Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [noun sg] [Wh adv] [art] [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 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 .
3 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 .
4 There might , for example , be some legal reason why the examiner could not administer the oath .
5 I think it only right to comment that the fact that it is , in a case such as the present , open to a taxpayer to stipulate , if he wishes , that the money shall be repaid if it is found not to be due in pending proceedings , provides another practical reason why a case such as the present is likely to occur only in very rare circumstances indeed .
6 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 . ’
7 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 .
8 Her husband ( and his old friend ) McKnight Kauffer , had just died and Eliot speculated about the question of " what might have been " in anyone 's life — that crucial moment when a life is changed .
9 And now , as Stephen looked at his watch , the tide of red colour crept to touch that central point where the rune was .
10 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 .
11 ( 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 All those sublime thoughts , which tower above the clouds , and reach as high as Heaven itself , take their rise and footing here : in all that great extent wherein the mind wanders , in those remote speculations it may seem to be elevated with , it stirs not one jot beyond those ideas , which Sense or Reflection , have offered .
15 Er the speed they come out of that bend is unbelievable and I speak from experience Madam Chairman because my daughter lives on that very corner where the bend is and er
16 Duncan enjoyed the moment of take-off , that split second when the bird starts to fly as it comes free of the land .
17 In that particular year when the research was carried out there were 2,000 boys in government training centres and one girl .
18 This may have held great promise in its early years but it soon became divided and then fragmented , due largely , if not wholly to the same age-old misconception whereby the basis of the religion is the assumption of the existence of a completely undefined ‘ god ’ , in this case the ancient ‘ god ’ of the Jews .
19 However , there is , as we have shown , hardly any compelling reason why the consumer should decide to go out and spend in 1993 .
20 By contrast , in tripping cases and any other case where the condition of the road or roadside is relevant , it will almost always be necessary to circularise the neighbourhood ( see Chapters 29 and 33 ) .
21 Options may also be granted at any other time when the Committee considers exceptional circumstances exist which justify the grant of options .
22 Note that the automatic assessment will NOT be made if there is any other reason why the package manager is interested in the DC eg. the DC may reference a module contained in another package managed by the user but for which auto DC has not been set .
23 Such fins are similar , in principle , to those of a whole group of primitive bony fish that were living in that remote period when the move to land was first made .
24 That 's when the contractual restrictions are lifted from those involved on that traumatic day when the ball was mysteriously changed at lunch .
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