Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] the [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Peter and Anna had come for interview , Anna had looked at the hills with hunger , and not at the cramped kitchen or the meanly proportioned sitting-room , and had urged Peter to accept . |
| 2 | If in any particular case because of a failure of the court to follow the rules or the well established practice there is a likelihood that injustice may have been done … a case should be relisted for hearing . ’ |
| 3 | He had been a cheerful fellow in those days and life was as inconsequential as a laugh on the wind or the carelessly squandered words of a song . |
| 4 | Bear in mind that the densely planted tank has only recently become popular . |
| 5 | On the bad side , the lack of a notch filter is unfortunate and there are a number of faults — the ‘ clip ’ indicators , the noisy switch and the badly imbalanced outputs — which indicate the need for some re-thinking at the factory . |
| 6 | During the First World War a number of Ministries set up regional offices and the newly created Ministry of Health set up nine regions — an experiment to be rudely terminated in 1921 as an economy measure . |
| 7 | The now highly developed Access Course programme and the newly introduced Evening Degree Programme provide wide opportunities in higher education for an increasing number of students who wish to enter higher education but do not have the traditional entry qualifications . |
| 8 | The urban districts of Exeter and Plymouth and the partly urbanized Tiverton District have far higher proportions of council-rented accommodation than the rural districts . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're to go to Spain to write an article about the countryside , the wildlife , this fabulous hacienda and the carefully bred horses . |
| 10 | This had the effect of realigning the traditional shipping lanes up and down the Gulf which led to the centuries-old general cargo ports in the Shatt al-Arab , Basrah and Khorramshahr , as well as the old-established Gulf ports like Bahrain and Kuwait and the recently installed array of oil terminals nearby : Mina al-Ahmadi and Mina Abdallah in Kuwait ; Ras Tanura and al-Jubail in Saudi Arabia ; Mina Saud and Ras Khafji in the Neutral Zone between the two ; Sitra in Bahrain ; Halul Island off Qatar and its onshore counterpart Umm Said ; Jabal Dhanna in Abu Dhabi and offshore Das Island ; and Kharg Island and Bandar Mah Shahr on the Iranian coast . |
| 11 | Anna stopped and swung up her camera , angling it towards the shattered trunk and the grotesquely tortured boughs . |
| 12 | Since 1987 , when he had a difficult first few months while the recently arrived Jonathan Davies was recovering from injury , he has established himself as the freshest , most innovative Welsh analyst of modern rugby . |
| 13 | This is not only the most westerly point of the mainland of Scotland but of Britain also , being further west than the better known Land 's End in Cornwall and incomparably finer , quite unspoilt and free of tourist invasions and commercial enterprises . |
| 14 | Three major divisions can be recognized ( Fig. 3.11 ) ( 1 ) the Southern ( Patagonian ) Andes , extending from Tierra del Fuego northwards to the Gulf of Penas at latitude 47°S where the actively spreading Chile Ridge extends westwards into the Pacific ; ( 2 ) the Central ( Chilean-Peruvian ) Andes reaching from the Gulf of Penas northwards to the Amotape cross structure at the Peru-Ecuador border where the northwestern trend of the mountain belt changes to a northeasterly orientation ; and ( 3 ) the northern ( Colombian-Venezuelan ) Andes , extending from the Amotape cross structure northwards and then eastwards to eventually link with the Caribbean Arc . |
| 15 | The 601 — to be released in limited quantities by the end of the year — is the low-end desktop offering , a slower machine than the recently announced IBM RS/6000 220 desktop , with a performance rating of 40 SPECmarks and a price tag of $2,000 . |
| 16 | One question that the newly appointed editor Tim Marlowe ( of the Tate 's education department ) will have to decide is the editorial stance of the magazine : he has to balance the curatorial concerns of the Tate with issues that would appeal to a general reader while treading an ideologically independent path . |
| 17 | Worst off were the private serfs , whose numbers grew with the extension of serfdom to the Ukraine and the newly settled lands of the south . |
| 18 | In tennis terms , the differences in demeanours of the newly wed Ivan Lendl and the newly awakened Henri Leconte was that of one player whose year has ended and another whose may be about to begin . |
| 19 | The exhibition ‘ Santiago Calatrava ’ in both the Gallery and the newly refurbished Florence Hall attracted huge crowds during the Autumn and received a great deal of publicity . |
| 20 | MAKING TRACKS This month we look at an 8-track from Tascam , plus a rack-mountable tuner and the mysterously titled Power Tool … |
| 21 | The newly crowned Queen and the newly knighted jockey meet on the way to the parade ring . |
| 22 | Of those who have introduced a proportion of Cabernet , only a very few — Baron de Ley , Martinez-Bujanda and the much improved Marques de Riscal — have the courage to admit to it . |
| 23 | Hughes will be responsible for an ad budget of more than £1m across all Rimmel branded goods , which includes lipsticks , eye make-up and the recently launched Silks nail polishes . |
| 24 | A network of diplomatic relations with the neighbouring capitalist world came gradually into existence , first of all with the smaller border states such as Finland and Estonia , then , in the 1920s , with Germany , France , Britain and Japan , and finally , in the early 1930s , with the United States , Belgium , Spain and the newly established states of Eastern Europe . |
| 25 | Arguments of this sort which confused the " lower sorts of men " with the " higher sorts of ape " were not simply exercises in increasingly refined scientific discrimination ; they were closely meshed in with an ongoing dialectical debate , the original purpose of which had been to establish a synthesis between the theological doctrine of the Fall and the newly discovered facts of human geography . |
| 26 | It is the least mechanised of our farming scenery , the least efficient and the most resistant to change because of the multiple ownership and the often rented holdings . |
| 27 | The request by the National History Museum for the loan of the skeleton in 1902 was turned down , but it was eventually presented to that museum when the heavily criticised RCVS museum was closed in 1921 . |
| 28 | Even now , nearly 70 years after its composition , the combination of its lurid story and the highly charged frenzy of its music sharply divides opinion . |
| 29 | Send your story and the fully completed coupon ( below ) to the following address : . |
| 30 | The break-up of Pangaea ( Fig. 2.16 ) generated a considerable length of passive continental margins and analysis of the palaeomagnetic record of the continents and the subsequently created ocean floor has given us a fairly good idea of the timing of most of these rifting episodes . |