Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adj] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Situations on more than one front look frustratingly perverse especially during the second week . |
| 2 | Example 4:8 Definition of rent linked to head rent " the reviewed rent " means the highest of ( 1 ) the rent contractually payable immediately before the relevant review date ( 2 ) the market rent and ( 3 ) per cent of the rent payable under the headlease ( assuming if it is not the fact that the headlease is in existence on the relevant review date ) Example 4:9 Alternative definition if at any time the rent payable under the headlease is increased the payable under this lease shall be increased with effect from the date as from which the rent payable under the headlease is increased so as to equal per cent of that rent |
| 3 | So this is the same idea and if there 's a star Something that I did see a wee while ago , I saw a f a light very close down to the horizon and I said I 've never seen a star so bright way down there . |
| 4 | It appeared to be a city which could cater to anything one 's heart desired : all varieties of food from the six continents , restaurants and bars open twenty-four hours a day , and everything else under the sun easily available just for the cost of a phone call . |
| 5 | Erm well what 's come out you see , you did finish early and there are a lot of , if you like , no , they were n't red herrings but laissez needed a bit further probing like on the income , thirty five thousand , yeah , but is there anything else , well yeah there 's the car , there 's the all of those are pensionable . |
| 6 | In a previous issue my co-editor revealed a truth hitherto apparent only to the most expert students of textual and stylistic analysis — the EP-odd editorials , though signed by both editors , are primarily individual efforts . |
| 7 | He considered that he gave Modigliani a fair deal : ‘ He came to my shop about ten o'clock in the morning . |
| 8 | Entries are flowing in — a limit of 2000 has been set — but Malcolm Barham , of the race organisers , says things generally hot up in the last few days before the closing date , which is April 10 . |
| 9 | ‘ The taxpayer here has carried on marketing activities outside Hong Kong resulting in agreements for the sale or sub-licensing of intellectual property rights also exercisable only outside the colony . |
| 10 | The police were called , my client was arrested and was detained at the police station from about midnight on the Saturday until eventually he appeared before the court about four o'clock on the Monday afternoon . |
| 11 | Corporate officials can further reduce the surveillance on them by simply shifting resources , records , money , and personnel between national boundaries thus rendering their behaviour virtually disentangleable even to the most persistent regulatory agency . |
| 12 | By comparison only 23 out of the 50 women interviewed were able to name Mr Fallon . |
| 13 | There , lying among trilobites , brachiopods and bristle worms , in the mud of the seas of 550 million years ago that had yet to see a finned or backboned swimmer , has been found the impression of a creature very similar indeed to the living lancelet . |
| 14 | Ace opened the door just wide enough for the pair to enter , and slammed it shut just as a brick arced over from the darkened bushes . |
| 15 | It had been written by a Syrian monk around 500 ad with the idea that contemplative monks were most like the highest orders of angels , closest to the Godhead in heaven . |
| 16 | The jeep reached the River Orne and we turned off the road on to a narrow path just wide enough for the jeep . |
| 17 | Notably a large number of the earliest silver sceattas , the silver coins which replaced the gold issues more common earlier in the seventh century , are concentrated in east Kent around the Wantsum Channel ( Rigold and Metcalf 1977 ) . |
| 18 | I ju , it , you see I 'll , I work until the end nearly eleven o'clock in the day to yo , to work start work today like on the art . |
| 19 | And I made locks for lighthouses , I 'm not boasting my lad , and they 'd li locks , locks for lighthouses pretty near all round the world . |
| 20 | A punitive approach to the poorest survived the accumulation of indications that much even of the worst poverty was not self-inflicted , but derived from the inability of the market to provide sufficient homes , jobs or adequate incomes . |
| 21 | These new powers , however , were buttressed by substantial grants of land , which led one chronicler to remark that the resources of the crown had been dissipated and a modern historian to comment rather sourly that ‘ hereditary offices and jurisdictions were scattered in a way hardly compatible either with the interests of the crown , or with sound finance ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ Is he going to die ? ’ he asked , nodding towards the patient , the brain still throbbing gently through the hole in the skull . |
| 23 | Distinction Awards are Postgraduate studentships which are open to students ordinarily resident anywhere in the UK , who hold or expect to obtain a 1st class Honours degree and who have not previously obtained a postgraduate research award . |
| 24 | I think Shrewsbury have done very very well , they conceded a goal very early on in the game and they could have gone to pieces but they gathered themselves together , got back in the game with a goal from and they 've done themselves proud so far . |
| 25 | Er would you not say that this has shifted the onus of responsibility very much on to the financial institutions , the banks and others who had dealings with Mr Maxwell , and is n't the judge in effect saying in your interpretation er of that , that these institutions er really have got to show they were whiter than white in their dealings and actually went in and investigated him thoroughly ? |
| 26 | The recent co-opting of the amateur video trend by commercial pornographers has predictably made James less optimistic today about the subversive possibilities of home porn . |
| 27 | We cruised in company with pilot whales off the Butt of Lewis , ranged alongside the huge basking shark to compare its thirty foot length with our own and , on one occasion , witnessed an unidentified whale breach practically clear out of the sea like some mammoth salmon . |
| 28 | It was a house about two along from the one he had been looking at previously . |
| 29 | This , combined with the richness of the data , makes the material eminently readable even for the non-researcher . |