Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no sooner had she switched on the electric kettle than the phone began to ring . |
| 2 | Pass on the windward side if you do n't want a hot bath , and you will reach an area of incredible beauty . |
| 3 | Negotiations with a difficult character ( e.g. the Pied Piper holding the town 's children in the mountain caverns ) are better conducted with the teacher taking on the problematic role because the teacher can judge just how difficult to make the task , and can allow the children success when they need it . |
| 4 | What arrogance that is , that they allowed the schools to take on the full role when over fifty percent of em were already willing and anxious to do so . |
| 5 | A computer chip checks voltage levels within the battery , and slows down the recharging process if this increases too rapidly , thereby , according to Innovations , avoiding the danger of explosive gases building up . |
| 6 | She paced up and down the tiny room while I sat on her bed , and she explained to me that McIllvanney had been approached by a client who had apparently seen Ellen and authorised McIllvanney to offer her the money . |
| 7 | Obviously , the short lives of all those babies and children will have a great effect in bringing down the average figure as even the least mathematical of us will be able to understand . |
| 8 | A similar tiny gesture takes on the same value when Alain rubs one foot up and down the other leg when the girls tickle him . |
| 9 | What 's turn it over I mean it might start I du n no it let , let him down the other morning as well ! |
| 10 | It seems that many people , perhaps without even thinking about it , would rather do down the other player than cooperate with the other player to do down the banker . |
| 11 | The Bush administration sent contradictory signals about its intentions to continue its economic strategy of keeping down the federal deficit while awaiting recovery in 1992 . |
| 12 | She crossed the stableyard and went into the house , hurrying down the long passage until she arrived , flushed high in expectation , at the service door to the dining room , where Maman and Dada and Aunt Tossie were eating breakfast . |
| 13 | It is ironic that the conciliarist idea of power-sharing , buttressed during the fourteenth century by arguments taken from Aristotle , turned upside down the papal stance as expressed by Innocent III . |
| 14 | I have set down the following experience as one that has haunted me for many years . |
| 15 | Fitt brought down the Labour Government because Labour had increased Northern Ireland 's representation at Westminster from 12 to 17 seats . |
| 16 | Instead of returning by the old fence , however , ( which looked much worse from the top ) , I continued down the main ridge until the final spur , but this was just as steep . |
| 17 | This slack gives vitals seconds to get down the opposite flank before the load comes on the rope . |
| 18 | The Developmental model of leadership advocated by Banner and Blasingame will require greater responsibility and the identification of leadership lower down the organisational structure than has traditionally been the case within either central or local government . |
| 19 | This would entail a view of nature as organic and ecological , rather than mechanistic ; an interpretation of lower forms of organisation in terms of higher ones , as well as vice versa ; an acknowledgment of sentience much further down the organisational ladder than is at present commonly imagined ; a biocentric ethic ; and a holistic approach to knowledge . |
| 20 | Do n't sit down the whole time while you 're teaching . |
| 21 | Meanwhile the villagers crowded to peer down the open manhole as though it were an interesting accident . |
| 22 | Again the danger came down the left flank as Dow passed to Drew Waddell who touched down . |
| 23 | Until now its speed had been so great that it had grown into a ravening monster , capable not only of swallowing the Residency , but of gulping down the banqueting hall as well . |
| 24 | The privilege of holding a market or fair was extended down the social hierarchy as the Middle Ages progressed , and the royal records are full of references to grants of markets and fairs as the economy developed . |
| 25 | State-sponsored housing began to reach further down the social scale than previously and house building under subsidy began to increase in the later 1920s . |
| 26 | Even in the merchant activities of the outports , however , a great number of people were taking shares in trading ventures , and from much further down the social scale than was the case with the East India Company , only 1.6 per cent of whose investors held less than £100 in 1764 . |
| 27 | His family slipped down the social ladder when his father 's garden-gnome business collapsed , but that could explain Major 's obsession , less with classlessness than with petit bourgeois respectability . |
| 28 | Never begin filling in the real form until you have practised at least once on a photocopy . |
| 29 | The Government brought in the new law after inspectors found that 97 per cent of ‘ pints ’ contained less . |
| 30 | Once in Mosedale , continue along the main route as previously described . |