Example sentences of "the [adv] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After reports that police reservists in the predominantly Serb town of Benkovac had been disarmed , by order of their Croat superiors , Serbs took to the streets there and in nearby towns . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The driver of the 10pm LMS passenger and mail train seemingly overran a home signal at danger and plunged into the rear of the 9.15pm Oxley sidings to Bristol GWR fitted goods before finally colliding with another freight , the 4.45 Westerleigh to Gloucester empties , that was passing on the opposite line . |
| 4 | The fit-again TV funnyman joined a host of big names for a panto season launch in London . |
| 5 | After the War General Student who had commanded German airborne forces congratulated Lord Mountbatten on the raid as the ‘ best example of the use of airborne forces with other forces ’ , and Lord Mountbatten considers this raid ‘ the most 100% perfection of any raid I know ’ . |
| 6 | First , legislation allowed paid release only for certain stipulated categories ; these were for the most part workplace stewards and health and safety representatives . |
| 7 | Halflings are not especially warlike by nature , and their troopers are for the most part country watchmen , game wardens and foresters . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Benjamin 's case , though , was subtly different : for the most part family emigration seems to have been prompted at least as much by the need or the desire to leave one place as it has been by the yearning to live somewhere else . |
| 10 | The showmen hated those whom the Cinematograph Year Book always described as ‘ the Busybodies and Meddlers ’ and thought of their demands in terms of what the Bioscope referred to as ‘ Prussianism ’ but in order to keep control of their own industry the showmen accepted many of the standards of middle-class taste and insisted that what they would provide would be for the most part family entertainment . |
| 11 | Radio was a latecomer , and for the most part artillery observation planes communicated with their batteries by dropping messages ( generally in the form of marked-up maps ) in capsules attached to a banderole , or long streamer . |
| 12 | Councillors were given a free vote , but for the most part opinion followed party lines , with Labour and the Liberal Democrats against the sport , the Tories for it . |
| 13 | Ramblers , weeping standards — which are for the most part rambler types budded into tall standard stems — climbers , climbing sports and several species types all fall largely within the first category , but so often have peculiarities of their own that we should not generalize . |
| 14 | This was , it seems , partly with the rather Machiavellian intention of forcing Conservative MPs to unite behind a Prime Minister whose continuance in office was considered best to serve Labour 's prospects of victory at the next election . |
| 15 | After some discussion as to the walk , by now approaching 10 am , out of the fog was heard the sound of a steam loco and the 8F Severn Valley Engine No 48773 appeared , travelling very slowly with a Birmingham Railway Museum support coach attached . |
| 16 | Since then the BIS Clearinghouses Committee has produced an annual directory of library instruction clearinghouses . |
| 17 | So far , however , the BIS Clearinghouses Committee has simply reported their functions and activities , without formalizing any co-operation between them or attempting to co-ordinate them . |
| 18 | They include the BIS Education for Bibliographic Instruction Committee , the BIS Co-operation Committee , the BIS Research Committee , the BIS Continuing Education Committee , the BIS Policy and Planning Committee , and the BIS Clearinghouse Committee . |
| 19 | They include the BIS Education for Bibliographic Instruction Committee , the BIS Co-operation Committee , the BIS Research Committee , the BIS Continuing Education Committee , the BIS Policy and Planning Committee , and the BIS Clearinghouse Committee . |
| 20 | On June 22 , 1989 , the Sejm elected the hitherto Deputy Justice Minister , Adam Strezembosz , First President of the Supreme Court . |
| 21 | Part of this passage has been italicised to draw attention to the somewhat presentist presupposition that underpins much of this book . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It has staged a remarkable recovery from the apparently moribund state of the late fifties and early sixties . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The sooner 16-bit computer and console owners realise cracking graphics do n't make a game great , the better off they 'll be . |
| 26 | The sooner car maker take this development seriously , the happier the car buyer will be . |
| 27 | In this study the biweekly bulletin Hue and Cry , which listed descriptions of persons for whom magistrates had issued warrants , provides the necessary data . |
| 28 | The report also deals with the environmentally impact reassessment work which has now been completed in respect of options for the Ipswich multi- bypass and the east bank |
| 29 | And it became the best selling single of not only the year but of the decade in Australia . |
| 30 | 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 . |