Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] [Wh adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In th i in the old days when a firm would come along and pack everything , then they said that , and that was quite true , that they would pack everything and then they would be responsible if damage was done . |
| 2 | While this does not appear to be such an earth shattering decision , it is one of the few occasions when a coroner 's action has been criticised . |
| 3 | In fact , of the 202 cases where a date of birth is known ( see Table 8 ) , only 4 were born in that year ( as compared with 18 born in 1895 ) . |
| 4 | Companies will no doubt play safe and notify their agreements to the national authorities where a merger raises any public interest issue of potential concern to those authorities . |
| 5 | IN the post-war years when a shortage of building materials led to a virtual moratorium on construction , the young lions of the architectural scene moved into exhibition design . |
| 6 | The linguistic skills where a deficiency is most frequently cited are : |
| 7 | The hot streets where a child walks and I follow , forty years behind . |
| 8 | They were on the brow of a little hill and Sara walked farther on to look down on the county spread in front of her , idly trying to recognise familiar landmarks — It was a travel-ad view — neat lush fields , trim hedgerows , a farmhouse nestling in amongst its windbreak of trees , a sheet of yellow on the far hills where a field of mustard was in bloom , and for the rest , a thousand different shades of the greens of high summer , a piece of England basking in the sun and as beautiful as any foreign strand . |
| 9 | Some EC countries had argued that if intra-marginal interventions could be financed through the EMCF then this might prevent the obligatory interventions when a currency had reached the limits of its permitted flexibility . |
| 10 | Policy and provision were less well-developed in the areas of diagnosis , assessment and curriculum — in other words , the precise points where a policy has its greatest potential to affect the individual child . |
| 11 | The main areas where a business is likely to be affected should now be known , and the changes communicated fully within the organisation . |
| 12 | Sometimes the main pages where a subject is dealt with are printed in bold type . |
| 13 | Besides planning excavations throughout the nation , then , the Conseil will now conduct any emergency works which arise , such as the preliminary excavations when a rail road or motorway is being built , or in any exceptionally difficult local cases . |