Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even for roles such as lector , the layman or even the boy is preferred . |
| 2 | Further work on the carbon-electrolyte system is needed to ascertain whether the effect is connected with a carbon-water interaction or possibly the formation of carbon-sodium intercalation compounds at high temperature and pressure . |
| 3 | In the extreme , of course , local people may object strongly to a project ( eg on environmental grounds ) , and force a design change or even the abandonment of the project , so that public attitudes may become an important issue . |
| 4 | Another used sweet saffron leaves , baked to dry and fed in the same way : ‘ Only you had to be some careful not to give the horse too much of the powder or else the sweat would bring it out and you could smell the herb on his coat . ’ |
| 5 | By failing to take this holistic stance and by the adoption of a narrow perspective ( the curriculum ) within a managerial approach dedicated to control , standardisation and output evaluation , the ‘ Great Debate ’ has not arrived at the promised land but has been confined to endless wanderings in the wilderness of the present or indeed the past . |
| 6 | They will also depend upon the generic strategies being adopted for the SBU or even the product line . |
| 7 | After an hour or more the dancing stops . |
| 8 | After an hour or so the Carpettes still linger in the parking lot as the coach doors slam shut . |
| 9 | After an hour or so the pungency diminishes . |
| 10 | That the negligence or rather the breach of the implied term , was failing to ensure as is the common practice amongst solicitors that the proposed source of finance had in fact agreed both finance for the transaction and the term thereon . |
| 11 | The sight of one bee carrying out a struggling sister or even the queen should convince us that behaviour can seem intelligent in its normal context without any need for the intellectual participation of the actors . |
| 12 | Mark usually achieved this by thinking out an arresting beginning , nearly always of the same type , asking his congregation to imagine themselves standing gazing at the Pyramids or the Acropolis or even the New York skyline , hardly realising , until Sophia pointed it out to him , that these sights would be unfamiliar to the majority of his hearers . |
| 13 | In any event , knowledge within the firm of the identity of the intermediary 's client may not identify him if the salesman or perhaps the dealer concerned did not know either that the intermediary was acting as intermediary or the identity of the client ; this is a Chinese wall-type question . |
| 14 | It can be applied to any arena in which people need to work together — an office , factory , club or even the Government . |
| 15 | Census materials are an invaluable resource for the historian but the technical manipulation of figures may be thought of as being the remit of the mathematics department or even the geographers . |
| 16 | This is called the average or mean bond enthalpy , the bond enthalpy term or simply the bond energy . |
| 17 | It may have had to be a lavatory or else the bus on the way home . |
| 18 | When this stops , either N is fail or else the pointer p in the current S points back along the sequence of operators which leads to N. There is a version of this which corresponds to the basic depth first algorithm . |
| 19 | either the living room or the study or maybe the kitchen . |
| 20 | Garland has argued that the reason why the early , biological positivists had the extraordinary ambition of arriving at a theory of the causes of crime where both the theory and the category of behaviour it was explaining had nothing to do with the criminal law , was that they were also engaged in a struggle to assert themselves as a ‘ new ’ profession of penal experts against the ‘ old ’ , legal profession . |
| 21 | Such subject elements include : small things passing for large ( models , miniature sets ) ; large passing for small or normal sized ( eg an oversized set if normal people are supposed to be miniaturized ) ; animate for animate ( stuntman ; stand-in ; actor or child or dwarf inside animal or creature ) ; inanimate for animate ( from the cel of the animator to the monster or creature constructed in miniature or full scale and made to move by electrical/mechanical/hydraulic means or by stop-motion animation ) ; animate for inanimate ( pseudomechanical effects operated by muscle power ; the androids , played by normal actors , in Blade Runner ) ; composite for single images ( rear or front projection of the setting or alternatively the action , or one person playing two roles on screen simultaneously ) ; 2-D for 3-D ( glass paintings , painted backdrops ) . |
| 22 | Often only broken fragments of these inlays survive , and nothing of the item of furniture to which they were attached , so it is difficult to visualize the original effect or even the extent of the shell decoration . |
| 23 | The outward characteristics of religions have an inner meaning which brings them from their very separate and distinct starting-points towards an appreciation of the Mystery at the heart of religion where paradoxically the distinctions merge . |
| 24 | This has the apparently anomalous result that both the policeman and the defendant are using force lawfully . |
| 25 | It is also important to keep in mind that both the objective and subjective dimensions of the disability/ageing career will be shaped by race and gender . |
| 26 | This planted the seed in his mind that perhaps the work of a record producer could be interesting . |
| 27 | He felt no fear that either the militia or the rebels would molest him or his men , since all the troubles were occurring in what he thought of as the richer areas . |
| 28 | Between 1346 and 1348 , and again , after the visitation of the Black Death , between 1356 and 1358 , the people of Reims completed the construction of their city 's defence , with the gratifying effect that even the king of England , Edward III himself , could not force an entry in the early winter of 1359–60 . |
| 29 | There are observations of the House of Lords in Hunter v. Hunter to the effect that accordingly the transfer is wholly void even as between the transferor and transferee . |
| 30 | Labour was in government and had to make the best of it , but the party was with a less numerous support bloc than even the Selsdon Heath of 1970 . |