Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Witnesses were uncertain if the bus was in the middle or the inside lane but it was doing about 63 miles an hour when a Nissan car , driven by 74 year old Malcolm Austin , crashed into the front .
2 I was given the inside lane and I was furious and protested .
3 Becker hints at the inside model when he concludes , not without generating some confusion , that ‘ whether a given act is deviant or not depends in part on the nature of the act ( that is , whether or not it violates some rule ) and in part on what other people do about it ’ .
4 Do you have a feel of how much of the total provision that you 're proposing in the structure plan will be development on green field sites as opposed to development existing urban areas ?
5 It does not encourage control other than through the total cost and it limits the opportunities for a rational approach to budgeting .
6 The Brahms reading , above all , suggests all Ferrier 's attributes — the total conviction that she projected when singing in her own language , the generosity of tone and phrase , the inner passion .
7 erm in which you have a core of five permanent members and they are the victors of the second world war erm and then others who sit in in rotation to make up the total assembly but I think it 's about eighteen members altogether ?
8 This ground-level opposition meant that the mining companies never got to prospect the total area that they wanted to investigate , as they would have needed to get court injunctions to get on each farmer 's land .
9 In Lewis , machair is a small percentage of the total area and it occurs in a variety of forms ; small bayhead units , larger east coast elements north of Stornoway , complex beaches and strands in the southwest at Uig and semi-continuous expanses between Barvas and Ness on the northwest coast .
10 But I , I do n't think it was the total picture but it was one of the reasons I think that persuaded President Clinton to invite Gerry Adams , or to lift the visa for forty eight hours .
11 But in the total picture if you take what a , any , an average American state spends and you ask the question what proportion of that money comes from the federal government , the answer is wait for it , the answer is about twenty percent .
12 It may not be the total solution but it 's a step in the right direction .
13 Out of interest madam chairman , does that mean we 've paid the total amount that we we said that we would contribute ?
14 How much of the total amount that you have spent , was spent at the main counter ?
15 She was even more aware of him in the total blackness than she had been before .
16 I 'd hesitate to give much weight to her story in the normal run because she does seem to have a screw loose , but it ties in so well with Norman Pinder 's recollections , and they are totally independent witnesses . ’
17 You 've stopped smoking and your blood sugar is consistently within the normal range since you started the self-care programme six years ago .
18 ‘ Winterton , could you confirm the guard gave Mr Newman the normal check before he came in here ? ’
19 The allied general counts as a character in the normal way but he does not benefit from any of the special rules for generals .
20 and I brought it this way round the normal way that we go
21 ‘ The call came through in the normal way and we dealt with it as we normally would , ’ he said .
22 ‘ It would cost them too much to do a one-off in the normal way and we offered a cheap alternative .
23 I suggested to RCA in America that instead of going the normal route that they try makin' a classy but inexpensive TV ad and get it on during shows like The David Letterman Show .
24 They work for those and algebra just follows , so it just follows the normal rules that we 're using for the numbers that we know .
25 Er sometimes what they 're wearing you you find that er they tend to wear er a little bit of a uniform on occasions but they 're not the normal people that we would be looking at .
26 But his blood seemed to be flowing at twice the normal Speed and he stood carefully , so that he could see the doorway .
27 Well jobs were were n't particularly hard to get in nineteen thirteen and er well in any case me father worked there and he 'd worked there many years so i it was the normal thing that you usually followed your father like .
28 The Bank is also influential in the gilt-edged market as it administers the issue of new bonds when the government wishes to borrow money .
29 Just Like A Man , As Soon As The Tide Comes and Surface Of The Moon all received favourable receptions from the polite audience but it was left to Spit In The Rain , Stone Cold Sober and the band 's ode to suburbia Nothing Ever Happens , to set Middlesbrough Town Hall alight .
30 The secrecy of the League was primarily due to its connection with the White Knights of Britain , or the Hooded Men as they were sometimes called .
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