Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , in discussing punctuated equilibria ( much or the initial impact of which depended on the assertion that Darwin had got things wrong ) it is not until after several pages that we are told ‘ It is at this stage entertaining to realise ’ that Darwin ‘ anticipated the present debate ’ . |
| 2 | Presumably it can be done only where the essential core of each subject is no greater than half the total ; or where the subjects overlap in some way ; or where students are prepared to do more than 100 per cent of the work . |
| 3 | In the case of a connected fund manager exempt status is relevant only where the sole reason for the connection is that the fund manager is controlled by , controls or is under the same control as a financial or other professional adviser ( including stockbrokers ) to the offeror or target company . |
| 4 | There is no power of arrest under the section , so that arrest is available only where the general arrest conditions of PACE are satisfied , or the disrupters are committing some other arrestable offence . |
| 5 | The common law doctrine of frustration applies only where the main purpose of the contract has become impossible to achieve , Herne Bay Steam Boat Co. v. Hutton ( 1903 C.A. ) . |
| 6 | It must be borne in mind that the cost of an action in Court will be significant , especially where the principal sum is relatively insignificant . |
| 7 | This will be the case especially where the actual affidavit boasts of " highly placed sources " who can be summoned to verify the allegation . |
| 8 | This differential amounted to a direct incentive to takeovers by means of share exchange or the use of undistributed profits , especially where the acquired company possessed capital assets which were undervalued in its balance sheet . |
| 9 | The prefix ‘ hard ’ always set red lights flashing , especially where the numerical grade was untypically high for the adjectival one — HVS 5b 's like Praying Mantis , on Borrowdale 's Goat Crag , or in Northumberland , Hard Severe 4c . |
| 10 | They question the theoretical basis of this approach , arguing that not only might the driver treat this as a challenge to driving skill , but that in the trade off between caution and speed , the driver could equally strike a bargain on the side of risk , especially where the shared space is lengthy . |
| 11 | ‘ This was likely to have happened especially where the original charge was attempted rape . |
| 12 | ( c ) Profit share This is a matter which depends upon agreement with the continuing partners and may , eg where the new recruit is of some seniority , involve reductions in their shares . |
| 13 | Up to 30 victims could have died in a basement community centre directly below where the jumbo jet struck . |
| 14 | The roof , which is stripped of tiles , provides the water-supply ; the chimney smokes so thickly that the opposite wall is barely visible ; the few remaining window-panes are stained and the majority are stuffed with rags and paper . |
| 15 | The Tory party was more loosely structured : there were tensions between the Highflyers and the more moderate wing that emerged under Anne , and which came to be led by Robert Harley , whilst even the High Church chieftains — the Earl of Rochester , the Earl of Nottingham , and Sir Edward Seymour — worked much less closely together than the Whig Junto . |
| 16 | In the same way , they took care to spend no more time together than the daily round of school life made appropriate , but the simple knowledge that there was now one person in the small , enclosed community who cared for him healed Richard 's wounded spirit . |
| 17 | So although the new machine contains less metal than its predecessor , if offers a high standard of construction . |
| 18 | The position for women is even less favourable so although the average length of employment in one firm is greater , few workers are able to recoup the earnings lost in earlier years of their career when wages are lower . |
| 19 | So although the Labour group will be moving a reference back of this matter as an amendment . |
| 20 | Later , when Caxton set up his printing press in the fifteenth century , the expert printers he employed were Dutch : so although the written language became more standardised , many of our odder spellings derive from the attempts of Dutchmen to symbolise English words . |
| 21 | So although the pluralist decision-making system is widely supported as a process in which diverse political interests can wield influence , the outcomes of the political bargaining process are frequently allocatively inefficient or fail to promote social justice . [ … ] |
| 22 | Alright , so although the institutional setting can have a direct effect alright , it 's much more likely that the effect will be indirect , right , through , through high prices , and in order for , farmers to er , reap the benefits of support , they need to maximize their yields , and that 's what farmers have done in this country . |
| 23 | So although the wet climate in the west of Britain causes more magnesium to be washed from the soil than in Germany , this amount is far less than that added to the soil each year from rainfall . |
| 24 | She could tell that Dr Neil was looking at her most sceptically , although he was touching her so gently that the black fear which she had felt before she had fainted did not return — and pooh to his suspicions ! |
| 25 | Notice especially that the definite article may be one such further selecting qualifier . |
| 26 | In Blackpool , evidence mounts daily that the Conservative Party has rejected Thatcherism . |
| 27 | The beauty is that the font descriptor files take up only 2Kb , so once the initial overhead has been recouped , adding fonts is relatively painless . |
| 28 | Some girls — Felicity Grant , for instance — would have found it impossible to make a speech like that , but Breeze , frank in all her undertakings , said it so naturally that the old doctor took it quite as a matter of course . |
| 29 | He had indicated already he wished her to stay in the house for the night , and she knew well enough that the continued presence of her widowed mother and four brothers in the servants ' quarters in the rear compound depended on her strict obedience to all the wishes of the plantation director in his house . |
| 30 | The people of Stamford were passionately anxious that the railway should come their way , for it was plain enough that the great coaching trade , by which they lived , was doomed . |