Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Danish schools whose heads do not see themselves as curriculum leaders are not necessarily sunk in apathy or mechanically carrying out the dictates of a central programme . |
| 2 | After dinner we would gossip , play cards or perhaps walk along the Dee , idly picking up a piece of driftwood here and there along the way . |
| 3 | But I think they 've more or less given up the ghost . |
| 4 | And he he more or less laid down the whole theory of probability , in a few days , Pascal |
| 5 | No one is saying it is fair , but the system has more or less worked over the years . |
| 6 | They wiped out the buffalo , more or less wiped out the Indians and , eventually , were driven away themselves by loneliness , extreme weather , drought , and the loss of topsoil brought on by over-farming . |
| 7 | Hitherto it was thought that natural selection is standing still , or merely weeding out the more harmful defects . |
| 8 | When development communicators ignore women , they consciously or unconsciously slow down the pace of development and perpetuate the vicious cycles of poverty , illiteracy , starvation and human suffering . |
| 9 | When development communicators ignore women , they consciously or unconsciously slow down the pace of development and perpetuate the vicious cycles of poverty , illiteracy , starvation , and human suffering . |
| 10 | WANTED ON VOYAGE WHETHER YOU 'RE SAILING , STROLLING OR JUST SOAKING UP THE RAYS , SUMMER 'S ESSENTIAL DRESSING STARTS HERE |
| 11 | ‘ Are youse ordering , or just blocking up the bar ? ’ said a smiling , thirsty man . |
| 12 | The thirty pupils or more making up the group move around together in the school during the school breaks . |
| 13 | Instead of spending $7 million on back-up equipment to catch the particles that its existing scrubbing plant could not cope with , it spent $1.7 million by periodically spraying its outdoor piles of iron ore and coal , by paving or periodically wetting down the company roads , by planting trees and grass to trap wind-blown particulates , and arranging shuttle buses so that employees reduced the use of their own vehicles around the site . |
| 14 | But the European Commission has so far shown no signs of stopping or even slowing down the HDMAC development programme . |
| 15 | Talking can often get us out of sticky situations : talking sense to somebody , calming an explosive situation , giving the person a chance to back off without losing pride , or even pointing out the consequences or pointlessness of the whole exercise . |
| 16 | Alternatively , you could decorate the order of service , if one was printed , or even write out the words of one of the hymns used and frame it with a selection of the pressed flowers . |
| 17 | So whether you 're tidying away some of those large toys that the kids had for Christmas , and have got fed-up with , storing a few treasures in the loft , using it as a laundry or shopping basket , or even to clear up the garden rubbish , the ‘ Monster ’ will take it . |
| 18 | As we know , the organisation of business er is n't their strong point at the moment , whether its been run ragged by their own rebels or clumsily breaking down the usual channels , seems our non-cooperation policy is merely an extension of the one that 's been working so effectively inside the Conservative party under the present Prime Minister . |
| 19 | Otherwise you will end up sacrificing expensive sewn slings or else chopping up the climbing rope itself . |
| 20 | It is all happening too fast for us to take anything quite for granted , neither becoming blase about the sight of ossified regimes crumbling at the knees , nor entirely ruling out the thought of some treacherous counter-current . |
| 21 | It is all happening too fast for us to take anything quite for granted , neither becoming blase about the sight of ossified regimes crumbling at the knees , nor entirely ruling out the thought of some treacherous counter-current . |
| 22 | After a few reasonable take-offs and landings , said those dreaded words feared by all trainee pilots , ‘ Do you think you can manage on your own for one circuit ? ’ , and promptly got out of the plane , leaving me to do the usual pre take-off checks , taxi to the beginning of the runway and nervously accelerate down the runway to do a fair take-off . |
| 23 | Describing Gloucester 's subsequent attack on the Woodvilles , More continues : ‘ [ Gloucester and Buckingham ] said that the lord marquis had entered into the Tower of London and thence taken out the king 's treasure and sent men to the sea . |
| 24 | Describing Gloucester 's subsequent attack on the Woodvilles , More continues : ‘ [ Gloucester and Buckingham ] said that the lord marquis had entered into the Tower of London and thence taken out the king 's treasure and sent men to the sea . |
| 25 | The dark rim around the bright mound is artefactual : the coverslip has pressed the top of the mound down into the plane of optical section and thereby pushed down the epidermis around the foot of the mound below that plane . |
| 26 | The frost causes the bracken to die back and thereby opens up the canopy to let in more light . |
| 27 | For more than two weeks prior to Oct. 29 , the Central Bank had been selling an estimated US$50,000,000 in gold each day , in efforts to keep down the gold price ( and thereby to hold down the black-market dollar rate , whose divergence from the official rate provided a barometer of business confidence ) . |
| 28 | The Bank , by rejecting offers at r 1 , is in effect reducing its demand for bills ( D 1 to D 2 ) , and thereby drives up the rediscount rate to r 2 . |
| 29 | Europe was first to industrialise and thereby throw up the indigent urban proletariat , who in their turn founded the first labour organisations which spawned Marxism and fascism , both truly European ideologies . |
| 30 | However , the dead were also afraid of the living , who might desecrate their tombs , destroy their bodies and thereby bring about the eternal annihilation of their identities . |