Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reasoning that the very nature of Doctor Who would mean scenes at the beginning and end of serials where only the regular cast were involved , this element became almost a prerequisite to production . |
| 2 | This makes it very different from education , where only the supervisory responsibility is central , while direct responsibility rests with between one and two hundred executive bodies , deriving their authority from a local electorate . |
| 3 | There are fewer contexts where only the bare infinitive seems appropriate . |
| 4 | The ideal data input document is one where only the required information appears and appears in sequence from left to right . |
| 5 | Certain premises are excluded from the Act , e.g. small family businesses where only the immediate family are employed . |
| 6 | It is important to remember that there are certain contexts where only the strong form is acceptable , and others where the weak form is the normal pronunciation . |
| 7 | The table shows the number of pairs where neither candidate was selected , where only the English candidate was selected , and where both were selected . |
| 8 | The aristocrat 's furniture was an elaboration of the middle class 's , where once the middle-class interior had been a reduction of the aristocrat 's . |
| 9 | [ See Fig. 3 ] Where once the smooth cone of Vesuvius had risen , only a shattered stump now remained ; where once there had been fields and vineyards and all the normal clutter of the countryside there now stretched a silent grey carpet of ash , mantling everything like a thick , dirty snowfall . |
| 10 | A fortress over the centuries , now it beckoned him with a fine house , The Vines , where once the German commandant had surveyed the desolated scene . |
| 11 | Where either the High Court or a county court is satisfied that proceedings before it are required to be in the other court whether by reason of the 1991 Order or any other provisions made under s 1 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 , or by reason of any other enactment , then it must either transfer the proceedings to the other court or strike them out ( CCA 1984 , ss 40 and 42 ) . |
| 12 | From studies of these countries , there appears to be an unwillingness of the elderly to seek assistance from their younger kin , although paradoxically the young report that they are more willing to give help than the elderly are willing to seek it . |
| 13 | The concept of ‘ emotion ’ is ill-defined within psychology , although paradoxically the lay person seems to know exactly what the term refers to . |
| 14 | Even in the heavy rain she had to be out in clean air , running among the trees , anywhere other than inside the hot chamber of her skull . |
| 15 | In addition , the breed has been very widely exported and has played a major role in the creation or improvement of many other breeds : its influence has probably been greater than any other breed except perhaps the Friesian group and its adaptability is legendary . |
| 16 | I doubt if there is any place where you could belong comfortably , except perhaps the sterile life you have built for yourself in England . |
| 17 | And nothing in Italy — except perhaps the national football team — so titillates the Italian public as Ferrari . |
| 18 | PCB residues in the blubber of the California bottlenose dolphin also exceeded previously published concentrations for cetaceans from all other parts of the world , except perhaps the Mediterranean coast of France , which have been reported to have a maximum concentration of over 2500 ppm . |
| 19 | ALTHOUGH only the Communist Party came out strongly against a possible reunification of Germany yesterday , the prospect will cause an upheaval in French international thinking particularly over France 's role as the motor of the European Community . |
| 20 | Alessandra Mussolini , granddaughter of Il Duce , has been a hit with photographers , although only the foreign press have paid attention to her pretence to campaign for the neo-fascist party . |
| 21 | There 's more going on than just the Cretaceous collapse . |
| 22 | Because of the connection with prostitutes , pornography means more than just the graphic depiction in words or pictures of sexual activity . |
| 23 | That it turned out to be neither was because of Father McGiff 's discovery that there was more to Time 's perfidy than just the simple ruse of slowing him down . |
| 24 | Now would they normally get their er a jockey to gallop the horse rather than just the stable boy ? |
| 25 | This has had a much more drastic effect on the reservoir quality of the rocks than vadose compaction or early cementation , as it affected the whole of the Hauptdolomit rather than just the upper portion ( Fig. 18 ) . |
| 26 | Well something other than just to talk about other than just the normal run of road things . |
| 27 | The number of individual schools developing their own non-sexist and anti-sexist initiatives is increasing continuously , and most tackle far more than just the official curriculum , aiming to provide verbal and physical ‘ space ’ for girls , to tackle careers and option choices and to involve parents . |
| 28 | Consideration of these facts should be enough to alert us to the possibility that the totality of our being may be much more than just the physical body , and that we may not be in any sense only machines . |
| 29 | Whitley ( 1990 : 65 ) has suggested that this is in part because of the way skill formation is more intra-organizationally than individually achieved , and thus located in the context of the overall skilling of work groups rather than just the human capital of a competitive individual . |
| 30 | But it is more than just the lucky shot that has defeated the Great White Shark . |