Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The correct way to cut this type of joint is right through the two points where the sections of border intersect , although care must be exercised to avoid marking the main wallcovering where it would show . |
2 | No Bishop of Durham could ever forget , or was ever allowed to forget , how one of his predecessors Westcott mediated in a bitter strike ; how a vast crowd stood outside Auckland Castle , seeing the owners through the windows of one room and the miners through the windows of another , waiting for five hours as they watched the bishop go to and fro between the two rooms ; until he brought the parties to a happy agreement , and when he came out among the crowd he received an ovation . |
3 | He ran vigorously to and fro between the two kitchens . |
4 | Most of us , male and female , will find a place somewhere between the two ends of that continuum . |
5 | A seminar , for example , might come somewhere between the two poles . |
6 | The name Snaith is thought to mean ‘ enclosed by water ’ and the area is known locally as the Three Rivers area . |
7 | Straw burning will be outlawed altogether after the 1992 harvest . |
8 | In fact there were only four , but that looked quite enough for the two dare-devils who 'd volunteered to take part . |
9 | The reactions of Lev Tolstoy , who sympathized with Tocqueville 's admiration of paternalism in the French countryside , and Chicherin , who admired the French centralization which Tocqueville found distasteful , said much about the two men 's very different attitudes towards the quandary in which Russia found herself , but turned on the second rather than the third part of Tocqueville 's study . |
10 | At the initial planning stage there is probably no need to worry too much about the three attainment targets . |
11 | Premier League chief Rick Parry has been invited but it is only for the 14 clubs . |
12 | There are many differences between these two bodies , but a detailed comparative study could be useful not only for the two areas involved but also for the southern European countries about to join the EEC . |
13 | ‘ It 's only for the one night . ’ |
14 | See even if it 's only for the three days |
15 | Why could n't she slide out of herself and be someone else , if only for the ten seconds it would take to push open the door of the hotel and step across the threshold ? |
16 | She swung the boot cover up and reached inside for the two carrier bags of supplies . |
17 | Yesterday Michael Fallon , Tory candidate for Darlington , said : ‘ All through the Eighties businesses flourished under a Conservative Government . |
18 | Thus in the polymerase chain reaction DNA is essentially copied only between the two primers . |
19 | The dualist position , as we saw in Chapter I , distinguishes only between the two levels of " expression " and " content " . |
20 | We also recognise so to are the workers of County Councils , and District Councils , particularly because the er the government initiatives , one good point to V A T on fuel , and the increasing in in National Insurance Contributions and increases in taxation , so between the two sides has got to be some accommodation , bearing in mind the need for both of us to want to continue to deliver quality services . |
21 | ‘ County ’ men were transferred around at short intervals , while we were static in the city , never moving more than a mile or so between the three divisions to undertake real ‘ city work ’ . |
22 | If anyone have seen pictures from our game against Poland he came on as a substitute for Fjortoft as lone attacker — and he played brilliantly for the 20 minutes he was on . |
23 | Leaving the Lobkovic Palace , walk on down the hill to the American Embassy ( 15/365 ) formerly the Schönborn Palace ( 15/365 ) whose original owners , the Colloredo , were important militarily during the Thirty Years ' War . |
24 | There had been presents and people who had not bothered with her much during the ten years she had worked there became friendly . |
25 | They were alternated daily between the two terminals . |
26 | It is n't a question Chairman but it 's easy to ask as it seems , we you said a ten year , but what about a thirty service of deferred pension , that could be an entirely different situation , because that is inflation put under the Post Office and B T ones it 's inflation proofed every year , so for the ten years , if he 's if he 's got another ten years before he draws his pension at sixty , he would have that er deferred pension inflation proofed every year . |
27 | His fortunes , internationally and domestically , as player and captain , seesawed alarmingly during the 1991–92 season . |
28 | These emerge below as the two polarization states of eqn ( 10.11 ) . |
29 | Shamanism , he explained patiently for the three idiot Brits , was a primitive practice of self-denial so that one could travel in the land of the dead and return unscathed . |
30 | They gained direct political influence only after the 1956 election , eight years after independence . |