Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In January 1859 , however , the cause of press reform took a turn for the worse when the tsar appointed a Committee on Press Affairs which smacked of the committee of 1848 . |
| 2 | If you want to find out more about gardening for the disabled before the patient starts , you can ask your occupational therapist for advice and available literature , look up books on the subject in your local library , or contact specialist organizations such as The Garden Club , the Gardens for the Disabled Trust , or the Royal Horticultural Society . |
| 3 | Proposals were put forward by the owners during the 1980s for the development of the site and were opposed by Save Britain 's Heritage . |
| 4 | In the Netherlands , known during the 1980s for the strength of its peace movement , there was widespread support for the war . |
| 5 | Just as the same when the sun rises and sets in the sky . |
| 6 | assessments are available , and Mrs will confirm as the same as the cycling issue for example the value and assessments will be made available , these are vast documents of many pages , if you look at the actual , the final page you 'll see there in fact that the |
| 7 | There has been good-natured banter between the two since the draw was made . |
| 8 | The cost at the time the system was developed was estimated at about the same as the salary of one personnel officer — for one year — without the costs of an office , car or secretary that the officer would need . |
| 9 | And as for the future , the economist 's forecast is about the same as the weatherman 's : cloudy at best , more likely bleak . |
| 10 | The temperature is about 700 K , about the same as the surface temperature everywhere on Venus . |
| 11 | For example , the number of unconnected words we can hold in immediate memory is about the same as the number of unrelated digits , even though a word contains much more information than a digit . |
| 12 | The Purchaser will not be happy if the Business consists of all the wrong kinds of assets ( peas instead of beans ) even if they are worth the same as the price paid . |
| 13 | Within the EEC de Gaulle 's efforts led to the first summit meetings of the Six since the Community began , in Paris in February and in Bonn in July . |
| 14 | The village reached its peak in the middle of the 19th century-when the population reached 846 and the occupations listed in the census of the time show it to have been totally self-sufficient . |
| 15 | One profession which sees more of the bereaved than the rest of us are undertakers . |
| 16 | Because of inflation , real food prices in the great majority of Latin American countries were higher at the end of the 1970s than the beginning . |
| 17 | The direct debit is the more flexible to use of the two because the amount can be adjusted for VAT or other changes . |
| 18 | When some of us are small we hear a great deal of criticism , more of the negative than the positive . |
| 19 | Although the flight of the U2 spy plane and the debacle of the summit the following year were to put everybody back on guard once more , there were some moments at the end of the Fifties when the fog of ideology cleared enough for realism to creep in . |
| 20 | In the main gatehouse tower on the first stack , Moray was asking of the guard-captain whether the Countess was at home when the door from the first of the bridge-corridors was flung open and a young woman came in at the run , hair blown , laughing-eyed , skirts kilted up the better to run , fine bosom tumultuous — as unusual a Countess of Dunbar and March as was the castle of which she was chatelaine . |
| 21 | Studies of this kind were influenced first by studies and methods of denudation chronology , of which they naturally formed the later stages , and secondly by developments in the study of the Pleistocene where the work of Zeuner ( 1945 , 1958 ) and the work of geologists ( e.g. Wright , 1937 ; Flint , 1947 ; Charlesworth , 1957 ) had been particularly influential . |
| 22 | No doubt we 'll be hearing more of the same as the week goes on . |
| 23 | I slept the sleep of the just till the chapel bells roused me late this afternoon . |
| 24 | It is true that lengthy and detailed scrutiny takes place in a Standing Committee off the floor of the House , but even then it is typically the special interest groups , briefing Opposition spokesmen and Government backbenchers alike , which provide more of the dynamic than the representation of constituents ' views . |
| 25 | Behind a one-storey inn the Duke and his tribe of brothers and uncles lived in a cluster of rough stone houses , one built onto the end of the next as the family grew . |
| 26 | In some areas the birth of a child might add a shilling or more a week to the wage , leading to some pessimistic projections of runaway demographic increase , notably by followers of Thomas Malthus whose " Essay on Population " of 1798 was the most important ideological underpinning for the views of those who were beginning to urge a much harsher attitude towards the poor as the cost of their relief surged . |
| 27 | Indeed , among these villains of the wheel , the woman cyclist was possibly even more of a portent than the cyclist juror . |
| 28 | As a simple illustration of these remarks we note that the Babylonians posed many problems [ 71 , p. 34 ] of the form : " Find the side of a square if the area less the side is 870 . " |
| 29 | Small companies wishing to dispense with the burden of audit would have to have turnover of no more than the VAT registration threshold , under new proposals from the Government . |
| 30 | Too late then , surely , to change him for a better if the word goes against him . ’ |