Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would n't surprise me to hear it was locally referred to as the sugar sifter ( a metaphor at last ! ) , one of those useless gadgets dispensing too little or too much in cheap cafés . |
| 2 | The precise costing of the alternatives was difficult ( particularly since the nationalised rail and coal industries both refused to give guidance on their future prices which were a crucial element in the analysis ) , but by 1950 a working party chaired by Sayers concluded that , on balance , a higher-voltage superimposed network — Citrine insisted it be more elegantly referred to as the ‘ Supergrid ’ — would be worthwhile . |
| 3 | The Z1 Carbonate is also widely referred to as the Zechsteinkalk and in N.E. England it is known locally as the Lower and Middle Magnesian Limestone ( Brueren 1959 ; Füchtbauer 1964 and 1972 ; Richter-Bernburg 1955 ; Rhys 1975 ; Smith 1980 ; Taylor 1981 ; Taylor and Colter 1975 ; van Adrichem-Boogaert and Burgers 1983 ; Wagner et al . |
| 4 | I like somewhere to go to in the morning . |
| 5 | As a result , what is often loosely referred to as the ‘ environmental movement ’ or ‘ the environmental lobby ’ now encompasses an enormous range of groups from anarchic ‘ eco-freaks ’ to establishment institutions like the Countryside Commission and from small , parochial amenity societies to multi-national pressure groups like Friends of the Earth . |
| 6 | The occasion of a partner leaving or joining the firm should always be taken as the opportunity to update the provisions of the agreement and , since each single provision is properly looked at in the context of the entire document , it is the whole agreement which should then be reconsidered and not simply isolated clauses . |
| 7 | It is clearly undesirable and often more expensive to admit or keep in district general hospitals or long stay hospitals old or mentally ill or mentally handicapped people who could be properly looked after in the community . |
| 8 | The collapse must have been much commented on in the Edinburgh print and publishing trade , but the local press was discreet . |
| 9 | Students would lose the right to social security benefits , but the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals last night pledged to fight this element — only referred to in the bill 's preface — throughout its parliamentary passage and the courts if necessary . |
| 10 | This committee , made up of government representatives , was sometimes grandiosely referred to as the ‘ Spaak II Committee ’ ( after the body which had drawn up the Rome Treaties in the 1950s ) . |
| 11 | Down below , thieves , assassins , trolls and merchants all realised at about the same moment that they were in a room made treacherous of foothold by gold coins and containing something , among the suddenly menacing shapes in the semi-darkness , that was absolutely horrible . |
| 12 | It remains to mention a point much relied upon by the applicant , namely that if section 2 stands unqualified , the investigation will continue in being , and hence the inquisitorial powers of the Director will continue to be exercisable , until the prosecution is either dropped , or concluded by a verdict . |
| 13 | The metaphysical framework for the neurophysiology of perception is provided by the Causal Theory of Perception ( henceforth referred to as the CTP ) . |
| 14 | Any repairs or replacements or renewals of furnishings are noted on the cards , and they are constantly referred to by the housekeeping and maintenance departments , whose responsibility it is to see that the room is maintained to the required standard . |
| 15 | The documents obtained in this way were stored in an archive in Salamanca ( where they remain to this day ) and , after the end of the war , were constantly referred to by the military courts trying suspected Republicans . |
| 16 | When the County School had moved to the Oxford side of the town in 1930 , generous provision of land had been made and that was prudently added to over the years . |
| 17 | ‘ The constable in certain districts ’ , The Pall Mall Gazette ( 19 February 1901 ) observed , ‘ is apparently looked upon as the common enemy whom it is right to kick and beat whenever that can be done with safety . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We are basically looked upon as the end of things , ’ says Richard Faulkner . |
| 19 | The barely submerged class antagonism much alluded to in the local humour is both true and false . |
| 20 | Jack enjoyed his early training and displayed the sort of ability much sought after by the Signal and Telegraph Department . |
| 21 | During the World Cup , McKenzie was much sought after by the Victorian media and public . |
| 22 | ‘ It would seem odd that facilities so much sought after by the community and approved by their legislators should be actionable at common law because they have been brought to the places where they are required and have escaped without negligence by an unforeseen series of mishaps . ’ |
| 23 | Certainly the measurement of programme expenditure has lagged far behind that of administrative expenditure ( National Audit Office , 1986b , para 12 ) , while ‘ little progress ’ has also apparently been made with integrating performance measurement with the public expenditure survey and parliamentary supply procedures ( Richards , 1987 , pp. 28–9 ) — a development much sought after by the Financial Management Unit . |
| 24 | The family had always been interested in the leather trade , indeed as far back as eighteen hundred and fourteen er , our ancestors were tanners in the south country , and we make an article known as Hooper 's saddle food , which is much sought after by the saddlers , and other people using similar sort of leathers . |
| 25 | He himself says that he was ‘ del ordre de freres menours ’ , and that he was ‘ ordenours ’ , which probably means that he had the right to administer absolution ( a right much sought after by the mendicants ) . |
| 26 | He was nevertheless much sought after by the people , his signature on documents , for example , being regarded as a good-luck charm . |
| 27 | It 's an idyillic setting for a wedding … and one much sought after by the villagers of Lydiard Millicent near Swindon . |
| 28 | Although the qualification was very much sought after in the beginning with the burgeoning of more centres running it up and down the country , the trainees soon realised that in spite of the skills they gained , the diploma was not recognised by the DES even as a first stage towards further accreditation . |
| 29 | Erm literally training throughout throughout the year . |
| 30 | So one person will do the bandage on the elbow and the other person with the good looking knees , you 'll be the casualty for where you 've got to put the knee bandage on , cos you wo n't , if you do n't roll your trousers up a bit you 're not going to have much bandage to do much bandaging with on the knee , okay , so decide amongst yourselves who 's got the good looking knee |