Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] the [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been there so long , had been so doubtful — and , until recently , so indifferent — about seeing the outside again that the mention of discharge took him by surprise . |
| 2 | Reportedly there were long discussions over the wisdom of fusing the two together . |
| 3 | Originally the Wabi and Public Windows Interface announcement were to be made separately , with Public Windows Interface slated for May 19 , and there were said to have been long discussions over the wisdom of fusing the two together . |
| 4 | He feels that in trying to get more people to believe with the increasing trend towards atheism , has neglected its traditional duties of helping the poor etcetera . |
| 5 | Climbers are often confused with ramblers , which is perhaps not altogether surprising in view of their similarities , and is not helped by the practice in many nursery catalogues and garden centres of grouping the two together . |
| 6 | Instead of locating the other elsewhere in the transgressive writing of literature or madness , Foucault himself becomes plato 's banished poet , and enacts in his language a supplementary simulacrum of the delirium of history . |
| 7 | The prospect of having the British here for another twenty years ! |
| 8 | Could I , what , what is not , touched on in the notes , but is , I I think the other side of the coin is that , if justice means treating people fairly , this is on the basis of treating the accused fairly . |
| 9 | Rule-based methods offer some method of combining the two together — the grammar is able to provide information to the semantic analysis . |
| 10 | Diners used either a fork or a knife to eat their food until the idea of putting the two together was imported from Italy in 1608 . |
| 11 | John Smith , once everyone 's favourite , looks like assuming the same well worn cloak . |
| 12 | I 'd like to see what hard nosed er B A I E people would make of it you know people who are making a living from doing the same well you know when I employ somebody coming into the business this is what I want them to be able to do um this has always been of course an a criticism |
| 13 | The major drawback for all immigrant firms has been the difficulty in recruiting the few highly skilled key workers essential to production . |
| 14 | He stopped outside the bar and rang his bell vigorously before reading the six o'clock news from his board . |
| 15 | The Fono was dissolved in February 1991 and a general election was held on April 5 , some weeks later than had originally been scheduled because of the difficulties involved in registering the 80,000 newly enfranchised electors . |
| 16 | There is also a library of functions for record display and for implementing the necessary highly interactive user-system dialogue . |
| 17 | Barbara has won countless glamorous grandmother contests since becoming the first ever winner of the Widnes title in 1977 . |
| 18 | Barbara has won countless Glamorous Grandmother contests since becoming the first ever winner of the Widnes title in 1977 . |
| 19 | They were used to taking the young seriously , and they were right , I see now : everyone has to begin somewhere . |
| 20 | If he can serve one without hurting the other too much , what the harm ? ’ |
| 21 | Seve 's drive was 50 yards from the front of the green and about 40 yards from the middle of the Open course fairway , but he was on the right side — do n't forget all his careful planning on studying the rough beforehand — which means he 's now coming back into the wind . |
| 22 | ‘ 6(1) A person appropriating property belonging to another without meaning the other permanently to lose the thing itself is nevertheless to be regarded as having the intention of permanently depriving the other of it if his intention is to treat the thing as his own to dispose of regardless of the other 's rights ; and a borrowing or lending of it may amount to so treating it if , but only if , the borrowing or lending is for a period and in circumstances making it equivalent to an outright taking or disposal . |
| 23 | The concept is explained in s.6(1) : A person appropriating property belonging to another without meaning the other permanently to lose the thing itself is nevertheless to be regarded as having the intention of permanently depriving the other of it if his intention is to treat the thing as his own to dispose of regardless of the other 's rights ; and a borrowing or lending of it may amount to so treating it if , but only if , the borrowing or lending is for a period and in circumstances making it equivalent to an outright taking or disposal . |
| 24 | Only in cases where it is not clear whether or not there is an intention permanently to deprive where the accused acts " without meaning the other permanently to lose the thing " need one look at s.6 . |
| 25 | he sat up last night , he sat up last night we was gon na watch the ten o'clock movie on telly with me . |
| 26 | And I mean , I wan na change the ten o'clock opening , it 's bloody silly is that ! |
| 27 | Shuffle then cos we 're gon na get the same again . |
| 28 | For Christmas Eve I 'm gon na get the old fucking out |
| 29 | It was apparently difficult to see if Ruffini 's proof was complete and despite a further attempt by him at the problem , in 1813 , the credit for supplying the first generally accepted proof of impossibility goes to Abel ( pronounced " Arbel " ) in 1824 . |
| 30 | ‘ It would be difficult to invent a more complicated system for taxing the self-employed even if one set out with that very objective , ’ Mr Lamont said . |