Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun sg] [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ebrahimi type of doctrine is most likely to occur when a partnership is converted into a company but the same people are involved as before and carry on the business with much the same attitude . |
| 2 | Instead I was looking down the quay to where a pathetically thin girl was walking beside a smartly dressed woman . |
| 3 | He 's been travelling up and down the country for over a quarter of a century watching the Clarets and he would n't dream of being anywhere else but on the coach to Brighton on Boxing Day . |
| 4 | He 's been playing the part in theatres up and down the country for over a year , so he 's had several first nights for this production alone . |
| 5 | Davis seized one end and started down the bank to where the horse was fast in the mud . |
| 6 | He then went down the slope to where the ferrymaster was preparing to beach his craft . |
| 7 | When these two factors are put together , it is readily understandable that a request that treatment should cease should be seen as not really meant , but as merely the response to either a passing mood or a loss of mental fitness . |
| 8 | I started by looking up quotes for characters to say , and found myself reading four or five pages , until I found myself reading the Bible and only the Bible for quite a long time . |
| 9 | It gave individuals whose petitions were upheld by the European Commission on Human Rights the automatic right to have their cases reviewed by the Court ( this being hitherto the prerogative of either the commission or the state concerned ) ; it would enter into force once ratified by 10 states . |
| 10 | In retrospect , it appears that Senghor 's strategy was first to reconfirm that his party and its policies continued to have support from the Senegalese people , by giving them real alternatives , and then to enable a young and clearly competent successor to take over the leadership of both the party and the government . |
| 11 | The car had the usual teething problems and was not the equal of either the Lotus or the Ferrari , and Jackie 's only victory of the year was at Barcelona . |
| 12 | Commentators noted that the leadership restructuring was likely in practice to curtail still further the role of both the politburo and central committee in influencing state policy ( already the politburo had effectively been supplanted by Gorbachev 's new Presidential Council — see pp. 37298-99 ) . |
| 13 | Then he moved a little up the canyon to where the jutting rocks made a rough natural staircase and held out his hand . |
| 14 | I believe I picked up the tape-recorder in much the same spirit — because I felt that whatever we did here ought to have a rather spontaneous feel to it , and yet at the same time be noticeably hard-wearing . |
| 15 | The present project aims to speed up the process at both the collection and analysis stages , by the development of software which will operate with speed , simplicity and flexibility , while the use of a portable computer will make it possible to enter material direct on to disc . |
| 16 | Writing in 1928 the American critic Gilbert Seldes summed up the process of how the movies had accumulated their audience as one which |
| 17 | Why wo n't she take up the offer of just a fortnight 's short-stay ? |
| 18 | It might be appropriate if the receiving agent appointed is also the registrar of either the client or a target as appropriate . |
| 19 | It might be appropriate if the receiving agent appointed is also the registrar of either the client or a target as appropriate . |
| 20 | This is probably the result of both the lower volume of distribution and the lower first-pass gastric metabolism of alcohol in women compared with men . |
| 21 | The Rev. Thomas Arnold , founder of the Oral School for the Deaf at Northampton in 1868 after trying out the system with only a limited success with a special class at the Yorkshire Institution where that great advocate of sign language , Charles Baker , was Principal , did probably more than any other person to establish the oral system in Britain with the fine academic record of his school . |
| 22 | and they , they beat out the rhythm in much the same way |
| 23 | It is very tempting to pursue here the question of how an optimum distribution of relevant information throughout the firm can be achieved , without a considerable degree of centralised control . |
| 24 | Alternatively the story of how the Robartes family came to have the money to build Lanhydrock House in the Fowey valley could be considered a tale of blatant exploitation , outrageous usury and greed . |
| 25 | Made by the Current Affairs Dept rather than Light Entertainment , TW3 was undoubtedly the father of Not The Nine O'Clock News , Have I Got News For You , Who Dares Wins ( etc ) and , to an extent , Monty Python — a sort of televisual Private Eye . |
| 26 | Joy retold how the problem of how the mobile coffin in transit was resolved , and Alan spoke movingly about his feelings for Nigel and about the whole concept of a DIY funeral . |
| 27 | It is important , however , not to read into this recommendation more than was intended for , as will become clear , it was never the intention of either the Wolfenden Committee or those who were eventually successful in their campaign to incorporate the majority of its proposals in the criminal law , to remove the stigma from homosexuality . |
| 28 | Secondly the child of perhaps a second husband or wife so your stepchildren if you have any . |
| 29 | Therefore the plan of how the maintenance operation is to be achieved is a significant factor in underwriting delivery confidence . |
| 30 | There was an abandoned city on the coast to the south of the G'bai , and the G'bai itself was almost certainly the result of either a nuclear war or an accident of such proportions that it had produced large-scale volcanic activity . |