Example sentences of "the [adv] [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From about 9 000 to 7 000 years ago there was a gradual improvement of climate , the predominantly birch forest of the previous period being replaced by pine forest and then by mixed oak forest . |
| 2 | But for the most part interest in it was relatively low — except for Party activists — and subordinated to other far more pressing matters in the formation of popular opinion . |
| 3 | The first was to cut public expenditure as part of a monetarist approach to inflation control , and the second was to reduce the apparently deadweight burden of ( income ) tax upon incentives . |
| 4 | It has staged a remarkable recovery from the apparently moribund state of the late fifties and early sixties . |
| 5 | In the spring of 1988 , the apparently moribund plan for rural systematization which had been heralded as far back as 1968 was suddenly taken up again . |
| 6 | And it became the best selling single of not only the year but of the decade in Australia . |
| 7 | EVEN though the ghastly Every Loser Wins was the best selling single of 1986 , Nick Berry has never really cashed in as a pop star . |
| 8 | American Holstein sire Fisher Place Mandingo has just gone into the record books as the best selling bull in the history of AI in the US . |
| 9 | Indeed the best selling book of the nineteen seventies in American politics by a famous historian Arthur Schlesinger Junior called , it was called The Imperial Presidency . |
| 10 | Since it was launched , five million have been sold , often being the best selling car in Europe . |
| 11 | Clio outsold the Peugeot 205 and 106 models combined to be the best selling car in France , accounting for 11.1 % of car sales during 1992 . |
| 12 | Dr Neil sat her down in a chair opposite to his , and drew out the permanently set-up board on which she had frequently seen him working out problems . |
| 13 | The ILP itself was rent with dissension between the openly proCommunist element around the Revolutionary Policy Committee , the parliamentary leadership and the Trotskyists . |
| 14 | These together exceed the approx. selling price of copper metal by some 18s. 4d. per cwt. showing that milling at Tilberthwaite was hardly a viable proposition in itself . |
| 15 | However , in my opinion , the best parts of it are those which present not so much the strictly emotivist thesis as a more general attitudinist thesis which is more convincing when detached from the former . |
| 16 | From the purely cricket point of view , Pakistan will remember Aamir Sohail 's double-century . |
| 17 | The purely surface nature of the abrasion of beach pebbles may be deduced from flint beaches . |
| 18 | Apart from being broadcast on Belgian television , this interview has been shown several times to the mainly student audience of the association , but the text has never been published . |
| 19 | The last ten days gradually it has been coming back since the really trough period in late January with the war and the snow , etc. , and in fact this week erm we 're expecting this week to probably do double the level of bookings that we did last week , and that 's on overseas holidays for summer and winter . |
| 20 | To help its clients keep up with the seemingly exponential growth of market data , Yamaichi Securities Co. , Ltd. has created the world 's first integrated information system focused exclusively on the financial sector . |
| 21 | Another day he was sent from Washington to a Chinese vegetable stand on the Lower West Side in Manhattan , where he was told to ask for a person with the code name ‘ Mooey ’ ; Mooey went behind the counter , rolled up his trouser-leg and pulled out a wad of hundred-dollar bills , which Owen thought ‘ I had better count anyways . ’ |
| 22 | East Third Street runs between Avenues A and B on the Lower East Side of Manhattan . |
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| 24 | As the church began to take shape the fivefold Vineyard philosophy of ministry began to be applied and still forms the church 's reason for being . |
| 25 | Although this state is packed with sights , a must is a visit to Potsdam with its rococo style Palace Sanssouci to the almost tudor appearance of Cecilienhof . |
| 26 | After all , they reasoned , if this was 2.30 in Glasgow , they would have only just got to a club , ready for a full night 's dancing and drinking till the almost daylight hour of 5.30am . |
| 27 | The OFT client survey in 1985 found that organisations commissioning consulting architects were , in general , paying 10–15 per cent below the RIBA recommended scale , indicating that there may have been some small reduction in the fee income of architects after 1982 . |