Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the natural approach is to find the slope f' of f at N. The algorithm 's step then becomes |
| 2 | Well that 's the second time I 've done that tonight , so it , the algorithm th the os optimization algorithm does n't always get it right first time . |
| 3 | Miles powered up the starpod 's sensor arrays , enhancing his own senses and sending them arcing out into space in search of the planet of his birth . |
| 4 | Once the tagged text has been placed it is possible to alter the tag 's definition in the stylesheet and have all the occurrences of that tag change . |
| 5 | The porter 's speech disappears , for example ; and Malcolm is at least as ugly and graceless as the tyrant he replaces . |
| 6 | As he reversed , he saw her march confidently into the porter 's office . |
| 7 | She approached the porter 's desk . |
| 8 | Enter by the porter 's lodge ; if no one is there go to the door in the first courtyard on the left and someone is bound to come to your aid . |
| 9 | From the porter 's lodge , a long passage stretches before you , off which is an attractive antechamber with water stoups , busts and something of the atmosphere of a grotto . |
| 10 | The half-hour was just ringing from the massive bell tower , there was a muffled sound of organ practice from the chapel , the light was burning in the porter 's lodge and the gate lay open — but not to me . |
| 11 | Verdeţ was pushed into the porter 's cabin at the entrance to the mine and obliged to telephone Communist Party headquarters in Bucharest with the miners ' message . |
| 12 | Doorways opened off this stone passage right and left , one to give access to the porter 's lodge , the other to a stairway leading up to the gatehouse itself , above the pend , from which the drawbridge and portcullis were managed . |
| 13 | One winter 's night about midnight , after his first perambulations , Durham went to the porter 's cellar at the station to have supper . |
| 14 | Taking his lantern the watchman followed and although there was no other entrance but from the porter 's room , he could find no trace of his antagonists . |
| 15 | The excitement was intensified when it became known that some time previously a railway clerk named Winter , who kept a black retriever , had shot himself in the porter 's cellar but Durham had claimed that he was unaware of the tragedy when he had encountered the ghost . |
| 16 | The porter 's wife who let us in might be worth talking to . |
| 17 | The Marshal and I will be down in the porter 's lodge . ’ |
| 18 | The porter 's lodge was an over-furnished , windowless space as depressing as the porter 's wife . |
| 19 | The porter 's lodge was an over-furnished , windowless space as depressing as the porter 's wife . |
| 20 | Just as she had said , the porter 's wife opened up the main door and the inner gate from her room and then poked her head out . |
| 21 | ‘ The porter 's wife at number five . ’ |
| 22 | There were four nurses ' rooms each of which was to contain one bedstead , a flock bed , pillow and bolster and two blankets , two pairs of sheets and two pillow-cases ; the porter 's room was similarly furnished . |
| 23 | The one is in the corridor that goes from the porter 's lodge to the stairs up to . |
| 24 | And there 's the one is out just diagonally out from the porter 's lodge . |
| 25 | Alix arrived at the gates , at the high wall , with its discreetly disguised barbed wire , at the porter 's lodge . |
| 26 | Before rehearsal began Desmond Fairchild ordered the new girl , Stella , to fetch him a packet of cigarettes from the porter 's desk . |
| 27 | She pursued him to the porter 's desk . |
| 28 | She had only to watch the porter 's moves next day to learn the times when he visited his charge , and espy where the two keys of the penal cells hung side by side in the gatehouse . |
| 29 | The board that held the keys in the porter 's charge hung just within the doorway , and she had sharp enough eyes to pick out the nail that was empty , and the fellow to the absent key close beside it . |
| 30 | She refused the porter 's offer to crack open the bottle , and settled herself for a long wait . |