Example sentences of "[noun sg] of the [noun sg] [Wh adv] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | I moved to one side with Jamie helping me and went down on my hands and knees on a comparatively clean part of the concrete where the oil stains looked old . |
| 32 | If you are a dedicated sun-worshipper , you need to mark out the part of the garden where the sun lingers longest . |
| 33 | There was two feet of sand over the highest part of the island where the wind had carried it and all the heavy bridge-building machines were on their sides . |
| 34 | She came to a wealthier part of the town where the streets were quieter , and before long she had reached her destination . |
| 35 | Part of the reason why the shareholders had to wait so long for a return was that the original capital had been only 10,000 guineas , and the Company financed itself by fairly short-term loans from the merchants with which it did business , so the shareholders stood at the end of a long line of creditors but could expect substantial returns on their money in the end if the Company survived . |
| 36 | Hughes argues that part of the reason why the former communist bloc is portrayed as highly polluted is the unrealistic safety standards set by the governments of the states themselves , which are far more stringent than those of the EC and USA . |
| 37 | Then , as they came out onto an open stretch of bitten turf at the foot of the hill where the rabbits were running , as though a signal had been given a universal clamour broke out , a clatter , a din of singing , from the unseen roof-tops of the village behind them , from the beeches on the Down , from the ash trees that stood like singing poles in the hedgerows along the hollow track , from every tree it seemed of the whole vast forest birds were singing and singing and demanding to be heard . |
| 38 | ‘ Mo ’ cars , ’ he pronounced , excitedly pointing a finger towards the foot of the hill where the lane met the village street in a T-junction . |
| 39 | They have been firmly removed from the rituals of power , their role frozen into passive and silent weeping at the foot of the cross where the god has been hung . |
| 40 | AFTER the euphoria of the day when the Wall came tumbling down , comes the hangover as the Bush Administration tries to work out what to do next in eastern Europe . |
| 41 | The train had already left Sion when the avalanche struck and with the possibility of further minor falls it had retreated to the sanctuary of the station where the passengers were told it would remain for the rest of the night . |
| 42 | In the two cases of reobstruction , the pattern mimicked the previous stricture , suggesting that the radial force exerted by the mesh on the wall may have led to deeper embedding of the mesh where the stricture was tight or may have provoked more important hyperplasia , or both . |
| 43 | The case of Malcolm Fairley , known as ‘ The Fox ’ , was the most widely reported court case of the year where the offence of rape was the main charge . |
| 44 | I was doing my third week as a young crime reporter and had just about finished my second and last story of the day when the phone rang . |
| 45 | You can use it for a lot of things , but when you get down to analyse it , I think it may be the law of the jungle where the strongest survive ; and I do n't know necessarily whether that 's a bad thing . |
| 46 | A witness may refuse to give evidence if he has a privilege or duty to do so either under the law of the State where the Letter of Request is to be executed or under the law of the requesting State . |
| 47 | Of course , a party may be excused from having to produce a document on the grounds that this would violate the law of the place where the document is kept . |
| 48 | You see when you go down the bottom of the sea where the villa is you just go over the roundabout , and it , you just go straight over and that 's all the |
| 49 | And the hot air is injected near the bottom of the furnace where the temperature is about fifteen hundred degrees celsius , |
| 50 | We worry about the downhill movement of the slurry through our groundwater and into the pool at the bottom of the hill where the herons and frogs live . |
| 51 | Western philosophy coincides with the disclosure of the other where the other , in manifesting itself as a being , loses its alterity . |
| 52 | We stood together in the entrance hall of the theatre where the show is produced , but I have to confess that I did n't recognize him . |
| 53 | This demographic pattern was laid down in the first half of the century when the inter-war birth-rate declined markedly . |
| 54 | If it is not registered it will be void against a purchaser of the reversion where the land in question is unregistered land . |
| 55 | The question we have not yet addressed is the nature of the process whereby the natural sciences were released from their subordination . |
| 56 | We tend to play at the point of the evening when the temperature drops , so I tune up just before Bryan goes on and then after three or four songs they 're all sharp , because the temperature has dropped . |
| 57 | Insects that fly in at the sides encounter a vertical baffle of netting that divides the trap along its axis , and tend to fly or clamber to the highest point of the baffle where the only way out is into a collecting jar . |
| 58 | Training in the choir gave me a fine knowledge of the Psalms , though I must say that none of us choir boys looked forward to the fifteenth evening of the month when the set psalm had no less than seventy-three verses . |
| 59 | With these primitive materials the native painted those elements of his surroundings belonging to the mythology of the Dreamtime when the earth was fashioned and the life thereon : snakes , birds , fish , turtles , crocodiles , and humans , all depicted in a rich and decorative formalised style . |
| 60 | In many Hemiptera the wings are held together in flight by various small hooks or folds along the wing.margins ( Weber , 1930 ) while in the Psocoptera the costa of the hind wing is held by a spiny or hooked process of the node where the second cubital vein of the fore wing reaches the margin . |