Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But anyway , the railways there was a spurt on between in the late sixties on the railway and that 's when I think I was sure , not only because I was a branch secretary at the time but I 'm sure that all the British Railways there was a greater awareness of the fact that we had been deceived by the word nationalization . |
| 2 | it 's been on for about the past month |
| 3 | All the families were on for except the three weeks holiday during the year they were marooned on these islands all the time . |
| 4 | I think the third general point I 'd want to make is this : if you 're applying for a course at university , then it does n't matter what A-levels you 're taking , or what courses you 've put down for at the five universities . |
| 5 | Mm and old Bob down the road , Bob , he has n't been in for about the same sort of time this 'll be his fourth week wo n't it ? |
| 6 | ( For the purposes of this paper , the words ‘ hautbois ’ , ‘ oboe ’ , or ‘ bassoon ’ merely refer to double-reed instruments , without invoking the question of whether these were shawms , Baroque-style instruments , or something in between on the evolutionary scale. ) 8 An examination of livrets for Lully 's ballets shows that the use of woodwinds in a group , as they are found here , is typical . |
| 7 | It needs to be emphasized , however , that such a conclusion would be in despite of the earliest biographical sources , the author of one of which was contemporary in time , if distant in space , and also , as far as one can judge , of the chronological lists and would therefore constitute important evidence of the limitations of these source materials . |
| 8 | Lee awoke lying on the top of a green , green mountain , being looked down upon by the largest face in the whole world . |
| 9 | Plenty of time to go quietly upstairs , take the key down from behind the faded watercolour of the lakes of Killarney , and slip it into the lock of her dead mother 's bedroom . |
| 10 | The Jovian atmosphere has been observed down to about the 1 bar altitude , and throughout this region the predominant motion is east-west . |
| 11 | What we should expect though is that it comes back down to around the three point five mark for the year . |
| 12 | It 's also a mite expensive , although you should bear in mind that retail prices are deceptive things ; the chances are that after a period of high demand and correspondingly high prices , the cost of the SRV will settle down to around the same as the Clapton Strat . |
| 13 | The foyer is abuzz with joshing studes and the final doof ! — doof ! — doof ! — doof ! of Spiritualized 's late soundcheck filters through from behind the main hall 's heavy oak doors . |
| 14 | The unloaded transfer function is At sufficiently high frequencies to satisfy , falls off as compared with the fall off as for the simple C-R and L-R filters . |
| 15 | This was the Pareto condition that at least one consumer must be made better off without at the same time any others being made worse off . |
| 16 | The smaller number of A and C allowances was more than made up for by the greater number of B and D allowances . |
| 17 | The unpredictability of the man was more than made up for by the heady feeling of surrendering to life at its sweetest and most bright . |
| 18 | That 'll mean less business for the animal crematorium — but its owners say that 'll be more than made up for by the increasing number of people who are choosing to have their familly pets cremated . |
| 19 | The out of centre position is made up for by the excellent rates Amsterdam Travel Service have specially negotiated at this hotel . |
| 20 | Where are we after the Kids ' County you know what you rang up for in the first place ? |
| 21 | Well , this year the firm ground excuse did n't hold up for in the worst July for years the going was very much on the soft side . |
| 22 | I did the catalogue so I looked all the information up with through the three to do that . |
| 23 | And now I had a lovely fellow I 'd grown up with in the same village , the same sort of background , we 'd known each other since we were eleven , twelve , |
| 24 | We fully support and endorse the deposit greenbelt boundaries , then I think it 's inescapable that at at some point that is going to lead us to leapfrogging over the greenbelt boundary , at some stage during the the the plan period , there may well be sufficient erm commitment and identified sites to mop up in in the short term , but by the end of of the plan period it 's it 's my belief that there will be a need to address this issue by bringing forward proposals for a new settlement , er which obviously Selby district er full fully supports . |
| 25 | She offered a black Balkan Sobranie for the light I offered and only then looked up from under the wide-brimmed black hat she wore . |
| 26 | He must have picked it up from among the sawn logs in store for fuel . |
| 27 | His head nodded up from among the pink clover flowers . |
| 28 | The words came mumbling up from beneath the bent head . |
| 29 | If there is make up on from the first erm removal , then you could then take off the make up with the first application and then go over twice more , so it would be three times if you 've got quite a lot of base or foundation on . |
| 30 | ‘ She 'd have been more than concerned if she 'd known what he 'd been up to over the previous few weeks ! ’ said Harris drily . |