Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You messed up their surveillance , you beat up their agents , you went in for exactly the same unauthorised adventurism as they had — and so let them off the hook . |
| 2 | That puts still more of a premium on shrewdly imaginative lineout tactics , married to throwing in of just the right pace and parabola . |
| 3 | Without him we had to struggle along with just the three of us . |
| 4 | A shake of the table on which it was standing would bring the pile down in exactly the same way that an earthquake shakes houses down . |
| 5 | The trouble is with the second horn parts , they often often have a wider register gap , and the first horn part which tends to waver up and down in vaguely the same place while the second sort of goes woo woo woo , jumps up and down . |
| 6 | All popular kinds of decorative pond fish can survive for several months during the winter without feeding , as their body processes slow down in much the same manner as a tree or shrub in the garden becomes dormant . |
| 7 | It would be much more sensible if , as a staff writer in Ekonomska politika ( 15 February 1988 ) has suggested , the minimum point for assessing personal income tax were to be brought down to approximately the average income of each republic or province , and the scale of progressivity were to be less steep . |
| 8 | Basically any report on Eastern Europe 's problems comes down to much the same things : a heavy reliance on smokestack industries burning brown coal ( also known as lignite ) and pouring out uncontrolled noxious fumes , factories tipping their chemical wastes straight into rivers , and untreated sewage . |
| 9 | The two essential points are that fewer than one in three had considered paying cash as a real alternative ; and that half said they bought on credit because they did n't have the cash , while about another quarter gave answers ( like ‘ needed it right away ’ ) which boil down to much the same . |
| 10 | You can zoom in and out of the preview , looking at thumbnails of your pages , or zooming in on just the one page . |
| 11 | The swinging leg has to touch down at exactly the right speed and lock straight in time to convert the kinetic energy into lift . |
| 12 | The job of the chant leader is simply to make sure that ‘ Shit ! ’ comes in at exactly the right time . |
| 13 | He can claim , whether truthfully or not , that he had recommended clients to come in at exactly the right times . |
| 14 | He has a habit of playing in at least the inaugural event held on one of his lay-outs and in December 1988 fully intended to play in the Austrian Open of 1989 . |
| 15 | On Wednesday they had a quiet morning in the centre until just before lunch when two emergencies came in at virtually the same time . |
| 16 | Thus , courses , which , in the past , have started in September and finished in the following June , during which all students moved along at exactly the same speed of learning , will become a feature of the past . |
| 17 | At the same time he was turned down by both the Civil Service and the Foreign Office . |
| 18 | Morning winds may be light , but afternoons are usually brisk , with exciting open sea sailing in force 3 to 5 for many days each holiday — let down by only the odd day of paddling ! |
| 19 | However , the timetable may be hampered as the Government intends a dramatic slow-down nationally in the growth of student recruiting over at least the next three years . |
| 20 | Using the no boundary condition , we find that the universe must in fact have started off with just the minimum possible nonuniformity allowed by the uncertainty principle . |
| 21 | When I left twenty minutes later I felt I had come off with rather the worst of the bargain but another of my father 's aphorisms came to mind : shnorrers no choosers . |
| 22 | When the linker is on the needlebed , this needle is facing the machine needles and it casts off in exactly the same way as you do with the latch tool . |
| 23 | Misreading the clues , they head off in completely the wrong direction and manage to become the first people ever to get shipwrecked on one of the islands of Derwentwater . |
| 24 | The feeling swept over me that I had truly left Darlington Hall behind , and I must confess I did feel a slight sense of alarm — a sense aggravated by the feeling that I was perhaps not on the correct road at all , but speeding off in totally the wrong direction into a wilderness . |
| 25 | Most rocker switches are wired for one-way operation — that is , the light is turned on and off from just the one position ; but most are capable of two-way operation , where the light is turned on or off from two places — in a through room , in a bedroom , or top and bottom of the stairs , for instance . |
| 26 | UTTER shock over Graham Gooch 's marital crisis , combined with the prospect of travel chaos , yesterday set England 's winter tour off on completely the wrong footing . |
| 27 | Each month cardholders can either pay off their whole bill , in which case they pay no interest charges and the credit is ‘ free ’ for up to fifty six days ; or they can pay off at least the minimum amount , which is usually 5% or 5 , whichever is the greater . |
| 28 | Human awareness of this truth , he may have concluded , was passed on with just the same loose and haunting persistence as the rhythms and phrases of English poetry , surviving from Anglo-Saxon times to Middle English and ‘ The Man in the Moon ’ , and on again to Shakespeare and Milton and Yeats and nursery-rhyme , without intention as without a break . |
| 29 | Last year 's unstoppable strikeforce of Mark Hateley and Ally McCoist will team up for only the third time this season , Hateley with a ten goal start on his partner . |
| 30 | Restating it , so , the max value of that product is N minus one Now , if you wan na know what the maximum value and negat if the score 's are negatively correlated rather than positive , you end up with exactly the same expression , N minus one , but lo and behold it 's negative . |