Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] of [noun] [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Twelve hours a week had been an adequate , even generous allocation of time when young Father Kendrick had been priest-in-charge . |
| 32 | If a friend gave you this list of reasons why they could not love themselves , what would you say ? |
| 33 | Hortense and her sons also went into exile , for all the Bonapartes were banished from France in perpetuity , by a decree of Louis XVIII , and as a result of the hostility of the major European States Hortense had great difficulty in finding some corner of Europe where she could set up home . |
| 34 | The vessel was intercepted in the Mediterranean by the German navy and escorted to the German port of Kiel where its cargo was impounded . |
| 35 | Wycliffe was looking back down the slope , over the gorse towards the trees and beyond , to another clump of trees where the slender grey spire of the church rose above them . |
| 36 | As anyone will tell you , it 's easy to go over the limit , especially at this time of year when people are preparing for Christmas and buying presents . |
| 37 | I OFTEN feel a touch like Ebenezer Scrooge myself at this time of year when fairies , goblins , elves and rosy-cheeked brats skip and flit across the silver screen . |
| 38 | Especially at this time of year when all too often the weather is as miserable as a dozen Mancunian pensioners waiting for the 211 to Gorton . |
| 39 | They spend much of their time in the bedroom , especially at this time of year when it 's so cold . |
| 40 | ‘ At this time of year when the ground is hard every injury is worse . |
| 41 | ‘ We do a lot of surveillance and at this time of year when the diggers are out it is not really safe for members to venture out without being in contact , ’ he said . |
| 42 | And , you know , the sort of things which you can remember , which I can remember , some of the glorious ones , one when I was working up in Lancashire , about this time of year when the , the new May Day Bank Holiday was announced in about nineteen seventy-two or three or something and through five editions of the Lancashire Evening Post was a headline which said ‘ New Pubic Holiday ’ . |
| 43 | Steven thinks that just be I only just got in he said , I 'm having my tea and he said there 's no way I 'm gon na do nothing like that at this time of night when I 've been fourteen hours at work So then he stormed off back home again so he said well you 'll have to move it cos it 's obstructing the dual carriageway someone might come round that corner fast and hit it . |
| 44 | You get irritable at this time of night when you get tired and you get ill mannered , and I do n't like it ! |
| 45 | Third , Prisoner 's Dilemma type situations are another class of cases where authorities make a difference while conforming with the dependence thesis . |
| 46 | Trade Unions often use this source of power when negotiations break down during collective bargaining . |
| 47 | Even more patchy is Deutsche Grammophon 's ‘ Mozart 's Masterpieces , ’ another set of reissues where the unwary consumer may find himself with the superb piano artistry of Maurizio Pollini for one concerto , but the rather less impressive playing of Friedrich Gulda for another . |
| 48 | Figure 6.5a shows the thin pointed region through which trajectories leave B if they start inside the rectangle ABCD on the top face of B. Combining eqn ( 6.4 ) with ( 6.3 ) we obtain where ( 0 , n* ) is the point on the top face of B where the unstable manifold of the origin returns to the stable manifold of the origin when r = r* . |
| 49 | The mainstream critics ' thankless task ( their privilege ) is only completed when every last cultural product is herded into this universal corral of taste where , to quote Bourdieu once more , ‘ the most classifying privilege has the privilege of appearing to be the most natural one ’ . |
| 50 | Such thinking is part of a long tradition , finding its most clear formulation in the political philosophy of Hobbes where human society is presented as being in a state of ‘ warre ’ in which every man fights every other man for control of resources and for the ( presumed ) pleasure of dominance . |
| 51 | Manager Alan Murray said : ‘ You get that type of blow when things are not going well . |
| 52 | She became addicted to alcohol and diet pills , had seven or eight husbands ( depending on which reference book you read ) , and was not averse to the odd bout of fisticuffs when she got off her head . |
| 53 | His underlying hypothesis is that ‘ in the vast majority of countries where forced divestment is used selectively its being chosen vis-a-vis alternate regulatory or administrative policies is , inter alia , a function of firm and industry-specific characteristics ’ ( Kobrin , 1980 , p.69 ) . |
| 54 | Officers ' concern to avoid the risk of losing evidence if the death does prove to be homicide can have unintended consequences in the vast majority of cases where death is natural . |
| 55 | There is , he considers , a second category of cases where fault is evenly distributed between husband and wife . |
| 56 | A schema of this kind is applicable to every type of society , and one particularly interesting question which it suggests is whether there may also be contradictions in socialist society ; that is to say , in such societies , claiming to be socialist , as actually existed in Eastern Europe , and could be studied in the world today , not in some imagined future condition of things where complete social harmony would prevail by definition . |
| 57 | His occasional outbursts of anger shocked those around him , but he felt an uncontrollable flame of fury whenever he saw a child being bullied or mistreated which blinded him to all else . |
| 58 | It was not , alas , I who had been inadvertently left alone for two minutes in an antechamber where by chance lay the plan of the Althaus plumbing system — to prove , as so much that is missing does , the crucial piece of evidence when , later , people were trying to fit together the events that fired the conflagration of the civilised world . |
| 59 | Starting from a critque of Cartesian notions of boundaries , taken to include , for example , the subject and the object of photography , Lomax discusses the contemporary crisis of representation whereby we sense ourselves inhabiting an environment of images , images which refer only to other images . |
| 60 | Mohammed Siyad Barre fled to Kenya on April 29 after forces of the United Somali Congress ( USC ) captured the south-western town of Garbaharrey where the former President had been living since being ousted from Mogadishu in January 1991 [ see pp. 37946-47 ] . |