Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 To celebrate the occasion , they were given an emotional send off by the bus drivers who 've spent the last three years transporting them to and from home .
2 Though civilization crumbles , let those who are civilized remain so to the end !
3 How many seconds will it be before 6 and 12 flash again at the same time ?
4 This has had major impacts on occupational structure and the social make up of the town , on lifestyles , culture and politics .
5 They were piled haphazardly , some put back in the wrong sleeves , and were mainly recordings of Italian opera .
6 There is paper everywhere , some spread all around the office in every conceivable place and untidily on the few shelves available .
7 Additionally if in relation to the gift the donee seeks to get some benefit over to the donor the transaction may be caught by the associated operations provisions contained in FA 1986 , Sched 20 , para 6(1) ( c ) .
8 Of the 40 guests at Cannigione , slightly more than half sail mainly on the windsurf programme .
9 12 Look carefully at the edge of your protractor .
10 Do you want another lie down on the settee ?
11 OF THE OTHER NEW ‘ JAPANESE ’ SAVOY titles , a few stand out from the crowd .
12 But some get closer to the feeling , the experience or the thought than others .
13 Three days before you go away make sure you do a proper clean up of the tank .
14 The roots of this belong not in the New Testament but in Latin legalism .
15 The theory is that data from the vast bulk of incoming faxes is later inputted in some form back into the computer .
16 He 's wirily built , not tall : large feet in huge old leather boots , and here , as later on the steep pull up onto the Crazy Pinnacle , he climbs with a deft , urgent economy .
17 Course it 's worth bothering because a lot of young men that was unemployed come down to the school where I 'm the caretaker and they said , we know that you 're running short is there any chance of getting in on the scene ?
18 Perhaps the main reason why we British have not in the past been particularly enthusiastic about positive health maintenance is that sensible medical advice on the subject is mainly concerned with telling us not to do things .
19 Although sentences of the type illustrated by 1 and 2 occur sporadically throughout the data , a number of lexical and syntactic constraints seem to inhibit the co-occurrence of a singular verb with a plural subject .
20 The usual sail up in the " Columba. " the story is absurdly long already . "
21 But even though Lewis used him for target practice with heavy right crosses and upper-cuts , he could not floor the durable American , who took a standing eight count early in the fourth round .
22 A FRESH wave of confidence swept through the market yesterday and boosted the FT-SE 100 Index back through the psychological 2,700 level .
23 Articles on BS 5750 appear regularly in the educational and general press nowadays and there is a growing interest in the application of the British Standard to the service industries .
24 Or if it 's gon na occur but it seems to me it would , or sounds like it would be a simple let in to the
25 If this annual clear up round the farm did n't take place , we should be in a hell of a mess by now .
26 With the exception of glue ( 13.9% ) , the figures for substances abused in 1991 differ little from the overall figures .
27 The first six relate directly to the Earth Summit , the last two provide an opportunity for people to get more involved in practical initiatives and to help to raise more pledges for the Tree of Life within your local community .
28 So the next morning , they ran down to the fence and watched the 9.15 come out of the tunnel .
29 So I might be showing myself doing worst than I should be but , look , my actual come out about the same and so when I compare my actual with my planned , I get er , an answer which should approach one .
30 The 1986 and 1987 figures show a rapid pick up for the larger firms in particular .
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