Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where vendors can not agree on where the problem lies , they will at least inform the customer in writing of the reason . |
| 2 | Premier John Major is prepared to lead an unprecedented series of bruising encounters at Number 10 to allow warring departments to agree on where the Treasury axe will fall . |
| 3 | Well you either put one bar on or the lot is on or it 's very dim like this is low and you ca n't see it at all . |
| 4 | ‘ Where the processes carried on or the machinery installed are such as could be carried on or installed in any residential area without detriment to amenity of that area by reason of noise , vibration , smell , fumes , soot ash , dust or grit ’ . |
| 5 | We retreated to the crest of the island , and sat down where the turf was clean and dry . |
| 6 | ‘ Rode through forty nights of the gospels ' rain Black sky pourin' snakes frogs And love in vain You were down where the river grows wider Baby let me be your soul rider . ’ |
| 7 | Then somebody calls out and they find Andy , round the bend in the river , down where the water reappears from a crust of ice and snow and swirls , lowered and reduced , round the rocks and wedged tree-trunks before the lip of the falls , which sound muted and distant today , even this close . |
| 8 | I 'm sure you 'll find one down where the dross and scum gather . ’ |
| 9 | Tug sat down where the Woman pointed , but Doyle began to walk round the room , peering at the table from all angles . |
| 10 | It 's basically a 6-string guitar with two sets of crossed strings underneath and another set of plucked strings down where the volume and tone controls would be . |
| 11 | All shell suits are cotton lined , except from the knee down where the nylon replaces the cotton for ease when slipping over shoes . |
| 12 | Down where the chef worked , a temperature gauge on the wall stood at 102° Fahrenheit , but tall willowy Angus , whose high hat nearly brushed the ceiling , looked cool and unperturbed . |
| 13 | ‘ I try not to be as foolish u the doctor , and not to blunder in where the Inspector wishes to go quietly . |
| 14 | When she tried to imagine herself working in an office or a bank , her mind soon went blank , like a cinema screen when the projector breaks down or the film snaps . |
| 15 | If the ship goes down or the basket gets broken , that 's what happens . |
| 16 | Nothing was heard apart from the sound of lead boots walking up and down or the revving of a motorbike . |
| 17 | Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way . |
| 18 | If he walked in or the girl came to clean the grate , she 'd pretend to be talking to a tradesman : ‘ It really was more fat than lean . |
| 19 | Simple things like the rain on the window pane , the cat mewing to come in or the noise of a bus which could be on top of you before it is seen . |
| 20 | Either can be got rid of by bleeding the radiator at the air vent ( page 154 ) , but if this needs doing frequently , find the cause of the air getting in or the corrosion and cure . |
| 21 | What would happen is the prescription would be written and they 'd either get it from the chemist who would constantly have a stock coming in or the hospital . |
| 22 | Use the information in this chapter to draw up your own advertising campaign for the shop you work in OR the shop of your dreams . |
| 23 | A fresh horse may pull from exuberance and will settle down once the fizz has gone . |
| 24 | It is appropriate in this case that there should be an interim residence order , and there should be directions attached to that order that A. be returned forthwith to the care of his father and that G. , R. and M. remain in the care of their father and that there be an inter partes hearing with service of the application as quickly as the Portsmouth County Court can make it possible to be heard , which means within a matter of days not a matter of weeks , because it would be quite wrong for this matter to die down once the child is returned . |
| 25 | Mr. Beazley submitted : ( i ) the Court of Justice authorities have laid down that the wording of the Schedule is to be given an independent interpretation and is not to be construed in accordance with national law . |
| 26 | Gold made up less than a quarter of the Company 's exports from West Africa ; its charter recognized recent changes in trading patterns by laying down that the Company was to provide slaves for the English colonies in the Caribbean , and then giving it a monopoly of the trade . |
| 27 | The reform of the legal system ( 1864 ) was explicitly modelled on advanced western practice , and laid down that the law was to be overseen by an independent judiciary . |
| 28 | The other story I recall to mind about this time is that Cranwell in those days must have been the coldest spot south of the Arctic Circle and the ration of coal to fire the single stove in a billet of 22 erks took little account of the temporary hutment , Some genius had laid down that the ration of coal would he 1lb of coal every other day was sufficient to ward off armies of brass monkeys that descended on Cranwell in winter . |
| 29 | Dr Runcie denied his vision of a universal primacy would affect the Queen 's position under the British constitution , which lays down that the monarch must be a Protestant . |
| 30 | But I mean you 've , you 've actually passed up your good news by putting it so far down that the editor might well have read the first paragraph . |