Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the woods between Lāmri and U hu where the path drops steeply down , the stream had frozen solid right across the path and we had to pick our way for half a mile , across the ice . |
| 2 | was due wholly to the negligence or wrongful act of a government or other authority in exercising its function of maintaining lights or other navigational aids . |
| 3 | In fact the picture is complete only in the sense that it contains the details which are relevant to his activity in that room , it certainly does not contain all the detail which is available to the senses . |
| 4 | In other words communism under freedom is possible only to the extent that people are motivated by non-economic rewards . |
| 5 | But our judge might be able to guarantee this by making plain that he intends the new rule to govern all future cases , and that the exception for Elmer was made possible only by the fact that no judge had laid down a similar rule before Elmer committed his crime . |
| 6 | It is the concerted teaching of the whole New Testament that the Christian experience of the Holy Spirit is possible only after the death and resurrection of Jesus . |
| 7 | This does n't mean that you have to spend a fortune on tools , but beware of cheap spanners and screwdrivers which may not be strong enough for the job or of cheap hammers which may lose their heads . |
| 8 | ‘ I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical , economic , or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty . ’ |
| 9 | People were largely interested only in the Wehrmacht and ‘ how things were out there ’ at the Front . |
| 10 | AJR procedure incorporates certain procedural protections for public bodies and the rule that a claimant asserting public law interests can only use AJR procedure puts him at a disadvantage which is justifiable only on the assumption that public law interests do not matter as much as private law rights and , therefore , do not deserve as much legal protection . |
| 11 | This idea is not very palatable : why should the Sun be anomalous just at the time that we start to search for neutrinos ? |
| 12 | Leslie is loving , soft and very feminine away from the job but in her uniform she is a real professional . ’ |
| 13 | Their displacement was not however immediately perceptible even to a writer like Disraeli , who was critically interested both in the architecture and in the social function of great houses . |
| 14 | This has been very harmful both to the industry and to the national interest . |
| 15 | ‘ The Secretary of State made it quite clear earlier in the year that he would not extend the deadline , ’ she said . |
| 16 | It was clear almost from the outset that the final instrument would have to be able to compute certain parameters of its measurement function , in order to cope with variations in environment . |
| 17 | ‘ shall have effect as if it granted or provided for the grant of a tenancy for a term of 10 years , subject to a right exercisable either by the landlord or the tenant to determine the tenancy , if the war ends before the expiration of that term , by at least one month 's notice in writing given after the end of the war ; … |
| 18 | The problem is compounded where the codes in contact themselves are not only similar but have diffuse norms , so that the boundary between them is not always clear either to the linguist or to community members . |
| 19 | Neither Andy Saunders nor Peter Dimond shy away from the fact that a broader , more general aviation history needs also to be presented , lest ‘ Joe Public ’ be made to feel alienated . |
| 20 | James besieged the Ulster city of Derry , but its 35,000 Protestant inhabitants successfully defended it , due largely to the leadership and example of the ‘ Apprentice Boys ’ . |
| 21 | The positivists ' emphasis on observable ‘ facts ’ is due largely to the belief that human behaviour can be explained in much the same way as the behaviour of matter . |
| 22 | The popularity of South Africa 's kruggerrand was due largely to the fact that collectors were buying a precise quantity of gold at only a fraction over the actual cost of the precious metal . |
| 23 | The popularity of South Africa 's kruggerrand was due largely to the fact that collectors were buying a precise quantity of gold at only a fraction over the actual cost of the precious metal . |
| 24 | The popularity of South Africa 's kruggerrand was due largely to the fact that collectors were buying a precise quantity of gold at only a fraction over the actual cost of the precious metal . |
| 25 | This is due largely to the fact that doctors were able to organize themselves into a professional group before the state intervened in medicine and became a major employer of medical practitioners . |
| 26 | It is in imminent danger of dying out from its last remaining stronghold — Redgrave and South Lopham Fen in Suffolk — due largely to the fact that a nearby borehole drilled by the Suffolk Water Company is drying out the ground . |
| 27 | Not only will a significant proportion of information be accessible commercially via the computer but the next generation will also be inputing and retrieving a substantial proportion of its own information via the computer . |
| 28 | Yet even when a person maintains the principle of non-violence , as Gandhi does , it is absolute only in the sense that it informs the spirit and circumstances in which acts of violence are done , and not in the sense that it constitutes a rule which permits no exceptions . |
| 29 | The Prudential appealed , contending that there were two contracts and that stamp duty was payable only for the land and the works completed on 18 October 1989 . |
| 30 | The distinctive feature of income bonds is that interest is payable only in the event that the issuer has sufficient reported profits ( after allowing for interest on other kinds of debt ) to make the payment . |