Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visit the reproduction Bayeux Tapestry in the town museum , or Senlac field where William the Conqueror defeated Harold . |
| 2 | Athelstan rubbed his chin with the palm of his hand and remembered he 'd promised Benedicta to meet her at the Fleet prison where Simon the carpenter would spend his last evening on earth . |
| 3 | Where Tom the ostler listened , his face was white and peaked . |
| 4 | This was put before a wide reading public by reports of court cases and in such novels as Graham Greene 's Brighton Rock , where Colleoni the ‘ rich middle-aged Jew ’ commands his racecourse thugs . |
| 5 | Where man the maker killed to live ; |
| 6 | Where naturellement the fashion 'e start . |
| 7 | I wonder if I could answer that in a in a different way because clearly rather there 's the option , rather than reduction the operational capability which was really the er initiative that had begun in nineteen ninety two , there is the option of course of er adjusting the total numbers and that would er have an overall bearing on the total programme cost but cert because certainly the judgement of the er the chiefs of staff was that er as far as the U K was concerned then we we should retain the operational capability as I explained earlier an n and not decrease it in any significant extent because if we did that then we could end up er with an inferior capability against a potential threat . |
| 8 | For values of H less than unity the pull.out torque/speed characteristic is asymptotic to the T=0 axis . |
| 9 | It is the detailed , etched pictures that really tell the tale ; the text serves to reinforce the story but suggests rather than dictates the plot , with different monkeys taking over as narrator . |
| 10 | On both issues , he suggested , reality had long outstripped British rhetoric and Whitehall would do better bargaining on details than cold-shouldering the whole process . |
| 11 | In companies with turnover of less than £3m the average salary was £34,724 . |
| 12 | One capable of reducing by more than 90% the trio of toxic pollutants in exhaust . |
| 13 | We scoff at the pretentious person who buys the Tatler to exhibit it on the coffee table , so why should we not view with less than admiration the newspaper which bribes its readers to buy it for reasons other than its content ? |
| 14 | Kate joined Wimpey Homes nine years ago and now works out of the Middlesbrough office although covers the entire region from Berwick-upon-Tweed in the North down to Sheffield . |
| 15 | For light travelling radially in a region described by the Schwarzschild metric , eqn ( 4.10 ) , with , becomes Then if a star shrinks to a radius less than r the time taken for light to emerge from the spherical surface at r becomes infinite , which confirms Michell 's conjecture . |
| 16 | The gruesome picture , below right , also features meat skewers stuck into the hearts of her children , and shows better than words the hatred she feels for him . |
| 17 | Even when the discriminations of the zoologists began to be based on systematic classification rather than fantasy the criteria that were used to distinguish man from non-man remained very uncertain . |
| 18 | She was able to organize her day so that even though she seemed to be less harassed than Maggie the meals were always delicious and on time . |
| 19 | But in casting himself as judge rather than criminal the Reeve himself is the beguiler beguiled by the partiality of his moral vision : that is , his own self-righteousness , and his ire towards his fellows . |
| 20 | Agents , these days , they look like corporation men but Herrick was more show biz than Coco the Clown . |
| 21 | An assistant can hold the kite vertically by the leading edges , and as a ground level breeze fills the sail , releases rather than throws the kite , with the lines kept taut . |
| 22 | Although Walton the head coachman still drove her mother-in-law , the few times that Tamar had driven out , she had used their coach and pair from the days at Helmsley , with Goodison to drive her . |
| 23 | George felt rather than saw the swing of the camera that was aiming over his own left shoulder at Gerrard , felt it move backward , and then a great surge of apprehension came up into his chest , drying his mouth and clogging his throat . |
| 24 | He felt rather than saw the two girls glance at him appraisingly but took no notice . |
| 25 | She heard rather than saw the back door open and close . |
| 26 | But he knew that she stared at him , and felt rather than saw the hostility there . |
| 27 | I lie up there night after night ’ — she felt rather than saw the motion of his head back towards his home-'but I 'm with you over here . |
| 28 | She tossed her head , sending the silky swath of hair tumbling over her shoulders , and sensed rather than saw the sudden shift of emotion away from anger to a raw wild passion that stole her breath and made her legs go weak . |
| 29 | She longed for something to do other than trudge the glorious , heather-clad grouse moors . |
| 30 | Thus , to the left of E at temperatures equal to or lower than 270°C the solid consists of zinc and the eutectic mixture . |