Example sentences of "the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fig. 123 the violent diagonal of the hero 's body , twisting back as he throws himself across , lies over the counter-diagonal of the bull , carved in low relief on the background but it too turning its head out and back . |
| 2 | The 1992 profits were the third-highest in Vauxhall 's history and compare with a 1991 pre-tax figure of £132.6 million . |
| 3 | And , secondly , as discussed earlier , a continuity view of psychosis rests very heavily on the idea that it is the type of nervous system they have in common that connects the normal to the abnormal . |
| 4 | The view is along the normal to the β- sheet surface as indicated by the line in e . |
| 5 | According to Fig. 2.33(b) the electric field at a distance r from the charge is given by unc ( the negative sign is due to the fact that the direction of the electric field is opposite to the normal to the plane ) , and consequently |
| 6 | Suppose that the orbital radii are rx and rG for Cygnus X-1 and the blue supergiant respectively , and that the normal to the orbital plane is tilted at an angle i with respect to our line of sight . |
| 7 | Plasma pepsinogen levels are above the normal of 1.0 i.u. tyrosine and usually exceed 2.0 i.u. in sheep with heavy infections . |
| 8 | ( Certain gilts can be traded special ex dividend three weeks prior to the normal ex dividend date , which means that they can be bought or sold with or without the next coupon during this period . ) |
| 9 | These cases included the waChagga on Kilimanjaro , the Ibo in eastern Nigeria , the Bamilike of western Cameroun , as well as smaller groups such as the waKara who inhabit an island on Lake Victoria and the waTengo in hill country in south-west Tanzania . |
| 10 | The Ibos in Nigeria and the Bamilike in Cameroun are both groups who in the 1950s and 1960s respectively made a bid for predominant national power ; they failed , and continue to feel excluded from the political mainstream of their countries . |
| 11 | Individual carpet designs , borders , Chlidema squares were all custom made in traditional woven Axminster or Wilton , the broadloom being woven at Elderslie and the narrow at Runcorn . |
| 12 | Now that would do , that would do whether the , whether the knuckles were hurt or it was just a minor cut in the palm of the hand there , that would do and you can use the same type of bandage on the foot alright , so that 's if the hand was damaged , now supposing we did n't have the hand damaged , but we had instead a cut up here , okay , again clean it and if you clean it with lots of water always remember to dry off around the wound because bugs love a moist skin to grow in , dry the wound before you apply the dressing okay if you can , dry it off the best you can and then you 're going to place that over the cut , remember you want the pad to be long enough , big enough , okay , now she can hold this for you again , she can hold it above where the wound is and now when you bandage this one you always bandage from the narrow part to the fat part of the limb , you always bandage from the narrow to the fat , so you take the bandage down |
| 13 | I went across and yes it 's , you have to go back er a a a again , and when the road narrows , just after the , the , the narrow in the road , you take the first left . |
| 14 | The rape and murder of four US churchwomen who were carrying out humanitarian work with the displaced in December 1980 has received the most detailed international press coverage , but it is by no means an isolated case . |
| 15 | Others are working with the displaced in the internal refuges run by the church . |
| 16 | ( Restaurant advertisement , translated by T C Lai ) THE FRENCH gastronomic journal , Gault-Millau , caused major ructions this summer by applying its critical eye to the grandest of Hong Kong 's hotel restaurants . |
| 17 | In the context of hospitality and friendship , little and often is worth more than the grandest of annual social jamborees . |
| 18 | Lutyens was brought up at Thursley in Surrey and developed a great love for that county 's local styles and materials , although he also built in the grandest of manners . |
| 19 | Chatsworth is the grandest of gardens , with canals , fountains , cascades and magnificent glasshouses within a 1,000 park . |
| 20 | These trees clustered everywhere in dense clumps , and they were the grandest of all , arrogant and yet familiar , noisy but amiable . |
| 21 | A remarkable hydraulic lift still plies the cliff face between the high promenade and the pier , and there are some imposing villas , but the grandest of grand hotels has been turned into flats . |
| 22 | The old Union station had been in a rambling neo-Romanesque style , but the new one was to match the grandest of the American Beaux-Arts school , and in some ways surpass them . |
| 23 | But Bogotá in Colombia was provided with one of the grandest of Andean stations in 1917 . |
| 24 | The Great Court of the Citadel of Famagusta was one hundred and sixty feet long , and built to accommodate the grandest of ceremonials . |
| 25 | Of these , ironically , the grandest of all Scottish interiors , Hamilton Palace , was stripped and demolished , but is recorded by a small selection of photographs here . |
| 26 | This is a stunning world of peace and tranquility , an assortment of panoramic spectacles , where every sight is awesome , and all are on the grandest of scales . |
| 27 | The Lycée was to hold this self-determined spirit for only two years then he was taken on by Balmain , at that time one of the grandest of French designers . |
| 28 | At all events , the great age of Athens , on this reading , was the age of the Persian wars in the early years of the fifth century , a time of supreme political endeavour and a time when the grandest of all tragic dramatists , Aeschylus , was there to provide the spiritual leadership of the city . |
| 29 | Leopold 's response was to urge Mozart not to dismiss the idea so lightly given that the appointment , though not the grandest in itself , might ultimately lead to one of the posts of Kapellmeister there . |
| 30 | Froissart remarked that ‘ the greatest and the grandest among them sometimes went for six days without tasting bread ’ , and Walsingham observed that ‘ a great part of his army perished of hunger and disease and almost all their horses died ’ . |