Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Established in 1985 with an initial funding of about £14 million , DELTA has now commissioned 30 projects for its exploratory phase , most due to report back to the Commission early in 1991 . |
| 2 | Because there was so little going on with the band I arranged to give myself a bit of a holiday . |
| 3 | One therefore gets trapped into a situation where it appears much easier to carry on in the business than to divest , or move out . |
| 4 | It 's much easier to get through to the other side of the world than to the other side of London , and the lines are much clearer too . |
| 5 | So this damping down of the sensory input when attention moves elsewhere can occur very early in the pathway from the sense organ to the brain . |
| 6 | The Americans could take this a little further , but after Schweinfurt they had to stop and lick their wounds ; and so this leads on to the inevitable topic when I am confronted with the audiences I meet in all those places . |
| 7 | With so much going on at the office , it is a wonder that Mr Lawrence has much time left for anything else . |
| 8 | ‘ I never knew there was so much going on in the world , ’ she said to John one day . |
| 9 | The key is not so much to end up with the right plan as to engage in strategic thinking . |
| 10 | And as a business , politician and freemason , it was only natural to go off to the golf course on a Sunday . |
| 11 | Only 2,222 turned up at the Vic for the 3–1 win against Exeter on Tuesday well below the average attendance for the season , 3,500 . |
| 12 | ‘ I informed everyone in local league cricket , including 21 clubs of Asian boys , but only three turned up for the first week . |
| 13 | It 's important not to lose your security of tenure in council accommodation — which is so hard to come by in the first place — by making yourself " voluntarily homeless ' . |
| 14 | I did n't really stop to look earlier — I was just so glad to get out of the weather . ’ |
| 15 | From this position it is less likely to run out over the fur . |
| 16 | This is why so many businesses fail and , almost worse , why so many linger on with the craftsman under-rewarded and never developing his full potential . |
| 17 | Because the elite , through their superior wealth , are better able to live up to the so-called modern values , which are all the more costly to support because of their external source , they are further differentiated from the poor . |
| 18 | In the longer term the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees tried to help individual farmers to eke out an adequate living , encourage the organization of small farmers at the village level , and foster the growth of a farming structure better able to stand up to the rigours of occupation than the present one in which middlemen and large landowners dominated agriculture . |
| 19 | How long those last back in the office , and how far they actually influence decision-making , is unquantifiable . |
| 20 | The safety factor was also important as older people were not so able to jump out of the way of stock or swinging gates . |
| 21 | A tavern in Southwark is , many would say , only one step up from the place you were spirited from . ’ |
| 22 | Pay in the professional grade of the civil service is better at starting than in the administrative grade , and it is only one step down at the top . |
| 23 | Soilless composts will do very well as they are , keeping them slightly on the dry side , but be very careful , as such composts take a long time to dry out but then do so completely with alarming rapidity , and are exceedingly difficult to wet through to the centre of the root-ball . |
| 24 | These patients can experience many kinds of problems when in a different environment such as increased stiffening of the back and limbs due to lack of exercise because they find it so difficult to get out of the hospital chair ; and incontinence for the same reason . |
| 25 | Both sides were finding it ruinously expensive to keep up in the race . |
| 26 | This means that it is only necessary to strike out in the declaration at the top of the second page to the effect that the survivor can ( for joint tenancy ) or can not ( tenancy in common ) give a valid receipt for capital money . |
| 27 | But evolution ploughed on remorselessly , enabling only the most adaptable to go on to the next stage . |
| 28 | Mr Clive Ponting 's acquittal by a jury in February 1985 , after he had admitted to passing official Government papers to a person not authorised to receive them , the very essence of section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 , and despite the most explicit summing up by the trial judge that they should convict , raises the question of what motivated the jury . |
| 29 | They are scarcely free to shop around for the officer who would give them the easiest time . |
| 30 | It could be argued that had England scored faster on the second day they would have won comfortably , but having controlled the game from the beginning they were desperately unlucky to lose out to the weather ; and for the fans listening at home it was especially frustrating that it was a beautiful evening in England . |