Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb -s] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A proportionate tax distributes these burdens as a ratio of income : each taxpayer contributes the same proportion of income in tax . |
| 2 | In Kilronan churchyard lies the blind harper who , it is said , wrote the music for the tune that became ‘ The Star-Spangled Banner ’ — Turlough O'Carolan , led across Ireland on a white horse by his servant , and sleeping with his harp in the bed so as not to let the instrument 's wood warp in damp rooms . |
| 3 | Finally , the amount by which the total award exceeds the prescribed element must also be specified . |
| 4 | Carbon dioxide generation for the Tertiary coals follows the same trend as that for the Palaeozoic coals , though the yield is only about half . |
| 5 | A few Opposition Members told us that smoking costs the national health service £437 million a year . |
| 6 | Now , as from the times of childhood , she rode Fenna , seated in the deep hollow of the meeting place of scaled neck , veined wing and rising battlement of spine ; a throne protected from the great gale of his flight , as safe as the rocky cradle secures the foetal child , leaning back towards the bumpy spine as she had leant before , she gave herself over to their journey . |
| 7 | Another important criticism , associated especially with Bernard Williams , is that utilitarianism ignores the real significance which life has for mature human beings . |
| 8 | With very few exceptions the rule is that Parliament determines the maximum penalty and it is then for the courts , having heard the evidence , and seen the defendant in person , and heard what can be said in mitigation on his behalf , to decide upon the appropriate punishment in all the circumstances of the case . |
| 9 | He 's now heavy on the front brake , while his right foot strokes the rear brake lever . |
| 10 | In our relations with the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe as well as with the poverty-stricken peoples of the South , we will work from the principle that political freedom needs the sure foundation of economic security . |
| 11 | It turns out that a great deal of our conversational interaction involves the repetitious use of structure . |
| 12 | The lower field displays the current page number of this mail message . |
| 13 | The fact that both these forms of aphasia are frequently observed suggests that there are separate systems for perceiving and producing speech ; and we have already seen in Chapter 6 that research on normal subjects suggests the same conclusion . |
| 14 | When a total loss arises the following formula can be used to establish the written down value . |
| 15 | In this tranquil setting stands the distinctive form of Holme Castle , an impressive Victorian stone house built in 1820 . |
| 16 | Although the specific dictionary out-performs the general dictionary for Banking text , for the Estate Agents ' text the general dictionary out-performs the domain dictionary . |
| 17 | Each employee has the current year and previous year 's absence held in detail . |
| 18 | Hard , dry cough racks the whole chest . |
| 19 | This London-based institution undertakes the major responsibility of projecting a public image of solicitors based upon client service overriding the baser desires of self-interest . |
| 20 | This results from the nature of the elongation conditions which ensures that each transcript contains the same amount of radiolabel incorporated into the nascent RNA during initiation of the ternary transcription complex , and no further label is incorporated during the elongation phase . |
| 21 | And it 's it 's on the economic front that regeneration has the highest priority in Leeds and not on the housing front , as I as I 've previously described . |
| 22 | ( i ) Full modernity or complete modernism presupposes the absolute autonomy of fields . |
| 23 | The normal entry links the highest key at present on the prime data track with the address of the track . |
| 24 | No actress alive better captures the ferocious pathos of the little heartbreak writ large , and although her immaculate comic technique sustains whole passages of visual lunacy , she has in addition the much rarer theatrical gift of being able to transmit emotion in its purest form . |
| 25 | Although the domain-specific dictionary outperforms the general dictionary on average , there are good reasons why the general dictionary would still be preferred in the majority of situations . |
| 26 | The holy significance of this two-parter is that Spock meets the new Enterprise crew . |
| 27 | The classic bob gets the sixties treatment with a centre parting from Scissors of Cheshire |
| 28 | Neither figure displays the within-group variation or the numbers of subjects within each stratum , both of which are necessary to assess the meaningfulness of the between-group differences . |
| 29 | The EC Biotechnology Framework Programme recognises the importance of classical taxonomy to genetic and molecular studies , and it is felt that collaborative research offers the best way forward in combining different the approaches . |
| 30 | This finding reflects the commonsense idea that people are influenced in their speech by the speakers around them . |