Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One-Dimensional Chess had n't been all that difficult once they worked out the rules , and now their first answer was being carried or transmitted or processed-whatever-by the small attendant with the little red boots . |
| 2 | One measure of a successful department will be its primary/secondary links in terms of the frequency of consultation between phases , the level of joint planning between them and where possible the coherent management of a cross-phase unit of study . |
| 3 | Where possible the purified proteins have been sequenced at the amino terminus to confirm the presence of the expected mutation . |
| 4 | That , Anno 1260 , or about 200 years after the Norman Conquest , the kingdom had 2,750,000 people , or half the present number ; so that the people of England have doubled in about 435 years last past ; |
| 5 | For one reason or another the inner city has always been a target for public regulation and control . |
| 6 | We can accept that by 1923 or 1924 the sacred places had been settled on , and there were quite enough of them . |
| 7 | Until the 1860s or 1870s the natural increase in the local population was sufficient to fill the vacancies in the pits , but then the sinking of deep mines to work the Silkstone and Barnsley seams on a vast new scale increased the demand for labour to such an extent that immigrants poured in from Staffordshire , Lancashire , Cheshire , other parts of Yorkshire and elsewhere . |
| 8 | And the other men saw him , and some would have sniggered at the fall that would follow such arrogance , and a few would have suffered in the knowledge that defiance brings only pain and punishment , and for one or two or three the young man who ambled erect in the first rank was a donor of comfort . |
| 9 | Irrespective of whether a hotel is small , medium or large the basic work of the reception office is the same , selling accommodation , receiving and welcoming guests , maintaining accounting and other records , liaison with all other departments within the hotel and integrating all activities relating to the service and comfort of the guests . |
| 10 | mode of argument ( g ) : Exemplify theories , terms or approaches , or use a classificatory system to describe a text ( usually in order to reflect back on how suitable or effective the descriptive system is ) . |
| 11 | It is usually easier , however , to turn to an early volume of the Victoria County History of England ( in counties which have been covered by that enterprise ) , where all the nineteenth-century data are listed in tabular form . |
| 12 | First you need a scale floor plan of your workshop drawn out on graph paper marking where all the doors and windows are , and , if they are already fixed , where all the electrical points and outlets are . |
| 13 | Here , as it has turned out , was an organization where he has found he is seriously good at something , and where all the disparate strands of his life have come together with extraordinary clarity . |
| 14 | As Elizabeth Garrett Anderson argued , ‘ Among poor people , where all the available strength is spent upon manual labour , the daily work goes on without intermission , and as a rule , without ill effects . ’ |
| 15 | IN comparison to the other places we 'd visited until then , and to those we would subsequently see , Porto was the most touristy — but not unpleasantly so , and we strolled down to the river Douro where all the famous port cellars are . |
| 16 | I ca n't figure out where all the young mums go ! |
| 17 | Bobby Gillespie was right when he told me , ‘ I used to go stand where all the young kids stood in the corner . |
| 18 | Tourists are now bused in their thousands to the Sellafield Visitors ' Centre , where all the slick techniques of modern exhibitions are brought to bear on radioactivity . |
| 19 | To a certain extent , age was an important factor in that the older user was more likely to have reached the stage in his or her career where all the other options had been tried at least once . |
| 20 | From the Shahs Niavaran Palace on the slope of North Teheran , where all the rich villas are clustered , the Queen , Farah Diba , has sent a plane load of clothes and what others might call household effects to the United States . |
| 21 | A student of the art learns to defend his centre line ( an imaginary line running through the centre of the body , where all the vital organs are housed ) . |
| 22 | The first item in the list is taken as the root of the tree , so if it is built from an alphabetically ordered word list , a degenerate tree will result , where all the left pointers will be null ( Knuth , 1973 , p426 ; Claybrook , 1983 , p95 ) . |
| 23 | By building up a good soil structure and providing conditions where all the natural soil flora and fauna can thrive , it is possible to realize the full potential of any piece of land , and to grow on it vigorous , healthy crops and livestock . |
| 24 | The first part , on the promenade , was not so bad as the last lap up into the town centre where all the local talent was collected round the cinema and amusement arcade or merely loafing about the pavement . |
| 25 | They flew in a magical world of silence , swooping and gliding over the dark world below where all the earthly people were fast asleep in their beds . |
| 26 | Ashen-faced , frightened , wondering too where all the peering faces had come from , I now wanted to throw up . |
| 27 | We have been living in exciting times and it has needed a strong hand to keep order in the town , where all the disorderly elements tried to take advantage of the situation . |
| 28 | In bed , drifting on the edge of sleep , I think of November evenings in my own town that I hate so much , London , with its sky of sagging cloud , where all the beautiful women already have boyfriends . |
| 29 | Crown Bar , where all the stained glass windows were blown in and a ceiling collapsed . |
| 30 | ‘ Where all the big decisions are taken ? ’ |