Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adj] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The reason Morgan sees for the passage of society from one stage to another — and this is what is most stressed by Engels in his restatement of Morgan 's theory in The Origin — is a social break due too the fact that the various subsystems stop working in gear , and come into conflict with each other .
2 A carved chair close by the altar , a small ancient-looking chest , and an ornately-carved table which looks for all the world like a chest on legs , may well be Jacobean .
3 Is it thirteen foot wide then the room ?
4 The only evidence suggests he hit the central barrier first then the coach .
5 This lasted from the autumn of 1853 until late Apr. 1854 when the strike collapsed .
6 There has been a great black smudge all down the crag ever since … ’ .
7 ‘ The wild duck wherries to the distant flood … ''Whizz goes the peewit o'er the ploughman 's team/ with many a whew and whirl and sudden scream … ’ 'A sedge bird built its little benty nest/ close by the meadow-pool and wooden brig … ’
8 Molly had stood beside him and had pointed out one particularly small drawer close by the door .
9 An example of the first type is found in Morris ( Herbert ) Ltd v Saxelby [ 1916 ] 1 AC 688 where the defendant was bound for seven years after employment not to work in the UK or Ireland in the sale or manufacture of pulley blocks , hand overhead runways , electric overhead runways or hand overhead travelling cranes .
10 He 'd been shown to the interview room where Scott sat with a uniformed officer close by the door .
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