Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Because there was so little going on with the band I arranged to give myself a bit of a holiday .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 With so much going on at the office , it is a wonder that Mr Lawrence has much time left for anything else .
5 ‘ I never knew there was so much going on in the world , ’ she said to John one day .
6 The key is not so much to end up with the right plan as to engage in strategic thinking .
7 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 .
8 How long those last back in the office , and how far they actually influence decision-making , is unquantifiable .
9 He would he 'd been identified as a character that was at least stirring up trouble , but gradually this filtered through to the authorities .
10 We were probably all busy out in the fields at the time since it happened at the beginning of September .
11 Well like what are the band doing after practice , are they doing anything , they 're probably all going on to the Cutty Sark at Greenwich or something .
12 Now that comes back to the question is , are salesman born or are they made ?
13 For example writers usually form the beginnings of words reasonably well , but often this tails off towards the ends of words .
14 Those three elements now all come out of the same fund , with discretion in the hands of the FHSA to use the fund for any one of those three purposes , but with a clear steer that the amount for the current year should be roughly £20 million , which my hon. Friend mentioned .
15 For many people , particularly those brought up under the sway of the Judeo-Christian religions , physical control of emotional expression is learnt at an early age , and by adulthood can be practised to a high level of subtlety and skill .
16 Unfortunately this fell out on the third ascent .
17 The presidential year does cost the individual money ; if it is decided that one 's partner goes to dinners then this comes out of the individual 's pocket and is not subsidised , at least in my case , by anyone else , and it is entirely a matter of personal choice as to how this part of the arrangements is made .
18 We shut the place up early that evening and then all went round to the pub for a further celebration .
19 So I just kept on my way , letting then all come along for the ride , while I hunted for confirmation of what I suspected and feared about Gharr .
20 Only 25 of the forty aircraft entered were ready to start , and then several dropped out on the first leg due to mechanical problems .
21 Yet all turned out for the best : on 20 July 1836 , Daniel Jones returned Benjamin his indenture , only too pleased to inscribe on the back of it the fact that he had appreciated the boy 's seven years with him , and making him a generous gift of five pounds in the process .
22 However , such important nutrients as nitrates and phosphates are generally scarce , because rates of bacteria decomposition in the soils of the catchment areas are low , and very little leaches out into the water .
23 There was very little going on in the neighbourhood , or even further afield , of which Purvis was not apprised .
24 That does mean that they have already had a very difficult exercise in terms of looking at an , an efficiency effectiveness distribution of funding and how they manage the service , and that 's very much tied in with the children 's services plan , which Mike referred to earlier on , and which is later on the agenda .
25 And secondly , and very much wrapped up in the same point with this , they 're also coy about the sort of people they 're looking for .
26 That was we were main one of the , my father seen er possibilities er when he attended the London show , he went er he , he was very much taken on with the Morris Cowley first of all .
27 The women were asked ‘ Do you find you have too much to get through during the day ? ’
28 ‘ Or maybe I just do n't see too much to laugh about at the moment .
29 If you have too many coming out of the oven at the same time , some will set too hard while the others are being rolled up .
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