Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pledges to check expenditure were not kept ; indeed , it continued to rise , as did the district rate , a fact that was conveniently blamed on the unfortunate legacy of labour 's investment programme , but was due rather to the desire of the Alliance to extend municipal enterprise and trading , particularly in tram-ways and electricity . |
| 2 | Do you come alive slowly in the mornings or do you leap out of bed searching for a pencil to capture your best thoughts ? |
| 3 | The problem is in fact that 's exa in fact I did that right at the start , right ? |
| 4 | This is of course why we , we are proposing the trial in which would er give us an end performance grass cutting contract but we do n't want to do that right across the county because of the projected cost , until we know whether it would work . |
| 5 | Erm so I think we 've got ta look at that right across the board though , we 've got ta know that in actual fact we 're covering it temporarily , erm or are n't we covering it temporarily . |
| 6 | People were saying the union can do something we can fight back and we need to translate that right across the country . |
| 7 | Coupled with the Phantom 's one-piece maple neck , with the same radius as the Teardrop and a low action with wide string spacing , the feel is comfortable and friendly right up the neck , and barre chords above the twelfth fret are no trouble at all . |
| 8 | ‘ So you remained friendly right through the war , did you ? ’ |
| 9 | The basal conglomerate in England is full of boulders of a distinctive purple , " liver-coloured " and white quartzites that have been matched with the Gres de May and the Gres Armoricain right across the other side of the English Channel in Brittany ( though I regard with some scepticism the notion that the boulders here travelled so far ) . |
| 10 | And I think that somewhere along the line , erm , even if it 's only a moderate sum , we should make definite erm , approaches to start the ball rolling in this preventative effect , because I think we 're going , every , every budget head in the whole of the county or anythi or anybody else who 's got a budget , is going to pay the penalty , so I would like that to see if there 's any movement , any way we can address that particular problem , er , during our , our discussions . |
| 11 | She did not doubt but that somewhere amongst the records and corporate memory of the Society would be someone who knew Hereward Marr very well indeed . |
| 12 | that somewhere in the world it is coming to pass : |
| 13 | And you use that somewhere in the and you tie that to one car and then join that up . |
| 14 | In the woods between Lāmri and U hu where the path drops steeply down , the stream had frozen solid right across the path and we had to pick our way for half a mile , across the ice . |
| 15 | This finding suggests , that high infant mortality of first order births in populations characterized by early marriage may be attributable mostly to the very young age of mothers at first birth . |
| 16 | Ramsden says the two disciplines ought to complement each other , but that most on the classical advertising side are unwilling to compromise their careful concepts with phone numbers or mailshot back-ups . |
| 17 | Not forgetting in that most of the mines then , at that particular time , were nearly all privately owned . |
| 18 | But it does n't work out like that most of the time |
| 19 | In fact the incidence of giving an answer such as 5.882 etc. in the stamps question was low ; probably because many pupils in the sample did not use a calculator to do the question . |
| 20 | A striking feature of these statistics is the high proportion of youth unemployment , due mostly to the decline in job opportunities for young people during the recession . |
| 21 | was due wholly to the negligence or wrongful act of a government or other authority in exercising its function of maintaining lights or other navigational aids . |
| 22 | The Act provides that there is no liability under this head for damage which is due wholly to the fault of the person suffering it and that contributory negligence is a partial defence . |
| 23 | Such unemployment as exists at any time is due wholly to the frictional resistances [ which ] prevent wage and price adjustments being made instantaneously . |
| 24 | The two rabbits went up to the board at a hopping run and crouched in a patch of nettles on the far side , wrinkling their noses at the smell of a dead cigarette-end somewhere in the grass . |
| 25 | We have a better staff-inmate ratio than France or west Germany , and if we include prison auxiliaries and night patrols , we do not compare all that badly with the Scandinavian countries . |
| 26 | Ken did n't have to put on drag in Carry On Screaming , the first of three 1966 releases , but in Carry On — Do n't Lose Your Head , he did get to wear a woman 's frilly corset which did n't go all that badly with the curled wig he wore as Citizen Camembert , the ‘ big cheese ’ of the French Revolutionary secret police . |
| 27 | ‘ Eight somewhere down the back , ’ said the auctioneer . |
| 28 | If a response to selection occurs , and if ageing in the original base population were attributable entirely to the presence of more or less age-specific deleterious mutations , then no immediate drop in survival or fertility would be expected to occur earlier in life . |
| 29 | Although not without its unique merits , ZBB does not differ that greatly from the ill-fated PPB experiments ’ . |
| 30 | He crossed the corridor in two strides and sat in a small room that was used for counselling or small case conferences , leaving the door open and flipping impatiently through the file . |