Example sentences of "[adv prt] the line " in BNC.
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| 31 | There is a commitment within the company to develop worker 's skills right down the line , and this has been done through training and education schemes . |
| 32 | I know I do n't need to tell you , but for the record , I will have to clear all this in Oxford and so we should n't get too far down the line . |
| 33 | Harley 's laugh bubbled down the line . |
| 34 | There is a package holiday that runs steam trains up and down the line during the summer , carrying rich tourists dressed in dinner-jackets and gowns , who scowl sternly from their carriage windows when the train is stranded at obscure little Scottish stations . |
| 35 | One way would be to have a chemical whose concentration was fixed at one end of the line , and this concentration decreased as one moved down the line . |
| 36 | The safer option is to start about fifteen per cent further down the line , thereby giving yourself a little more room . |
| 37 | I know you were only a junior minister , but one hears about things when one 's down the line , that he was very presidential , that he would n't let them talk much and was very stiff and frozen . |
| 38 | You mentioned that there 's a great degree of toughness since 1979 on Treasury targets and public expenditure , and the word goes down the line and there 's no argument . |
| 39 | He rejected the customary function of wingers of going down the line and crossing the ball . |
| 40 | They passed their viewing comments up and down the line . |
| 41 | The research councils also ‘ rely almost totally on qualitative peer review judgements , and delegate responsibility for more detailed evaluation further down the line to research institute directors and university department heads ’ . |
| 42 | It concluded that most of the mistakes were simply due to lack of care all down the line and not because of untried designs . |
| 43 | Further down the line , in the spray drying or packaging units , the protein products of the microbes could cause similar problems . |
| 44 | Add the position of his feet being wide apart and he is unable to get out of the way or play down the line . |
| 45 | It might be , all his life , his worth or lack of it , that this was always down the line . |
| 46 | A groan of real sympathy came down the line . |
| 47 | A little further down the line , we are introduced to hard disc recording , intent on replacing tape for good and just beginning to enter the field of the home user in terms of price . |
| 48 | This eliminates many of the previously described tasks of arranging a pulley and triangular secondary kiteline system and , in one single action , offers automatic release and return down the line for the next lift . |
| 49 | Riffs equated with biffs right down the line . |
| 50 | In the Kensington exchange a group of Telecom engineers and police officers stared at the monitors and listened to the rage coming down the line ; at Cork Street , beneath the pavements of smart Mayfair , four men from MI5 were rooted in their chairs , motionless as the anger poured out of the speaker into the room and the tape-deck wound silently round and round . |
| 51 | The only saving grace was that the number Quinn had dictated down the line to Zack was still on the Kensington exchange . |
| 52 | This led , they argue , to a situation where decisions were made by the elite at the top of the management hierarchy and then fed down the line of command . |
| 53 | As the car then goes down the line , past various work stations , all the components are fitted to the car in turn . |
| 54 | It will typically take several hours for the car to go down the line , hundreds of workers will be directly involved in fitting the various bits and pieces , and each will have a cycle time of perhaps 60 seconds to do their allotted task . |
| 55 | Each girlfriend is blindfolded and led down the line , burying her nose in the chest of each man — who must keep quiet — and taking a sniff . |
| 56 | 3pm : IRN feeds broadcast ‘ down the line ’ to local radio stations as they record it for their own broadcasts . |
| 57 | ‘ We have a small headquarters [ just Mr D'Silva and a finance director ] and management responsibility is decentralised and pushed down the line . ’ |
| 58 | Inevitably the column became grievously extended , and Ramsay and others of the leadership were occupied throughout in riding up and down the line trying to keep the various groups together and in touch . |
| 59 | In the darkness he could not see what went on further down the line , but obviously the same problems would prevail there . |
| 60 | There were no lavatories on the station , or only filthy ones , so she and I chased down the line and out to the fields every ten minutes or so — poor Mig , she was so good and patient . |