Example sentences of "the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report points out that 70 million people live in the banana-shaped industrial complex which stretches from Britain to Italy . |
| 2 | Suddenly the 180 million people loyal to Communism at the end of the war had turned into 800 million . |
| 3 | Of the 180 Irish passengers who boarded at Queenstown , only twenty were saved . |
| 4 | In the first multiparty legislative elections since 1964 the ruling Cameroon People 's Democratic Rally ( RPDC ) on March 1 won 88 of the 180 parliamentary seats — three seats short of an absolute majority . |
| 5 | The introductory narratorial simile provides essential guidance to the reader ; its disappearance reminds us that the peoples ' limited linguistic resources do not permit comparison . |
| 6 | Copies of the introductory General Policy Statement are displayed on notice boards throughout the University . |
| 7 | The film sticks to the same ‘ kid beats dumb robbers ’ formula which made the original Home Alone the third-highest grossing movie of all time and top comedy with takings of over £330 million worldwide . |
| 8 | Inside it was cool , a pleasant breeze seemed to be picking its way delicately along the corridors , ensuring no discomfort from the outside sun for the inside rich . |
| 9 | Are the contents shown on the inside front cover , or on the front page ? |
| 10 | Had we not spent even more money on the BAIE Awards this year by advertising on the inside front cover of the magazine , we would not have received a single name check for 15 awards during the whole evening and in all the attendant publicity . |
| 11 | Ensure that every undertaking is approved by a partner and kept in a prominent place on the file such as the inside front cover . |
| 12 | It takes a slippery road to make the Volvo wag its tail ; over-exuberance with the throttle otherwise does nothing more than make the inside rear wheel spin the power away . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , back in Manchester , The Smiths ' favourite local photographer Steve Wright ( who shot the Salford Lads Club picture in the inside gatefold of ‘ The Queen Is Dead ’ ) was duly dispatched to a grubby street in Salford to snap a Strangeways road sign . |
| 14 | They have n't got this conception of that , that the inside and the outside of the body and what 's important is to keep the inside clean and so , this is extended also to the caravans . |
| 15 | The illustrative programme of additional expenditure from January 1993 , set out in Appendix 1 of The Future of Our Qualification , does include programmes ‘ to enhance firms ' profitability ’ and ‘ to help firms translate audit regulation into a profitable opportunity ’ , but these activities account for only £210,000 of the total additional expenditure of almost £2m . |
| 16 | There the chairs of the various committees would haggle to bring the total additional claims down to some acceptable consequent rate increase and to decide whose budget was to be trimmed most . |
| 17 | For 1990–1 , the Total Standard Spending has been set at 4.9 billion , of which the Standard Spending on education is 2.2 billion ( 45% ) . |
| 18 | The total standard spending of two thousand seven hundred and five million pounds is one hundred and five million pounds above the settlement for the current financial year . |
| 19 | The geographer on the other hand , is primarily interested in how the landscape works , and in man 's interactions with it , and thus recognizes that water is but one of the terrestrial phenomena in the total complex interacting ecosystem in which he is really interested . |
| 20 | Thus , Bukharin argued , if total unproductive consumption is greater than the total surplus product/value regression is set in motion . |
| 21 | The full operating costs of the British presence in the Gulf arising from the response to Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait were over £4,000,000 a day by the end of January , with the total such costs by then amounting to over £1,250 million ( plus equipment lost and ammunition consumed in operations amounting to nearly £200,000,000 ) . |
| 22 | In the first and third obese subjects ( MO1 and MO3 ) , however , the total urinary APGPR concentration slowly increased towards the end of the sampling period , four to six hours after the onset of the meal . |
| 23 | In the obese subjects the total urinary APGPR excretion showed no significant overall increase ( Fig 3B ) although in the second obese subject ( MO2 ) the APGPR excretion in urine was similar to that seen in normal subjects — that is , an early peak within the first two hours after the onset of the meal . |
| 24 | These served the classes that could afford to buy plots or construct a family vault , which might cost as much as the total annual salaries of the domestic staff of a Victorian household . |
| 25 | Taking each of his subject categories in turn he divides the total annual issues by the number of books in the category to achieve a nominal figure of the average number of issues per book . |
| 26 | Since the conditions applied are almost certainly too restrictive ( the project may well have sustained somewhat more than four to five clients per week who would otherwise have been in an institution ) the total annual sum saved is almost certainly nearer £24,000 — £26,000 . |
| 27 | However the total annual cost of the project at that time , extrapolating from the months when it was operating at capacity to produce a cost for a 12-month period , would have been £42,000 in Newham and £25,680 in Ipswich ( excluding the cost of the research ) ; see Table 6.6 . |
| 28 | Of the total annual income this figure should be separated from money which comes through legacies and other sources of income such as the hire of the hall and investments . |
| 29 | The total annual increment can take anything from 1 to 5 months for completion . |
| 30 | The final element in the total annual capital guideline is the amount the local authority is presumed to spend financed out of the money received by past or current sales of property — receipts taken into account ( RTIA ) . |