Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pulled up his roots a second time and moved to another new land , Germany , where during the twelve years that were left to him he accomplished a ‘ ballet miracle ’ , building not merely a repertory and a company in Stuttgart , but a whole new public attitude that affected other theatres throughout the country . |
| 2 | Besides the meetings at Mercereau 's and the Closerie , the painters began meeting regularly at Le Fauconnier 's studio in the rue Visconti as well , where during the closing months of the year they watched with interest the development through successive stages of his Abondance , a painting that all appear to have regarded as an important , revolutionary work . |
| 3 | 8 ( 1 ) No right of action to recover land shall be treated as accruing unless the land is in the possession of some person in whose favour the period of limitation can run ( referred to below in this paragraph as " adverse possession " ) ; and where under the preceding provisions … any such right of action is treated as accruing on a certain date and no person is in adverse possession on that date , the right of action shall not be treated as accruing unless and until adverse possession is taken of the land . |
| 4 | Where in the past unions used to pursue claims on behalf of employees , the decline in union membership has now often been replaced by an employee-based legal expenses insurance , offering a valuable source not only of work but also of funding . |
| 5 | As the State Department and the White House both set crisis management operations in train , and President Bush urgently conferred with top officials , FMLN statements — that the guests , except for the armed Americans , were not hostages and were free to go as soon as a ceasefire was arranged — were almost ignored . |
| 6 | To his annoyance he found that the Treasurer 's office was now completely empty except for the four telephones set down in a row on the bare boards of the floor . |
| 7 | Nor did the Nonconformity which had survived the later Stuart period serve much as a form of social control , except for the small numbers it served . |
| 8 | The group 's mail , except for the personal letters to band members , is usually opened by Sally Murrell , Gedge 's girlfriend and the band 's permanent secretary . |
| 9 | Agrippa 's face was round , cherubic , his features small and neat like those of a child , except for the hooded eyes and the look of sardonic amusement with which he watched everything about him . |
| 10 | Except for the stateless Palestinians , nobody else in the Middle East stands to gain more from peace . |
| 11 | Except for the earliest styles , Zapotec pottery was largely mould-made and decorated with applied decorative motifs often cut from flat sheets of clay and easily copied . |
| 12 | Except for the two hours when you went out and drove round to Boundary Drive . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Except for the two unfortunates buried in your churchyard . ’ |
| 14 | Except for the two years after Martin drowned I 've always been able to believe that at the heart of the universe there is love . ’ |
| 15 | Except for the two men , there are no family or friends present . |
| 16 | His voluminous political correspondence was purchased from her by Peel 's literary executors , the fifth Earl Stanhope and Edward , Viscount Cardwell [ qq.v. ] , and destroyed except for the two volumes incorporated in the Peel papers , now in the British Library , and letters of his own retained by Lord Stanhope . |
| 17 | Except for the two quarters at each end , we can examine residuals and comment on any that are unduly large , indicating observations badly represented by the proposed model of trend and seasonality . |
| 18 | We 're the younger members , except for the real littl'uns we 've got now . ’ |
| 19 | Some fifteen years ago , it was extended and now goes around the northern tip of the peninsula before turning south for a straight run down the west coast in bleak country , featureless except for the sad ruins of abandoned crofts yet relieved by glorious views across to Skye and the islands of the Inner Sound . |
| 20 | Except for the toughest types , such as yew and holly , protect newly-planted evergreens by stretching clear polythene around four stakes to act as a windbreak . |
| 21 | ‘ They 've given up boiler suits , ’ said Constance , ‘ some time ago — except for the pregnant ones , and that 's a mistake if you like . ’ |
| 22 | Nothing unusual or difficult here , except for the angled mortises for the front stanchions ( and later for the handlebar ) and the lashed joints . |
| 23 | Deserted — except for the sprawled corpses of the two murdered men , lying where death had struck them down . |
| 24 | Not a leaf moved , except for the dead leaves that Clare trod on . |
| 25 | In the immediate neighbourhood of The Milebrook were few families except for the local farmers , and for the first four years there we had no transport other than bicycles and a pony cart . |
| 26 | Except for the few slats supporting the tank , all the shelves in the cupboard can be removed in a moment , making access really easy . |
| 27 | ‘ For years before he married Elizabeth I do n't think anyone came to the house except for the old men on Sunday after chapel . |
| 28 | Rindi , whose crew possessed only pressurized paraffin-lamps , asked to borrow our torch , and revealed with it a patch of silt floor a good thirty feet further down , as untrammelled as the bottom of the deep ocean trenches — except for the unmistakable tyre-tracks of several large pythons . |
| 29 | We lunched at the Royal Circle , immaculate and relaxed except for the restless pacings of the under-employed waiters . |
| 30 | Except for the jumping ones . |