Example sentences of "[subord] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Quickly , ’ said George , tugging at one of Zach 's well-darned sleeves , ‘ let's grab them chairs afore the big 'uns get them . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ What I say , constable , is ’ — and now it was Arthur speaking — ‘ there 's such a thing as 'arassment , that 's what they 've told me when I 've been up afore the old bloke . |
| 3 | Definition 1.9.5 A polynomial unc is called primitive iff the positive gcd in Z of all the zi is equal to 1 . |
| 4 | She 'd been so relieved at the news of Liz and Owen 's removal from Intensive Care that seeing the other girl 's still , slight figure lying motionless on the hospital bed had been a deep and severe shock . |
| 5 | I got a bit fed up after we 'd toured Britain once , it got a bit boring seeing the same places . ’ |
| 6 | The party also successfully targeted marginal seats in key areas such as in New South Wales where the Liberal-National state government was proving unpopular and in Queensland where the ALP exploited the legacy of corruption associated with the years of National Party rule . |
| 7 | He need not be taken to a designated police station if it is not anticipated he will be detained for more than six hours or where the arresting officer is without help . |
| 8 | Where the spring-blooming species predominate , delay mowing until mid-June in the south , or until July elsewhere , to allow enough time for seed to ripen . |
| 9 | Where the youthful Cavalier |
| 10 | or where the advanced society shows signs of vulnerability in its central value-system , pluralist methods may fail to fully explain persistent conflict because of their limited assumptions of causality and , in particular , because of their unwillingness to look at other manifestations of power in society . |
| 11 | Application for enforcement orders under s 127 ( where the 1974 Act has been infringed in various ways ) ; ss 86(2) and 87(1) ( relating to the death of debtor or hirer ) ; ss 92(2) and 126 ( relating to land ) , are all commenced by originating application ( alternative Ord 49 , r 4(9) — ( 11 ) . |
| 12 | The Northern Ireland Office knew that a point had been reached where the overwhelming majority of the Population , including Roman Catholics in the districts which the Provisional IRA claimed to protect , was so hostile to it that few cared as to what methods were used to wipe it out . |
| 13 | With a full house of 185 at last Tuesday 's event in Edinburgh University , part-funded by Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise , it is arguably the first held by the IoD , that predominantly male organisation , where the overwhelming majority was female . |
| 14 | The conspirators apparently believed that Edward II was still alive , for Rent had been arrested after visiting Corfe Castle where the deposed king was supposed to be hiding . |
| 15 | That was my first impression of a city whose disastrous birth rate has made it the largest in the world , a vast expanse of concentrated housing broken only by open spaces of baked earth where the wind-blown dust swirled , and far away to port the snow-capped volcanic hulks of Popocatépetl and Iztaccihuatl towering huge through the burnt brown atmosphere . |
| 16 | They have no dislike of getting their feet wet , while preferring to stay dry where the easy option exists . |
| 17 | For residents and for staff , the risk of violence taking group form will be less likely where the following needs are being met : |
| 18 | We shall lead up to it by starting where the modern world began , with the scientific revolution . |
| 19 | The regulations give some guidance by directing that an application may be refused where it appears that any advantage accruing would only be trivial , where the simple nature of the proceedings would not normally require the assistance of a solicitor , or where funds from another source were available but not pursued . |
| 20 | This willing integration is significantly different from the case at the other end of this spectrum , where the individual artist is in effect available for hire to glorify or embellish the particular court or household which has hired him . |
| 21 | We take a discrete time model where the individual lives for two periods , working in the first , using savings from the first to provide for retirement , and there are no bequests . |
| 22 | Superfecundation is most likely to occur in town and city cats , where the individual territories have become so reduced in size that the odour of a sexually active female can easily be detected by a whole collection of different males . |
| 23 | With all the ingredients in hand , a regular slot on the weekly network schedule is assigned , and the entire cast meets for several hours ' ’ wood-shed ’ rehearsal where the individual numbers are whittled into shape for the performance . |
| 24 | ( c ) a contract between an employer and the employer 's client where the individual engineer supervises the client 's contractor . |
| 25 | To summarize , the start of everything is to locate , as honestly as one can , the position of one 's company and where the current trends will take one . |
| 26 | the wrong side , where the promised pastures grow , |
| 27 | Often the size and shape of a plate will dictate a particularly unusual use of space , especially effective in the dream sequence where the sleeping monkeys are squashed into their frame-cages . |
| 28 | Among these men where learning and speculation have become a leisured pursuit — where the amateur-cum-Renaissance man is king and the dilettante is the hero — a new world-view is being forged . |
| 29 | Where the skull-rooted teeth are in possession . |
| 30 | Where the reclaimed tips are not grazed by sheep , plants enter readily . |