Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the traditions and conventions of scepticism and proper doubt sit uneasily with the current politics of commitment and conviction , whether of the left or the right . |
| 2 | The businessmen brought in to run the Councils have been frustrated by the tight operating and financial practices imposed by the Department of Employment Such practices sit uneasily alongside the entrepreneurial freedom that business leaders are used to ( see Guardian , 23 March 1990 ) . |
| 3 | The division between open and closed villages was not always as clear-cut as this may imply — many villages lay somewhere between the two — and it was less extensive in the upland areas where less labour was employed and more workers ‘ lived in ’ on the farms . |
| 4 | It was startling to discover that a race which was identifiably mutant had laws for the suppression of mutations , and he guessed that the origin of cause and principle alike lay somewhere in the lost time of the isolation of Tarvaras from the Empire . |
| 5 | Toys mean little in the first few weeks — you are all your baby needs . |
| 6 | A considerable number of Remploy workers do move on to work in open conditions but many remain semi-permanently in the sheltered environment . |
| 7 | Push slowly to the upright position . |
| 8 | By contrast , the G cells are not detectable until 18 weeks of gestation and develop entirely within the anatomical antrum . |
| 9 | Many people will not realise that there is a property element built in and that they qualify only for the 25 per cent . |
| 10 | We sit together in the wooden booth . |
| 11 | However , they all sit together in the same circular chamber which has various doors marked ‘ Clergy Ayes ’ or ‘ Laity Noes ’ through which the members of the Synod troop to vote in the way MPs trudge through their voting lobbies . |
| 12 | Glorious views open up across the Inner Sound to Skye and smaller islands ; road and railway jostle together on the last exciting mile to Kyle of Lochalsh . |
| 13 | They must be taught through benevolence and sympathy ; when the necessity arises shame may be used , but fear only in the last extremity , and then ‘ with such delicacy that if possible the habit may not gather strength by the use you are constrained to make of it ’ . |
| 14 | Vector graphics , on the other hand , are created by defining the start and end points of a line or curve together with the necessary angle and weight or thickness of the line . |
| 15 | Wild-type enzyme and CRP bind cooperatively to the strong lac UV5 promoter whereas the truncated enzymes show exactly the same affinity in the presence or absence of CRP ( Table I ) . |
| 16 | If we concentrate only on the mythological representations and personifications of evil , we too easily relegate the Devil to our private worlds of personal torments and individual temptations . |
| 17 | During all this growth dodder obtains its nourishment from the host through numerous absorptive organs called haustoria which develop all along the coiled regions of the vine on the inner surface in contact with the host . |
| 18 | Colleagues are impressed ( and sometimes alarmed ) by her willingness to link large philosophical issues with day to day matters ; for example , high state expenditure and taxation mean less for the ordinary citizens to spend as they choose . |
| 19 | They lay together on the bare , splintered boards . |
| 20 | They lay together in the same blue-white room , though this time their lovemaking had been gentler and more familiar , as warmth and exploration of each other 's bodies and hearts had succeeded the glorious frenzy of their first coupling . |
| 21 | However , climbing sports differ from true climbers in that invariably they do not bloom until the second year wood , and then only on side shoots , and seldom repeat much after the first burst of bloom during June . |
| 22 | Consumers are induced to behave as if they took account of the externality , though in fact they take account only of the after-tax price . |
| 23 | She says that as Mexican workers socialise mostly with the extended family , there is little personal contact with coworkers ( Lomnitz 1982 ) . |
| 24 | Press slowly to the vertical position . |
| 25 | Steer clear of the Dark Ages |
| 26 | Your safety , and your security and my safety and security in life does not depend on how pleasant my ways are and how pleasant my paths are how much I manage to amass , and how I can overcome all the little difficulties and problems and steer clear of the big ones the security and safety of my life , now and in eternity , security is there in the boat and lying with him . |
| 27 | We generally sleep right through the early morning if it 's rough weather . |
| 28 | I disagree fundamentally with the hon. Gentleman . |
| 29 | On the other hand of course it 's the old old story , it 's like some of the other competitions which we endure rather in the early stages , when you think of the Freight Rover and er one or two others as well . |
| 30 | The whole place looks dead and deserted , a ruin fit only for the dead and carrion birds … |