Example sentences of "[adj] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you consistently — and by that I mean once or twice daily — follow this waist plan you will feel and see a definite toning up of the whole line . |
| 2 | These reveal that TSP concentrations have halved since the 1960s. with the downward trend showing some levelling off during the 1980s ( figure 8.7 ) . |
| 3 | There follows the usual discussion on oppressed-minority self-detecting radar — Jewish , lesbian or otherwise — and some sniffing delicately around the problematical area of Israel , policies of and attitudes toward : Then Clint refers back to the books . |
| 4 | More recent extensions include office units built along with extra hardstanding , around 1980 , all of this blending in with the character of the remainder of the site . |
| 5 | They we were half riding , half pushing up into the mountains . |
| 6 | There 's nothing finer than standing on the edge of a Dales hill like this looking down at the landscape strung out below . |
| 7 | The train will be the Ffestiniog 's Vintage Train , made up of the oldest vehicles on the railway , some dating back to the 1860's . |
| 8 | Here there are 100,000 old books and illuminated manuscripts , some dating back to the tenth century . |
| 9 | Most of the alleged incidents occurred during 1985–89 , with some dating back to the late 1970s . |
| 10 | This pushing onwards of the chronological stages over the centuries partly reflects a second , more fundamental transformation : the cumulative impact of changes in health and demography . |
| 11 | A good many had worked there for years , some going back to the days of her grandfather . |
| 12 | The conditions are made up of a myriad of separate agreements , some going back to the 1920s . |
| 13 | Nor is there anything mystical going on in the evolution of real animals and plants . |
| 14 | This narrowing down of the focus of the original control theory seems to constitute a switch of attention from offenders to situations . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | First , the re-study noted a marked slowing down in the rate of change , partly because there was little left to change , particularly in the arable areas . |
| 17 | Tithonus creates a sense of emotional anguish by Tennyson 's use of inversion between lines five and six , ‘ Me only cruel immortality/consumes ’ : This breaking up of the main image of the poem suggests that Tithonus has been captured by immortality . |
| 18 | This breaking down of the large molecules to smaller ones is the job of enzymes . |
| 19 | Oh it took some sorting out on the next morning . |
| 20 | As I banked to port to make a full beam attack on the nearest 88 I sighted the 109s coming down on the other three . |
| 21 | I funny staring back at the car park , the car park , and the |
| 22 | Red Bank Road Bispham , with open rack 134 coming up from the Depot to go into service as an afternoon ‘ special ’ to the Gynn . |
| 23 | Yeah , so you 'd anticipate some coming in on the A fifty nine , if you went that far north , |
| 24 | This having early in the days this not be impossible to get it all typed up . |
| 25 | And all along the Cages the other eagles scuttered and muttered , some staring silently at the Men taking the oldest and most venerable among them away , others pretending not to look . |
| 26 | I have n't spoken to erm , I mean I only thought this coming along in the street , whether there 's anybody sort of notable , I mean is it , is , is , is there any value in actually having a figurehead type chairman you know , sort of celebrity type |
| 27 | Erm and er what I would like to see , and I 've long wanted to see this coming out of the church , is a rite of passage that I with integrity can offer to any parents who come to me with a , a , a lovely little baby in their arms saying to me parish minister can you give us something that would satisfy us , and they 're not saying it like this , but they want a rite of passage . |
| 28 | And there seemed an almost endless queue of freighters , tankers and oreships waiting in the roads at each end , some at anchor , some jostling politely for the lock entrances . |
| 29 | This whittling down of the 33% ( June ) or 30% ( November ) of pupils absent to a very small percentage seen as truants has implications for dealing with the problem of truancy . |
| 30 | This handing over of the Conservative party , in Denis Healey 's phrase , ‘ from the estate owners to the estate agents ’ , has been a process upper class Tories have watched with distaste . |