Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the established set-up survives the pressures for change then the established constitutional theory will be of use as a rough guide to political and governmental practice , but if that set-up " breaks " then the established theories will be left beached . |
| 2 | He says it ended up as bacon just the same . |
| 3 | Jackson lived up to Christie 's description of him as ‘ pound for pound perhaps the best athlete in the world ’ as he scorched to victory in the Heysel Stadium in 12.99 secs the seventh fastest of all-time . |
| 4 | For self-defence therefore the sworn foresters were allowed to carry bows and arrows in the forest . |
| 5 | It certainly erm , sent a shock of horror though the whole country , |
| 6 | Of course even the best power carving system is only as good as its edge . |
| 7 | Now consider the other half of the T-type m-derived section shown in figure 9.11(b) , which is of course just the same network as the first half already considered and shown in figure 9.11(a) but with the input and output terminals interchanged . |
| 8 | Existentialism is of course neither the only nor necessarily the best framework in which to locate suffering . |
| 9 | But beat duty was of course not the only punitive experience for the rank-and-file policeman . |
| 10 | He was of course not the only one : the idea of a nation roused to righteous anger and determined to crush Nazism in the most resolute manner , applied — and then chiefly because of the fire and resolution of one man , Churchill — not to that period but to a year later . |
| 11 | Stirling appears to have told someone in R.A.F. Ops. about it , but of course not the right man . |
| 12 | We then perform the iteration , omitting the first element of ( 4 ) : unc The numbers produced in this way reproduced exactly those of the last three elements in the columns of Table 1 , as well as the dividing factors ; they are of course exactly the same calculations , but with the matrices associated differently . |
| 13 | The new sounds in the target language , and of course especially the difficult ones , cause the most obvious pronunciation problems in language learning . |
| 14 | Cost is not of course necessarily the major consideration ; none of the people the project sustained to six months or one year wanted to be anywhere else but at home . |
| 15 | he said in spite of the fact that I 've been in parliament for longer than he has , which surprised me cos I would n't have thought so this is the young Winston Churchill of course so the Chinese man said to him erm oh well the reason for that was that he had a famous grandfather |
| 16 | They 've got very low conducting 's the opposite of resistance so the good conductors |
| 17 | A graded bed represents a pulse of sedimentation whenever the critical concentration is attained . |
| 18 | A somewhat different tone began to emerge relatively quickly , particularly in an address that Gorbachev gave to British members of parliament later the same month . |
| 19 | I was actually astonished to find Mill making exactly this argument against another proposal in erm a later chapter because he considers a possibility and some people have put forward the view apparently , I have n't heard of this , erm in the version that Mill discusses , that the two stage action where we vote for people who then go to vote for the members of parliament so the individual people do n't vote directly for members of parliament but they vote for people who then have elections an election among themselves . |
| 20 | Nineteenth-century medicine debated ovulation and menstruation , its imagination captured by a view of conception wherein the female role was passive and automatic , rather than active and triggered by sexual pleasure . |
| 21 | For many seminary-trained churchmen this was a radical change in both direction and spirit after some eighty years of official censures and directives , which too often saw a danger of heresy whenever the human part in the dialogue of revelation and the development of doctrine were explored . |
| 22 | Now , what we 've got here is a lump of wood roughly the same shape trying to be a cricket bat , and if you hit a ball with it , the ball will travel about ten feet and you will drop the bat and dance about shouting ‘ Ouch ! ’ with your hands stuck into your armpits . |
| 23 | The principle of ‘ rolling readjustment ’ is simply one of adjustment whereby the actual amount spent by an authority is checked a number of times in the course of the year against the claim made by the authority and its funding amended accordingly . |
| 24 | If the Moon also lost most of its craters from the final stages of formation then the apparent failure on Mercury of post-formation bombardment to saturate the intercrater plains may seem to indicate that Mercury was exposed to a less numerous population of small bodies than the Moon . |
| 25 | My own experience , on the rare occasions when I have actually been asked to produce a short story with my mind totally blank , is that one can tune oneself like the strings of a wind-harp by admitting to one 's mind the desire to write a story and that in that state of receptivity even the oddest , most trivial circumstances will produce a basic idea . |
| 26 | ‘ Ours was the kind of business where the major assets walked out of the door each evening and went home . |
| 27 | But I think er the old standards are so good and so strong you know we still get the odd good one coming out but the old ones were so good and so strong that even re-recorded with er even with the more modern I suppose er bit of arrangement still the great sounds from the . |
| 28 | The thrust of the ensuing analysis will be the attempt to disclose the process of mediation whereby the political and ideological history of a given period is produced and reproduced in three consecutive texts . |
| 29 | John Simon found Dustin ‘ always endearing with that sour-grapefruit face and voice of his , both of which , paradoxically , ooze the juice of human kindness ’ , while David Thomson thought that Dustin ‘ was near his best , managing old age easily and riding the picaresque adventures of a put-upon outcast all the better because of his own denial of starriness . |
| 30 | Such as the attack which they mounted from the countryside of the city of Chang Sha which is also in this er in the same sort of area where the old er where the Communist Party had had its main strength . |