Example sentences of "the [noun sg] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wherever they were , they could n't help sensing the presence of the man with the tent at the far end of the bank ; it was there with them as they crossed the field and pushed through the hedge , in the musty smell of nettles and the white lumps raised on their skin , in the bramble scratches , and the brown fungus that hung from dead trees Libby felt it but she was also attracted by the thought of someone who was ill , someone she could help or look after , like the white mice or the jackdaw with the damaged wing . |
| 2 | Seizing the opportunity at the right moment , he will link together a series of strikes , probably involving kicks , in an attempt to break through and score points . |
| 3 | Among other devices , the minority would separate from the majority at the annual election of the Magistrates and Councillors , and each faction would make separate elections . |
| 4 | And although the scheme has achieved its initial objectives it presently has 85 students at 11 organisations with the majority at the National Audit Office the Institute ‘ may need to re-examine its general approach to industrial and commercial organisations ’ , if it hopes to extend the range of its training opportunities . |
| 5 | New recruits to Medau came forward after visiting the stand at the Royal Norfolk Show , and more joined after a Promotions Week in the Lowestoft area organised by Marlene McGee and Jane Fisk , with Come-and-Try sessions and demonstrations by Oulton Broad class members . |
| 6 | That is to say that Middle C , at 256Hz , has its true pitch represented on the guitar at the first fret , second string . |
| 7 | Which makes the guitar at the top right in our main picture a very rare beast indeed , and an expensive one ; these days , a Style 4 as fine as this might easily outprice an original ‘ 59 Les Paul Standard . |
| 8 | In the symmetry consensus , the simple consensus is converted to a palindrome based on the most frequent base at each symmetrical position , i.e. in the right half site , the base at the first position is not conserved , however , an A is found at the symmetrical position in the left half-site in all four sites , hence , the first position in the right half site is a T in the symmetry consensus . |
| 9 | When he appeared in the play The Hunting of the Snark at the Royal Albert Hall before the Duchess of York in 1987 , he remained sober . |
| 10 | The trial at the High court in Glasgow of the two youths accused of murdering Edinburgh student Paul Sheldon has been adjourned . |
| 11 | During the trial at the Old Bailey in London 15 witnesses testified that Mr Thorburn , a general manager of an electronics company , had been practising for the Tam o' Shanter golf tournament near his mother 's home in Ayr at the time he was alleged to have raped her . |
| 12 | Dr Ion , head of BNFL 's research and development team at Springfields , was presented with the award at the fifth annual dinner of the North West branch . |
| 13 | He collected the award at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts ceremony in London with his partner , former Middlesbrough solicitor Bob Mortimer . |
| 14 | Messrs and both retire by rotation from the Board at the Annual General Meeting and , being eligible , offer themselves for re-election . |
| 15 | Last year , Durham swept the board at the National Boys ' Clubs championships , winning all four team events and claiming two individual gold medals in a superb performance . |
| 16 | Mr. Hogan retires from the Board at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting in accordance with the Articles of Association and , being eligible , offers himself for reappointment . |
| 17 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 18 | Following the donation at the United Reform Church , in Whiting Street , Bury , she said the money was a tribute to local slimmers who had developed cancer in the past year . |
| 19 | The 167th Annual General Meeting of the RNLI was held on the morning of 14 May 1991 , at the usual venue on the South Bank in London , with the annual presentation of awards for 1990 following in the afternoon at the nearby Royal Festival Hall . |
| 20 | Karen Grant from Northampton was awarded the money at the High Court in London for injuries she suffered in the crash more than five years ago . |
| 21 | They are more likely to go to your door with the money at the ready . |
| 22 | And if you 've got any money left er the calendars and diaries Brenda has taken the names today and the money at the same time when you order . |
| 23 | Whitlock had wanted to remain on duty for the banquet at the United Nations that evening but Kolchinsky had told him to call it a day . |
| 24 | This willing integration is significantly different from the case at the other end of this spectrum , where the individual artist is in effect available for hire to glorify or embellish the particular court or household which has hired him . |
| 25 | While the court will avoid going into the merits of the case at the interlocutory stage , the applicant for an order must establish materiality on the balance of probabilities . |
| 26 | However , the survey also established that there were some contradictions : the favourable attitudes to wind turbines were not based on firsthand experience of windmills , and to a certain extent their positive response was based on the belief that wind power would be much cheaper than other sources ( since the fuel is free ! ) , a belief which in fact might not be the case at the current stage of development . |
| 27 | However , the owner , with help from other bodies , including AOPA , fought the case at the resulting Public Inquiry and the Inspector recommended strongly that the airfield should remain open . |
| 28 | There is no conflict here because the investigating activity of the AIB inspectors will proceed in the same way in either case ; but instead of the inspector in charge producing the report all the factual information is passed to the Attorney General who will present the case at the Public Inquiry . |
| 29 | Then they had only to check through the photographs and the Sally Nash guest lists ( which , as the case at the Old Bailey trickled on inexorably , were becoming public property anyway ) to find their murderer . |
| 30 | Not for the first time , seats were wrecked at the showpiece stadium and maintenance men have spent the day at Ibrox assessing the full extent of the damage at the Celtic end of the ground . |