Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Years of close military co-operation , including joint work in missile development , have given Egypt valuable information about its former Iraqi ally , which has presumably been passed on to the Americans . |
| 2 | Table 7 gives some idea of the many Friesian derivatives which have since been developed all over the world . |
| 3 | Derek Casey , the Council 's director of national services , said : ‘ A six-man emergency committee has since been set up by the ABA and major changes and re-structuring , which we think are absolutely essential for the future of amateur boxing , are now being made . |
| 4 | Many of these have since been taken on by the wider society and are to be found in all its corners influencing even those who would now deny them any real significance and tend to look back on the decade as only times of silliness and self-indulgence . |
| 5 | There the Kaszubians occupied smallholdings ; all the better farmland towards the coast had long since been taken over by the Germans . |
| 6 | EASING London 's increasing traffic congestion by means of road pricing has effectively been ruled out by the Transport Secretary , Mr Cecil Parkinson . |
| 7 | Easing London 's increasing traffic congestion by road pricing has effectively been ruled out by the Transport Secretary , Mr Cecil Parkinson who told the Commons transport committee that it would be impractical . |
| 8 | The first has effectively been ruled out by the odd admission by the federalists , and has been dealt with earlier . |
| 9 | The idea has effectively been ruled out by the Commission 's clear reference to the need for a ‘ common economic policy ’ , but the myth that it is possible to separate one from the other persists in Britain . |
| 10 | This did not imply , however , that they had necessarily been approved either by the European Parliament or by the various national parliaments and the Commission complained that Italy had implemented fewer than half of them . |
| 11 | The east-west road has only been examined once since the 1920s , during excavations on the west gate , where it evidently comprised three separate surfaces ; the latest ( road III ) can probably be identified with Jack and Hayter 's later roadway ; the middle one ( II ) was contemporary with the mid fourth-century gate and may be a localized resurfacing ; while the lowest ( I ) must represent the east-west route in the preceding centuries . |
| 12 | WC apps : 8 Runners-up : 1934 , 1962 The Czechoslovaks have only been seen twice in the tournament proper since they reached the 1962 final and on neither occasion were they able to win a match . |
| 13 | Castle continues to value video copyrights on a historical cost basis because its catalogue has only been built up over the last two or three years and there is less earnings experience on which to base a valuation . |
| 14 | Lord Mayor , I 've only been brought up under the National Health Service for thirty two years and I feel sorry for that poor doctor . |
| 15 | ‘ Remember , ’ I reminded him , ‘ that his foot has only been held up by the pressure of that piece of wood . |
| 16 | But these problems have apparently been ironed out in the current batch of models . |
| 17 | Partly because the machinery of repression has been so all-embracing for so long , stifling any messages of opposition before they reached a platform , and partly because Romania has for so long been cut off from the mainstream of European thinking and political change , constructive ideas have been hard to come by . |
| 18 | Then the mill acted as something of a milling centre , grinding corn and animal feed for surrounding parishes that lacked milling capabilities or , like Eastington , whose mills had long been turned over to the woollen trade . |
| 19 | Introduced to Britain by the Romans and to North America by its first settlers , it has long been used all round the Mediterranean bowl , and continues to be used there today . |
| 20 | Certain aspects of environmental monitoring have long been carried out by the private sector , notably that of crop states on a world-wide basis . |
| 21 | He smiled , his eyes twinkling as he told Iain how he had had a glimpse of the lower decks , which had all been cut away in the centre and some sort of plastic covering installed . |
| 22 | It was therefore with great irritation that I noticed a day or two later that they had all been moved back to the ‘ General Interest ’ section . |
| 23 | The poverty , unremitting daily grind of hardship , poor food , pawnbroking , unemployment and hopelessness , had all been chronicled before in the London of Henry Mayhew and Charles Booth . |
| 24 | Lighting , heating , ventilation have all been carried out on the most approved modern principles . |
| 25 | The single page has obviously been torn away from the Treasury tag that once attached it to its fellows and there is no sign of the promised annexes . |
| 26 | Unlike stopvalves , gatevalves only slightly restrict the flow when the valve is opened , so are fitted typically to the cold supply pipes leading from the cold water cistern where the water pressure is lower . |
| 27 | Both of these are therefore reflected in the file as being attributes of the assembly and so are rolled up into the next hierarchical level . |
| 28 | Well , I 'd better be getting down to the bus … |
| 29 | ‘ That was a dream move for him and meant a big transformation for a lad of his age to suddenly be pitched in with the stars at Liverpool , ’ said England Under-21 boss Lawrie McMenemy . |
| 30 | Their curvatures can only be obtained rigorously from the solution of Einstein 's equation . |