Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [vb pp] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | just been finished off the rigs . |
| 2 | Genes for failure to resist enslavement by cuckoos can easily be passed down the generations of robins or dunnocks . |
| 3 | The site was sold to Vickers for £300,000 in 1946 and thus was brought about the end of a motor racing legend . |
| 4 | Thus was ushered in the era of management in the development game . |
| 5 | A bar will also be carried on the train . |
| 6 | They are structured in such a way that while we feel our way visually into the space suggested by the subject our eyes are simultaneously being run up the picture by short thrusts in and out of a limited pictorial depth . |
| 7 | Here is carried out the most theoretical physics of any in Britain . |
| 8 | It was a common experience for me to fall in love with love and then be led up the garden path , only to be rejected and mocked . |
| 9 | Its annual fairs and three weekly markets brought sellers and purchasers from miles around and goods from overseas were brought up the river Ouse right into the heart of the city , York remained one of the leading provincial centres , despite its decline to less than 8,000 people in the 1520s after the collapse of its cloth industry and the decay of its overseas trade . |
| 10 | A final decision has not yet been taken on the possible move . |
| 11 | The WE177 free-fall bomb will be approaching the end of its service life around the turn of the century , but no decision has yet been taken on the system to replace it , or where it will be based . |
| 12 | Er but that were full of praise for the activities of the fire service in particular and whilst most was levelled out the N R A Southern Water to some extent District local authority er were coping incredibly well and continue to do so . |