Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Especially of interest was the fact that one of the two men clearly experiencing difficulty with section ( c ) on the examination paper , Howard Brown ( Morse wondered why his wife had n't been willing to cover for him ) , had filled in section ( e ) with the correct date of arrival , 27 October ; or , to be more precise about the matter , ‘ 2 October ’ . |
| 2 | Only in Albania was the scenario of dynastic communism and vendetta carried on with more brutality and verve than in Romania , but at least there were two rival clans struggling for control of the Albanian Communist Party . |
| 3 | A speck on a rock halfway to heaven was the top cablecar station , I was told . |
| 4 | Getting away from Julius was the top priority . |
| 5 | There is no doubt , too , that the time during which the working class did best in Argentina was the Peronist period , when clientelism linked the labour force with the powerful . |
| 6 | ‘ I knew then that my decision to send my secretary away on business was the right one . ’ |
| 7 | More important still for Reich was the fact that his wife and children also suffered from his patriarchal authority . |
| 8 | The force working most clearly for uniformity was the growth in the child population , and since that was itself not uniform it was uneven in its effects . |
| 9 | Also on show was the Grant portable incubator , specifically designed for use in IVF and GIFT applications . |
| 10 | Readers of Dornford Yates will not have forgotten that somewhere outside Pau was The House that Berry Built . |
| 11 | The army which set out to recover Berwick from the Scots in July 1319 was some 14,000 strong , but it ended with a humiliating retreat and flight into England ; undoubtedly the Scottish outflanking movement which penetrated deep into England was the major contributor to this disaster , but acrimony between Lancaster and Edward may have helped bring it about and was certainly magnified by it , so that afterwards the relations of the two men rapidly deteriorated just at the time when Despenser the younger was antagonizing other magnates as well . |
| 12 | The point nominally at issue was the one which had spasmodically rent the Conservative Party for the past three decades — the tariff question . |
| 13 | The relation of this excess to the present study has a rather complicated history — with the excess near Sellafield , it originally suggested the population mixing hypothesis , but what was then in mind was the mixing connected with the nuclear industry ; an analogy with a new town was drawn . |
| 14 | Late at night was the best time to leave . |
| 15 | Far ahead of Sharpe was the crossroads itself where the dark mass of fugitives was milling in confusion , while to the right , and acting somewhat as another bastion , was a smaller wood and a handful of cottages . |
| 16 | In fact both Eisenhower and Dulles privately accepted the absurdity of a European war if all that was truly at stake was the status of East Germany and Berlin . |