Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Americans have invaded , and are rounding up both the rebels and governmental forces . ’ |
| 2 | At the moment unc or ⅓ of the building is lit up , so if half of these are turned off then the problem really amounts to working out ½ of ⅓ |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't you think , ’ he said , ‘ you 're reacting in just the way she wants ? ’ |
| 4 | However , there are countervailing pressures since , at the same time , broader educational needs are pulling in exactly the opposite direction and require teachers to operate in the extended dimension in many ways . |
| 5 | ‘ Different sizes , one heavier than the other , and yet they are going round exactly the same path in the same time . |
| 6 | He thinks of that great opening shot in Le Métro and he realizes that her lips are moving in exactly the same way , her face pained as he does his practised best . |
| 7 | Evidence of my identity — why I , presumably an Englishman , since my relative is , should independently choose to visit Vienna at the same time — a time , incidentally , when most people with any sense are travelling in precisely the opposite direction … |
| 8 | A credit for interest owed would not normally have been set up so the interest would be debited to the nominal account shown , which will then merely be transferred into the revenue account : |
| 9 | Though from a much more comfortable background than Burton , Dylan Thomas had been brought up just the other side of Swansea Bay , a few years older than the man who would become his greatest reader . |
| 10 | To activate the stylus it must be pressed down so the microswitch in the tip makes contact , the on-screen cursor now follows the motions of the stylus round the grid . |
| 11 | Flaps conceal hiding places — obvious and not so obvious — and a detachable child 's figure can be moved around so the game can be played over and over . |
| 12 | I think it 's the nearest we 'll get to it , and it 's in the White Paper and it can be used in exactly the sense that I gather you would like it to be used , in the discussions we have on the results of the scrutiny , and that would be the starting point there . |
| 13 | Other Commissariats were accused of holding on to rolling-stock that should be handed back now the war was over . |
| 14 | The special cards are expected to be phased out once the long-anticipated economic reforms begin . |
| 15 | One of the unsatisfactory features of employment law over the past couple of decades has been the rule that a wrongful dismissal claim must be brought in either the County Court or the High Court . |
| 16 | Unlike Wang , which has effectively withdrawn from systems manufacturing and is little more than a reseller for the IBM line , Bull will be taking up both the manufacturing and design rights it negotiated with IBM back in February ( UX No 370 ) . |
| 17 | On the other hand , massed fire from several cannons can be devastating on even the largest enemy units . |
| 18 | On the first mission , tracking stations have to be knocked out so the human convoy can pass undetected . |
| 19 | The Bike Sub-Committee was still being urged to proceed , yet a month later the subject was adjourned , only to be urged on again the month following — ‘ so long as it had a corrugated iron roof ’ , presumably a financial stringency to keep the cost down to £15 . |
| 20 | I mean bearing in mind that all the resources were broken down presumably the were separate gangs we could n't really make |
| 21 | When baking a cake , manufacturers of cake-mixes were told , women were acting out symbolically the birth of a child ( not for nothing was the vulgar phrase for pregnancy a ‘ bun in the oven ’ ) . |
| 22 | If you force people to choose between a family and a job I suppose , you know , women lots of women choose the family erm the only way women will achieve more educationally is to be able to combine the two things and not always have to make these crippling decisions and choices between two things which most human beings want , so there is a lot of money being spent on research into sex inequality and so on , and that 's encouraging , but I think it 's being spent in slightly the wrong way and I think there 's a tendency to evade the crucial issues which are , of course , rather deep social issues about the organization of the family and work and they take a lot of changing , so I am ambivalent about that one . |
| 23 | Our results suggest that our subjects were thinking in precisely the opposite way ( at least on their second repetition ) . |
| 24 | However , the flames were near the petrol tank and the fishing vessel was in danger of being blown up so the skipper had to give the order to abandon ship . |
| 25 | Operations at Hides were shut down immediately the earthquake struck . |
| 26 | I see Scribners is bringing out both the novels , and has a sizeable publicity campaign on the stocks . |
| 27 | The point of s 2(3) is to spell out clearly the restrictions on the operation of the doctrine . |
| 28 | The sooner this is sorted out then the sooner we can go our separate ways . ’ |
| 29 | The role of books such as this and instructors beyond a basic level is to set out clearly the aims for learning . |
| 30 | If a faculty , or department , or a certain special group of students is missed out then the sample itself has not been drawn from the correct population . |