Example sentences of "the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Since relatively few people express a preference for changing tenure from the owner-occupied to local authority sectors , when this happens there are often important employment and demographic aspects at work . |
| 32 | Two factors are mainly responsible for movement from the owner-occupied to local authority sectors — unemployment and marital breakdown . |
| 33 | The unemployment rates among married heads of household moving from the owner-occupied to the local authority sector is about six times the rate of those moving in the opposite direction ( Murphy and Sullivan , 1986 ) . |
| 34 | Well so far we 've just been looking at the record of growth bands in this coral skeleton , but we can acquire a great deal of additional information by sampling the skeleton , and we sample the skeleton using a small drill and we can analyze the , the powders that we collect for the stabilized of oxygen . |
| 35 | By now a number of Italian and German aircrew prisoners had accumulated on the island , the unwounded amongst them being housed at Kordin Military Detention Camp . |
| 36 | Have you ever noticed how God has a tendency to match up the strong , overbearing with the meek and shy , the perfectionist with the reckless , the lazy with the energetic , the silly with the sober ? |
| 37 | The lazy among us will always claim that it is more difficult to learn as you get older . |
| 38 | Thereafter tourism replaced travel , the masses were unleashed upon the Continent , package-tour operators and entrepreneurs got to work to ensure that everywhere from Zagreb to Zanzibar looked , felt , and smelt exactly the same , and the aeroplane turned Atlantic crossings and transworld flights into the merest commuting , as mechanical and regular and unremarkable as catching the 6.10 from Waterloo to Surbiton . |
| 39 | It was the second-best of three : mine was the best , and the third was very small indeed . |
| 40 | It 's now run as a dairy farm with a herd of 16 Ayrshires — the second-best in Staffordshire , says Derrick Golland the country 's advisory teacher on environmental subjects . |
| 41 | Both Schwarzenegger as the nicest of guys and De Vito as a sneaky crook are surprisingly convincing and delightfully funny . |
| 42 | Mike said : ‘ I was n't told in the nicest of manners . |
| 43 | A snipe 's drumming is one of the nicest of early year sounds . |
| 44 | Not the nicest of things , no |
| 45 | Now , all these were black sheep , they were the nicest of the lot , and there was no , they were the ones you turned to , if you wanted to discuss your troubles . |
| 46 | It 's true what they say , Belfast people would be the nicest in the world if only they 'd stop killing each other . |
| 47 | She was the nicest in these here . |
| 48 | This can be provided by the magic power or words , such as inscribing prohibitions into the nation 's constitution , and by manifestations of the divine in terms of either retribution for failing to uphold the truth , or grace for upholding the truth , with rewards ‘ such as oil finds and victories in the World Championships ’ . |
| 49 | Point size is the measured from the top of the ascender to the bottom of the descender . |
| 50 | Wolstenholme even chipped in from 25ft at the 17th for a three . |
| 51 | Welshman Ian Woosnam would have joined them in second place but for a double bogey at the 17th for a 73 , while Scotland 's Colin Montgomerie is tucked in just behind after finishing four over par . |
| 52 | For good measure he pitched to under a yard on the 17th for his seventh birdie and the lowest round of his five-year tour career . |
| 53 | It is consequently being officially recorded that Lieutenant L. G. Cairns , Army Air Corps , is presumed to have been killed in action on the 17th of June 1944 . |
| 54 | Mozart arrived back in Salzburg in mid-January and his certificate of appointment was finally signed on the 17th of that month . |
| 55 | Veteran abstractionist Helen Frankenthaler turns up until the 17th of this month at a new gallery — new , that is , for her — Knoedler . |
| 56 | New work by this veteran artist ‘ The Judgment of Paris series ’ is being presented at Robert Miller until the 17th of this month . |
| 57 | The turkeys , actually , are by Meyer Vaisman one of the baddest of the art world bad boys and they have been set out in a big free-range area at Castelli until the 17th of the month . |
| 58 | On Saturday the 17th of August we attended the Great British Beer Festival which was held in the Docklands Arena , London . |
| 59 | On Sunday the 17th of Rabi'I [ 20 March 1650 ] the festival of Nauroz [ New Year ] was celebrated in the most splendid and sumptuous style as the ocean of royal bounty and munificence broke into surging billows … |
| 60 | The provisional date is Sunday the 17th of September . |