Example sentences of "the [noun] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Briefing reporters at the Pentagon yesterday morning , Gen Powell said he had ‘ no reliable information ’ on Panamanian military or civilian casualties . |
| 2 | A man borrows money and transfers his land to the creditor , making the creditor legally owner . |
| 3 | Three 12year-olds were rescued by the Tynemouth inshore lifeboat after being cut off by the tide just south of the Marsden Grotto at South Shields . |
| 4 | Okay , but the item that licenses them the other licensing sentence you need in order to license these items , you ca n't just go anywhere in the sentence so sentence three , herself saw Florence is no good , even though Florence is there , it 's in the wrong place relative to herself and similarly six , anyone saw no one is no good , even though no one is in the sentence . |
| 5 | Musk oxen were formerly widespread across the low tundra , but hunting by man has now restricted them mainly to north Greenland and the Canadian far north . |
| 6 | If this is the case then society and organisations , far from being pluralist in nature , are , in fact , elitist so that on any given issue there may be a small group that exercises a great deal of power . |
| 7 | If that were the case then rugby , the high profile student sport , would lose out financially . |
| 8 | Greenkeeper Paul Holmes and park warden Raymond Davies said they were ‘ horrified ’ when they saw the damage yesterday morning . |
| 9 | In the field immediately south of Port Charlotte there is a four-part chambered cairn with a substantial forecourt in which recent excavation discovered neolithic pottery , two leaf arrowheads , and flint knives , and which has been dated 2650 BC . |
| 10 | Send a man into the field only half-armed with the facts and expect him to do a professional job . |
| 11 | You are in rubber , which the Germans desperately lack . |
| 12 | The birds just sort of bob their heads like they 're wind up toys . |
| 13 | ‘ I forgot to put it out for the birds yesterday morning . ’ |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | Follow through : Phelam O'Neill practices his swing as he waits to tee-off in the Coca-Cola Pro-Am Golf tournament held at the City of Derry Golf Club |
| 16 | After fourteen dry nights the child has to drink two pints of fluid during the hour before bed in order to stress their bladders and test the children 's ability to wake up during the night . |
| 17 | In his catalogue introduction Kudielka describes Bridget Riley walking on the hillside in the hour before dusk when the colours are released from the domination of the sun . |
| 18 | On the south coast of the county , when the weather is sunny and calm , the hour before dusk induces a mood of solemnity . |
| 19 | For instance , I could n't believe it when we were kept in the dark about the team until the hour before kick-off . |
| 20 | In the hour before dawn , when the pulsar had risen above the horizon and the sky was still dark , they picked up pulsations at the correct rate — and , as confirmation , found them again the following morning . |
| 21 | In the hour before dawn , when the islanders ' forces knew that the raid on the Rebecca had started , they rose and advanced against the Belmont stockade , thinking to find only the skeleton watch Kit posted nightly and everyone else in their beds . |
| 22 | They only heard about the decision yesterday afternoon . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Assuming it exists and results from the current stress field , it may have persisted since the present northward drift of the African plate began , early in Tertiary time . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | This family is characterised by a large disk often covered with granules , spinelets or sometimes with thickened skin ; the bar shaped radial shields extending almost to the middle of the disk ; the papillae on the jaw usually spine like ; the arms may be branched or simple , covered with granules and distally with bands of minute hooks . |
| 28 | Mr Alan Rawley QC , for Mother Catherine , 82 , the Mother Superior of the monastery , said that evidence supplied by the Ministry yesterday morning revealed that salmonella typhimurium had been isolated from a ‘ bulked up ’ sample of the intestines of five of the chickens . |
| 29 | Then there are the rules about time and penalties . |
| 30 | Instead we did the trail just south of Reykjahlid , climbing a lava mound overlooking the great lake . |