Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I found the most frightful difficulty in persuading the various captains of these teams from one flight or the other to let me join in . |
| 2 | Water for fulling — cleansing and thickening the cloth — and in due course for driving the industrial mills which were to replace the looms of individual home-based workers was also an important factor . |
| 3 | Before agreement was reached to establish the SEM by the end of 1992 , there had been very little progress towards establishing the Common Market . |
| 4 | Karmal was subsequently replaced as party leader and president by Najibullah , but there was little progress in establishing the broadly-based ‘ government of national reconciliation ’ which was his declared objective . |
| 5 | Furthermore , one can observe different subjects making differential progress in understanding the various stages in the transition from myopic to dynamically optimal . |
| 6 | Go in the microwave that 's all , I ai n't got much money at all , I did n't have that much left , I bought mum 's cigs and that bit of shopping the other day and that was the end of that we will survive . |
| 7 | Every instrument , however unimportant it may seem , must play a definite part in reinforcing the main lines of the texture . |
| 8 | Secondly , the fiction/concession theory could have supplied an image of the company as separate and distinct from its shareholders which would also have supported the institution of limited liability , but there were strong reasons for preferring the natural-entity model of the company . |
| 9 | The smaller Protestant states of northern Europe — Brandenburg-Prussia , Sweden , Denmark — which were all to varying extents anxious to conciliate Russia , had little hesitation in recognising the new title . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought I 'd better prove that I do n't always forget about normal times for refreshing the inner man , ’ he drawled , but there was such a twinkle in his eyes , so much charm in his manner , that Fabia felt quite overcome by it . |
| 11 | The timing and content of political strategies for confronting the economic crisis within individual countries will depend on the kinds of interrelated factors that have been examined : the balance of social forces , class strategies and alliances and their expression within the state through the medium of political parties and their ideologies . |
| 12 | There were sound technical reasons for keeping the regular cast no smaller than four . |
| 13 | Okay there might be in all sorts of ways , in terms of equality , in terms of socialism , it 's , it 's all a bit dubious erm but the other reason for taxing down is that , let's face it , the majority of peasants as we , as we saw last week are still poor and if the Communist Party is wanting to maximize its revenue , if it was gon na say okay we 're not gon na tax anybody at under six or eight hundred erm you , you 're gon na take out er half the population and you would have to get that income by taxing the rich even harder and that would be a disincentive . |
| 14 | They broke that contract by taking the later ( and much larger ) claim into account . |
| 15 | It may turn out not to be the final or the only unit of analysis but , even so , to contend that it were would not be so wildly wrong as treating America as fifty states without mentioning the Federal Government . |
| 16 | No disrespect to my conveyancing brethren but I would n't let them loose on a guilty plea of going the wrong way round a keep left sign . |
| 17 | Up to now , the republics and provinces ( or at least the more prosperous ones ) have shown a strong resistance to allowing the federal government to enter the field of income tax . |
| 18 | So far I have discussed the example of the missile and its specific antidote without stressing the evolutionary , progressive aspect , which is , after all , the main reason for bringing it into this chapter . |
| 19 | If the Conservatives dismissed the British Union of Fascists without too much concern — and most could see no good political reasons for embracing the fascist faith — they could not dismiss the threat of European fascism so easily , and attempted to accommodate it instead . |
| 20 | They had been to the Fish a few times before and Mary had little difficulty in sousing the coarse splutterings of the pair of spoilt whelps who were nonetheless , she thought , by no means bad or wicked young men . |
| 21 | Voting patterns in these constituencies indicated that the FIS would have little difficulty in securing the additional 28 seats it needed for an absolute majority in the National Assembly . |
| 22 | This document stated that the coup had created " an historic opportunity of accelerating the radical transformations and renewing the country " . |
| 23 | A 21-year old university student , Lim Su Kyong , was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment on Feb. 5 for making an unauthorized trip to North Korea to promote Korean reunification by attending the 13th World Youth and Student Festival held in Pyongyang in July 1989 [ see p. 36816 ] . |
| 24 | I have the greatest difficulty in finding the remotest sense in the policy of a party which says that it is in favour of investment but which goes out of its way by every possible means to penalise saving . |
| 25 | First , even critics of privatisation have the greatest difficulty in defending the existing position . |
| 26 | It remains a Soviet priority to dissuade the ASEAN states from taking the final step that would transform ASEAN into a Western-sponsored security system . |
| 27 | As a young doctor in Leiden he paid a seminal visit to the neuroanatomist WJH Nauta , at that time developing a revolutionary anatomical technique for investigating the nervous system by staining degenerating fibres cut off from their parent cell-bodies . |
| 28 | No auditing practices in addition to those carried out in the normal case of auditing the financial statements are carried out . |
| 29 | In the event , only a smaller group of about 100 delegates led by Armando Cossutta walked out of the final session of the congress , with the declared intention of continuing the Italian communist tradition elsewhere . |
| 30 | Whereas developments in Guam took those involved in the abortion debate by surprise , the anti-abortion legislation passed in Idaho was prepared by the National Right to Life Committee with the specific intention of forcing the Supreme Court to re-examine the remaining aspects of Roe v. Wade . |