Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Explaining one of the sections of their manifesto in the preface to the exhibition at Bernheim 's , the Futurists , now aware of Cubist painting , talked for the first time of ‘ battles of planes ’ ; and Boccioni summarizes most concisely the debt of Futurism to Cubism when in Pittura Scultura Futuriste , published in 1914 , he wrote under the heading ‘ Compenetrazione dei Piani ’ : ‘ It is the pictorial method of rendering movement in a painting , making the surrounding objects fuse with the structure of the object placed in their midst ’ . |
| 2 | Four plus three , as the number you add on goes down so the answer goes down . |
| 3 | Besides , it squeaks so loudly the Headmaster would hear you before you were halfway across . ’ |
| 4 | ( vit , viz in fact has much more the tone of modern colloquial English prick(s) : see further below ) . |
| 5 | The long gestation comes from the fact that , although mechanical and chemical engineering hold few surprises — if the design looks all right the thing will probably work — electronic engineering carries no such assurances . |
| 6 | [ The US report cost covers not only the preparation of the document by a joint US/UK team but also covers the co-ordination time which will be so necessary to ensure an orderly sale . ] |
| 7 | The latest Chart from Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson covers not only the east coast of Scotland from Helmsdale to St Abbs Head but also the Caledonian Canal to Fort William plus enlargements of Fraserburgh , Helmsdale and the Inverness Firth . |
| 8 | An individual with a Quetelet 's Index of 35 has approximately twice the death rate of his or her ideal counterpart . |
| 9 | Sadly , the commission has not yet the skill and the reputation to pull off such successes . |
| 10 | Cardinal Hume has not only the cross of being a fervent Newcastle United supporter to bear ; he is also known to irreverent members of Mayfair 's Jesuit Farm Street Church by his initials , George Basil Hume . |
| 11 | Often , indeed , he has not only the right but also the duty to make the disclosure , as of a felony , to the competent authorities . |
| 12 | So far in this judgment I have been principally concerned to explain why , as it seems to me , the court has not only the power but the inescapable responsibility of deciding , in that specific context , what is to be done in the interests of her welfare . |
| 13 | It was there that I had the pleasure of meeting Mrs Stella Gawthrop , who has not only the distinction of being a pathfinder for the breed in the UK , but having emigrated to South Africa , has also been of great assistance to the newly formed clubs there . |
| 14 | Thus K. F. Muenzinger writes : ‘ When a point on the skin is stimulated by contact , the perception contains not merely the element of touch but also that of a definite place where the contact occurs . |
| 15 | Just as the white-coated doctors in hospitals symbolize the clean and purifying nature of the healer , so the dark uniform of the police symbolizes not just the force identity , but also the presence of the avenger , who purifies through retribution rather than by cure . |
| 16 | A more recent approach emphasises not just the relationship between the leader and others but also stresses the changing nature of this relationship . |
| 17 | The analysis below of a year of MMRC activity illustrates not only the nature of live business but also the volume and responsibility of the work it undertakes . |
| 18 | At present share levels , the company is a candidate for takeover ( Kingfisher ? ) , but failing that management has once again the task of rebuilding credibility . |
| 19 | The extent of the risk to human health posed by the migration of dioxins into food is a controversial one , and it questions once again the extravagance of modern packaging methods at the expense of the environment and health . |
| 20 | Sony 's recent acquisition — for $3.4bn — of Columbia pictures highlights still more the fact that artists and portfolios of titles , whether music , films or television programmes , are considered very precious indeed . |
| 21 | Nothing illustrates more dramatically the extent to which Nizan 's work fired the imagination than the spectacle of Sartre himself publicly criticising traditional " institutionalised " intellectuals for their lack of imagination , publicly insulting Raymond Aron for his failure to take note of the significance of the May events , and extolling by implication Nizan the youthful iconoclast , an exemplary dissident intellectual in tune with the spirit of the times . |
| 22 | According to Israel 's Ministry of Industry & Trade the country has about twice the number of scientists and engineers per capita involved in research and development work than the US and Japan and five times the number in South Korea : 135 per 10,000 in the workforce against 70 per 10,000 in the US , 65 in Japan and 25 in South Korea . |
| 23 | He has n't even the decency to announce it public himself . |
| 24 | he 's either up the stairs well he came down one night right enough he was talking to his girl on the phone , she phones him through the week and er he was a bit depressed because he he had n't the money , he 's , he 's on the and he has n't really the money to give in for housekeeping plus try and get driving lessons and his daddy wo n't let him |
| 25 | This example has all the characteristics of a sentence occurring within a larger piece of text , and illustrates quite clearly the need for a ‘ previous discourse ’ co-ordinate , as well as the more obvious ‘ time ’ and ‘ place ’ co-ordinates . |
| 26 | In effect , Mr Mulroney is asking the man he supplanted as Conservative prime minister to complete the job which , after last year 's fiasco about the Meech Lake constitutional reform package , he himself has no longer the credibility to perform . |
| 27 | That simply illustrates yet again the inequality and double standard which we employ in the treatment of road versus rail . |
| 28 | His once trim body has fallen victim to one fundraising lunch too many but he still looks very much the explorer with his classic square jaw and steely blue eyes . |
| 29 | The omission is significant : the danger is perceived as entirely pertaining to religious believers , and illustrates very well the hold which a secular view has on him and on the educational world in Britain and in the United States . |
| 30 | Some of the between species correlations are just as high , that between barn owls and long-eared owls ranging from 0.877 to 0.987 , and this illustrates very well the similarity in pattern between these and other owl species which have low levels of breakage . |