Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether by some trick of the Mercator Projection , or due simply to the natural chauvinism of cartographers , Indonesia seldom reveals her true proportions , or even her whereabouts . |
| 2 | Socially this is a serious problem because most of these countries were experiencing housing stress of one kind or another even before the recent downturn in house production . |
| 3 | It were six Five or six o'clock in the morning I think I arrived in Aberdeen at six o'clock . |
| 4 | The lower foot is usually placed at about 2 o'clock or 10 o'clock to the slope . |
| 5 | Normally , the Italian is one of the two or three best in the world at the latter event and this opening race will gauge her recovery . |
| 6 | He thinks nothing of staying up till two or three o'clock in the morning in casinos , although I tell him it 's very , very bad for one 's constitution to have irregular hours . |
| 7 | The poor chap 's having to get up at two or three o'clock in the morning , this is being paid for it . |
| 8 | I usually watch it about two or three o'clock in the morning . |
| 9 | But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed . |
| 10 | In truth it drags along far to slowly and is never quite interesting or gripping enough in the right places despite the considerable efforts of the players . |
| 11 | In all cases , remember that the information you find is interesting or valuable only to the extent that you can put it to relevant use in your essay ; facts do not come with fixed , off-the-peg significance . |
| 12 | ‘ It now happens at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning . |
| 13 | If we just get fifty or sixty back for the |
| 14 | And where would the trigger for worldwide revolution come from — advanced economies or those still in the process of industrialization ? |
| 15 | Lectures often began as early as 5 or 6 a.m. in the summer ( 7 a.m. in the winter ) , and sometimes the first lecture went on for three hours , no provision being made for any food before 10 a.m . |
| 16 | Changes can be made in the look of any step not by a change in the tempo but in the time signature : for example , dancing a pas de basque to a 2/4 or 6/8 instead of the usual 3/4 . |
| 17 | We rode hard all night and it was about eight or nine o'clock in the morning when we reached Strelsau . |
| 18 | Well we never heard the name shop steward in those days I do n't think they went that far , there was somebody in charge sort of thing but erm they er got the na the name afterwards I think you know shop steward , but er and then they used to be Miss used to have the garden fetes the garden parties on her lawn , that was for the Liberal Party you see as soon Labour was mentioned there were only Tories and Liberals at that time and er we used to , when there was an election er we used to wait up for the results and then if the Liberals got in Squires ' big bell would be rung if it was twelve o'clock at night or one o'clock in the morning the Squires ' big bell would be rung you see , to say who 'd got in , if the Tories got in it was n't rung because it was a , Squires were Liberals , strong Liberals and er they used to attend the Liberal Club at Shortheath but erm there used to be some fun in those er what 's the name parade if the Liberals got in and dances you know to raise money for the various things , and the garden fetes used to be lovely but er on their lawn . |
| 19 | Cherry reds polish — brown , tan or red all over the boot , then black smeared in the creases — to antique it up ! |
| 20 | or sprawling lumpily beside the road |
| 21 | ‘ a condition contained in debentures … is not invalid by reason only that the debentures are thereby made irredeemable or redeemable only on the happening of a contingency ( however remote ) or on the expiration of a period ( however long ) any rule of equity to the contrary notwithstanding . ’ |
| 22 | Virtues are essentially qualities of character which are useful or agreeable either to the agent or others . |
| 23 | So they move three or four from the mixed ability middle band up to the top band , and three or four down to the middle band . |
| 24 | On Fridays we 'd often go to the Royal College of Art where they used to have these great shows which went on till three or four o'clock in the morning . |
| 25 | I waited and waited for him at the points and eventually met him about three or four o'clock in the morning for the first time . |
| 26 | ‘ After all , Gav , I can just stay up till your drinking pals have decided to head home , or Norris 's card school chums finally drag themselves away , or crash out and snore on the Richter scale , whatever ; the fun rarely extends beyond three or four o'clock in the morning … why , that would leave me a good four or five hours ’ sleep before an early lecture . ’ |
| 27 | All the time , the gun was in his hand or close by on the floor . |
| 28 | While Frank was ‘ climbing , fighting , playing , & robbing orchards ’ , Coleridge was more likely to be found in the meadows by the River Otter — first of those rivers , brooks and springs that were to work so powerfully on his mind — or close by at the sandstone cavern known as Pixies ' Parlour , where with the ‘ hand of … childhood ’ he carved his initials in the rock . |
| 29 | Males arrive on the breeding grounds a day or two ahead of the females and set up territories . |
| 30 | Only a day or two ago in The Times , a high academic figure was complaining that ‘ the nature of the demand for education , at least over the next few years , seems unlikely to correspond with any precision to the national need for more scientists and technologists ’ . |