Example sentences of "the [noun sg] space " in BNC.

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1 The hunters of birds piled their catch and the moment of elation passed as the woman came into the tent space to watch the death flight of her youngest born .
2 It is a reminder of Richard Feynman 's observation after the enquiry into the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster ; ‘ Nature can not be fooled . ’
3 He also talks of boosting Antarctic research by 300 per cent , and continuing the support for the Australia telescope and the starlab space telescope project .
4 These works make explicit what is only suggested in this livret the opening number of the work serves as a processional for the instrumentalists and some or all of the singers and dancers that brings them into the performing space .
5 ‘ It all depends on the size of the performing space and its acoustic . ’
6 In a sad indication of just how little local business is being conducted by galleries specialising in British art , William Jackson has left Cork Street and moved to the basement space previously occupied by Nigel Greenwood in New Burlington Street .
7 Some progress has been made in recording data on the Polytechnic 's rooms and buildings , and on the teaching space requirements of individual courses .
8 The topological structure of the decision space can be quite complicated in even a fairly simple program .
9 The more complicated the decision space of the program , the more sophisticated will be the optimum driving system which may ultimately need most of the features of the full graphics-oriented database management system .
10 Establishing the outside measurements , I completed a scaled drawing of the boardroom space and placed a suitable rectangle within it .
11 The United States space programme suffered a serious setback in May 1991 when a congressional committee voted to reduce to $100,000,000 in the current fiscal year the projected $2,000 million budget for the Freedom space station , the construction of which was crucial to further manned missions to the moon and one to Mars , which President George Bush stated should be achieved by 2019 , the 50th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing .
12 The US Senate on Sept. 9 voted by 63 to 34 to continue with the development of the Freedom space station , expected to be constructed by the end of the century at a currently predicted cost of US$40,000 million .
13 In preparation for the Freedom space station , an array of experiments were performed in Space Lab , the laboratory module carried in the shuttle 's cargo bay , on two fish , four frogs , 180 hornets , 7,600 flies and 30 fertilized chicken eggs .
14 More important , it gave Mexico the breathing space it needed to tempt back flight capital and boost GDP growth .
15 To re-finance ourselves in order to finish the task , we arranged a Flexible Businessloan with a two year capital repayment holiday which gave us the breathing space we needed .
16 Things looked gloomy but Graham 's astute signing of big Cliff Holton plus the good fortune of a mid-winter break caused by tundra-like weather gave Palace the breathing space they required .
17 If an interim order is made , what happens during the breathing space ?
18 David Redden , the senior vice president at Sotheby 's who arranged the loan said that Sotheby 's approached the society with the idea of giving ‘ them the breathing space they so desperately needed while they were trying to determine what they were going to do next for themselves … with the hope that other institutions will join in ’ .
19 But it would provide the breathing space necessary to organise orderly realignments , and permit the ERM to survive until EMU is in place .
20 And the political culture is one that provides government with the breathing space necessary to address itself to those problems .
21 On Thursday , supporters of the rail service welcomed the breathing space offered by the reprieve but stressed the campaign was not over .
22 The primary mechanism of arterial haemostasis for epinephrine is compression of the artery in the serosal space .
23 There was no structural incursion into the cabin space except to some degree in the instrument panel and rudder pedal areas .
24 This applies even where ( as was usual ) the stable incorporated a loft for the storage of hay so that this fodder could be pitched readily into the racks in the stalls below , because the loft exploited the roof space and was rarely built as a full-height upper storey .
25 The crops were stacked right up to the roof ridge , or close to it , so using almost all the roof space .
26 A further dog-leg stair leads up from this level to second-floor guest accommodation located entirely in the roof space framed by the original trusses , and a narrow bridge leads across from the head of the stair to a complementary study balcony ( Fig 38 ) .
27 Naturally , the greater part of the volume of this room is within the roof space and a consequence of this is that a small pre-existing ventilation opening , which was sited high up below the eaves of the barn and is now glazed to form a window , has its sill at floor level .
28 However , the most significant obstacles to this plan were the deep trusses of heavy timbers which spanned the roof space at two locations to brace purlins supporting the rafters of each roof-slope ( Fig 49 ) .
29 Instead of giving a clear internal height of 6.9 ( 22–1/2ft ) ( extending up into the apex of the roof space ) , headroom beneath these two trusses was reduced to 4.4m ( 14ft ) at the junction of their curved braces with the tie-beams , thus denying the opportunity to install two storeys of habitable accommodation at these points .
30 It seemed sensible to reserve each end bay of the roof space for a bedroom , lit by a new window installed either in an adjacent roof-slope or in the flanking gable .
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