Example sentences of "the [adj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kalchu took it downstairs to the stable twice a day when he milked the mother . |
| 2 | Air refuelling has come a long way from the first attempts in the thirties where the co-pilot literally popped out and grabbed the hose . |
| 3 | After all , back in the Thirties even the holiday posters would tell of ‘ Healthful Hartlepool — the most bracing air in the kingdom ’ . |
| 4 | If however the adhesive strength of the interface is less than about one-fifth of the general cohesive strength of the solid then the interface will be broken before the main crack reaches it and a crack trap or crack stopper has been created . |
| 5 | Students will need to discipline themselves to keep a record , in a loose leaf binder , on a very regular basis eg. weekly or at the longest once a fortnight . |
| 6 | This was still the practice by the 1830s when a tide of emigrants left Europe for Australia , New Zealand and California . |
| 7 | Neither made a significant provision before 1820 , and their rivalry still persisted in the 1830s when the government began at last to assist them with grants . |
| 8 | As the mother of two small children , the youngest hardly a month old , her eventual decision to remain at Stowey was clearly sensible . |
| 9 | She could no longer see the Steep yet the feeling of the dark airless room she had left behind , the sound of her foster-parents breathing heavily in the close darkness , still seemed to hang about her and draw her back . |
| 10 | If — as happens too often — the new methods are even more inconvenient than the old then a change-over is difficult , because to the basic inconvenience of the new pattern must be added the inconvenience of learning it . |
| 11 | It began to break down by the 1790s when the pressure of a growing population and insufficient work meant that over a fifth of the labour force was virtually permanently unemployed . |
| 12 | Devlin scored the second after a number of scrums , free kicks and penalties all close to the line , and in injury time John Paul Speirs touched down to ensure victory . |
| 13 | There are two common types of fitting : one where the waste pipe is simply pushed into the outlet of the trap ; the second where a plastic ‘ compression ’ joint — using a rubber or plastic washer to make the seal is incorporated into the outlet of the trap . |
| 14 | Lord Salmon gave as an example two instances of the valuation of a picture , the first for a client who does not tell him the reason for the valuation , and the second where the client tells him the valuation is needed because he is about to sell the picture to a friend . |
| 15 | The first where the client does not require any reference at all to KPMG in the advertisement ; the second where the advertisement refers to KPMG . |
| 16 | Dr. Rao saw the deceased twice a week . |
| 17 | The post , erected in the 1840s when the area was drained , shows the land has sunk some 13ft-14ft — an ominous decline in view of forecasts that global warming may cause the nearby sea to rise . |
| 18 | In the 1840s only a quarter of London 's newcomers ended up south of the Thames , but during the following three decades the proportion grew to a third . |
| 19 | A little further on , the small compact settlement of Lea Yeat ( Gate ) is reached , its tranquillity disturbed only in the 1870s when the railway was being constructed across the hillside above . |
| 20 | But its real take-off period was the 1870S when the introduction of a new cooling apparatus and the addition of chemical preservatives to the milk enabled it to be transported very long distances while remaining fresh . |
| 21 | It is , however , correct that these percentages were at their highest in the 1970s when the number of strikers was also at its highest . |
| 22 | However , he had returned all but three of the tourists ' passports to the safe-keeping of the Manager at The Randolph — the latter just a fraction irked that it now appeared to be his own responsibility to return these passports to whatever location the departed tourists happened to find themselves in . |
| 23 | Four Moscow-based distributors include ArguSoft and 4i Datost — the latter also a Computervision reseller with a second outlet in Kiev , Ukraine . |
| 24 | Four Moscow-based distributors include ArguSoft and 4i Datost — the latter also a ComputerVision reseller with a second outlet in Kiev , Ukraine . |
| 25 | Without the consent of the latter neither the succession to the throne nor the territorial limits of the Grand Duchy were to be changed ; nor was war to be declared or existing legislation altered . |
| 26 | In September 1989 the Libyan news agency JANA said that Italy could make up for its " wrongdoing " during the colonial period-particularly the deportation to Italy between 1911 and 1942 of some 5,000 Libyans as forced labour-by speedily paying the compensation demanded by Libya , which regarded as inadequate a settlement of dollars 6,700 million reached in 1956 . |
| 27 | There 's a very old study by Walker and Guest nineteen fifty-two and I think you might find the findings may reflect the fifties quite a lot , found that seventy percent of assembly line workers erm initiated upwards communication . |
| 28 | It was worked by various tenants until the 1730s when a number of owners culminated with the well-known family of Painswick clothiers , the Packers . |
| 29 | She sat up slowly in the bed … and immediately amended her count to three glasses ; she had spilt most the contents of the fourth down the front of her muslin pyjamas and onto the lace coverlet . |
| 30 | I enjoyed watching Nick Faldo win The Open again ; well , I enjoyed the winning not the watching . |