Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Confusion is not always avoided : the two wheels here are probably near and far wheels of a two-wheeled chariot , but in some cases rather the two near wheels of a four-wheeled cart . |
| 2 | Consequently , those British cities and towns which have large numbers of people using injectable drugs may be among the first to experience full-blown AIDS/HIV epidemics , not just because needle-sharing can spread the virus between drug users , but because infected drug users-particularly the young and single-are likely to spread the virus to the wider population through sexual contacts . |
| 3 | Companies in future will be able to write off against taxes only the first $1 million of what they pay any director or executive . |
| 4 | So the sharing 's a bit like doing the times only the other way round is n't it like doing it backwards . |
| 5 | I read them both again erm last year for the first time for many years , and I found Herodotus much the better of the two , because Herodotus was prepared to be curious about everything . |
| 6 | However , as we might expect , their mechanical behaviour and especially their swelling in water and the relation between their temperature and moisture content and their strength , differ only in detail and present much the same general picture . |
| 7 | Each couple was like a parody of the other , their attitudes much the same . |
| 8 | As the circle is turned from the frontal plane 75° , 60° , 45° etc to the CVR so the minor axis becomes shorter . |
| 9 | In the Bundesrat only the SPD-led governments of Lower Saxony and Saarland voted against . |
| 10 | Now and that 's for my benefit alone okay , what that means is that I 'll see each and every one of you in a , a role play so the first person in each role play will be Robert , Barry and Gareth , followed by Gill , , followed by Bill , Roger and Vincent and Robert again you do not deviate from that order . |
| 11 | It would require his more frequent presence in the constituency , presence all the harder to contrive of course in proportion to distance from Westminster . |
| 12 | They 've got very low conducting 's the opposite of resistance so the good conductors |
| 13 | I was actually astonished to find Mill making exactly this argument against another proposal in erm a later chapter because he considers a possibility and some people have put forward the view apparently , I have n't heard of this , erm in the version that Mill discusses , that the two stage action where we vote for people who then go to vote for the members of parliament so the individual people do n't vote directly for members of parliament but they vote for people who then have elections an election among themselves . |
| 14 | It 's still gon na take six times eight , but this time the six is the hours so the eight will be women . |
| 15 | The fact that the Council 's Structure Plan , in which their planning policy is enshrined , has not yet been accepted by the Secretary of State makes these changes in direction all the easier . |
| 16 | We 've developed a new design to make your selection of CompuAdd PC systems , peripherals and accessories all the easier . |
| 17 | Cost is not of course necessarily the major consideration ; none of the people the project sustained to six months or one year wanted to be anywhere else but at home . |
| 18 | The new sounds in the target language , and of course especially the difficult ones , cause the most obvious pronunciation problems in language learning . |
| 19 | ‘ Disposable income ’ is a measure of gross income less the above deductions . |
| 20 | The point of issue is that estuary and coastal zone management is a reality and what seems to be happening is all sorts of different plans are popping up on various estuaries and Geoff knows them well now because he 's been involved with the one on the Stour and Orwell and what is happening is that these are starting at local level so the first contact with sailors may be from a local authority or someone at local level . |
| 21 | It would not , in my opinion , be open to an investor to retain the purchased shares and , under section 5 , to claim back the purchase money less the financial value of the retained shares . |
| 22 | Everyone I spoke to was against the widening of the roads especially the steep pass down into Kinlochewe . |
| 23 | In the bees and the higher Diptera only the indirect muscles of the mesothorax generate the power needed for flight ; the metathoracic indirect muscles are capable only of tonic contraction and act so as to control the amount of power transmitted from the mesothorax to the metathorax . |
| 24 | ‘ Took the grandchildren to the safari park only the other ’ |
| 25 | he said in spite of the fact that I 've been in parliament for longer than he has , which surprised me cos I would n't have thought so this is the young Winston Churchill of course so the Chinese man said to him erm oh well the reason for that was that he had a famous grandfather |
| 26 | The two types of mirror look much the same after being buried for centuries , but when the microstructure is examined at high magnification , as in Figures 5.15e and f , it is possible to distinguish between tinned bronze and the high-tin alloy . |
| 27 | After the sack only the six principal churches were rebuilt . |
| 28 | However , in this case only the first reference to any descriptor appears in an index , while all further linkages are made from record to record ( rather as in a chain of synonyms in a direct file ) . |
| 29 | Some patients who used potent corticosteroids also used a mild compound for the face , in which case only the potent steroid was monitored . |
| 30 | For the sake of clarity the ascending-node longitudes have all been set equal to each other , though within each group they are in any case much the same . |