Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [conj] [pron] " 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 This brought a lot of laughter and people on the rim of the crowd pushed forward for a better look , squeezing the inside circle until there was no room left for fighting , though Paddy had managed to free himself .
5 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 ?
6 It does not encourage control other than through the total cost and it limits the opportunities for a rational approach to budgeting .
7 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 .
8 But it ran with each school area , you know , Berry , Grimness , Marketthorpe and so on , and now of course the total areas as one but I think perhaps it would be permissible to somebody with local parentage maybe not resident in the area .
9 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 ?
10 My Lord the started sum of money originally , sixty thousand pounds was the total loan and there were further overdraught facilities and and it 's the plaintiff 's case that without it it was simply not going to be manageable and as a result of that having thought carefully about erm , position it is his case that he rang Peter , told him that there were major problems in the financing of the deal and asked him if he could get him out of the contract because the finance he anticipated was no longer going to be available and it was his case that Peter advised him that there was no way out because contracts had been exchanged , er Mr was told very clearly that he was committed legally now to the deal and that he 'd better try and rearrange some finances since clearly they were moving towards er the completion date .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 It may not be the total solution but it 's a step in the right direction .
16 The professional respects the parents and acknowledges their competence and expertise in knowing more about the total situation than anyone else .
17 Out of interest madam chairman , does that mean we 've paid the total amount that we we said that we would contribute ?
18 How much of the total amount that you have spent , was spent at the main counter ?
19 Comparison of the patterns of demographic change suggested by the overall and gerontic ratio illustrates the importance of looking at both the total population and its component segments .
20 The total population and its distribution into socioeconomic classes , income or occupational categories must be known .
21 She was even more aware of him in the total blackness than she had been before .
22 Continually evaluating both the total effort and its individual parts in terms of planning improvement ;
23 In many districts the normal response when one 's animal was missing was to visit a person well known to have connections with local thieves , and give him a chew of betel , a wad of tobacco , and five rupees .
24 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 . ’
25 Time now to put out the stuff from the back of the shelves , holding back the normal fare until everyone is back on the treadmill again .
26 You 've stopped smoking and your blood sugar is consistently within the normal range since you started the self-care programme six years ago .
27 ‘ Winterton , could you confirm the guard gave Mr Newman the normal check before he came in here ? ’
28 The allied general counts as a character in the normal way but he does not benefit from any of the special rules for generals .
29 and I brought it this way round the normal way that we go
30 ‘ The call came through in the normal way and we dealt with it as we normally would , ’ he said .
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