Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The older woman seemed to find the story intriguing rather than depressing . |
| 2 | Some courses have to be rejected because the cost of travelling makes the course uneconomic even though the course content may be very appropriate ’ … |
| 3 | The alternative method is to provide that upon any adjustment of the base figure , the rent payable immediately before the adjustment becomes a fixed amount payable under the terms of the lease ( or is substituted for a fixed amount previously reserved ) . |
| 4 | This should be laid to the side intact so that you can restore it to its original place when the hole is refilled once the digging is completed . |
| 5 | So that 's why we we make the advert curious enough or enough curiosity in it , no vagueness I suppose we make it vague enough to say I 've got to phone in . |
| 6 | Shop around for the system which will best suit the practice concerned rather than accept the most readily available ( such as the packages which the computer salesman will be keen to sell with the machine ) . |
| 7 | But once some set of rules has been established in this way , we might well think it more important that these rules be publicly regarded as settled , so that people can plan accordingly , than that they be the best rules that could have been found ; this provides a reason why courts should leave the rule untouched even when they think the wrong choice was made in the first instance . " |
| 8 | Indeed , one of the lay witnesses said that he considered a breach of the peace unlikely even if the police had not been there . |
| 9 | I mean I 've just come through there and I had a car today and a girl was telling me her father erm opened his door last week er cataract and the , the wife , the granny blind too and there , the man from the water board was just going to switch off your water , just okay if I check your taps , three hundred pounds out the house |
| 10 | And though the surprise early closing of the bar peeved more than one punter ( and certainly one reviewer ) , the blasting semi-hardcore rendition of ‘ Bad Motorcycle ’ sent all home with a smile of their lips . |
| 11 | And though the surprise early closing of the bar peeved more than one punter ( and certainly one reviewer ) , the blasting semi-hardcore rendition of ‘ Bad Motorcycle ’ sent all home with a smile of their lips . |
| 12 | The bulbs ' internal circuitry alters the mains current so that the actual load placed on the grid is larger than that recorded on consumers ' electricity meters . |
| 13 | It was possible to pay the skischool extra so that after school in the morning she would be taken to lunch in a local restaurant under supervision , then brought back to skischool in the afternoon , but for a 4-year old learning to ski for the first time to stay in skiboots all day is really very tiring . |
| 14 | Dysart had said Cornelius was older than his contemporaries at Breakspear and this man did indeed look nearer fifty than forty , unruly iron-grey hair framing a gaunt high-boned face , the brow hooded enough and the nose sufficiently hooked to add a sinewy hint of predacity to his relaxed and smiling features . |
| 15 | Best had been the heir apparent ever since he burst on to the representative scene as the architect of the London Division 's remarkable 21–10 win over the touring Australians at Twickenham in '88 . |
| 16 | If it had been genuine , they 'd have been on the phone quick enough if we 'd not arrived . |
| 17 | In the essay ‘ Theatum philosophicum ’ ( 1970 ) , written shortly after the Archaeology , Foucault attempts to avoid the snares of the problem of the relation of the event to the totality , or the particular to the general , that beset both Sartre and Althusser , by arguing that the event as event is only constituted through its repetition in thought as a ‘ phantasm ’ : ‘ it makes the event indefinite so that it repeats itself as a singular universal ’ . |
| 18 | She pulled the carpet-bag open wide and saw cardboard folders . |
| 19 | They are said to have disagreed about the shape of the clerical tonsure , Rome insisting on a variation of the tonsure familiar today while prelates of the Celtic Church shaved the entire frontal section of the head , from the temples to the middle of the scalp , and left long hair hanging behind — the stereotyped modern image of the Druid . |
| 20 | Like Derrida , Lecercle seeks to overthrow the hierarchy implicit here but without elevating the Remainder to a new dominant status — Langue and the Remainder are permanently and inescapably involved with one another . |
| 21 | Different sizes mean that the best use is made of the space available so that food loss and wastage are reduced . |
| 22 | Mum pushed the door open wide and marched up the room as if she owned it . |
| 23 | For all that he could be expected to stay in the Lorrimores , car for at least fifteen more minutes I felt decidedly jittery , and I left the door open so that if he did come back unexpectedly I could say I was merely checking that everything was in order . |
| 24 | She could hear a loud , low-pitched door-bell , always opened the door fully , invited the patient to enter , then left the door open so that the patient turned towards the open door when giving his name . |
| 25 | I mean the health different completely but the rest , everybody 's incorporated , each branch to what area they are . |
| 26 | You in fact , leave the matter open so that each of us as individuals do what our personal consciences tell us . |
| 27 | PostScript normally eliminates whatever lies under another object but , by using the overprint option , it can be forced to leave the background intact so that the topmost colour combines with that underneath to produce a different effect . |
| 28 | It would have no effect at all on Aline , who could add two and two faster and get the sum right better than any girl I knew . |
| 29 | This strategy was possible because they have sold mainframes mostly to computer vendors in the country concerned rather than through direct sales channels . |
| 30 | This is her first live appearance in Britain — the country responsible more than any other for creating the Kylie phenomenon . |