Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb -s] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It begins with the concept , where someone has the bright idea in the first place . |
| 2 | I remember researching the notes for the Bach Brandenburg Concerto you played when you brought the Berlin Philharmonic to play in the Sheldonian in Oxford and coming across a passage in the writing of that great American philosopher Susanne Langer , where she defines the competent artist as someone whose mind is trained and predisposed to see every option in relation to others and the whole . |
| 3 | She buys some soap and ribbons in the market , where she notes the huge rise in prices since her last visit . |
| 4 | She now teaches at a local girls ' school where she finds the all-female staff ‘ extremely supportive of each other ’ . |
| 5 | At the time she was on six months ' leave from WWF International 's Swiss office , where she heads the conservation news service and edits WWF News . |
| 6 | If [ it ] … does not have the power to raise you up … to that mood where one sees the earthly veils pull away from oneself — then I too want to have nothing more to do with this philosophy . " |
| 7 | He lives in a little castle , where he spends the whole day . |
| 8 | One of Quine 's highpoints on the record comes on Do n't Go , where he matches the despairing vocal with a stumbling , tongue-tied guitar line that breaks down continually into agonised microphonic feedback . |
| 9 | ‘ Even has a secret little den where he takes the other members of his gang . |
| 10 | The conductor often allows heavy , clumsy-sounding accentuation , for example in the bass air , where he misses the jaunty hornpipe rhythm . |
| 11 | Hughes had reached the part of his act where he introduces the odd joke about the Sinn Fein , the political wing of the IRA . |
| 12 | TNF α additionally induces expression of the powerfully procoagulant tissue factor , released only at sites of endothelial damage where it activates the extrinsic limb of the coagulation cascade . |
| 13 | In Spain it weathers into the mushrooms , ships and other weird pinnacles of the Ciudad Encantada ( Enchanted City ) near where it shades the back streets of Cuenca ( plate 1.1 ) . |
| 14 | We shall begin by discussing uses where it expresses the mere state of being aware of a fact , a sense which calls for the use of the to and never the bare infinitive . |
| 15 | Where it studies the specific characteristics of old and young subjects , it makes age the single focus of investigation , and frequently ignores gender differences . |
| 16 | A more speculative exploration area for stratabound mineralisation is the south-eastern margin of the back-arc Lower Palaeozoic Welsh Basin where it abuts the continental margin of the Midlands Microcraton . |
| 17 | Novell Inc has formed a new business unit at the old Digital Research base in Monterey , California to focus on helping customers use commodity hardware and Novell 's client operating systems to build low-cost turnkey systems for manufacturing and service industry applications such as manufacturing process control , industrial automation and support of point-of-sale terminals — where it claims the Digital Research FlexOS has become the standard . |
| 18 | Now Dr A. Noyan and colleagues from Hacettepe University in Ankara have discovered that the lymph nodes ( small swellings ) found at intervals along the lymph vessels act as tiny hearts , pumping lymph up from the extremities of the body towards the neck , where it enters the venous circulation ( Journal of Muscle Research and Ceil Motility , vol 4 , p 103 ) . |
| 19 | Once the correct order of probes has been established it is easy to fit the clones to this probe order , using an algorithm which essentially places each clone on that section of the probe order where it has the highest density of positives . |
| 20 | Although everyone has the innate capacity to love and to enjoy another 's happiness as well as their own , and to get themselves loved and their happiness enjoyed by others , not everyone can risk the experience in adult life . |
| 21 | Although she enjoys the aesthetic value of wild flowers , her reason for encouraging their widespread growth is principally scientific . |
| 22 | ‘ From her photograph she 's attractive and younger , so one makes the natural assumption … ’ |
| 23 | The Commission will have limited powers , although it lacks the full enforcement machinery , to apply Articles 85 and 86 to any merger which does constitute a concentration within the Merger Regulation , but does not meet the turnover thresholds . |
| 24 | Although it retains the overall configuration and shape of previous models , the BV will be a substantially different aircraft with a seven-foot increase in fuselage length over the Guylfstream IV , an entirely new wing of thirteen feet greater span with an airfoil section optimised for high-altitude , high-speed operation , an enlarged flight deck ( the airstair door has also been moved five feet aft for easier cabin access ) , and new braking , nose-wheel steering and electrical systems . |
| 25 | It has been shown that the Upper Freshwater Bed of the Cromer Forest Bed dates probably from an early interglacial , but there is no sign of a marine transgression in the bed although it covers the middle part of the interglacial , when such a transgression would be expected . |
| 26 | The Etude retrouvée that he also plays is one that the composer did not use in the final set ; although it has the same title and key as Pour les arpèges composés , it is otherwise quite different and a splendid piece which pianists will look forward to seeing in print . |
| 27 | Although he loathes the Nineties cult of the personality , one suspects that , in future , it wo n't just be his players who are watching him . |
| 28 | Kenner is a strong believer in digital recording techniques , although he thinks the greatest danger with hi-fi purism is that one starts splitting hairs . |
| 29 | Although he sounds the traditional warning that all electronics are aids to ‘ proper ’ navigation it is perhaps a sign of the times that he admits that many now see the chart-and- pencil methods as aids to the electronics … |
| 30 | Although he believes the Labour vote is firmer than that of the Conservatives , the cautious conclusion in his camp is that , in the range of possibilities , a Labour majority government has a slight edge over Labour as the largest party in a hung parliament . |