Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adj] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One o'clock in Piazza dei Partigiani after a stressful morning at work was very different from eleven o'clock the night before after making love , but Ellen was bubbling with such enthusiasm that he had n't the heart to voice his reservations . |
| 2 | The same question I asked at city hall , it 's slightly different in that now the council has left two and a half available over the next erm three years given that it is not already taken . |
| 3 | Some of these were obsolete , but one has been identified as belonging to a Babylonian king , the twentieth of the Kassite dynasty , who reigned from 1381 to 1354 B.C. The suggestion has been made that the string may have been a royal gift . |
| 4 | If things did go wrong , especially during recording , it was counted major disaster , increasing proportionately in scale the nearer to 10.00 pm the clock ticked . |
| 5 | During the personal reign of Louis XIV from 1661 onwards the post was held by a succession of distinctly able men — Lionne , Pomponne , Colbert de Croissy , Torcy — and the administrative machine which they controlled grew substantially in size and complexity . |
| 6 | This method of teaching , though daunting at first far the pupil , is a formative experience , the aspect of the course to which most Oxford graduates look back with most gratitude . |
| 7 | It knows too the impurity of transgressive desire , and most of all perhaps the impurity of dominant forms of identity , be they white , heterosexual , whatever . |