Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the trick of course is to buy at the cheapest price or sell at the most expensive . |
| 2 | But like many articulate and intelligent people , even those trained to search out the hidden structures of literature , even those who have been moved by great art or fascinated by the most remote biographical details from the lives of writers ( such as the information that Ibsen on occasion wrote with a scorpion in a jar on his desk ) , he nonetheless had little or no access to the springs of his own emotions . |
| 3 | The second meaning of the word ‘ impetus ’ should be applied to the actual performance of any step or pose in the purely technical sense . |
| 4 | Otherness is not so much something to be frightened of , a threat to the stability of the self , as something that can be added to or incorporated into the already existing . |
| 5 | Can you imagine opening a daily newspaper , and finding that on every page , there was the same message from God ; or can you imagine watching breakfast TV — or listening to the Today programme — and finding that every feature was a message from God , with different emphases , but always the same message . |
| 6 | In contemporary times , the cultural field of these symbol-producing middle classes undergoes such expansion , such ‘ mass-ification ’ , that it begins to engulf or implode into the more general social field itself . |
| 7 | More positively , we discover how problems that result from the shrinking of family ties to what we call the ‘ nuclear family ’ are alleviated or avoided in the more flexible kinship arrangements of many tribal peoples . |
| 8 | If she ran away from Julius every time the conversation touched on the past or got in the least personal , then he was going to start to think he could still get to her . |
| 9 | He slept a lot of the time , either in bed or sprawled in the most comfortable chair in the kitchen and snoring loudly with his mouth open . |
| 10 | They conclude : They also suggest , following Gelles and Cornell ( 1985 ) , that child abuse is not a manifestation of something qualitatively different , or resulting from the fundamentally abnormal , but that parents and families are simply experiencing the same problems as others but to a greater degree . |
| 11 | This assignment involved practising each shape chromatically up and down the entire fretboard so as to build confidence and technique in every position , starting on the highest note descending or starting on the lowest note ascending in each key . |
| 12 | Nearly all prisoners were out of their cells , either employed in the workshops ( see later ) or standing around talking or exercising on the sparsely grassed areas between the barracks . |
| 13 | Should she cling to the rippling muscles of her bronzed young hunk , Dreamboy David , or turn to the more mature , devilishly witty charms of London window cleaner Barry Hunter ? |
| 14 | Like all good selectors , they had not been swayed or influenced by the most recent of events and clearly stuck to a game plan which may well have been devised before the 1992–93 season even commenced . |
| 15 | At one level this is what happens when we refine our perception of concepts such as ‘ insects ’ ( from which everything small that creeps or crawls to the more precise ‘ creatures with six legs and bodies consisting of three elements : body , thorax , and head ’ ) or ‘ the Victorian age ’ , or ‘ freedom ’ . |
| 16 | It has a leisurely , turn-of-the-century ambience , in which strolling in the many green parks , sitting in one of the string of cafés along the Paseo de Pereda , or shopping in the strikingly smart shops a few streets back , are the best ways to spend the day . |
| 17 | It is this attempt by Fabians and New Liberals to conjoin ethical and evolutionary considerations that led to the most sustained criticism of their theories . |
| 18 | She speaks with an almost childlike directness that wins over the most sceptical audience . |
| 19 | Formal care is that provided by the mainly statutory services , but also by private agencies . |
| 20 | There was something about the elegant fist-fighting , swearing , tough little New York-born Italian son-of-a-gun that appealed to the ever-so-ever-so English son of a knight . |
| 21 | We have had a good year , barring accidents , and although the summer weather was disastrous we have been more than compensated by the most beautiful Autumn ever . |
| 22 | Such progress exemplifies the way in which a physical geographer can contribute by deriving a world pattern that depends upon the most recently reviewed methods for assessing sediment yield and presenting it in a form that is pertinent to applications in a wide range of disciplines . |
| 23 | Yes , that came into the again . |
| 24 | As a matter of fact , all the playing that I do , the fingering and the fast stuff that I try to do , does n't turn me on half as much as the accidental feedbacks and things that happen with the more experimental side of my guitar playing . |
| 25 | What is easier than to look at the most conspicuous item in the marketing budget and one which is largely the concern of an outside supplier , at that ? |
| 26 | Unfortunately , this weighty tome does not go nearly far enough into this fascinating world of the interrelationships that ants have with the plants and other animals in their day-to-day business of running the world : Rather , we have a specialised symposium that concentrates on the largely negative aspects of viewing some of the world 's most fascinating species only as anthropogenic pests . |
| 27 | Rather than moving towards the much vaunted Japanese way of doing things , America is moving in the opposite direction . |
| 28 | It was the acquittal of the four policemen who beat Rodney King that touched off the most lethal urban riot in American history ( 50 dead , the majority of them black and Latino ) , but the memory of the killing of Latasha Harlins was as potent a spark in igniting the intifada . |
| 29 | This finality makes it proper to regard death as the most serious harm that may be inflicted on another , and to regard a person who chooses to inflict that harm as the most culpable of offenders , in the absence of some excuse or justification . |
| 30 | A report of the Institutional Shareholders ' Committee in April 1992 noted that ‘ most companies do no more than comply with the very limited disclosure requirements of SSAP 13 and some do not even do that . |