Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most parents though tend to avoid a secret pirates cave where only members of the Pirates Club are allowed . |
| 2 | Where only part of the works are to be designed by the contractor , the standard form is used with modifications set out in the Contractor 's Designed Portion Supplement to the JCT Standard Form of Building Contract with Quantities , 1980 edition . |
| 3 | This meaning contrasts with that found in sentences such as She ordered me to break down the door , where only part of the movement signified by to is actualized : Here the infinitive can be described as evoking a subsequent potentiality , i.e. an event whose actualization is futurized with respect to that of the main verb . |
| 4 | This was a country where only 3% of the land could be used for agriculture but where farmers received considerable financial assistance from the government to ensure that rural communities continued to be viable . |
| 5 | He was offered little support as he walked the edge between the endowment , its critics , the art world and Congress , where even supporters of the arts were reluctant to go on record as voting ‘ for tax-funded pornography ’ . |
| 6 | A NEW book , Organised Obsessions : 1001 Offbeat Associations , Fan Clubs and Microsocieties You Can Join , lists hundreds of groups where even folks with the most unusual interests can find kindred spirits . |
| 7 | The leading spirits behind the club were Major Yeats Brown , the Bengal Lancer , Dr Robert Forgan , deputy leader of the BUF , Sir Donald Makgill and Captain Luttman Johnson , all of whom where either members of the BUF or had close connections with Mosley . |
| 8 | So far we have considered models in which all agents face the same information problem , although obviously agents in the island model have different information depending upon which island they are located on . |
| 9 | Ninety ( 72% ) patients were over 70 , although only 14% of the population studied were above this age . |
| 10 | The metropolitan area possessed 50% of all hospital beds and 70% of all qualified doctors in 1979 , although only 16% of the total population were living in the capital.2 There is an acute shortage of medical personnel — only one doctor per 3,700 inhabitants and one trained nurse per 4,000 inhabitants in 1977 . |
| 11 | Although not part of the actual judgment the court ruled that the obtaining of a hire-purchase agreement can amount to the obtaining of services by virtue of Section 1(2) of the Theft Act 1978 . |
| 12 | Albania , although not part of the Balkans , is included with Romania and Bulgaria because of the strong similarities in the organization of rug-making in these countries and in the quality and character of their rugs . |
| 13 | Long linear field banks or persistent field boundaries can often be suggested as something more than just divisions in the fields . |
| 14 | In the 1980s Soviet and DRA leaders have persistently claimed that Afghanistan remains non-aligned whatever its bilateral links with the Soviet Union ( and this is meant to imply more than just membership in the Non-Aligned Movement ) . |
| 15 | Even acute fear of dentistry may be more than just fear of the drill : California dentist James Rota says that women who are most frightened of dentists are those who have been sexually molested as children . |
| 16 | De Gaulle 's foul temper in the days immediately before and after the Normandy landings reflected more than just annoyance at the exclusion of his movement : he was still confident that events were moving in his favour , but the huge imponderable of American intentions remained a source of concern . |
| 17 | I have come to believe that the soft occult more often than not leads to the hard stuff . |
| 18 | When the rosy spectacles are laid aside , it is clear that what to the husband and children can be a refreshing hobby — after all they are more often than not the consumers , not the producers , of the home-made jam — to the wife can be another variant of the natural mother image and in everyday terms can mean longer than ever hours at the chopping board . |
| 19 | He is respected , popular and ( although once chairman of the Conservative Party ) less partisan than most politicians . |
| 20 | Not all results are shown ; all giving a reading of more than about 30% of the white card reading are omitted . |
| 21 | Only when the angle of impact is less than about 20° above the surface is the direction of the body preserved , as an elongation of the crater in the impact direction . |
| 22 | On contemporary art sales undoubtedly enduring a difficult period at present he noted that even at the highest point of the market , revenue had not amounted to more than about 20% of the house 's total sales . |
| 23 | The agriculture of small farmers remained undeveloped , while the industrial sector which was small but had considerable potential with the influx of the coastal refugee population received no single investment of more than about $28,000 in the whole period . |
| 24 | As for NT , Microsoft is back describing it as primarily a server operating system , and acknowledging that vendors are unlikely to bundle it with more than about 10% of the desktop machines they ship . |
| 25 | As for NT , Microsoft is back describing it as primarily a server operating system , and acknowledging that vendors are unlikely to bundle it with more than about 10% of the desktop machines they ship . |
| 26 | Indeed , it is the closest planet to the Sun and at its maximum elongations is never more than about 28° from the Sun . |
| 27 | Unless the wind is more than about 45° to the direction of take-off , a strong cross wind seldom creates problems . |
| 28 | Although about 20% of the women were taken into hospital at the time of their illness , we do not know how many of the episodes were confirmed radiologically or at operation . |
| 29 | Psychologist Professor Barbara Tizard of the Institute of Education found that , although about 16% of the children did feel unhappy and that they ‘ did n't belong ’ , three-quarters felt perfectly at ease with their peers and reckoned that Afro-Caribbean culture , music and ‘ style ’ were generally admired . |
| 30 | Although unfortunately details of the projects are tantalizingly hard to ascertain , at least two attempts were made after 1888 by the Edinburgh Typographical Society to set up a women 's union , The first , in the late 1880s , is referred to only in the retrospective " statement on the Female Question " , published in 1904 ; Miss Black of London [ who must have been Clementina Black ] a lady who was well-known for her efforts to improve the social condition of her sex , offered to make an endeavour to organise the female compositors in Edinburgh , with a view to remedying the evils complained of by the journeymen . |