Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having started the match eight points down from the first leg , Hemel spent the first half apparently doing everything they could to double the deficit . |
| 2 | I look forward especially to a future opportunity to develop his views on the desirability of keeping national insurance contributions as low as possible and of working out exactly how that fits in with the policies of some of his right hon. and hon. Friends , but that is for another occasion , Madam Deputy Speaker . |
| 3 | Tufnell bowls , quickly , flatter , and that whistles through outside the off stump , ooh , groans and shouts of disappointment all around the wicket there , echoed by Victor Marks , yeah , yeah in the box . |
| 4 | All round , an interesting tool , that sits comfortably in the hand , is kind to the elbow , and does n't cost an arm and a leg . |
| 5 | That sits oddly with the fact that the board was reconstituted as recently as May 1990 and has been rationalised , streamlined and reinvigorated since that date . |
| 6 | Orwell 's socialism would reflect the democratic virtues characteristic of the English working class — ‘ the genuinely popular culture … that goes on beneath the surface , unofficially and more or less frowned on by the authorities . ’ |
| 7 | What do , in terms of erm , terms of prostitution , is that act , is that , does that bother you or are you not bo bothered really about the fact that that goes on in the area ? |
| 8 | And most of that goes on in the daytime |
| 9 | And that goes back to the early days of silage . |
| 10 | ‘ That goes out of the window when you become an outlaw . |
| 11 | I think that covers most of the items in the agreement , erm , with some identification of new work that needs to be done during the year , but recognizing that during the course of the year , we have succeeded in following the main points from the agreement that was , was put forward er , I think , it was December this time last year . |
| 12 | Now , Julie has a modern kitchen that 's been carefully designed to make good use of all the available space , and that blends in with the style of the rest of the house . |
| 13 | Yes , I spoke to Mo Magill , he 'll see us tomorrow morning , we 'll fly up on the shuttle , I do n't know what we 'll get , but … and I 've got a line into St Louis : there 's a thing called the Western Manuscripts collection at UMSL — ghastly word , but they use it themselves , it means University of Missouri-St Louis — that latches on to the papers of operations like CCOAC , and they 've got them . |
| 14 | That stands away from the wall . |
| 15 | That owes much to the long prosperity of California 's economy and its ( until now ) robust property market . |
| 16 | that one there that 's advertised on telly , that looks all round the |
| 17 | The responsibility for that lies not with the west , but with the CIS itself . |
| 18 | I left the motorway system east of the centre of Birmingham and , with my map of the area open beside me , headed into the grey and depressing urban blight that lies to the south of the city or , rather , that lies all around the city . |
| 19 | Each owes much to the other , but one will be the more popular . |
| 20 | To my mind none of the evidence , general or specific adds much to the inherent probability that men and women of a certain age will be inclined by nature to favour the status quo . |
| 21 | The second axillary articulates partly with the preceding sclerite and , as a rule , partly with the base of the radius ( see p. 60 ) . |
| 22 | This fits well with the pain-avoiding hedonistic and utilitarian elements of modern consumerism . |
| 23 | This fits in with the general tendency among much of the elite population in Shetland ( and Dunrossness ) to avoid raising ‘ issues ’ ( this has obviously happy consequences for those who are benefitting most from oil-related developments ) . |
| 24 | This fits in with the traditionally tight control that local authority finance directors like to keep . |
| 25 | 250 They 've become accustomed What they 're forgetting is that this fits in with the stated local plan and with original proposals set out in 1989 which is n't so long ago but people tend to forget that sort of thing 328 |
| 26 | This sits easily with the view summarised earlier that there are " facts " in the world , recorded in various ways , and the task of research is to gather the appropriate ones in light of the resources and circumstances affecting the particular research project . |
| 27 | This allies closely with the contemporary conception of the professions as among the most stable elements in society ; A. M. Carr-Saunders and P.A. Wilson ( The Professions ( 1933 ) ) consider that the professions |
| 28 | If this turns out to the case the great wheel of horticulture really will have turned full circle . |
| 29 | And study after study comes up , even in this brave new world , about the fact that only eight per cent or so of the child care is actually done by men , and this goes right across the classes . |
| 30 | These are not paintings employing the wonderful accidental effects of free watercolour washes that so many artists adopt , though most of this goes on with the underneath base washes . |