Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a complete lack of understanding , and that goes right the way through the Health Service … |
| 2 | You pass you pass er the capital past two more roads , streets and you come to this one as goes right the way through into Street at . |
| 3 | I would see through a more coactive involvement in Europe , and establishing not just the physical link of the chunnel but expanding it right up to the northwest , a line that goes right the way through , that there is a material benefit to this area , from that connection . |
| 4 | When used with the to infinitive , on the other hand , find denotes rather the discovery of a fact : ( 96 ) I measured the tail of the dead rat , and found it to be two yards long . |
| 5 | The town represents overwhelmingly the focus of political power in Zambia today . |
| 6 | Doth all the winter-time at still midnight |
| 7 | Laverne points down the bank on the other side of the road . |
| 8 | Unfortunately this constitutes only the assessment of a candidate 's suitability for entry to an interpreters ' qualifying course . |
| 9 | Make evokes merely the idea of " producing an effect " ( = the event expressed by the infinitive ) , so that causation is represented as operating instant by instant throughout the actualization of the latter and the two events are felt to coincide in time . |
| 10 | The protestant Christian has too quickly jumped to the conclusion that Catholicism regards the Holy Communion service as a work of salvation whereby the priest offers afresh the offering of Christ and pleads for salvation . |
| 11 | Returning to the kitchen , Robyn turns down the thermostat of the central heating and checks that the back door of the house is locked and bolted . |
| 12 | In one letter to Susanna Highmore , he turns down the offer of a sonnet to be prefixed to Leapor 's second volume : |
| 13 | Everyone 's perpetual concern to safeguard himself against having to take legal responsibility necessitates a fearful expenditure of effort , paper , ink , and time , slows down the transaction of business , removes from the provincial and district agencies all feelings of independence , and teaches them to act surreptitiously if at all . |
| 14 | An additional plus for the Anatom is its lining , which has in-built Antibac , an antibacterial system which slows down the growth of bacteria on the skin , an unusual but welcome concept in shoe technology . |
| 15 | You should remember that a fridge does n't kill bacteria , only slows down the rate at which they multiply . |
| 16 | It automatically slows down the rate of eating for you ! |
| 17 | This view actually parallels modern scientific thinking , which presumes that the universe is evolving towards final destruction when the inevitable pull of gravity slows down the rate of expansion . |
| 18 | A high and uncertain rate of inflation is disturbing because it reduces the efficiency of the market economy and slows down the process of economic growth . |
| 19 | If the red ball goes down the edge of the white ball ? |
| 20 | While the deal goes down the rest of them wait next door . |
| 21 | However , revolutionary technological innovation represents only the tip of the iceberg . |
| 22 | This figure represents only the tip of the iceberg , since as many as 90% of cases go unreported , according to Dr Richard Gilbert , the Director of the Food Hygiene Laboratory . |
| 23 | When this is the case , a trap is to mistake such an event for the completion of the entire change effort ; instead , it represents only the beginning of the change-management process . |
| 24 | Orwell in his notes offers only the ghost of an answer when he remarks that Waugh 's loyalty was to a form of society no longer viable , ‘ of which he must be aware ’ . |
| 25 | Their deteriorating physical and mental health offers only the prospect of further decline and the ultimate sentence of old age — death . |
| 26 | By politicizing his text in this way Sukenick runs the risk of linking authorial production with political manipulation , but he regularly plays down the privilege of composition by including himself as a minor character within his narratives . |
| 27 | The absence of the category of consciousness inevitably plays down the role of individual subjects and thus of individual agency and resistance as a result of specific acts of will . |
| 28 | Parents and teachers claim Rainbow deliberately plays down the risk of contracting Aids from homosexual relationships by suggesting there is nothing frightening about the gay lifestyle . |
| 29 | The principle does not , however , apply if the sanction involves only the institution of legal proceedings for the recovery of the money and penalties . |
| 30 | There is also evidence that TV , as a technology which works by electronic scanning , effectively shuts down the functioning of those parts of the brain that reason and think actively and logically — the skills that have been associated with the left hemisphere of the brain . |