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

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1 That finding effectively determines the agreed figures on which damages relating to the provision of suitable accommodation in turn , it is agreed that if two carers are to live in the household , that suitable new accommodation for the plaintiff can be acquired for two hundred and seventeen thousand , five hundred pounds , the house in which he at present lives will fe fetch eighty two thousand , five hundred pounds , a difference of a hundred and thirty five thousand pounds .
2 Morley 's hypothesis obviously worried the anti-drug establishment .
3 In fact as discount factors tend to unity so does the temporary reputation become permanent .
4 What these sewers carried was not sanitary ordure — that continued to be collected or even — illegally — dumped in cesspits : for the cost of separating out the effluent so frightened the Municipal Council of the city that even by 1870 nothing much had been done .
5 The buyer naturally has the opposite concern and , in the absence of a formal back to back contract , when one is dealing with standard conditions of purchase the best that can be accomplished is to incorporate a provision like cl 1.3 of Precedent 2 , which notifies the seller of the possibility of prime contracts , and attempts to impose their terms upon the seller , coupled with an opportunity for the seller to examine them and a warning that they will apply , even if not examined .
6 The buyer only becomes the legal owner of registered land when the transfer is received by the Land Registry ( see Chapter 10 ) .
7 In fact , a number of political parties and movements have been operating in Lithuania for some time , as in Estonia and Latvia ; the constitutional change merely recognises the existing situation .
8 The organization chart below illustrates the principal divisions of labour within the function and provides an example of the structural relationships between the different departments or sub-units .
9 The chart below shows the average percentage increase in the FT-SE 100 Index over 5 years periods ( commencing 1 January ) from 1 January 1979 to 1 January 1992 in comparison to a higher rate Building Society investment and the rate of inflation over the same periods .
10 Fry deliberately wrote the next part of his essay in a railway refreshment room ( ‘ One must remember that public places of this kind merely reflect the average citizen 's soul , as expressed in his home ’ ) .
11 For instance , although he borrows the concept of mood from linguistics , he recognizes from the outset that , in contrast to ordinary language , narrative only knows the indicative mood ( there is no imperative or subjunctive forms of narrative ) , and that if his use of the term is to have any value at all it must be ‘ stretched ’ and given a metaphorical function .
12 That he himself happened to be a congenital cad only made the whole thing more difficult , not easier .
13 Then the English clerk gently asked the befuddled Alexander his questions , though he learnt nothing new .
14 Seb suddenly realised the full import of her words , ‘ You mean … you 're going ahead and marrying Nahum ? ’
15 For Jakobson ( 1960 ) , the poetic function merely dominates the referential function in literature , whereas for de Man , the poetic function negates the referential function and renders the entirety of language self-referential .
16 Suddenly he saw a white figure slowly crossing the main line towards Brooke End signal box .
17 One possible explanation for this difficulty is that research rarely considers the broad range of causal factors that is probably necessary .
18 This research successfully established the major stages of vegetational change but also necessarily included the influence of human activity , which was effective through modification of the biogeographic systems .
19 Reporting a net loss of $56m for 1992 , Norsk Data A/S , Oslo says it has obtained fresh financing from two Norwegian banks , Den Norske Bank and Fokus Bank , but that the deal effectively makes the existing shares , which are currently suspended , worthless .
20 In fact , the defences and addictive attitudes described in the first chapter only illustrate the false ways in which we deal with ourselves .
21 However , most of the time , empirical research merely refines the common sense of the managers .
22 Twenty years ago she was Lucy and Frieda 's age , putting on school uniform for the first day of the winter term , long serge skirt suddenly covering the scratched knees used to shorts , thick woolly stockings sliding strangely up the white smooth skin , nylon suspender belt holding in her stomach making her think of the opening under the dark bush below .
23 Since there is no net escape of RNA polymerase past the identifiable platination site , the most likely explanation of this effect is that the intercalator perturbs the geometry of the coordination complex sufficiently to enable the catalytic site of the RNA polymerase to move slowly an additional one or two bp along the DNA .
24 This political murder only aggravated the political divisions within France .
25 As Smith points out , ‘ Conditions of conduciveness merely make the hostile outburst possible .
26 The result is that the club only hits the top half of the ball sending it through the green illustration below ) .
27 While in the longer run this practice perhaps strengthened the High Authority in its relations with the member governments , the caution it induced in the High Authority , along with the ambiguity of the treaty , made for some slow progress .
28 The left photograph best shows the front face ; the right section of the crag that breaks into a series of vertical weaknesses to turn a sharp corner .
29 Equally ghostly , beyond the hedge , was a grey horse already cropping the damp grass .
30 The mobility gap thus interrupts the smooth movement of EF through delocalised states as Vg is altered .
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