Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Top British skiers Martin and Graham Bell suffered an embarrassing defeat at the hands of novice Macclesfield-born Gavin Forsyth in the downhill event at the British national championships in Tignes , France , yesterday . |
| 2 | The junior minister at the Scottish Office , Allan Stewart , tells me that his role in matters such as mink in Shetland is no more than that ‘ essentially of a confirming authority ’ . |
| 3 | These went down well as the fish course for our evening meal at Tobermory and formed a good foundation for the liquid refreshment at the Mishnish Hotel which followed later that evening . |
| 4 | If any member wishes to nominate a candidate for election to the Council , please write to the Assistant Secretary at the above address for a nomination form and guidance note . |
| 5 | The buildings were empty except for the occasional orderly and the Assistant Commissioner at the other end of the corridor , and sometimes Nikos working late , and he was able to get a lot of work done . |
| 6 | DAVE SEXTON , the England Under-21 manager , is prepared to search for friendly fixtures if his side fall out of the European Championships at the qualifying stage for the first time in 12 years . |
| 7 | Mrs Thatcher held her first rally for the European Elections at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham — Hall 6 . |
| 8 | The great majority of the 150-strong audience at the independent Polam Hall School supported Mr Fallon although only a few will be voting for real on April 9 . |
| 9 | Rehydrated tissue sections were incubated for one hour at room temperature with each of the monoclonal antibodies at the following dilutions : anti-cytochrome P450 1A , 1/20 dilution in TBS of a 50% ammonium sulphate precipitate of hybridoma culture supernatant , and anti-cytochrome P450 3A as undiluted hybridoma culture supernatant . |
| 10 | To which the friendly woman at the other end remarked , ‘ Cara would kill me for telling you , but she 'll be twenty-nine in August . |
| 11 | The thefts came to light early last year when Daniel Walker , head of the Islamic Department at the Metropolitan Museum , New York , was offered two pages of a tenth-century Koran by a London dealer . |
| 12 | James Stavanger used to keep the gold in the strong room at the Upper Thames Street branch of the bank . |
| 13 | I have no detail of what individual Liberal Democrat councillors in Brent did , but , if it was perceived by the electorate to have been wrong , they would have undoubtedly paid the political consequences at the following election . |
| 14 | He examined the long split-level room stretching away from him to the tall windows at the far end . |
| 15 | A call yesterday involved giving the chatty female at the other end one 's address . |
| 16 | In this case , try feeding at one end of the tank and then , while the bolder fish are busy , feed the timid ones at the other end . |
| 17 | Souness offered no arguments against the result although the unnecessary jeering at the final whistle mystifyingly suggested the Anfield crowd thought otherwise . |
| 18 | The underwater shape at the very back of the board . |
| 19 | He pointed to two dark shapes over near the charnel house at the far side of the cemetery . |
| 20 | They included , in addition to the extensive programme at the Primary Schools Centre : programmed school-based INSET ; INSET supported by the Authority but provided by external agents ; INSET related to school reviews ; and the expanding school-led INSET initiative . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll have a lot of time to go back over the past in the coming years , I suppose , wonder whether I made the right choices at the right time . ’ |
| 22 | happiness will come to all Virgos who aim the right arrows at the right targets this weekend . |
| 23 | Erm providing you get the right products at the right price down and it 's and it 's er it 's been it 's done ethically . |
| 24 | Valdo , Alemao and others often showed a remarkable lightness of touch in the soggy conditions but several times promising movements failed for want of a penetrative final pass or someone reading the right space at the crucial moment . |
| 25 | Nor will it do any good if it is sent to the right outlet at the wrong time . |
| 26 | Ex-soldiers such as Mike would travel from one army to the other , hoping to be in the right army at the right time . |
| 27 | Do you feel that it 's pointing the right way , bringing the sun in through the right windows at the right time of day ? |
| 28 | Although he lacked any deep personal convictions , Vologsky had always trod the path of least resistance , done the right things at the right times . |
| 29 | The babies were developing properly and being well stimulated and doing the right things at the right age and they were really coping well . |
| 30 | ‘ After all , I only have to make the right moves at the right time . ’ |