Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as we might expect , their mechanical behaviour and especially their swelling in water and the relation between their temperature and moisture content and their strength , differ only in detail and present much the same general picture . |
| 2 | After the sack only the six principal churches were rebuilt . |
| 3 | All three seem to have in mind both the riveting political events of November 1990 and the concurrent BBC adaptation of Michael Dobbs ' House of Cards , which owed much to Shakespearian tragedy . |
| 4 | Wilson , like all other members of the Irish squad is confident about the future particularly the forthcoming European Championship which commences next September . |
| 5 | After ingestion , and hatching in the small intestine , the L2 travel by the bloodstream via the liver to the lungs , where the second moult occurs , the L3 returning via the trachea to the intestine where the final two moults take place . |
| 6 | But beat duty was of course not the only punitive experience for the rank-and-file policeman . |
| 7 | The film sticks to the same ‘ kid beats dumb robbers ’ formula which made the original Home Alone the third-highest grossing movie of all time and top comedy with takings of over £330 million worldwide . |
| 8 | Adams set off an a solo run down the left reminiscent of his days at Leeds , and in the end Southampton 's adventure was rewarded leaving Ipswich with nothing to show for an entertaining afternoon 's work . |
| 9 | The NZRFU did not follow Otago 's cancellation line , but a special meeting of available councillors met in Wellington and virtually demanded that South Africa clean up its drug act otherwise the All Black tour was in jeopardy . |
| 10 | So if you 're not too much of a purist about completing the circuit you 'd most probably be best off finishing in Windermere — I 've outlined how to adapt the main route to do this — or in Troutbeck village where the low level route finishes . |
| 11 | So he took the youngest brother to the village where the good Christian girl lived . |
| 12 | But in any reference to useful labour it occupies a significant place as a village where the medieval open field system of farming has survived in some degree . |
| 13 | The economic climate obviously the present economic climate in the U K , E E C and the world is not exac exactly er assisting in any shape or form with regards to the development or growth or even stability . |
| 14 | In Essex there were to remain in the Forest only the half hundred of Waltham and parts of the hundreds of Ongar and Becontree , said to have been afforested before 1154 , and the royal demesnes of Havering , Hatfield , Chelmsford and Kingswood near Colchester . |
| 15 | A moment later the beautiful young man from Gasset and Lode came out , looking peeved . |
| 16 | A moment later the big brown car pulled away from the kerb . |
| 17 | By the First World War both the Canadian Northern and the GTP , shackled with loss-making mountain railroads , were in deep financial difficulties . |
| 18 | This species is very similar to O. simulans but differs in the following respects : it appears to reach a much larger size ; the spinelets of the disk are less elaborate and have fewer points to the crown ; the shape of the oral shield differs and is depressed in O. aculeata ; the adoral shields are more wing-like and separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate ; the arm spines are less rugose particularly the proximal ventral spines ; and finally the ventral most arm spine is not so distinctly sabre shaped as in O. simulans . |
| 19 | This is not just genetic drift but a process whereby the entire structural basis of an organism is determined along particular lines ( not to be confused with rectilinearity ) of development . |
| 20 | ‘ If present government fails to heed the views of the RSPCA , the House of Lords and the vast majority of public opinion then the next Labour government will introduce a mandatory dog registration scheme . |
| 21 | If automobile technology had advanced as fast as computer technology over the same period then the current equivalent BL car , the Metro , would now cost 45 pence to buy , and run for over a year on a gallon of petrol . |
| 22 | The danger is if Mr X had entered into that transaction partly with a view to avoiding tax then the entire gross income without any deduction for trustee expenses and indeed ( in strictness ) for the payments of interest under the loan will be taxed upon Mr X. He would have made a transfer of an asset . |
| 23 | The situation that produced it was comparable to that which was to lead to a similar agreement between the returning Dutch and those who had proclaimed the Republic of Indonesia : in both cases neither side was prepared , there and then , for all-out war when the last British forces left Indonesia or when the Chinese armies in Tonkin were finally persuaded to leave . |
| 24 | It lay at the point where the fertile coastal plain to which Shurton belonged gave way to the austerely beautiful Quantock Hills , and in the meeting of those two quite different landscapes the village acquired something of its distinctive character : Stowey was a place always busy with the concerns of a lowland domestic world , but the gateway as well to a solitary hill country where man 's dominance was suddenly challenged and nature prevailed . |
| 25 | The descent spiral would bring them out from the cloud at almost the exact point where the mysterious Sakkratian doctor had been located by the Cell . |
| 26 | the first flow of nourishment in and from the mother 's body , evoking a moment when the emerging sexual drive is still closely linked to — propped on — the life-and-death urgency of the feeding instinct . |
| 27 | As he puts it in Writing and Difference , at the very moment when the fundamental conceptual systems of Europe are in the process of taking over all of humanity , Levinas leads us instead to ‘ an inconceivable process of dismantling and dispossession ’ . |
| 28 | Nizan 's communist novels , produced within this global historical framework , may consequently be contextualised in the following manner : ( a ) Antoine Bloye , written between 1931 and 1933 , was produced at a moment of sectarian cultural politics , a moment when the French communist party was just beginning to emerge from political isolationism , a moment when the French working class was just beginning to reassert itself . |
| 29 | Nizan 's communist novels , produced within this global historical framework , may consequently be contextualised in the following manner : ( a ) Antoine Bloye , written between 1931 and 1933 , was produced at a moment of sectarian cultural politics , a moment when the French communist party was just beginning to emerge from political isolationism , a moment when the French working class was just beginning to reassert itself . |
| 30 | From the Second World War onwards the top 100 firms became even more dominant : by 1970 they produced 45% of total output . |