Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were footsteps outside the door , and a trilling laugh that Paige recognised the merest instant before the door was thrust open and Drew came in , a giggling Lori attached to his arm . |
| 2 | In mid-turn all the weight will be on the inside foot whilst the other remains in the strap . |
| 3 | Registration can be confidently expected to occur in due course unless the company 's articles impose restrictions on the transferability of its shares . |
| 4 | That was a case in which the house had a path running to the steps which went up to the road , the house being at a lower level than the road , and the plaintiff met with an accident on those steps … |
| 5 | It was on a lower level than the rest of the works and was lit by windows which ran the length of the wall facing the doorway . |
| 6 | The aisle is roofed at a lower level than the nave and the triforia have the function of masking the lean-to roofs which cover these vaults . |
| 7 | Pots will be attractive here and the pool acts as a real focal point , set within a brick circle at a slightly lower level than the patio . |
| 8 | Many departments of radiology require a sigmoidoscopy before a barium enema , but this seems to be an unnecessary constraint when the indication for the barium enema is simply iron deficiency and when there are no symptoms of rectal disease . |
| 9 | We have that freedom because the law has not taken it away , though it does limit its exercise . |
| 10 | In more sophisticated tests two stimuli may be used , one probing the centre of the receptive field while the other explores the surrounding region to detect the presence of antagonistic effects from the surrounding region . |
| 11 | He strode away towards the arched lane while the sound of chatter and laughter behind him gradually faded . |
| 12 | If you pour water into this region you get a low tide where the water 's come from . |
| 13 | By stressing superiority of the competitive as opposed to the collaborative , the individual as against the collective , the private as compared to the public and by elevating profitability to at times the sole criterion of success , they have created an economic framework where the survival of the fittest has in many cases come to mean the survival of those who are best at avoiding controls on their activities without being caught . |
| 14 | And that is why fashion at any level needs to capture the imagination , most particularly in a time of economic recession when the consumer is likely to have priorities more urgent than a new frock . |
| 15 | In Case 1 we saw how the Nuer linked legitimacy to the payment of bridecattle ; in Case 2 Nayar legitimacy was established by the child 's mother being of the proper social age , a " mother " and not a " child " , with the added proviso that the presumed genitor must not be of lower caste than the mother . |
| 16 | Delhi resembled an armed camp as the government pulled out all the stops to prevent a rally called to demand early elections . |
| 17 | And if kids have have n't shut off before then , they always get that prayer if the preacher is being particularly sensitive or insensitive to you know , You talk about a God of nature . |
| 18 | If it is still stable at temperatures in excess of 100 K above T g , the temperature dependence has an exponential form where according to the Eyring rate theory ΔH is the activation enthalpy of viscous flow and is a more representative parameter than the energy . |
| 19 | In this case , the researcher decides how many of each category of person should be included in the sample , but then , instead of selecting them at random from a sampling frame , the researcher goes out looking for the right number of people in each category until the quota is filled . |
| 20 | Where it 's two males , male applicant and a male interviewer , and the prospective employee has a less prestigious accent than the interviewer , so it 's quite likely that the prospective employee would shift his accent towards a more that of the employer , due to his relative need of approval so much more than vice versa . |
| 21 | In Deerness v John R Keeble & Son ( Brantham ) Ltd ( 1982 ) The Times , 18 October this rule was applied even though the defendants had made an interim payment after the plaintiff issued a writ which he subsequently failed to serve . |
| 22 | Gilbey , who has been her greatest emotional support since the collapse of her marriage to Prince Charles , broke the news himself in a telephone call to Kensington Palace . |
| 23 | The engine room , the Cabinet-committee structure , may have seriously under-performed in the six-month build-up to the Argentine invasion of the Falklands , but its command post , the full Cabinet , according to one senior minister not of the Thatcherite persuasion , performed its classic function once the crisis had broken : ‘ She had to carry the Cabinet on every major decision ’ , he said . |
| 24 | But I knew this was a vain hope because the house was always locked securely . |
| 25 | Sailing along at forty five degrees to the wind the sail is in tightly and it needs constant adjustment on the tiller to stay on that right course because the wind is never totally steady . |
| 26 | Such details should be supplied at the earliest possible opportunity when the booking is being made , and if arrangements have been made in advance ( either by letter or by telephone ) , they should be confirmed in writing at the point of reception . |
| 27 | First , the number of constituency and of list seats would be equal : 54 of each kind if the total of the region 's MPs was to remain unchanged . |
| 28 | It will be a question of fact in each case whether the person is a lawful visitor and has been invited to the premises . |
| 29 | These examples are tolerably plain , but it must depend to a large extent on the facts of each case whether the law will attribute to a person the immediate right to possess . |
| 30 | It will be a question of fact in each case whether the visitor has voluntarily or willingly accepted the risk as his or her own . |