Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The value of this approach became most evident in the period after the First World War , which many regard as marking the terminus of the era of belief in continuous evolutionary progress of human society . |
| 2 | But 1973 instead became most significant for the October Arab-Israeli War and a quadrupling of oil prices which further deepened the West 's economic difficulties . |
| 3 | It was a horrible practice , and became most common in the reign of Henry VII , and especially in the eastern counties . |
| 4 | Old land-owning families prospered and built under Queen Elizabeth I 's reign , but many of them became badly unstuck during the Civil War . |
| 5 | But then Sir John was renowned throughout the diplomatic world for his savoir-faire , his monolithic calm and his ability to remain wholly unruffled in the most trying and difficult situations . |
| 6 | It 'll remain rather cloudy in the east tonight , with some drizzly rain at times . |
| 7 | However , this view arises because a klima-genetische geomorphologie was proposed by Büdel ( 1963 ) and became widely available in the English reading literature in 1965 ( Holzner and Weaver , 1965 ) . |
| 8 | Instead of this , in the very act of shutting the door upon the departing couple , she became intensely aware of the house , as if she had now become the house . |
| 9 | In the Southern Ocean , in that great reverberating blue-green world I shared with nature , I became intensely aware of the way in which men and women have trapped themselves within cities . |
| 10 | We 've just emerged , pinching ourselves , from a decade when we got rather used to the unexpected . |
| 11 | After the achievement of political independence this nationalist fervour does not necessarily abate , and may even increase ; not only because , in many cases , the new nations remain economically dependent within the capitalist world economy , but also because their own development is conceived as a national task , closely bound up with the policies of an efficient , interventionist state . |
| 12 | That question goes rather wide of the main question . |
| 13 | That goes rather wide of the question . |
| 14 | They sometimes got incredibly bold in the competition for the fish offal ; I have seen a fisherman cleaning out the insides of a fish while a gull was hanging on to the tail tugging frantically in its attempt to get a meal ! |
| 15 | But because it is part of the school ethos ( for teachers and pupils alike ) that it is embarrassing to show that you have been hurt , people remain mostly unaware of the pain that these mundane disparagements cause . |
| 16 | There are many variations , but plan and elevations remain fundamentally unchanged in the great temples of the fifth century : of Zeus at Olympia ( plan fig. 120 ) and the Parthenon ( view fig. 129 ) . |
| 17 | In the event , the whole subject became rather fanciful in the writings of bygone heralds , their petty ‘ rules ’ never fully translated into practical expression . |
| 18 | Life now became rather difficult for the Durbeyfields . |
| 19 | In those circumstances , according to Mr Altman of New York University , the calculation about what capital structure to adopt became rather different from the conventional sort . |
| 20 | Their suspicions and anxieties were further fuelled when both Laud and the Archbishop of York , Richard Neile , were appointed to Charles 's privy council , and became intimately involved in the king 's plans to achieve a more ordered secular , as well as ecclesiastical commonwealth . |
| 21 | Why do they remain so faithful to the Conservative Party ? |
| 22 | All at once she became achingly aware of the thinness of the cotton shirt that skimmed down over her thighs , the way the deep V where she had left it unbuttoned at the neck gave glimpses of the top curve of her breasts , and she immediately backed away . |
| 23 | Ellen forgot herself so far as to sit down plump on the bed . |
| 24 | There , a tired reminder of arrangements made sufficiently confusing by the first notice . |
| 25 | That is why the contests for the Labour Party 's leadership and deputy leadership sit so ill in the context of the continuing post-mortem — or biopsy , as Neil Kinnock insisted on calling it — after Labour 's fourth consecutive election defeat . |
| 26 | By the time the threat to their system became suddenly apparent in the summer of 1989 , it was too late to shift the sort of fabulous amounts rumoured at Christmas 1989 into foreign accounts . |
| 27 | At his recommendation , the uniform of the British Army was changed to khaki which became so familiar in the subsequent world wars , |
| 28 | Soon the room became so hot with the heat of the lamps , pupils had to strip down to their shirt sleeves and wear shorts when entering the room . |
| 29 | Because high-rise flats became so popular in the city in the 1970s , the demand for modular furniture appropriate for small residences rose . |
| 30 | Sinatra became so fond of the Lawfords that he kept a special room for them at his home . |