Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | But the funny thing is they fell in exactly the same way . |
2 | We 've just rolled over exactly the same rule , exactly the same provision . |
3 | The special cards are expected to be phased out once the long-anticipated economic reforms begin . |
4 | My Lords if this bill had been introduced by a government of a different political persuasion to the present one , I would of course have spoken in precisely the same terms as I do today and I believe that in circumstances of that sort , the overwhelming majority of this House would have taken precisely the same view . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Carpet of the same pattern as that in the hall was laid over only the middle part of the stairway and was held in place by little metal arms which pinned the carpet against the back of each tread . |
7 | Alex Salmond , Margaret Ewing and Andrew Welsh , you can be sure , will have weighed up carefully the predictable uproar and have decided that the obtaining , with only three votes , of such a sensible and important concession for Scotland from the Government is , in fact , a considerable achievement . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | And er we were all brought up there the whole lot of us and I think I was about fifteen when I left there . |
10 | When laid out fully the inclusive graphic skewness is obtained from : |
11 | ‘ The rest of us had put up much the same , given that we had done it earlier , ’ he assured McLeish . |
12 | On the first mission , tracking stations have to be knocked out so the human convoy can pass undetected . |
13 | ‘ But I have n't worked out yet the full implications of the conspiracy . |