Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] the [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Ostensibly , the licence , or franchise , for the new channel will be awarded on the same basis as the recently auctioned franchises for ITV . |
| 7 | A condition of the catenary is that the force in the hanging chain be a constant when the uniformly distributed load is per unit length of the chain . |
| 8 | Mountaineering Council of Scotland president Bob Reid described the news , which broke on the same day as the much criticised Cairngorms Working Party consultation paper was launched , as part of ‘ a double whammy for the Cairngorms ’ . |
| 9 | Apart from a cameo role in the ill-fated and so far unreleased Bloodhounds of Broadway , she has not taken a film role since the poorly conceived Shanghai Express and Who 's That Girl . |
| 10 | I continued to chair the inquiry into pensions and later took over family policy when the much liked Minister of State for Social Security , Rhodes Boyson , went off to be the number two in Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | Most impressive is the ‘ Hestia Giustiniani ’ ( fig. 76 ; the best known copy was long in the hands of the Giustiniani , and the statue certainly represents a goddess , though perhaps rather Demeter , Hera or even Aphrodite than the rarely represented Hestia ) . |
| 12 | During an earlier effort the whales — which have been trapped within Scapa Flow for almost five weeks — had been shepherded to within a third of a mile of the entrance , but dived again and stayed at Scapa Flow until the later shepherding effort succeeded . |
| 13 | Picture quality , to my eye , is in the same league as the similarly priced Yashica , yet the Olympus is lighter , smaller and includes useful extra features such as a fast-recycling flash and a quick-fire mode for those going … going … gone action sequences . |
| 14 | In the early evening we took off and , speaking for myself , I was very glad that there was a drop of about 100ft to the sea when the heavily laden Whitley cleared the airfield boundary . |
| 15 | The S. Pennines , the Lake District , Cumbria and Galloway receive as much acid in a year as the badly acidified parts of southern Norway . |