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

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1 Indeed I am rather coming round to the view that the trouble last year was not that we failed to produce as good policies as our opponents but that we failed to produce policies for the issues the electorate was most interested in .
2 The cost of choice for the majority is the absence of choice for the minority who will never afford to buy , … ‘ the Right to Buy ’ and growth of owner-occupation are effectively carried out on the backs of poor people .
3 The interest payments you make to the fund are effectively paid back to the members of the Scheme as pensions later .
4 I mean increasingly small authorities are effectively opting out of the national negotiat now we ca n't ignore th
5 Husam eddin rejects the story of the quarrel and the dating of Molla Fenari 's departure in the reign of Bayezid I , asserting that Karaman had been wholly taken over by the Ottomans in 793/1391 while the documents ( dated 796,802 and 804 ) show Molla Fenari 's period of office as kadi to have fallen after that date ; and he says rather that Molla Fenari returned to Karaman with Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey in early 805/summer 1402 , following the battle of Ankara ( Dhu " l-Hijja 804/July 1402 ) , when the latter was freed and reinstated by Timur and Karaman reconstituted as an independent state .
6 But this good control , plus the fine grip and limited body roll , are badly let down in the driver appeal stakes by the steering .
7 Such an exercise can span huge parameter ranges in which quite different behaviours are observed ( but all of which are intimately tied up with the existence of periodic orbits : even the strange attractor is densely packed with unstable orbits ) .
8 As the question of his death date , and indeed the circumstances of his death , are intimately bound up with the vexed problem of the identity of his successor , further discussion of it may suitably be left to the following chapter .
9 . The letters of all good soldiers show that the military duties of the soldier and his good military bearing are indivisibly bound up with the loyalty to the Führer and thus with a genuine National Socialist attitude in general …
10 Activists are illegally dismissed , strikes are forcibly broken up by the army or police and many unionists have been killed .
11 Even Dmitri 's sorrow had been mostly used up by the fading of his father 's life , remorselessly , year by year .
12 They receive a child who has been badly let down in the past , who has to learn , painfully , how to care and trust again .
13 By recruiting four players from Telford 's cup-winning squad from last season , Jets have considerably strengthened their ranks and , having been effectively counted out of the championship race , are gambling on cup success .
14 Creatures that bestride the dividing line between amphibians and reptiles and between mammals and protomammals , are constantly turning up in the fossil record .
15 The slow homogenisation of large families could take many thousands of generations ; but chromosomes are constantly shared out among the members of a population .
16 ‘ I 'm going to turn into one of those old guys who are constantly harping on about the war , about ration books and bomb shelters .
17 They began to realise that many procedures had been wrongly carried out in the management of the case , in particular that the Social Work Department were not implementing the decisions of the Children 's Panel .
18 Prickett , a former captain of the Wanderers , has been warmly welcomed back at the Memorial Grounds .
19 Some sociologists have researched ‘ counter school ’ youth cultures , and how they are naturally carried over onto the shopfloor .
20 Further , he suggested that the principle of the exemption of the civilian population from being an intentional object of warfare had been so whittled down during the Second World War and in post-1945 treaties as to cease to offer reliable guidance except in the most unambiguous circumstances .
21 It was not that I eventually doubted that the Almighty responded to faith , but that because I had been so bound up by the desert , so full of self-interest , so neglectful of the God I was supposed to serve , that I could not have expected any co-operation from him .
22 Hitherto she had been so tied up in the day-to-day mechanics of the company that she was often forced to consider time for research as a luxury .
23 The Antipodean visitor was VH–AQJ/A17–26 , which had been especially crated over to the UK for the event and was expected to spend about a month or so in the country before returning home .
24 When the earth had been finally pressed down round the tree roots , Peter Dawson had put his arm round his wife 's tiny waist and they had surveyed their handiwork with obvious satisfaction .
25 To Sulentic 's surprise , he has also found that the connection can be traced right into the central nucleus of NGC 43 19 — very much as we might expect if , as Arp has often suggested , high redshift objects are somehow shot out from the centres of otherwise normal galaxies .
26 The arrangements for such a meeting are normally set out in the articles of association of the company .
27 Advertising costs and any expenses incurred in hiring premises are normally passed on by the estate agents to the vendor , whether or not the auction results in a sale .
28 Xenophon 's teachings are best summed up by the following statements :
29 Once they have finished and died down , they are best planted out in the garden .
30 But once I have passed my test , I am not allowed out on the road without insurance .
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