Example sentences of "the [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still on autopilot , she left the lift two Levels below 281 , and went unstoppably through the narrow sideways and gangpaths until she reached the room . |
| 2 | Reference , in the textual rather than the semantic sense , occurs when the reader has to retrieve the identity of what is being talked about by referring to another expression in the immediate context . |
| 3 | The population of Manchester rose by an astonishing 45 per cent in the 1820s so that by 1831 it had reached 142,000 . |
| 4 | In two days he had made birdies at only the 15th twice and the second once . |
| 5 | ‘ He discoursed about his understanding of the Church and he said that we had to hold the high and the low together but for his part his sympathies were with the high . |
| 6 | The smallest constituency in Britain has only 23,500 electors , the largest more than 100,000 . |
| 7 | In front of the church of St Maurice I met Lenka , a music student who had promised to show me what she described as ‘ the biggest organ in Central Europe ’ , all 2,311 pipes of it , the largest more than thirty feet tall , the smallest eight millimetres of solid silver . |
| 8 | So far as the malais were concerned , it also made them like Martinho more , in the political rather than personal sense . |
| 9 | So if you could now get together with your people , all the ones together , all the twos together and all the threes together and rearrange the tables in an area of the room where you 'd like to work . |
| 10 | Most Asian and Afro-Caribbean men and women were drawn into low-paid occupations which placed them at the lower rather than the upper limits of these widening inequalities . |
| 11 | True to the Romantic tradition from which this belief sprang , the imagination was valued more than the analytical intelligence , the specific more than the general , experience more than discourse , connaitre more than savoir . |
| 12 | In an attempt to preserve their authority , the Chiefs amended the Constitution — which was already heavily biased in favour of the rural rather than the urban population — so that only five of the 37 Melanesian lower chamber seats were allocated to the urban areas , where approximately one-third of the Melanesian population lived . |
| 13 | The answer lies in part in the social position of the reformers who belonged to the professional rather than the employing middle class : they were social workers , teachers , social scientists , philosophers , clerics , doctors , and psychologists , the majority of whom were distanced from the realities of the labour-market . |
| 14 | Social events for example were organised for the deaf rather than by deaf people themselves , mainly by hearing missioners ; deaf magazines like the Deaf Quarterly News and the British Deaf Times were largely aimed at a readership far too sophisticated for the average ordinary deaf person , written and edited by missioners ; the Guild of St. John of Beverley , an organisation of mainly clerical missioners interested in doing things for the deaf , flourished . |
| 15 | Later she mastered Braille , learned to type and later took lessons from a teacher for the deaf so that she could go to school , then college and later spent her life lecturing all over the world . |
| 16 | The reissued so that the reissued quantitated appro .. search approval form no longer has provision for B P questionnaire approval . |
| 17 | The second group is concentrated among a particular section of the middle class — those in the private rather than the public sector , and among those who are not graduates . |
| 18 | Indeed , comparison of managerial facilities and perquisites in the public and private sectors ( such as office furnishings , secretarial support , company cars , expense accounts , etc ) suggest that ‘ it is the private rather than the public sector that offers greater possibilities for at least these kinds of non-pecuniary consumption ’ ( Breton and Wintrobe , 1982 , p. 77 ) . |
| 19 | For example , it is predicted that certain kinds of ‘ life strategies ’ will be found most commonly in people in whom particular corresponding moods or emotions predominate , and that the more general the strategies are , the stronger their association will be with the emotional rather than the intellectual characteristics of the person . |
| 20 | Yeah the Second World War , right , so er I can tell you now that in actual fact there 's no structural change during the thirties here but there is structural change during the war . |
| 21 | Hence part of the challenge is to find ways to getting through to the uninitiated so that a much larger proportion of adults have some insight into what mathematics is about . |
| 22 | Following a tradition dating from Searle ( 1975 ) , Ryan emphasises the illocutionary rather than the ontological dimension of fictionality , and devises a formula aimed to capture the essence of what she calls the " fictional transaction " . |
| 23 | My attention is drawn back to the unpleasant here and now by a banging gavel : thunder shakes the firmament . |
| 24 | This book is not the place to undertake such a task ; but one comment that might be made is that an initial distinction between class and status is likely to be important ; for it is the evaluative rather than the economic dimension of stratification which seems to be relevant to linguistic variation . |
| 25 | Similarly a French pamphleteer in the middle of the century argued that ‘ the power which is strongest at sea must necessarily be the strongest commercially and thus the most formidable … dominance of the sea would give a nation universal monarchy ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ Professional ’ as against ‘ amateur ’ may also have connotations of discipline , of the instrumental rather than the expressive . |
| 27 | The temptation is always to deny this rather than confront it , to revert to plans on paper , stick with the safe rather than the exciting even if , at the end of the day with this route , little is achieved . |
| 28 | As discrepancies may well overestimate the number of errors that actually occur in a trial ( for example , the electronic rather than the written record may be erroneous ) , the minimum estimate is that provided by retrospective completions alone — namely , 2% in the morning and 9% in the evening . |
| 29 | Now , it seemed , the Irish struggle might ignite the British rather than vice versa . |
| 30 | These included , retreating through northern Yugoslavia , the remains of the German Army Group E , which had controlled south-eastern Europe under the command of Gen Alexander Loehr , and which , with its anti-Communist allies , were anxious to surrender to the British rather than to Communist forces . |