Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having started the match eight points down from the first leg , Hemel spent the first half apparently doing everything they could to double the deficit . |
| 2 | I look forward especially to a future opportunity to develop his views on the desirability of keeping national insurance contributions as low as possible and of working out exactly how that fits in with the policies of some of his right hon. and hon. Friends , but that is for another occasion , Madam Deputy Speaker . |
| 3 | Tufnell bowls , quickly , flatter , and that whistles through outside the off stump , ooh , groans and shouts of disappointment all around the wicket there , echoed by Victor Marks , yeah , yeah in the box . |
| 4 | Orwell 's socialism would reflect the democratic virtues characteristic of the English working class — ‘ the genuinely popular culture … that goes on beneath the surface , unofficially and more or less frowned on by the authorities . ’ |
| 5 | What do , in terms of erm , terms of prostitution , is that act , is that , does that bother you or are you not bo bothered really about the fact that that goes on in the area ? |
| 6 | And most of that goes on in the daytime |
| 7 | And that goes back to the early days of silage . |
| 8 | ‘ That goes out of the window when you become an outlaw . |
| 9 | Now , Julie has a modern kitchen that 's been carefully designed to make good use of all the available space , and that blends in with the style of the rest of the house . |
| 10 | Yes , I spoke to Mo Magill , he 'll see us tomorrow morning , we 'll fly up on the shuttle , I do n't know what we 'll get , but … and I 've got a line into St Louis : there 's a thing called the Western Manuscripts collection at UMSL — ghastly word , but they use it themselves , it means University of Missouri-St Louis — that latches on to the papers of operations like CCOAC , and they 've got them . |
| 11 | This fits in with the general tendency among much of the elite population in Shetland ( and Dunrossness ) to avoid raising ‘ issues ’ ( this has obviously happy consequences for those who are benefitting most from oil-related developments ) . |
| 12 | This fits in with the traditionally tight control that local authority finance directors like to keep . |
| 13 | 250 They 've become accustomed What they 're forgetting is that this fits in with the stated local plan and with original proposals set out in 1989 which is n't so long ago but people tend to forget that sort of thing 328 |
| 14 | If this turns out to the case the great wheel of horticulture really will have turned full circle . |
| 15 | These are not paintings employing the wonderful accidental effects of free watercolour washes that so many artists adopt , though most of this goes on with the underneath base washes . |
| 16 | This goes back to the very infancy of the cinema , when the camera was hand-cranked and therefore almost instantly variable in speed . |
| 17 | This goes back to the days when there were hop gardens at the rear of the pub , and picking was done by gipsy families ( shant being an old gipsy word , meaning to drink ) . |
| 18 | That 's where all the official entertaining goes on at the regatta — just to give you an idea of the scale of it , they 'll be putting away 50,000 pints of Pimm 's , 6,000 bottles of champagne and 3,000 pounds of strawbnerries . |
| 19 | All this adds up to the fact that NDBs are thoroughly unreliable . |
| 20 | All this adds up to the likelihood that the Government can not sort out the economy in the very short term and certainly can not do so this side of the general election ; they can not generate the feeling of happiness and cheerfulness about the economy which parties traditionally rely upon to win general elections . |
| 21 | This lies out with the experience of mankind so we ca n't visualize those things except to guess , and it 's a safe guess , that the reality will be worse than any nightmare . |
| 22 | The gate admits to a path , presumably made as a droveway for bringing sheep down from the fell ; this spirals up to the ridge where a turn to the right leads to the summit cairn . |
| 23 | In many pregnant women , this shows up in the form of food aversions — a strong dislike for dishes or drinks previously enjoyed . |
| 24 | This is supported by reference to three key features ( p. 114ff. ) , summarised below : Alternating decasyllabic verse is " lighter " in terms of its overall structure ; this shows up in the high degree of promotion of underlyingly unstressed function words to relative stressed status . |
| 25 | This harks back to the foreclosure issue . |
| 26 | This harks back to the debate in Chapter 6 as to the transferability of concepts and systems which originate in the commercial world to the NHS without modification . |
| 27 | This leads on to the third scenario , that decisions would be taken in economic and other fields at Community level , and that they would be submitted to the scrutiny of the European Parliament . |
| 28 | This leads on to the question of political culture . |
| 29 | This leads on to the final point . |
| 30 | This leads on to the second part of the book , in which the author begins by showing that there is a deep ambiguity in our basic concepts of causality and chance . |