Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [noun sg] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Wood spends about an hour each night when the children are asleep talking about all this to her own mother . |
| 2 | THE Army 's firepower gets a major boost this week when the first new self-propelled field gun for 30 years enters service . |
| 3 | All my notions — notions of good or evil , of pleasant and unpleasant , of funny and serious , of ugly and beautiful are essentially middle class notions ; my taste in books and food and clothes , my sense of honour , my table manners , my turns of speech , my accent , even the characteristic movements of my body , are the products of a special kind of upbringing and a special niche half way up the social hierarchy … to get outside the class racket I have got to suppress not merely my private snobbishness , but most of my other tastes and prejudices as well . |
| 4 | Oh dear , I thought , he reckons I 'm wheedling my way in , not for birthday greetings , but for contentious sexist matters — to grill him about tonight 's Lancashire cricket club annual meeting when the agenda is topped by a proposal that women should at long last be allowed full membership entitling them to mix with men in the pavilion . |
| 5 | If you think about this it 's based on the four carbon structure so you 've got ta have a few in the name there is a carbon carbon double bond so the basic structure we 've got is the Butane but as there is more than one position you could have that carbon carbon double bond now , to indicate this position and so this one would be called futes it would normally be a butane but to indicate it 's position bute one E and again you 're taking the lowest number so instead of it being a bute three , it 's a bute one E you start at the appropriate . |
| 6 | The speech processing market continued its wander towards the commodity end of the industry last week when the Delrina Technology Inc subsidiary of Delrina Corp , Toronto said that it would be adding speech extensions to its WinFax personal computer facsimile software . |
| 7 | The dairy trade complaint was given a boost last autumn when the Monopolies and Mergers Commission said the SMMB could not buy the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society 's milk business and , in passing , criticised the board 's plans to be , in the jargon , a vertically integrated co-op . |
| 8 | The accountants ' cause received a small but unexpected boost last month when the California Supreme Court ruled that only clients could sue accounting firms for alleged professional negligence in the course of an audit . |
| 9 | In fantasy land if we ever have to replace our systems we can of course simple switch off the old one and switch on the new one . |
| 10 | The Family Development Nurse is available to the Community Mother at any time to discuss any problems or developments in relation to the programme and has a routine individual session each month where the visits are discussed and supplies re-ordered and there are group meetings on a two-monthly basis . |
| 11 | A little old lady was sitting by her front doorstep stroking her cat one afternoon when the cat stood up and strolled across the road towards the park . |
| 12 | ‘ There was a bit of a rumble last night when the boys left , outside . |
| 13 | THE long-running junkets row at the City Hall took an unusual twist last week when the DUP threw its weight behind a proposal to stop the Lord Mayor attending a conference in Hong Kong later this month . |
| 14 | A PREGNANT teenager had a miraculous escape last night when the car in which she was a passenger overturned . |
| 15 | Engines with higher compression ratios would be more suited to Super Lead Free petrol particularly the 10 5:1 compression P5 coupe engine as the high compression ratio will lead to preignition . |
| 16 | If the nearest unit of Orcs or Goblins is engaged in hand-to-hand combat or declares a charge this turn then the Snotlings must charge the nearest enemy if they can . |
| 17 | He warned Margaret Thatcher , as she prepares for a Commonwealth heads of government conference next week where the issue of sanctions on South Africa is expected to be central , against insisting that ‘ the regime ’ was moving in the right direction . |
| 18 | THE PLUTONIUM knot unravelled a shank more at the Sizewell inquiry last week when the Department of Energy revealed that it is the reluctant owner of more than 80 kg of the material — some of which does not yet exist . |
| 19 | The moment last year when the JET scientists made the big breakthrough … producing energy from nuclear fusion … the joining of atomic particles . |
| 20 | These villages lie way beyond the reach of limited government services , which were shown to be in crisis last year when the island group was added to the United Nations ' list of Least Developed Countries ( LDCs ) . |
| 21 | Indeed , it was just such an incident which precipitated a crisis last week when the High Commissioner for Refugees suspended UNHCR operations in frustration at Serb action . |
| 22 | Things came to a head this year when the full extent of Charles 's friendship with Camilla Parker Bowles was revealed by royal author Andrew Morton . |
| 23 | So if you 're prepared to see your art second hand then the playhouse is for you . |
| 24 | No she buys the meat one week then the veg |
| 25 | The switch finally used must be the metal cased type not the glass envelope type . |
| 26 | The writing was on the wall last year when the Government said it could not continue funding . |
| 27 | If the report is seen and used as a reminder note of discussions that took place during the consultation meeting rather than a stand alone document then the task of report writing becomes significantly easier . |
| 28 | Mortality rates among the adult working population parallel the progressive incidence of illness that occurs as one moves down the social hierarchy . |
| 29 | Mr. Barrett worked in the Town Yard , Mr. Reeves was a jobbing gardener whilst Mr. Sanger , who was a poulterer , was always in demand each Christmas when the chicken which so many residents kept were due to be plucked and prepared for the table . |
| 30 | The radio keeps telling you that the eye of the hurricane is here or there , getting near anyway , and you try to figure whether to leave the windows open a crack or tape them and you remember that the highest point of Key West is only 16 feet above sea level , and how the great hurricane of 1936 caught a train half way up the Keys filled with refugees from Key West and drowned them all , and you can get nervous . |