Example sentences of "silent [subord] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All was silent except for the automatic fire fairly close at hand , somewhere down by the crossroads . |
| 2 | He watched their departure through a spreading mist , and when the last car had gone and the avenue was silent except for the long sigh of grass , he allowed himself to be taken back to his room . |
| 3 | He sprang to it , and collected instructions in a room silent except for the sound of Mrs Morgan weeping drearily into her handkerchief . |
| 4 | Pictures were completely and utterly silent except for the whirr of the projector , or the mutterings of the projectionist when he changed reels and dropped one . |
| 5 | The room was silent except for the rustle of Dexter 's pen and the jingle of his wrist chain on the table as he wrote . |
| 6 | The room had fallen uncomfortably silent except for the tinkling of the fountains . |
| 7 | They followed the porter along the serpentine path , then suddenly they were through the trees and into a glade ringed by clumps of trees , silent except for the gurgle of a small brook as it splashed down some rocks which thrust up out of the ground like the finger of a buried giant . |
| 8 | Everything was silent except for the storm outside . |
| 9 | Inside it was cool and sombre , the pillars stretching up into the blackness , the nave and aisles silent except for the birds which nested under the eaves outside . |
| 10 | The courtroom was silent except for the somewhat tinny tinkling of a small bell . |
| 11 | This depended upon the constitutive documentation of the Organisation , which was silent as to the liability of the member States , although Article 1 of the constitutive Treaty limited its personality to ‘ operational needs ’ . |
| 12 | The case is of course silent as to the neighbour principle since it predates Donoghue v. Stevenson , but there is no reason to doubt that the facts of the case , if they were to occur again , could be dealt with as a straightforward application of the neighbour principle . |
| 13 | Otherwise it is silent as to the requirements of Ord. 29 , r. 1 . |
| 14 | The Sexual Offences ( Amendment ) Act 1976 , s. 1(1) , indicates the mens rea for one of the four constituent elements of the actus reus of rape , namely , lack of consent , but the Act is silent as to the mens rea for the remaining components of the offence . |
| 15 | If the contract is silent as to the duty owed to the visitor , then the common duty of care in the Act will apply . |
| 16 | Lord Poulett excluded certain named objects from the sale , but the contract was silent as to the objects claimed by the plaintiff … |
| 17 | If the landlord is to have such a power it must be expressly conferred on him ; if the lease is silent as to the person by whom it is exercisable it will be exercisable by the tenant alone ( Wingfield ( L R ) v Clapton Construction Co Ltd ( 1967 ) 201 EG 769 ) . |