Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are in rubber , which the Germans desperately lack . |
| 2 | The birds just sort of bob their heads like they 're wind up toys . |
| 3 | ‘ I forgot to put it out for the birds yesterday morning . ’ |
| 4 | well you ca n't give the birds much bread today , because I have n't got a white loaf , I 'm not going to give 'em this expensive whole meal bread |
| 5 | So busy yourself today and remember , making a really special effort today could mean even more success with the tape measure and the scales tomorrow morning . |
| 6 | Mrs Hardy , of Tower Hill , Chipperfield , was found crawling through undergrowth in the woods yesterday morning by two women who were out for a walk . |
| 7 | The major changes to the plugs in the hours following transection of the vessel are that lytic areas initially seen at the edges of the plug also develop in its centre and the degranulated platelets resemble empty vesicles . |
| 8 | Then there are the rules about time and penalties . |
| 9 | He sat looking at his hands as they rested on the table , palms down , the fingers softly drumming . |
| 10 | Some of the increase in capital offences was perhaps due to a more precise and less summary handling of the law , which meant that in practice fewer people were executed ; and certainly the more formal use of transportation to the colonies gave the authorities more flexibility in punishing crime . |
| 11 | It is also an area which produced several variations in style from the Pisan school centred on Pisa and Lucca to the work in Florence with its coloured marble facings and the districts further south in Assisi and Rome where contacts with the Lombard style are notable . |
| 12 | The pictures tomorrow night . ’ |
| 13 | The traffic 's real slow — the cars just sort of hissing past slow and quiet , their headlights all fuzzy and ghostlike . |
| 14 | ‘ I will take you to the shops tomorrow morning , señorita , ’ he informed her grimly . |
| 15 | But like erm my mum was saying , you know she 's like she 's got a , definitely got a good job and like , the kids really sort of |
| 16 | There is no discussion of the label ‘ mental handicap ’ , indeed the authors occasionally resort to using the demeaning shorthand ‘ m. h. people ’ , and nowhere is there any reference to self advocacy , to assertiveness , to shared record keeping and assessment , all of which have been areas of considerable interest recently to people with learning disability and those who work with them ( for example , Williams and Scheutz , 1982 ; Brechin and Swain , 1987 ) . |
| 17 | All the books ie text books , library books etc were sold off at say 2p or 10p per book . |
| 18 | Among those waiting to welcome the Scots yesterday morning was Omar Henry — the former coach cum professional of the Scotland XI has had an excellent season for Orange Free State , being their leading wicket-taker . |
| 19 | Countries establishing diplomatic relations with Namibia in the months following independence on March 21 , 1990 , included Bulgaria , Colombia , Czechoslovakia , Denmark , Finland , France , India , Iran , Libya , Morocco , Poland , Tunisia and Venezuela . |
| 20 | ‘ Miss Faith Lavender , ’ he said , giving the words more sonority than they deserved . |
| 21 | ‘ Found murdered last night in the ruins just north of here . ’ |
| 22 | This will seek to make the sites more cost effective and see the application of ‘ entrepreneurial ’ skills to what was seen in 1883 as a scientific data base . |
| 23 | Observe the completely different effect produced by replacing the adjectives in ( 1 ) by the corresponding adverbs , as in : ( 28 ) Ellen shook the keys loosely muzak drives them madly And contrast the two sentences of ( 29 ) ( b ) : ( 29 ) ( a ) what did the new system do to the motors ? ( b ) the new system made the motors quieter the new system made the motors more quietly 5.4 Let us now return to the matter of the resultative nuance which can indeed be observed in all the examples we have given , reproducing the structural diagrams ( 21 ) and ( 22 ) to do so : ( 21 ) ( 22 ) If these diagrams represent the relations actually used in constructing such expressions , it follows that the entity of the noun phrase , as initially present to the mind of the speaker ( and to that of the listener in the final interpretative phase of comprehension ) lacks the property of the adjective since it is structurally separated from it ; however , since that property is expressed by an adjective , then ex hypothesi it will apply to the entity of the noun phrase when the construction is taken as a whole ; if not , then either the property would be expressed by an adverb , and apply to the verb , or the whole construction would be literally incoherent . |
| 24 | 4.3.6 The Lead Organization shall be notified by the other Non-academic Parties of the proceeds less refurbishment costs received by such Party from the disposal of any prototypes the costs of which were included in the grants paid to such Party . |
| 25 | , but erm , and I notice that quite often the shelves would be half empty , came here , I would stop on the way back from the school the bank and the butcher 's and the paper shop over the road I could come in quarter to nine and I 'm , you know , I , I was done and I said to my Arnold they 're not going to sell much unless they put some money into filling the shelves surely Spa will back them , and he said I keep on telling them that I keep on saying to them if you do n't put the goods there on display people are going to go over the road to Lipton 's and and |
| 26 | By now you are well and truly into the region of the great valleys that run off at right-angles from the watershed , the ‘ Pyrenees of the saves ’ , as geographers have tended to name it , to distinguish it from the configuration of the mountains further east , where the valleys are mostly more orthodox and run cross-ways or parallel with the frontier . |
| 27 | White added that the recommendations arrived at today would go to the stewards tomorrow morning and they will decide where McCallen starts . |
| 28 | But Mr David Smith , director of the Conservatives Abroad operation , believes the Tory drive is electorally worthwhile . |
| 29 | In the decades following declassification of fusion research in 1958 and publication of the subsequent experimental results in the US , USSR and UK , worldwide interest in fusion grew . |
| 30 | The power of this engine can be seen during the decades following World War Two , when , despite a bipartisan political approach aimed at mitigation , class differences on many fronts remained as wide as ever . |