Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] the [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Another person ’ means other than the driver , therefore where only the driver is injured this section is not applicable . |
| 2 | Mad , gay Paris , where only the river is Seine , the English used to joke . |
| 3 | When the sun came out a rainbow formed and the air was so clear that each pine tree on the distant mountains , where usually the forest is a shadowy blur , stood out separate and distinct . |
| 4 | Jay had taken her camera to photo the leather-bound treasures of the seventeenth century , where even the language was rounded in sepia sworls , respectful of rhythm , season , nature and wholeness . |
| 5 | He believed he should come across someone who should want his skills — he was an incurable optimist , and imagined a fortunate meeting around every corner , though how that should come about was hard to see , as he advanced farther and farther into the dark , dense trees , where even the moonlight was split into dull little needles of bluish light on the moss , not enough to see by . |
| 6 | The more elaborate chamber illustrated in Fig. 4.4 , which can be constructed quite cheaply , is designed to overcome some problems in simpler chambers , where either the resin is drawn into the chamber after the sample is outgassed , or the sample is placed in the resin and both are evacuated together ( as in Section 8.5.5 ) . |
| 7 | It was into this barrow , under cover of the night , at about seven p.m. , that the body was put , covered with plastic sacks , themselves in turn covered with a fair sprinkling of autumn leaves , before being wheeled across the low wooden bridge there , across a well-worn path through the field , and across to the swiftly flowing current of the River Cherwell , where unceremoniously the body was tipped into the water . |
| 8 | Except just the colour is much better alright what are you saying . |
| 9 | Although ostensibly the election was called because of the refusal of the ALP-dominated upper house of the state legislature to approve industrial relations legislation ending compulsory trade unionism , many observers suspected that Greiner had sought an election in order to capitalize on a recent string of problems associated with the ALP at federal and state level . |
| 10 | There was a strong diagonal wind in favour of the Borderers in the first half and they turned round 12-3 ahead , although territorially the game was more even . |
| 11 | ALTHOUGH traditionally the Speaker is a figure who presides impartially over the Commons , his election by the whole House is usually influenced by strong party political currents . |
| 12 | After the break , Abingdon continued to force Horsham back , although now the pitch was beginning to make an impression on some tired legs ; there were mistakes from both sides and also some heavy tackles which resulted in long delays whilst players received attention . |
| 13 | Although originally the doctrine was thought to be restricted to cases of iniquity or wrong-doing on the part of the party seeking to enforce the obligation of confidence , it is now clear that this is not so . |
| 14 | Although originally the aim was to promote Chartered Manager status , this aim is now being pursued independently by the British Institute of Management , with the approval of CMEAD . |
| 15 | Manufacturing and mining made just as heavy demands on child labour , although here the problem was not seasonal but one of whether parents could afford to buy a brief period of schooling before the child entered full-time employment . |
| 16 | The revival of interest in a Channel fixed link in Britain and France was matched by growing interest at European Community level although here the emphasis was on the role of Europe in providing financial support for improvements in transport infrastructure . |
| 17 | Restaurants ( although here the product is more tangible ) . |
| 18 | Because the whole neighbourhood-thanks to Gittel 's big-mouthed elder sister-knew exactly who had been behind the curse , although even the sister was too much of a prude to tell anyone the reason why . ’ |
| 19 | A DRIVER who caused the death of a 16-year-old jogger while his blood alcohol was more than twice the limit was jailed for 18 months yesterday . |
| 20 | The payments on a lease will normally be lower than on a contract allowing for the purchase of the asset , although sometimes the difference is small and then a rebate is made when the term of the contract finishes and the plane is sold . |
| 21 | This process goes on and on until eventually the position is as shown in Table 16.9 . |
| 22 | The two experiments we have just described , one on auditory lexical decision and the other on phoneme monitoring , support the view of auditory word recognition as a process by which an initially large cohort of candidate word detectors shrinks rapidly in size as information from the speech signal flows in , until eventually the cohort is reduced to a single candidate . |
| 23 | At such moments it was difficult to remain calm , but she forced herself to concentrate on the figures until eventually the task was finished . |
| 24 | While it had received some decent Mk 2 air-conditioned stock , the maximum speed of its fleet of diesel locomotives was 90/95mph ; average city-to-city speeds compared unfavourably with other parts of the InterCity network , and initially BR replied to local pleas that HSTs could not provide the answer , implying stagnation until perhaps the route was electrified and received APTs that could take the curvatures in their stride . |
| 25 | I mean if obviously the child is reacting in some way or feels that they ca n't even relax when they 're at home , erm then someone 's overstepped the mark . |
| 26 | ‘ If only the protector 's stealing the crown were all … ’ |
| 27 | Thus a car which is so seriously damaged that its chassis is distorted could no longer be accurately described as new , even after being repaired , whereas if only the engine were damaged the car could be restored to newness by a new engine being installed . |
| 28 | People who have been held awkwardly may in their turn be stiff , ashamed of nudity or partial nudity , or carry a fantasy that if only the scene were properly set , rosy lights dimly aglow , all would come right . |
| 29 | If only the work were worth it . |
| 30 | If only the bar was n't brought down quite so hard on everyone 's head . |