Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The correct way to cut this type of joint is right through the two points where the sections of border intersect , although care must be exercised to avoid marking the main wallcovering where it would show . |
| 2 | Right through the postwar decades there has been a steady flow of labour from the rural to urban areas , from agricultural to non-agricultural occupations . |
| 3 | Evergreen winter foliage needs to stay looking fresh right through the darkest days and some variegated plants are better at this than others . |
| 4 | One simple injection , normally given in the autumn , can help to protect you right through the cold months when flu is most prevalent . |
| 5 | One simple injection , normally given in the autumn , can help to protect you right through the cold months when flu is most prevalent . |
| 6 | Thereafter , there is a steady decline of interest in science and this disillusionment extends right through the secondary-school years and into the undergraduate period . |
| 7 | Had he succeeded , Sartre would have established dialectical reason as successfully for the human sciences as Kant had established analytical reason for natural science . |
| 8 | She is also well known locally for the soft toys she makes for various charities . |
| 9 | The Da Toto is best known locally for the local dishes served in its good restaurant and Citalia guests will dine on three or four courses each evening of rustic , Tuscan specialities , with the added attraction of unlimited wine and mineral water included in the price . |
| 10 | No Bishop of Durham could ever forget , or was ever allowed to forget , how one of his predecessors Westcott mediated in a bitter strike ; how a vast crowd stood outside Auckland Castle , seeing the owners through the windows of one room and the miners through the windows of another , waiting for five hours as they watched the bishop go to and fro between the two rooms ; until he brought the parties to a happy agreement , and when he came out among the crowd he received an ovation . |
| 11 | He ran vigorously to and fro between the two kitchens . |
| 12 | Shortly after the English army 's murderous assault on Berwick , in 1296 , Bothwell fell into English hands and for the remainder of the Wars of Independence the castle passed to and fro between the opposing forces . |
| 13 | Soon after the match we were strolling companionably through the handsome streets of the town , past a striking collection of houses and shops built from the mellow , biscuit-coloured local stone . |
| 14 | Most of us , male and female , will find a place somewhere between the two ends of that continuum . |
| 15 | A seminar , for example , might come somewhere between the two poles . |
| 16 | Their lolloping sound occupies an area somewhere between The Mock Turtles and James , with David Ashmore 's husky vocal style uncomfortably close to that of Tim Booth . |
| 17 | The exhibition continues into twentieth-century painting with works of Futurism , the Cubist-Futurist Russians , American Cubism , Precisionism represented by Charles Demuth and Charles Sheeler and thence on through the various transformations that the art of this century has seen . |
| 18 | We wandered past the Delhi Gate and on through the crumbling streets of Old Delhi ; as we went , Pakeezah stared sadly around her . |
| 19 | Patronage did not die out with industrialization ; it lived on through the honorific offices of county clubs and national bodies . |
| 20 | The picture speaks for itself , on through the 29 generations . |
| 21 | He urged them on through the mounting waves until they too reached the Rebecca , and he was able to ram one hole , fill it with pitch , then another , and another , round the hull beneath the overhang of the bows , in a rain of missiles , with fire sizzling around him , and his fellow fighters hanging on , hoping for the moment when the timbers would be ablaze . |
| 22 | A panel composed of more than 100 friends of the Caroline Walker Trust casts it net widely for the annual nominations . |
| 23 | The name Snaith is thought to mean ‘ enclosed by water ’ and the area is known locally as the Three Rivers area . |
| 24 | 1982 ) , monogamous males might be expected to compete as intensely for the best mates or territories as do polygynous males for the biggest harems . |
| 25 | Yet his mood mellowed a little during the actual meetings . |
| 26 | Boyd Orr 's malnourished population was drawn almost entirely from this section of the working class and it was their lives which changed little during the inter-war years as Carl Chinn , and other writers have noted . |
| 27 | ‘ Anyway , ’ said Lydia , sitting up , ‘ it was Beuno who went on about the golden emerods . ’ |
| 28 | Most letters asked for autographs or photographs , some complained of or praised a person interviewed or view expressed , and there was always a sprinkling of old dears short of correspondents who rambled on about the old days . |
| 29 | The first lecture I gave I was going on about the different approaches to psychology . |
| 30 | ‘ I was going on about the relative merits of casseroling and roasting . |