Example sentences of "the [adv] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 61 | She was obviously taking a risk as the up passenger train was almost due and up main signals had been switched to off . |
| 62 | For stepping rates where the phase is only excited for a time similar to the winding time constant , however , the wave form [ Fig.5 .2(b) ] is considerably distorted by the nearly exponential rise and decay of the phase current . |
| 63 | Luckily the valuable Swanage cliffs remain largely bolt free but , ominously , the nearly Portland area ( not featured in the guide ) has seen intensive activity by those developing sport climbs . |
| 64 | Another stolen car was found on its roof on the nearly Littlemoor Estate . |
| 65 | Id-like but asexual , they are the mirror-image of the soldiers ( violent and threatening ) and the insanely behaviourist scientist , Dr Logan ( Richard Liberty ) , seeking domination and control , however meaningless , since they are outnumbered 400,000 to one . |
| 66 | Among groups not attending the conference were Eritrean groups other than the Eritrean People 's Liberation Front ( EPLF — which attended with observer status ) and Afar groups other than the Afar Liberation Front ( ALF ) . |
| 67 | This is the type of technology which may indeed eventually replace the traditionally data entry heads down data entry facility and user . |
| 68 | At 1.47am he received the bell signal from Rose Hill Junction enquiring if the line was clear for the 2am target train , an express parcels and newspaper train . |
| 69 | Washington was startled by the 2am White House announcement of the visit to Beijing by the National Security Adviser , Admiral Brent Scowcroft , and the Deputy Secretary of State , Mr Lawrence Eagleburger . |
| 70 | Ukraine ( except in the formerly Habsburg part ) and Macedonia showed no signs of wanting to break away until the USSR and Yugoslavia had been destroyed by other hands , and they found they had to take some action in self-defence . |
| 71 | 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 . |
| 72 | 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 . |
| 73 | In order to have what seems the best of Stevenson 's thought before us , I shall now develop an attitude theory of ethics , largely based on his work ( though also drawing on that of A.J. Ayer ) , in which the strictly emotivist thesis is dropped and the concept of emotive meaning gives way to one of valuational meaning . |
| 74 | She has considerable musical talent herself ( in 1981 she was co-author , with June Bascombe , of the Medau Society publication Piano Improvisation ) and is an excellent exponent of the quintessentially Medau skill of influencing her class 's movement from the piano , adjusting tempo and rhythm to produce a new emphasis . |
| 75 | From the purely cricket point of view , Pakistan will remember Aamir Sohail 's double-century . |
| 76 | The purely surface nature of the abrasion of beach pebbles may be deduced from flint beaches . |
| 77 | 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 . |
| 78 | On the hospital side it opened into the basement under the Out Patients Department , which itself stood directly opposite our dining-room . |
| 79 | As Gwenellen now worked in the Out Patients Department , which closed at 6 P.M. from Mondays to Fridays and at 12.30 on Saturdays , she was enjoying one of the most envied and regular off-duty shifts in the hospital . |
| 80 | Then get to the Out Patients Laboratory with this — ’ She paused as a police-sergeant appeared behind me . |
| 81 | But with the much-talked-of world recession , finance must be a major consideration for Straits ' manager Ed Bicknell . |
| 82 | Noble had been in hiding since his participation in the December 1989 coup attempt against the Aquino government — the most serious to date — and was believed to be closely associated with the Reform the Armed Forces Movement ( RAM ) , the dissident movement within the military led by the now fugitive colonel , Gregorio " Gringo " Honasan . |
| 83 | Many of the now Bracknell scene were starting to skate Farnborough this year as were West Byfleet and Fleet skate scenes . |
| 84 | Since 1981 she has been feature-writing for the bi-monthly alumni magazine of the University of Massachusetts , which gives her scope for science reporting and reporting on contemporary issues . |
| 85 | That this is indeed the case , or roughly the case , had been established by the end of the 1930s , primarily by the American T. H. Morgan and his colleagues Calvin Bridges , A. H. Sturtevant , and H. J. Muller , working on the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster . |
| 86 | Pulling up a little I check , relinquish the throttles and , using both hands , force the stick left against the air loads to again watch earth and sky revolve effortlessly as we describe the easiest-ever aileron roll . |
| 87 | In 1963 , however , Clark was champion for the first time , after winning a record seven rounds , and at 27 he became the youngest-ever world champion . |
| 88 | 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 . |
| 89 | Of course it has not ; for example , with regard to moral issues , the typically relativist view that there are no absolutes is itself a stance based on assumptions which it is possible to challenge . |
| 90 | McFarlane took up the question of self-fulfilling prophecies in relation to the perceived incomer/Shetlander conflict which the SIC Structure Plan envisaged . |