Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | That stands away from the wall . |
| 5 | That owes much to the long prosperity of California 's economy and its ( until now ) robust property market . |
| 6 | that one there that 's advertised on telly , that looks all round the |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Each owes much to the other , but one will be the more popular . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The second axillary articulates partly with the preceding sclerite and , as a rule , partly with the base of the radius ( see p. 60 ) . |
| 11 | This fits well with the pain-avoiding hedonistic and utilitarian elements of modern consumerism . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This goes well beyond the past practice of small-scale fundraising through ‘ raffles or fairs ’ . |
| 16 | This goes well with the new corporate dynamism at Peterborough . |
| 17 | This plays totally into the hands of the negative forces . |
| 18 | This veers dangerously towards the old method of ‘ paid ’ support acts . |
| 19 | This refers primarily to the provision of services under Part III of the Act as discussed in Chapter 2 . |
| 20 | Mainstream elitism is now represented by writers such as Keller and Aron , as we discussed earlier ; this refers mainly to the interactions and functions of ruling and strategic elites , and though it differs in emphasis from earlier writings , these writers appear to have normative assumptions not radically removed from those of the classical elite theorists . |
| 21 | ‘ This refers specifically to the assumed facility of a wholesaler to order in bulk , and to be able to recycle and place previously purchased stock so as to minimise returns . |
| 22 | This differs radically from the popular image of penetrating falsehood by perception of the liar . |
| 23 | This differs considerably from the version found in the theatre score . |
| 24 | Second , we have already noted that the adjective is questioned with the word how ? , generally related to adverbial elements , rather than the which ? that is used for attributives , and this agrees well with the structure of ( 16 ) , where the adjective property qualifies a verbal structure , not a nominal one ( i.e. a structure centred on a property , not an entity ) . |
| 25 | This points strongly to the decreasing profitability of upland sheep farming in that the labour and machinery costs of maintaining the drainage system can not be justified against the potential income from the land . |
| 26 | Not quite , but this looks suspiciously like the death throes . |
| 27 | Not quite , but this looks suspiciously like the death throes . |
| 28 | This looks more like The Lord of the Rings , where many of the characters — Éomer , Faramir , Aragorn again — are very much of the stamp of old Siward or Coriolanus or other Shakespearean heroes . |
| 29 | This looks very like the rerun of a scenario first enacted in the early years of this century , when two unknown expatriate American poets attacked a torpid English literary establishment in the name of nascent modernism , looking to France for their intellectual inspiration and their models of literary achievement . |
| 30 | However , landscapes can now be seen in a variety of ways , in pictures , from the air , and in maps ( Johnson and Pitzl , 1981 ) and this adds further to the list of problems yet to be solved in Lowenthal 's ( 1978 ) excellent essay on finding valued landscapes which include varieties of taste , the effect of social milieu , the distinction between landscape and place , differences between public and professional preferences , whether tastes are innate or learnt , the effect of literary and historical factors , season , time of day , viewpoint chosen and direction of view , novelty and familiarity , distance and memory lending enchantment , personal sensitivity and intensity of feelings , and the effect of experience and training . |