Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adv] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | She could no longer see the Steep yet the feeling of the dark airless room she had left behind , the sound of her foster-parents breathing heavily in the close darkness , still seemed to hang about her and draw her back . |
2 | Without the consent of the latter neither the succession to the throne nor the territorial limits of the Grand Duchy were to be changed ; nor was war to be declared or existing legislation altered . |
3 | In September 1989 the Libyan news agency JANA said that Italy could make up for its " wrongdoing " during the colonial period-particularly the deportation to Italy between 1911 and 1942 of some 5,000 Libyans as forced labour-by speedily paying the compensation demanded by Libya , which regarded as inadequate a settlement of dollars 6,700 million reached in 1956 . |
4 | Agriculture , in the 1920s still the occupation of 27% of Americans , suffered a depression throughout the decade . |
5 | If we work through the former alone the range of choice or the breadth of the spectrum will vary from area to area . |
6 | Well , we have to permit the motion of charges to get any current but if the amount of charge crossing a certain cross-section is always the same then the current at that point is independent of time . |
7 | Thus the distance from the bank to the nearest point of the island was about the same all the way around It resembled a moat , about thirty yards wide . |
8 | One might suppose that the greater that number , the greater also the number of votes a party ought to receive . |