Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two antimony pH probes ( Monocrystant Mod 0011 , Synectics Medical , Sweden ) were calibrated at Ph 1 and 7 at 35°C before the study and then passed transnasally so that the upper probe lay 5 cm proximal to the upper border of the manometrically determined lower oesophageal sphincter and the lower probe 10 cm distal to its lower border . |
| 2 | On September 17 Izvestiya reported that the situation had " normalized " , but it became clear later that the dangers had not been fully appreciated at the time due to a lack of sophisticated monitoring equipment . |
| 3 | I realized long ago that the only thing he has in common with other men is the prick between his legs . |
| 4 | The drama starts with a brief discussion of how people might live without modern technology , and ( using the model of the pictures they have seen ) , they build themselves a fortified encampment — a wonderful image this , with chairs organised into a large circle and then laid down so that the legs all face out . |
| 5 | I certainly learnt next to nothing at St Aubyn 's and when I took the Common Entrance examination for Eton I failed so ignominiously that the authorities wrote to my mother that it would be futile for me to try again . |
| 6 | They 're reduced to five thousand with short commons and sickness , and the extra irony is that a cargo ship diverted from Chios got in just before the port closed . |
| 7 | Benedicta 's eyes rounded in surprise but she smiled and agreed so quickly that the friar wondered if she , too , felt the kinship between them . |
| 8 | They almost certainly meet the needs of individual clients , but , like primary nursing , they may also fulfil the needs of the professionals concerned so successfully that the professionals , rather than the recipients of care , are really the most important clients of the system . |
| 9 | amazed I actually did erm what happened erm I was happened to be upstairs and my wife shouted quick quick there 's a zither , so I zoomed down here and the lady was still talking to you and a dialled well consequently I did n't get through for quite some time but I did eventually , erm your lady on the reception said well it 's gone now she said but I will give the lady 's telephone number and I spoke to the lady and told her the position and she says well if it 's not collected by so time I 'll g ring you back and I said well I 've been after one for a long long time she said well I ca n't understand it cos I 've been advertising it . |
| 10 | There can be little doubt that this reflects the very high unemployment experienced so far and the resultant weakened state of the union movement and of labour generally . |
| 11 | We have run the whole gamut of colour with the post-war American varieties , then the swing back to Europe for scent with the colour , then the bi-colour with the petals showing contrasting colours on each side , revealed so attractively as the petals curl back on themselves . |
| 12 | Even so , the younger children of yeomen and husbandmen moved on elsewhere and the labouring families were far more volatile than the stable core of farming families . |
| 13 | After considerable discussion Mr Jones accepted the possibility that Olwyn perhaps did need love and attention but that it was just as likely she needed it because she behaved badly rather than the other way round . |
| 14 | As he went to play his shot , the wind howled in again and the ball moved right in the middle of his backswing . |
| 15 | ( ‘ Doctor ’ was a title which people used somewhat freely when the heat of argument led them to assert their tribal group was the one most qualified by objective criteria of modernity to rule a district . ) |
| 16 | One possible explanation for this result is that the trend rate of growth in the UK economy in the 1970s and early 1980s was much lower than elsewhere , ensuring that the total world portfolio rose more rapidly than the share held within the UK . |
| 17 | The pattern of demand — including the rise in the share of investment ( chapter 8 ) — ensured that industrial production rose more quickly than the output of services . |
| 18 | While the ability of organised skilled workers to restrict entry to their trade and to develop defensive strategies probably means their wages rose more sharply when the economy turned up , and fell less quickly on the downturns , this would have the effect of flattening fluctuations rather than of misdirecting trends . |
| 19 | The tails , however , sank more easily because the bindings were nearer them . |
| 20 | The Baron , his eyes streaming with the hay fever , sneezed once more and the French guns magically ceased fire . |
| 21 | Prices for British sculptors Lynn Chadwick , Barbara Hepworth , Jacob Epstein and Elizabeth Frink moved more steadily than the index as a whole , with an overall growth between 1985 and 1990 of 180% and dipping 30% last year . |
| 22 | Marslen-Wilson and Welsh ( 1978 ) found that fluent restorations occurred more frequently when the word was very predictable ( e.g. in Still he wanted to smoke a cikarette ) than when it was only moderately predictable ( e.g. , in It was his mizfortune that they were stationary ) . |
| 23 | A ‘ short circuit ’ route for the water developed which cooled more rapidly than the rest of the reservoir , reducing its effectiveness . |
| 24 | Hydraulic pressure built up slowly until the door wheezed open . |
| 25 | Our speed built up rapidly and the inside of my cockpit started to mist up . |
| 26 | In the early 1970s the price of investment goods rose slightly faster than the price of output , whereas in the 1960s the price of output had risen about 1 per cent faster than the price of investment goods . |
| 27 | The 8.16 from Darlington and the returning 10.38 behaved as impeccably as the reception class at a Victorian Sunday school . |
| 28 | Eubank 's priority is to recover from a badly-bruised right forearm , sustained as early as the second round of a unanimous victory which stretched his winning sequence to 35 . |
| 29 | They also showed me the silver anklets for state elephants ( used until the 1930s ) and silver palanquins , used as recently as the 1950s . |
| 30 | Shares bounced back yesterday although the rally carried little conviction . |