Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [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 Why do n't you take the car and drive off somewhere for a few days ?
11 Indeed , after our second stop in Bombay a few passengers gratefully chose the option of being one-armed , one-legged , one-eyed , two-headed beggars rather than having to return to their seatettes and fly somewhere for a few months with their hands on their heads .
12 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 .
13 He ran vigorously to and fro between the two kitchens .
14 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 .
15 Placing her thumb in her mouth , she sucked on it furiously for a few seconds before settling down once more into a deep sleep .
16 She struggled furiously for a few seconds but her former strength was lost to her .
17 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 .
18 Most of us , male and female , will find a place somewhere between the two ends of that continuum .
19 A seminar , for example , might come somewhere between the two poles .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 We wandered past the Delhi Gate and on through the crumbling streets of Old Delhi ; as we went , Pakeezah stared sadly around her .
23 Patronage did not die out with industrialization ; it lived on through the honorific offices of county clubs and national bodies .
24 The picture speaks for itself , on through the 29 generations .
25 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 .
26 A panel composed of more than 100 friends of the Caroline Walker Trust casts it net widely for the annual nominations .
27 The name Snaith is thought to mean ‘ enclosed by water ’ and the area is known locally as the Three Rivers area .
28 1982 ) , monogamous males might be expected to compete as intensely for the best mates or territories as do polygynous males for the biggest harems .
29 Yet his mood mellowed a little during the actual meetings .
30 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 .
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