Example sentences of "the [noun sg] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I turn to the next document on the tag and suddenly I am in a quite different and entirely familiar landscape of calm , double-spaced , wide-margined , cleanly typed Government A4 . |
| 2 | This new evidence was held by the defence and only came to light during the trial . |
| 3 | We have made steady progress since the New Year — we have tightened up the defence and now we 're getting a little bit of luck . ’ |
| 4 | We have made steady progress since the New Year — we have tightened up the defence and now we 're getting a little bit of luck . ’ |
| 5 | Well a great situation Scott Gemmell followed up the long ball picked up the as they ran at the defence and then he 's committed to play it and then he 's just just slid it in nicely for Kingsley Black on his left side . |
| 6 | The answer is that renal function , like bodily functions in general , is highest during the daytime and partially ‘ closed down ’ at night . |
| 7 | Typically , a person suffering from jet-lag will feel tired at some point in the daytime and yet be unable to sleep well at night through difficulty getting to sleep or waking early . |
| 8 | After puberty , the release of growth hormone tends to decline , first during the daytime and then during sleep ; by old age ( 60 years and over ) it has , in effect , fallen to zero , even at night . |
| 9 | I would be flying over and staying with Angie for a couple of weeks at The Sherry Netherland , and Angie and I would go with Zowie in the daytime and then we 'd stay up all night with David because he functioned at night . |
| 10 | But what does seem clear is on the one hand the absence of any straightforward link between sexual activity per se and social morality ; and on the other , the inability and sometimes unwillingness of the ecclesiastical authorities to enforce stricter single standards . |
| 11 | Ten o'clock — we come in from the park and then write up what we saw and do a project on it . |
| 12 | Gordon Durie , suffering from double vision , was allowed to stay on the park and then missed the game 's two clearest openings . |
| 13 | No well erm , I did ask , old Chris spoke to me once in the park and then there 's and things like that , cos a certain amount of secrecy in the , things like that and erm I I sort of turned it down and he even er er er well while and and Len that said Stanley did you ever think about joining the Masons ? |
| 14 | It carried her into the park and only wavered when she saw the playground . |
| 15 | He should have told Cottee to go and do his talking on the park and perhaps tried to change the team plan to assist his strike-force ( if that 's the right word ) . |
| 16 | Kevin and I had a bit of a scuffle , but it was nothing that did n't happen all over the park and certainly nothing to warrant our marching orders . |
| 17 | It can suggest lack of confidence in the opportunity and even worse the vendors and potential purchasers can assume we are suggesting the opportunity is a forced sale . |
| 18 | But this was too soon in my own development for me to be able to grasp the opportunity and eventually the shop closed down and Mr Farrer moved on . |
| 19 | Surely a policy decision should be taken soon , before we miss the opportunity and no longer have the funds to invest in a future first class tourist industry ? |
| 20 | It is the human being who will be faced with the opportunity and perhaps the temptation to be violent , and who will make the decision as to which path to follow . |
| 21 | It was such a fuss putting up the stand and then filling and emptying the bath . |
| 22 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 23 | Darlington police have been told about the vandalism and yesterday an officer went to interview Miss Golightly . |
| 24 | The conversion of fractions to decimals is a requirement for effective use of the calculator , and a further calculator question about the wages received for a 37½ hour week produced evidence that a number of pupils worked out the wages for a 37 hour week using the calculator and then made , or tried to make , a pencil and paper calculation for the remaining half hour 's money . |
| 25 | Now that one , you 're doing , sort of doing this bit , erm , you can do that bit on the calculator and then do times six hundred . |
| 26 | The more normal ‘ indirect ’ system has two water circuits : a primary circuit which is heated in the boiler and then circulates to a heat-exchange unit inside the hot water cylinder before returning to the boiler to be reheated ; and a second circuit which runs from the boiler to the radiators . |
| 27 | As well as that , the laundry was a steamy , rather smelly place where sheets were stewed in the boiler and then hand-scrubbed on a ridged board and further rinsed and processed before they progressed in a wooden tub , a girl at each handle , to hang under the sun or the rain in their private drying ground , screened by laurel and flowering currant from the sensitive eyes of the gentry . |
| 28 | So you ca n't , but what Dave 's saying is i if lighting the boiler and then it 's going |
| 29 | On the eve of the presidential elections , as 3,000 students continued the sit-in and over 50 went on hunger strike , Lee announced an extraordinary national policy meeting for the summer . |
| 30 | Well no , but and I were just thinking well why ca n't it just be all things together that make us what we are and when you 're trying to find a single thing , the only single thing is the one , which is the unity and then there 's no differentiation but I do n't think that , that we are , we are our body as well and that then can affect the soul you know , if you , if you 've got a big nose and all your life people stare at you you 're gon na , you 're not going to be unaffected by it . |