Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the book Mt Pelee is thinly disguised as the volcano Salpetriere , while St Pierre , the town which was actually involved in the eruption , appears as St Jacques , but the actual events of Thursday 8 May 1902 were so dramatic in themselves , and the tragedy so complete , that it seems a little unnecessary to dress up the facts in a romanticized account . |
| 2 | They allow the economically strong to drive out the economically weak , and so generate monopoly power which robs workers and consumers of any effective economic control . |
| 3 | The ideal working dress would , therefore , be one in which you could reach up high to bring down the best china , bend down low to pick up the dropped toy , feel comfortable in for walking around the park and pushing a pram or playing ball , not worry about if baby food was deposited on it , move around in easily with a baby on your hip and cover up totally for rolling out pastry or helping with painting . |
| 4 | It was felt that small companies would be less willing to take on the responsibilities of nuclear power plants . |
| 5 | Having done so much to point up the plight of blacks in the 1960s and 1970s , Ali reduced himself to little more than a comic figure in much the same way as Johnson had . |
| 6 | Corinth , which had done so much to bring on the war by urging on Sparta , was more damaged by it , and more permanently , than any other city . |
| 7 | He accomplished much while director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art , but today is apparently content to sit out the art world harbouring bitter memories of what might have been . |
| 8 | It would be so easy to give up the battle she 'd been waging against him , simply to lay down her arms and give herself up to the ecstasy of possession . |
| 9 | It was easy enough to get the front door open one-handed , not so easy to switch on the hall light with no hands at all . |
| 10 | This is what Alexander experienced and is the very reason why it took him so long to sort out the problem with his voice . |
| 11 | PREVIOUS whisky industry wisdom had it that Whyte & Mackay , largest minority shareholder of Invergordon Distillers since it made its hostile bid , was going to wait for yesterday 's results and , if they were sufficiently poor to drive down the share price , would then pounce for the remaining 8.8 per cent of shares to give it control . |
| 12 | ’ Especially when I told him you were highly unlikely to give up the phetam for me . ’ |
| 13 | The teacher may feel it is quicker and less tiring to carry out the task alone , or to ignore teaching opportunities . |
| 14 | And if we 're combining Morrissey and The Smiths ' covers , it 's only fair to point out the relative regularity with which three others have had their mugs used to shift copies . |
| 15 | It 's so difficult to add up the the hours , but I mean it 's a number of days of course it 's not working solidly you know , maybe only for an up an hour or an hour . |
| 16 | However , it seems fairly certain that the Moon is depleted in iron with respect to the Earth , not only in iron alone but also in iron-rich compounds because iron and these compounds are too dense to be sufficiently abundant to make up the iron abundance to that of the Earth . |
| 17 | I wondered why McIllvanney had not told me that Rickie and Robin-Anne Crowninshield were drug addicts , then I realised that McIllvanney would not have told me anything that might have risked my acceptance of the charter , but now that I had learned that the twins had such a severe drug problem I was even less keen to take on the job . |
| 18 | He did two more West End comedies , neither of which lasted three months , and theatre managements were suddenly less anxious to pick up the phone and plead with his agent . |
| 19 | Consequently , degeneracy can not occur and , assuming b i , … , b m are integers , it is only necessary to round down the optimal solution to the perturbed problem to obtain an optimal solution to the original problem . |
| 20 | If they are worked into a framework of thought similar to Kant 's schemata , then it is only necessary to bring up the general subject in which the images rest and they will come before the mind . |
| 21 | ‘ We 've found that in Berlin it 's not polite to pick up the phone and offer a painting . |
| 22 | The wind and rain on the little hill above Jaffa had ripped away at the paint but it was just possible to make out the words ‘ David Damiani ’ to the left of the broken wooden gate . |
| 23 | It was just possible to make out the 300 foot radio mast at the Davistow Airfield , an ex-military airfield well worth a visit , offering splendid moorland isolation and three concrete runways , the longest being 1550 metres . |
| 24 | Richard Goebel and his colleagues are not afraid to shake off the dust and restore the brightness , the vividness of the original … |
| 25 | In the allegory , it is not easy to work out the extent to which the regress is a return to Puritanian values . |
| 26 | On the adverse side , the field has become too small for comfort , and it is not easy to line up the binoculars on the target . |
| 27 | Of course it 's not easy to keep up the smiles in public , as the couple showed in Seoul yesterday when they arrived for a five-day Korean visit . |
| 28 | Fortunately , most retailers will split packs for you if buying whole packs would be uneconomical , so it 's best either to count up the numbers you need from a scale plan of the area to be tiled , or else to use the ‘ number per square metre ’ figures given above . |
| 29 | Er in most of them will er most people in Ireland will be in a pub at some stage of the day you know and it 's no unusual thing to er we 've got a recording studio in we live or I live rather and it 's not unusual to walk out the studio at er lunch time with some people you 'd been recording and go into the pub for a lunch and if you were n't very careful you could still be there that evening singing |
| 30 | But it 's not okay to walk up the same street and see somebody using something else , obviously . |