Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [conj] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LUXURY TOUCH : He ordered decorators to coat the walls with an expensive marble-effect finish — about three times dearer than the standard chip paper and emulsion he had chosen earlier . |
| 2 | In the gap between that first Hayward retrospective and the current show of paintings from the last decade , Riley has had significant exhibitions in many countries , including two major touring shows . |
| 3 | Jones has given talks about muon catalysed fusion all over the USA and in Europe , so it is ironic that it was after speaking at his new home institution , Brigham Young University , on 12 March 1986 that the seminal interaction occurred with Paul Palmer . |
| 4 | Overall mortality was 23% lower than the national average for all causes of death and 18% lower for cancer . |
| 5 | Once information concerning the shift in the AD schedule has been fully grasped throughout the economy , output reverts to y * ; the price level rises to p 2 and the relevant function becomes . |
| 6 | Cindy is a farm maid , at the beck and call of her wicked , snobbish guardians , with a travelling shoe salesman Ginger as her Prince Charming and the local lady of the manor as the Fairy Godmother . |
| 7 | During a month-long survey , Lyme Regis passed the EC 's guideline for faecal coliforms which is 20 times tougher than the basic standard . |
| 8 | The red line represents freon eleven and the green line freon twelve . |
| 9 | These horses have a Jockey Club official handicap rating that merits carrying a weight lower than the minimum weight allotted for a race . |
| 10 | These horses have a Jockey Club official handicap rating that merits carrying a weight lower than the minimum weight allotted for a race . |
| 11 | I found it boring , self-conscious and a good deal sketchier than the Balzac novella on which it 's based . |
| 12 | Sensation rang up the curtain on July when Sir Derek Rayner revealed that government-reared rats for research cost £28 each when the going price for a rat in civvy street was £2 . |
| 13 | You will not be at a level a good deal lower than the surrounding ground , so you will have to lay a hardcore base to build up the foundations to suit the path material and method of laying . |
| 14 | It corresponds to the line in figure 6.11 and the top line in figure 6.10 . |
| 15 | It was still dignified , the eyes clear and the bone-structure good . |
| 16 | Dinesh Goswami , the Minister of Law and Justice , announced on Jan. 12 that the central government had decided to oppose the US$470,000,000 settlement between the Gandhi government and the US company Union Carbide Corp . |
| 17 | An Afghan Foreign Ministry spokesman announced on Jan. 12 that the French government had declared its intention to become the first western government to reopen its embassy in Kabul . |
| 18 | Japan had closed its embassy temporarily on Jan. 12 and the Egyptian ambassador had left the following day , although most Arab countries retained some representation . |
| 19 | The ideal age for recruitment is nine months old and the upper age limit is two years . |
| 20 | Figure 2 and the accompanying box show how shoulder angle is defined . |
| 21 | It was argued in Chapter 2 that the criminal law ought to spread its net wider where the potential harm is greater . |
| 22 | So a further part of the prophecy of chapter 2 and the divine judgement of chapter 3 comes to its dark fruition . |
| 23 | Hence the two base changes in the octamer-like sequence in HPV 6/11 compared to HPV 16/18 render it non-functional as a binding site both for the constitutively expressed octamer binding protein Oct-1 and the cervical octamer binding protein . |
| 24 | The thin plastic flange in the centre of the connectors must be removed with a pair of pliers , to enable it to slide completely over the new , smaller piece of pipe , which should be cut 10 to 20mm shorter than the measured gap . |
| 25 | J 2 is poorly known , and only an upper limit exists for f such that the polar radius is within 0.24 km of the equatorial radius . |
| 26 | For further performance indicators for the EC states , see the comparative unemployment rates in Table 2 of Chapter 26 and the comparative inflation rates in Table 3 of Chapter 27 . |
| 27 | You can see from Figure 9.5 that the uppermost cloud is ammonia , though it could carry traces of other cloud particles borne up from below . |
| 28 | Though he occasionally complained that his agent pushed too much work in his direction , he appears to have turned nothing down , accepting even very slight commissions from the Penrose Annual or the Complete Imbiber . |
| 29 | We dug the pit a little more than 100mm larger all round , and 75mm deeper than the finished size . |
| 30 | • A zinc layer of 350g/m 2 , 25% thicker than the commercial standard gives extra corrosion resistance . |