Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [det] [prep] the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went back out into the daylight and began to gather together some of the larger rocks that were scattered about . |
| 2 | In the vital years before a child was apprenticed he or she could be captured from the streets , confirmed in God-fearing ways and inoculated against those habits of sloth , debauchery and irreligion which propelled so many of the lower orders to crime , prostitution and heathenism . |
| 3 | Now critics of contemporary systems say so much for the worse for contemporary system , we have to move to one of the other models , maybe suitably amended and only then will we be truly free and equal . |
| 4 | This does not matter too much for the younger pupils , since they draw readily and without inhibition , but it does become an issue with slightly older children . |
| 5 | It is hardly surprising that Jacky Lee does not remember too much about the finer points of the 1958 Open at Royal Lytham and St Annes , because one horrible moment — actually quite a few seconds — has almost brought about amnesia ! |
| 6 | Which you tend not to do so much for the shorter ones . |
| 7 | But on the North American mainland , colonies had been affected very little by the earlier wars among European countries ; except for the brief clash that had led to the Dutch loss of New Amsterdam the colonies had fought only with ill-armed Indians and had won their little wars without help from England . |
| 8 | We now know too that in the later part of that time a form of Greek was widely spoken there . |
| 9 | For an automatic text recognition system to succeed it should exploit as much of the higher level information as is computationally possible . |
| 10 | Ironically the church , which had gained so much from the older cast of mind , was prominent in propagating the newer outlook . |
| 11 | In 1988 , Mr Ken Hutchinson , one of the churchwardens , said that this year they had put forward some of the younger men of the parish in order to keep interest in the tradition alive , though there was no lack of interest at present and the schoolroom was certainly packed full . |
| 12 | It is precisely because Berlin is such a true mirror of so much European history that it always seems to embody so much of the darker , subconscious side of the European identity . |
| 13 | The twenty heads of British missions abroad in 1816 , when the effects of the country 's long political isolation during the Napoleonic wars were still being felt , had increased to thirty-seven by 1860 ( mainly because of the emergence of new independent states in Latin America ) ; but the changes of the 1860s swept away many of the smaller legations in Germany and Italy , and the establishment of diplomatic representatives in China , Japan and one or two other non-European countries in the second half of the century did not compensate for these losses . |