Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it was the same in the second half … the save of the game stopped an equaliser from Joey Beauchamp … and after that well the United players just had to accept it was n't going to be their day … |
| 2 | The UK not only remained the second largest source , after the USA , for foreign direct investment , but increased in importance after 1979 when the first Thatcher government abandoned most controls on the foreign exchange of sterling currency . |
| 3 | The Spadeadam Rocket Establishment came into being some time after 1950 when the Cold War was at its height . |
| 4 | It was after ten when the long day ended , the king having busied himself visiting the wounded , including those from the enemy army ; he had , it soon appeared , decisively won the Battle of the Boyne for the loss of 500 men ; James 's casualties were put at 1600 . |
| 5 | Soon after two o'clock the next afternoon they were all out for 189 , the atmosphere helping the ball to move and swing around . |
| 6 | Working on George 's local knowledge — his father 's home was less than an hour 's drive away — they planned to reach Miss Tuckey 's cottage at half past eight when the other committee members would have had time to digest and drive in from the countryside . |
| 7 | They related to the constitutional arrangements which existed between 1974 and the end of 1986 whereby the General Council of the Bar had become part of the new Senate of the Inns of Court of the Bar and had ceased to exist as a separate entity , although the constitution of the Senate contained provisions designed to ensure that the Bar Council would remain an autonomous body for the purpose of its separate powers and functions . |
| 8 | After half-an-hour of this eventually the other wheel dropped into place . |
| 9 | Of these only the last item appeared for the first time in this volume . |
| 10 | It may be added that the Montreal Tramways case was cited and relied on in the earliest United States case of 1946 where the changed view , that the child could sue , was adopted . |
| 11 | So they have designed , in conjunction with some colleagues at the Energy Research Unit of the Open University a heat pump using natural gas , which produces a COP of 2.8 when the outdoor temperature falls to zero degrees and a COP of 4 in outdoor temperatures of 10 degrees . |
| 12 | The French President and some other EC governments believe the new system should be ready for operation by the end of 1992 when the single barrier and frontier free European market is due to be completed . |
| 13 | That case was Smith v. Smith , The Times , 27 January 1992 ; Court of Appeal ( Civil Division ) Transcript No. 19 of 1992 where the other member of the court was Nourse L.J . |
| 14 | In the first months of 1950 both the British service chiefs and many influential figures in Washington complained that too little was being done to combat the communist threat in the Cold War . |
| 15 | By 1953 the international situation and the French political situation differed radically from that of 1950 when the Pleven Plan was launched . |
| 16 | Barber 's interest in City politics waned a little after 1738 , but he was active in the controversial mayoral elections of 1740 when the Whig-dominated court of aldermen sought to exclude Sir Robert Godschall from the chair . |
| 17 | Constant tugs of war between birth and adoptive parents would destroy the stability of the most rational child , who is presently adequately protected by the right to see birth parents at the age of 18 when the necessary information is available . |
| 18 | In the morning we visit the Visitor Centre at Killiecrankie , site of the famous battle of 1689 when the first shots were fired in the Jacobite cause . |
| 19 | By the end of 1978 when the new Powick replacement units were opened in the Worcester and Kidderminster areas , 343 patients remained in Powick . |
| 20 | The National Confederation of Parent-Teacher Associations cites the example of a secondary school in the Midlands with a roll of 1,100 where the annual meeting was attended by the head teacher and deputy , four governors and seven parents . |
| 21 | Mrs Thatcher finally announced her decision to resign at a Cabinet meeting summoned at the unusually early hour of 9 am the next day , declaring that she had concluded that the unity of the party and the prospects of victory in a general election would be better served if she stood down to enable Cabinet colleagues to enter the ballot for the leadership . |
| 22 | The surge has hoisted sales to 12,500 from Thursday 's figure of 11,275 out the 49,271 limit with 28 days to go . |
| 23 | It could be argued that this was hastened in London by the Great Plague of 1665 when the familiar sight of cartloads of corpses contrasted with the decency and sanitary advantage of encoffining the dead . |
| 24 | In the spring of 1802 there was another phase of mutually influenced poetic production ; Wordsworth wrote over thirty important poems at this time , and though Coleridge had already announced — in March 1801 — that ‘ The poet is dead in me ’ , he was able to contribute the main theme of the dialogue , which is , put simply , what happens to ‘ young Romantic poets ’ after the age of thirty when the visionary period of youth comes to an end . |
| 25 | As the hour ticks towards 9.45 pm the final shot is recorded . |
| 26 | er sale occurred when they went through the electrical register and asked people who lived in flats whether they wanted a green cone , they did n't even have a garden , let alone a window box but nevertheless erm I the green cone extends ought to be reported on , ought to be encouraged and such like because it is the individual person who is going to recycle using their own garden in their own small way as opposed to transporting the stuff maybe to a waste tip and such like where it has to be dealt with at a an expensive way and if a the best part of the expense of dealing with waste of course is actually to transport and transport throughout the roads and if you do it in your own gardens so much the better and I , I , I should like to er and taking part in the green cone experiment er further experiments like that whereby the individual person is encouraged to do it . |
| 27 | At the TCCB winter meeting at Lord 's yesterday , the chairmen and chief executives of the 17 first-class counties opted for Chamberlain rather than the only other candidate , Don Perry , the Gloucestershire chairman , and although no one was giving very much away at Lord 's yesterday Chamberlain 's majority , like that elsewhere the previous day , was believed to be substantial . |
| 28 | At the TCCB winter meeting at Lord 's yesterday , the chairmen and chief executives of the 17 first-class counties opted for Chamberlain rather than the only other candidate , Don Perry , the Gloucestershire chairman , and although no one was giving very much away at Lord 's yesterday Chamberlain 's majority , like that elsewhere the previous day , was believed to be substantial . |
| 29 | A 10% fall in seven author papers occurred during 1989–91 when the modal author number rose to 6 . |
| 30 | Above all else the guiding principle is to tease out the meanings inherent in the images ; to ask : " What 's important here ? " |