Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [noun] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She bit her lip , remembering that awful time when the news had come that he had lost his life in the fire that had demolished his holiday hotel — and how the tragedy , for her , had turned into a nightmare . |
| 2 | After each fresh deluge only the skeleton of solid objects , the irregular vertebrae of furniture , trunks , packing-cases and other miscellaneous objects , was left standing over the swamp . |
| 3 | From that revelatory moment when the box of white paper is opened until the moment of exposure the exchange of light onto receptive surface has begun . |
| 4 | Most of the houses outside towns might justly be described as ‘ peasant ’ accommodation , for Sussex is one of the few English counties where the term had a real and continued significance . |
| 5 | Looking at the remaining 16 error cases from our system ( see table 5.4 ) in more detail , it is clear that some of these can in fact be solved by applying some simple substitutions where the recognition has failed . |
| 6 | Being a bright lad , he worked out that it was an updraught from underground and a few removed boulders later the entrance to Lancaster Hole was revealed . |
| 7 | The pattern recogniser should be improved , perhaps by the use of some interactive techniques whereby the recogniser and the lexical look-up work together so that the look-up may be able to predict which characters could be next within a word . |
| 8 | The Semai ethic of sharing mandates that aid be given when it is needed ( with the expectation , to be sure , that it will be reciprocated by someone at some later date when the giver is in need ) , but any accounting or direct reciprocation is unacceptable . |
| 9 | ‘ But we believe we will get this 90 percent right the thought that has gone into it has been enormous . ’ |
| 10 | Another three years later the passion had cooled somewhat but genuine affection remained . |
| 11 | For the few brief minutes when the shelling ceased the scene before us looked very peaceful . |
| 12 | It 's also somewhat perverse to complain about a few innocent posts when the top of Ben Nevis is a lofty scrapyard . |
| 13 | After the collapse of the Dwarf empire almost three and a half thousand years ago the Dwarf stronghold of Karak Eight Peaks lay in ruins . |
| 14 | There might , for example , be some legal reason why the examiner could not administer the oath . |
| 15 | By 1886 , two in three adult males — almost 4.5 million people — had the vote in England and Wales , whereas some 50 years earlier the electorate stood at little more than 650 000 . |
| 16 | Some twenty years later the District Judge at Kagalla found similar attitudes : ‘ It is a common occurrence for persons to see an animal being driven away under very suspicious circumstances , and yet , although perhaps living within a stone 's throw of the owner , they take no trouble to go and tell him what they have seen , and probably say nothing about it until they meet him looking for his stolen animal , three or four days afterward ; of course then the recovery is hopeless ! ’ |
| 17 | Milton ‘ Where Old Old Cham , whom gentiles Annan call and Libian Jove , hid and her florid son , young Bacchus from his stepday Maria 's eye , nor where abasin kings there issue guard Mount Amara , though this by some suppose true paradise under the Ethiope line by head enclosed with shining rock a whole day 's journey high , but wide remote from this Asyrian garden where the fiend saw undelighted or delight . ’ |
| 18 | I think if we had a if we if we tried , as you say , labelled the leads and tried to keep the leads together with the video recorders and perhaps stick a think on the video recorder saying which leads belong to this particular thing then the problem would be 'cos this would provide you with a checklist whenever you lent it out as to whether it was coming back , or provide the leads in other words |
| 19 | The rule 's important , but it should come from a need of the child rather than be imposed at some arbitrary time when the teacher thinks that all the children are ready for that rule . |
| 20 | There are very few new buildings so the village is largely unspoiled . |
| 21 | Oh , he 's pulled all this dirty washing out the basket No , not in there . |
| 22 | This particular danger in the case of some immigrant groups where the surname ( Singh , say ) recurs frequently , and where members of the group live close together . |
| 23 | Through the years though more erm through the years we actually only receive thirty percent of our input I suppose one of the examples are and then we only remember twenty percent of that thirteen percent again the danger of you know every remembers this |
| 24 | And now , as Stephen looked at his watch , the tide of red colour crept to touch that central point where the rune was . |
| 25 | How could Mrs Hollidaye consider allowing Dot to return to that unsafe place where the air robbed your cheeks of their roses , where buildings collapsed though the bombs had long since stopped , where there was no glass in half the windows , no water in the taps , where nothing was quite what it seemed to be . |
| 26 | ( 2 ) This Schedule and Policy shall be read together as one contract and any word or expression to which a specific meaning has been attached in any part of the said Schedule or Policy shall bear such specific meaning wherever the word or expression may appear . |
| 27 | Left in such lofty heights here the poem would be expected to end but ‘ The Garden ’ possesses a realism which is not found in Marlowe . |
| 28 | Nonetheless , the fact remains that even this frog is dependent upon rains arriving at some time and its active life is , in reality , condensed to that brief moment when the desert is wet . |
| 29 | There is n't that sudden moment when the music stops and you look into one another 's eyes for the first time , or whatever . |
| 30 | If speculation had been restricted to these traditional fields then the effect on the overall price level would probably have been relatively insignificant , since the feed-through effects to other goods would have been modest . |