Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have great difficulty coming to terms with all that was being said under H one about migration and the relationship to Leeds and the idea that it matters enormously in the realm exactly where this new settlement , which I hope does go ahead , actually goes . |
| 2 | For example , how should policy makers react if , having been persuaded that the larger part of observed unemployment is Keynesian , they are also persuaded that NAIRU lies well within the range BC in Figure 8.8 ? |
| 3 | My father still lives there in the house where I grew up . ’ |
| 4 | Freedberg : ‘ For Kosuth , then , an art such as Hans Haacke 's in which the message lies primarily in the content simply reinforces the positions already held by his viewers . |
| 5 | Mr Wallace 's shadow lies heavily across the state where he was governor for four terms and where his wife Lurleen ( who has a museum to herself , complete with wax mannequins wearing her clothes ) was governor for one . |
| 6 | He looks forward to the day when home computers are so widespread that the price for software will drop by 75 per cent . |
| 7 | There is no doubt she feels that she has paid a high price for her royal life and looks forward to the day when she can spend a weekend in Paris or , as she says , ‘ I can run along a beach without a policeman following me ’ . |
| 8 | Birthtales looks forward to the day when these female experiences are considered to be a valid subjects for inclusion in galleries . |
| 9 | It is level , it 's available , the developer may provide a , an amenity area , it says so in the letter anyway , for the town , and a route across the river to . |
| 10 | This heat loss depends also on the temperature outside ( the lower it is , the more heat you lose ) and the temperature you require inside ( the higher it is , the more you lose ) . |
| 11 | Spring snow , as you might imagine , occurs late in the season when the offpiste is covered with a fall of snow too heavy to ski as powder , which remaining untracked , freezes into a firm — but not rock solid ( because it has not been compressed by skiers ) — cover . |
| 12 | What are the common wages of labour , depends everywhere upon the contract usually made between those two parties , whose interests are by no means the same . |
| 13 | The track climbs steadily through the woodland where the yew trees are of special interest . |
| 14 | The Second period is that which starts from the beginning of life and reaches onward to the time when the law of the survival of the fittest with its ruthlessness could no longer serve the aspirations towards increasing happiness that were beginning to creep into the dawning consciousness of primitive man . |
| 15 | This chapter deals principally with the situation where the husband and the wife hold the matrimonial home in their joint names ( whether as beneficial joint tenants or as tenants in common ) and , as a result of property adjustments , the husband 's interest in the home is conveyed or transferred to the wife 's new husband or friend . |
| 16 | Sounds like in the bedroom up there . |
| 17 | Immediately the archer fish has fired , it swims rapidly to the point where its prey will fall into the water , ready to catch and eat it . |
| 18 | One eye shifts right round the body so that it takes up a position alongside the other . |
| 19 | ‘ She just feels rather under the weather sometimes . |
| 20 | The beck falls away under the bridge here in a short cascade and it was a pleasant spot to sit watching clouds crossing the sky and the breeze shaking the delicate water avens on the bank . |
| 21 | Some archer fish are able to line up their prey so precisely that it falls directly into the water below , and within easy reach of the fish , instead of being knocked inconveniently into the distance . |
| 22 | Courtaulds chief executive Sipko Huismans speaks frankly about the year ahead . |
| 23 | Howard goes across to the man curiously , since he does n't know anyone in this city . |
| 24 | The XJ speeds north over the road-bridge , no lights or siren on but we clip along and it 's the smoothest fucking motorway journey I 've ever had ; just a total hassle-free zone creaming along around the ton with no worries about unmarked police cars and hoo-wee the traffic in front of us just fucking evaporates ; man , just brakes ( and wobbles sometimes as the guy probably gets the cold sweats and the wo-where'd-my-stomach-go ? feeling ) , swings meekly left and brakes again ; you 've never seen a beefy BMW 5-series duck in so fast in your life ; might as well all be driving 2CVs . |
| 25 | The difference in meaning between the two coincides therefore with the distinction already made between to infinitives evoking their event as a " subsequent potentiality " and those evoking it as a " subsequent actualization " . |
| 26 | 2 The defender grasps the attacker 's fist to prevent a second punch and strikes outwards with the fan now fully open . |
| 27 | It lurks just under the surface close to the shore off the South coast of Mull near the feared Torran Rocks . |
| 28 | The fear of losing control of a class lurks just below the surface even for teachers with ‘ good discipline ’ , and for many this puts the brake on changes to their own way of teaching that they might otherwise like to try . |
| 29 | This third category of doubt strikes just at the point where the Christian is strong in faith but weak in faith 's foundations . |
| 30 | He runs away to the city where he is taken in by The Old Lady . |