Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1929 a serious dispute over tactics arose between the Communist International and the Mexican Communists . |
| 2 | The futures price has fallen between the previous close and last trade by 2.0 ( i.e.1812.5 -1810.5 ) or by 4 ticks ( i.e. 2.0/0.5 ) . |
| 3 | However its ability to carry through the wider social and economic issues that are now central to its agenda has yet to be proven . |
| 4 | Hitler was presented with an ultimatum by both Britain and France to cease their invasion by 11 a.m. on Sunday , 3rd , September , or a state of war would exist between the allied British and French forces against Germany . |
| 5 | Anyway , he always told himself that this would be the last time ; this time he would find some really good job in which he would get on really well and his talents would be appreciated and people would like him and he would surprise all his Tormentors , so there would be no reason to go through the whole fraught and sapping business of signing on again . |
| 6 | Mr Anderson also took a great deal of interest in the local church and contributed towards many of the improvements and alterations undertaken during the late 19th and early 20th centuries . |
| 7 | Social liberals , like Booth and Rowntree , and Fabians , like Sydney and Beatrice Webb , may have differed in their views on the extent and the permanence of the provision of state welfare that they advocated , but shared an interest in what they saw as the factual demonstration of the extent of poverty which existed in what was still regarded as the major industrial and political power . |
| 8 | Ben Jonson actually takes delight in announcing ( in Latin ) on the title page of his 1616 Workes that the book is designed for the select few and not the common crowd . |
| 9 | The sums involved in fire insurance quadrupled between the mid 1780s and the late 1820s . |
| 10 | Polythene was virtually forgotten for the next two and a half years . |
| 11 | We have to know about the various behavioural and physiological changes which occur in difficult situations , and we have to understand adverse effects on body condition , growth , reproduction and so on . |
| 12 | Gasping air into his lungs , he dived down , groping for the fishing-line looped and re-looped round Gomez 's legs . |
| 13 | The Phoenicians were successful business travellers ; trading throughout the eastern Mediterranean and beyond , they travelled extensively . |
| 14 | Money just scrapes into the Top Ten and is of particular importance to men under 24 . |
| 15 | As it grows , the grass is scattered with the dusky blue and magenta petals of meadow cranesbill and , as the hay ripens , seeding heads of sorrel colour its sunset-gold with red . |
| 16 | The monumental Portland Building rose in the early 1950s and teaching and residential accommodation space grew rapidly in the 1960s and 70s to keep pace with the growing demand for university places . |
| 17 | The Lexical Syllabus has been ‘ developed out of the author 's assessment that ELT in the late 1980s and early '90s had lost its way ’ . |
| 18 | General Council 's action in support of the miners and wool textile workers signaled a turn in the tide , the beginning of a definite stand against the policy of wage reductions which economic conditions have enabled the employers to impose in the last four and a half years . |
| 19 | The EEC 's response to the disintegration of Yugoslavia is an equally important indication of what might be expected from the Common Foreign and Security policy . |
| 20 | We found in the first covert and then twice more , I ca n't remember so many good runs in a day before , not all at once . ’ |
| 21 | This principle still applies , and applications are invited from people working in all areas of Theoretical Chemistry , even though the professor will be located within the new Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , as already suggested , wages did not decrease at the height of the slump of 1929 to 1933 at anything like the level of reductions which occurred in the early 1920s and some type of stability and balance was being established . |
| 23 | In 1875 he moved to the Great Southern and Western Railway of Ireland as the works manager and assistant locomotive superintendent at Inchicore near Dublin , where he was responsible for making improvements to the automatic vacuum brake . |
| 24 | Bernal was of course deeply committed to the Communist ideal and was never , so far as I know , privy to any of the atomic bomb developments during or after the war . |
| 25 | The β -ribbon lies in the major groove , which faces the reader , whereas the minor groove lies to the upper left and lower right . |
| 26 | Liberal Democrats believe that expanding and utilising to the full scientific and technological talents offers the only chance of improving our performance and reversing the long tale of our relative economic decline . |
| 27 | He just had to adjust to the wide outside and Bones 's new top gear , hitherto unsuspected . |
| 28 | For too long , the time and resources devoted to the specific social and economic problems of many rural areas have been inadequate and often inappropriate . |
| 29 | Here the position may be summed up by saying that the control task may recently have been added to the conceptive ideological and translating practices , but it is these latter which constitute the lawyer 's work , and in terms of which his job should be sociologically defined . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , until the creation of Nato , Anglo-American contacts relating to the eastern Mediterranean and Egypt were a formative and educative element in the reviving relationship . |