Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can take effect immediately , but it usually takes twenty minutes or so for the full effects to be felt . |
| 2 | After that , the manager went through the procedure adopted : a telephone call to the reference number cited ; verification of credit card ; verification of driving licence ; verification of home address ( the last three usually completed within ten minutes or so on the International Information Computer ) ; preparation , presentation , and signing of the contract ( including appropriate insurance clauses ) ; then , paperwork now completed , the car brought round to the outer forecourt , with an assistant to give the client a quick run-over of the controls , and to hand over the keys . |
| 3 | He had paid three pence at the booking office for his ticket and , after waiting ten minutes or so on the cold and draughty platform for the next London-bound train , he had arrived at Christchurch some ten minutes later to run through torrential rain toward the group of cottages which flanked the open park in the town centre . |
| 4 | Few 24-hour races ever go the full distance — fans usually burst on to the sacred tarmac 20 minutes or so before the official end |
| 5 | There is not one of the erroneous and superstitious beliefs of mankind that are supposed to have been superseded but has left vestiges at the present day in the lower strata of civilized peoples or even in the highest strata of cultivated society . |
| 6 | Most country and metropolitan district councils in England and Wales hold definitive maps , and you can ask to see them at council offices or sometimes at the public library . |
| 7 | He left also a timeless description of Fowey , where ‘ … the little boats that lie tethered to the rings and stancheons of the old sea wall are gaily painted as those I clambered in and out of in my own childhood … and by the windows the great vessels glide , night and day , up to their moorings or forth to the open sea . ’ |
| 8 | Politically this was informed by the demands coming from women 's organizations and intellectually by the moralized language of evolutionary science . |
| 9 | This time it was the great Hofburg Palace in the Austrian capital , Vienna — centuries-old seat of the Habsburg emperors and home to the famous Spanish Riding School . |
| 10 | In the higher sea level of the first interglacial , any mud left would be at too great depths to be disturbed by waves and hence for the first time the seas would be clear enough for reef-building corals to flourish . |
| 11 | In terms of value , less than 40% of the items belonging to Polish-born French industrialist Leon Anlen were sold according to Tajan , who took the unprecedented step of ordering a blackout on all information about the sale both to journalists and even to the central press service of Drouot salerooms . |
| 12 | And rather surprisingly , bearing in mind what happens in the Endsleigh first division , that there it is goals scored that dis differentiates between teams , in this league it will be goal difference that will determine the final positions , followed then by the highest number of goals and then by the highest number of goals scored away from home . |
| 13 | Sincere thanks to all the walkers and especially to the many sponsors for their generosity , also to the support team . |
| 14 | It was a complicated struggle between Welfs and Staufer and their supporters and also between the rival princes themselves , some of whom were great ecclesiastics as Adolf , archbishop of Cologne . |
| 15 | The plans for the new building had to provide for these units and also for the Continental Shelf Unit which occupied a building in the Government Training Centre at Granton from 1969 . |
| 16 | Fran followed him slowly , keeping her eyes centred on the polished wooden treads and away from the muscled strength of his thighs . |
| 17 | Even in physique they were very much alike , both being thick in the shoulders and almost of the same colouring , except that Joe 's hair showed a black sheen whereas Harry 's was a dark brown , thick matt . |
| 18 | As you can see , there are staff across all the divisions who perform specialist roles and particularly in the Public Transport , Programmes and Economic Development Divisions . |
| 19 | Poljica 's independence was suppressed by Napoleon in 1806 , and its incorporation first into the Illyrian Provinces and later into the Austrian province of Dalmatia assisted the spread of the Latin script , which by this time had become common throughout Dalmatia . |
| 20 | The demand for particular assets depends not only on their characteristics but also on the institutional make-up of the financial system . |
| 21 | Disquiet among supporters of the regime was to be found not only in the St Petersburg ministries but also at the imperial court and in the provinces . |
| 22 | Requests from vendors for confidentiality letters : our standard engagement letter ( see 1101.2 and the Corporate Finance Manual ) includes a paragraph dealing with our duty of confidentiality and in normal circumstances this is the proper place to establish the level of confidentiality to be observed , not only in dealings with third parties but also between the various parties involved . |
| 23 | Requests from vendors for confidentiality letters : our standard engagement letter ( see 1101.2 and the Corporate Finance Manual ) includes a paragraph dealing with our duty of confidentiality and in normal circumstances this is the proper place to establish the level of confidentiality to be observed , not only in dealings with third parties but also between the various parties involved . |
| 24 | We are more conscious than ever of the need to take positive steps to promote the full access of girls and women not only to full educational opportunities but also to the whole range of community resources and services , including employment , leisure , housing , social security and the right to property . |
| 25 | This is reflected at both ends of the settlement hierarchy in Table 4.4 , not only in the reduction in the growth rate of the remoter , mainly rural districts but also in the marked fall in the rate of population loss estimated for Greater London and the principal cities of the Metropolitan Counties . |
| 26 | Since being in Norway , he has been used to stud not only by the Norwegians but also by the top Swedish kennel Faunus , which is owned and run by Gun Berquist . |
| 27 | No goals as yet in the other game in group A against Charlton although as I warned you earlier , I do n't think we 'll have that score for you tonight because it is being played in Italy and er our chances of getting that score through the er computer here are remote to put it mildly . |
| 28 | Charles Roe had , in places , taken his mine down some 188 feet or so below the old 17C. workings , themselves about 181 ft. deep from surface ; and had worked along the strike of the Bonsor Vein for perhaps 150 fathoms . |
| 29 | In some specimens there are indications of transverse ridges on the edge of these plates and also on the lateral arm plates . |
| 30 | The motion-picture industry survived and prospered because this battle was substantially won in the vast majority of communities and especially in the major cities . |