown team and they have good back-up as well if players are injured or suspended . ’ |
| 4 | The agouti , a long-legged rodent that forages nervously on the forest floor , has chisel-sharp front teeth that can cut right through the Brazil nut shell and extract the rich kernel . |
| 5 | Relatively recently , feminist scholars , now drawn closer through common experience to an older generation many of whose values they had challenged , have extended their concerns and pushed forward a more subtle questioning of women 's experience of ageing and how it might differ from men 's as a result of inequalities right through the life cycle . |
| 6 | In the past , death struck right through the life cycle . |
| 7 | His red beard has grown very long , right through the stone table ; when it has encircled the table three times it will be the time of awakening . |
| 8 | In particular , eruptions vary in size ; some , but not all , penetrate right through the boundary layer and contribute to the intermittency at its outer edge . |
| 9 | I knocked on it but it was so dilapidated that I could see right through the door frame and into a large room where a man was sitting in a kitchen chair , dressed in trousers and vest . |
| 10 | ‘ We went right through the town centre and all the people doing their Saturday shopping stood and clapped and shouted messages of support as we went by . ’ |
| 11 | This year 's battle of the budget is generating more anguish than any for years , John Major 's cabinet now realize what a parliamentary mess December might turn into with week-long debates on both the Queen 's speech and the budget to pack in , and worse to come in the spring , a budget combining taxes with public spending seemed a good idea at the time Norman Lamont announced it , but with November the thirtieth just a month away the political down-side is appearing , of course with a fifty billion pound deficit in the Government 's accounts this years spending round would have been hard pounding anyhow , but the usual noisy haggle over the available cash among departments is now amplified by posses of Tory backbenchers trying to head off this or that tax increase , and there 's an incentive to keep that up right through the finance bill after Christmas , since most new taxes would not come in until April . |
| 12 | It looks like they 're going to announce it by stealth , one pit at a time and take it right through the review procedure at three month stages . |
| 13 | But it projected enthusiasm , delight and knowledge right through the television screen and it made Peter within a few months well-known to millions of people who had never imagined that they had any interest in natural history . |
| 14 | In the presence of a few hundred Masai , the young warrior hurled his spear right through the district officer 's heart . |
| 15 | Among the many tours available , the Ghost Walk of York will take you on a quite literally ‘ haunting ’ tour , while a river tour along the Ouse takes you right through the city centre . |
| 16 | He guessed that somewhere aboard the survey vessel a meeting was in progress to determine whether or not the quarantine regulations were to be obeyed , and whether that adherence meant that he ought to be abandoned . |
| 17 | We have pushed successfully for an EC ban on large-scale drift nets that threatened dolphins , and we support the UN resolution calling for a moratorium on their use . |
| 18 | It is worth saying that this Bill has nothing to do with privatisation or the Rothschild report ; it will give the tools to British Coal so that it can compete successfully for the coal contract post-April 1993 . |
| 19 | And somewhere through the hotel muzak lurks the sensation that things used to be different , that we ( my brother and I ) had n't always been wrapped in jumpers , silent , staring at the screen , that the days used to be hot and long . |
| 20 | INCREDIBLY for a railway system that has served the nation for more than 150 years there is still a considerable amount of history either still serving or extant . |
| 21 | I qualified in 1979 and have worked as a social worker and latterly as a team manager in various London boroughs . |
| 22 | Which seemed to imply that Balliol had crossed the Fintry and Campsie Fells and was still heading southwards , presumably for the Clyde valley . |
| 23 | Her face was a tragic mask , that of a woman who has sent all her sons to a war and waits hourly for the death telegram . |
| 24 | Several commercial pantographs are available , mostly for the BBC Micro , and some are even offered in kit form for the adventurous to build for themselves . |
| 25 | Trade unions were already suffering , and the implementation of the decision to return to the gold standard augured badly for the staple export industries . |
| 26 | Programmes were long over , but the white screen with the volume down served not badly as a night light ; any of the lamps in the shoebox room kept Sam awake , and total darkness made him frightened . |
| 27 | I rummage furiously for a freebie hotel mini-shampoo bottle with a screw-on lid the size of a marble . |
| 28 | They were heavily barred and on wheels , somewhere between a luggage trolley and a circus sideshow . |
| 29 | In the afternoons there was little to see other than the skateboarders who came to clatter back and forth in the bowl-shaped space under the Festival Hall , making a sound that was somewhere between a roller derby and a kendo match ; but as evening came on , bags and boxes would start to appear in the best-lighted spots under the concrete . |
| 30 | The the Weber parts for the Weber clarinet conc concertino are somewhere between the music library in Nottingham and the library here and should reach me a week tomorrow . |