Example sentences of "[adv] the line " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly the line of cars inched towards the Customs sheds . |
| 2 | Displaying a throwing arm reminiscent of Babe Ruth , he led the block into battle knowing instinctively the line between harmless frivolity and time to stand on his dignity . |
| 3 | Furthermore the line has several times been proposed for closure and only strenuous efforts by local politicians and the Heart of Wales Line Travellers ' Association ( HOWLTA ) have kept it open - indeed it is a minor miracle that it survived the Beeching closures . |
| 4 | Bill goes behind Doug to help but suddenly the line slackens , and flutters in the wind . |
| 5 | Without the background notes we would not have known that , among many other points of interest , our boots crunched long the line of an 1805 horse-drawn tram road and beside a pub used as a meeting for Chartist agitators . |
| 6 | So the line , ‘ Shape without form , shade without colour ’ , is reminiscent of the essential beginning when ‘ the earth was without form , and void , ’ but what follows is not a creation and a bringing of light , but only an impotence , ‘ Paralysed force , gesture without motion ’ , bringing a twilight . |
| 7 | Thence northwards to Mina 's land , so eastward to the stream and over it at the place called Ufa 's ford , thence to the place called Lagness , thence to Laxley , and so to the place called Balsham , thence to the bridge at Ellridge , and thus northwards besides the marshy places , over this to the stream called ( Aldingbourne Rife ) and thence east to Waermund 's enclosure , thence to Wador 's barrow from that place to the fishpond , and from there to ( Ryebank Rife ) , and so the line runs to the sea … |
| 8 | And so the line could read , ‘ Was it for this the bodies of men grew tall ? ’ |
| 9 | Only the line of grim cages among whose bars whined the winter wind , and above them the great plane trees that bent across the sky , their leafless branches bending in the wind like twisted hands that came down towards him from the angry sky . |
| 10 | Of this , only the line between Craven Arms and Lydbury |
| 11 | She began to piece together the line of questioning . |
| 12 | Thus the line must be considered as a singularity of space-time , which is identified with the point . |
| 13 | Thus the line element in the interaction region IV is . |
| 14 | Thus the line of control in the present case is for Lautro to control the operations of Norwich Union , and Norwich Union in turn , by virtue of its contractual relationship , to control Winchester . |
| 15 | Few of them flying about coming along just the line of the hydro wire at the hydro wire and just saw a blue flash and get down . |
| 16 | Until one month ago it was possible to carry food into Gorazde from outside the line by a journey of more than thirty kilometres over the mountains . |
| 17 | Usually the line represents the flow of something but that something might be material , energy , information or time but again these should not be mixed on the same diagram unless differently coded lines are used . |
| 18 | The pattern formed by the line is an indication of the overall merit of the project : the more the line conforms to the VG column and the less it wanders towards the VP column the better the project in terms of the criteria . |
| 19 | The pattern formed by the line is an indication of the overall merit of the project : the more the line conforms to the VG column and the less it wanders towards the VP column the better the project in terms of the criteria . |
| 20 | ‘ Profits from this operation would eventually be used to further the line northwards in stages , and in particular pay for a key bridge over the River Glaslyn . |
| 21 | This can be used as a full stop … charging both the line and the dot . |
| 22 | British Rail should go back to the drawing board , look at the line and the station together , and produce a new , properly worked out Bill that addresses both the line and the station . |
| 23 | Note also the line through the widened Vesica Piscis intersection ‘ A ’ & ‘ B ’ which lies at the ‘ root 2 × radius ’ distance from Bishops Cannings church , assuming that the radius = 1 unit |
| 24 | Seconds later the line was dead . |
| 25 | It is the earlier line of Silurian volcanicity and also roughly the line of change from marine Devonian facies to the south and continental Old Red Sandstone facies to the north . |
| 26 | And the main conurbation formed by Greater Manchester and Merseyside follows roughly the line of the Irwell and Mersey valleys across the southern end of Lancashire but extending well into the Cheshire plain . |
| 27 | They used to come here , yes , to this hotel to spend their last nights before they went to that bridge to hurl themselves off , sometimes in front of a train ; but now the line has gone and the track removed we do n't get so many nuts coming to end their days . |
| 28 | Now the line has moved up to include inventories . |
| 29 | Many of these copies were acquired by Jacob Tonson [ q.v. ] , who developed even more strongly the line of fine literary publishing begun by Moseley and Herringman . |
| 30 | Thus it is the one complete record of how well the line was constructed — forget the stories of how run-down it was after years of poverty . |