Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [conj] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd seen enough from the taxi to tell that every house , cottage , shop and inn was simply full of character , each different but still in the traditional Cotswold style she was beginning to recognise . |
| 2 | The petals of the flowers had dropped , and spilled brown and carelessly over the floor . |
| 3 | From the late seventies , to the nineteen eighties or rather from the from the seventies , not just late seventies , to the nineteen eighties , it 's come down about a thousand broad terms , a thousand dwellings a year fewer being built . |
| 4 | It is now generally agreed that the concept of the work as a whole dates to early 1907 and possibly to the very month in which Picasso acquired his two heads.1 |
| 5 | In Europe the profit share fell in the early sixties and again in the early seventies . |
| 6 | Thus Douglas found in the early 1960s that even among the most able , working-class pupils were more likely to leave school early than middle-class pupils with the same IQ scores . |
| 7 | Utah 's natural-resources boom of the 1970s was stopped in its tracks , first by the recession of the early 1980s and then by the oil bust later in the decade . |
| 8 | The second , the Green movement , is a very widely based and variegated collection of individuals and groups that includes those on the fringes of the global capitalist system as well as some who are fundamentally opposed to it , mainly from the libertarian left but also from the authoritarian right . |
| 9 | With just three thousand or so of the origional travellers left neighbouring police forces are on standby in case the travellers try to converge on another site to stage an impromtue festival this weekend . |
| 10 | Erm , could I ask er , a little about er , Longman and er , and er , Penguin in nineteen ninety two and particularly in the case of Longman , is the momentum of profits improvement in the second half carrying , carrying through into nineteen ninety two ? |
| 11 | I am particularly er pleased to see the I T provisions at three two and elsewhere in the report the training for the business plan has been given to the staff . |
| 12 | As noted in annual reports in the late forties and again in the early fifties , the main problems in the development of WEA provision lay in the urban areas — a reversal of pre-war conditions when accessibility of rural areas was difficult and prevented significant growth until the appointment of resident tutors . |
| 13 | Hove , however , came back more determined than ever in the second half . |
| 14 | The University of Munich has nearly 45 000 and Berlin 's free University has more than 47 000 , with another 25 000 or so at the Technical University there . |
| 15 | The current 300,000 youth training places in the United Kingdom compare with the lamentable 7,000 or so under the last Labour Government . |
| 16 | During the first three millennia BC , two of the main concentrations of political power of the day , the Assyrian empire and Babylonia , lived in a state of near-permanent warfare , first with one another and then with the Persian kingdom of Elam , which at different times captured both Babylon and Ur and was itself in about 1100 BC laid waste by the Assyrians . |
| 17 | The national conference which since late 1991 had been planned as the next stage in the democratization process , was on May 8 postponed until later in the year on the grounds that its preparatory commission had not completed its work . |
| 18 | So you , you 'd manage on fifteen thousand but then after the twelve months you 'd most probably want to go up to say seventy five percent of your earnings ? |
| 19 | For the browsers there is Golf : The Golden Years , a pictorial anthology by Sarah Baddiel celebrating the last few years of the 19th century and the first 40 or so of the 20th . |
| 20 | During the last 30 years , CFCs have contributed only one third as much to the Earth 's heat budget as carbon dioxide . |
| 21 | Let adjacent mean adjoining and parallel with the sides . |
| 22 | Even when poverty- stricken and little above the level of slaves , the mining families had their pride and a determination to improve their lot . |
| 23 | Can you do one of me ? ’ , until I 'd completed twenty five or so in the space of about two months . |
| 24 | In the 1940s , he worked for the Northern Whig and then for the Intelligence Corps and the Foreign Office . |
| 25 | Erm on the on the twenty third or thereabouts on the twenty third of March of this year I myself got stopped for drink driving . |
| 26 | The age structure of the West Indian and Asian communities differs not only from each other but also from the general population . |
| 27 | Apart from whether the weak transmissions from a pair of £25-sets operating on the American Citizens ' Band FM frequency could have penetrated the thick walls of Blake 's cell , which were reinforced with cast-iron segments , with no external aerial and close to the 17 feet-high perimeter wall , there is also the question of how Blake managed to keep a radio in his cell without it once being noticed over six months during which he and his cell were regularly searched . |
| 28 | The mineralisation is of SEDEX type ( Large , 1983 ) with stratabound sulphates , silicates and sulphides occurring in small , third order basins within the Middle Dalradian and especially in the Ben Eagach Schist Formation ( Coats and others , 1980 ) . |
| 29 | The chords are Dminor , Dmin sus2 to A flat major 7th , 6th and sharp 11th and then to the E again — that sort of ambiguous E phrygian riff thing . |
| 30 | The landlord hereby demises unto the Tenant ALL THAT messuage or dwelling-house with the outbuildings and garden attached thereto and forming part thereof known as Number 10 Downing Lane Old Fableland in the County of Humberside which premises are outlined in red on the Plan annexed to these presents EXCEPT AND RESERVING AND SUBJECT to the exceptions and reservations set out in the Schedule hereto TO HOLD the same unto the Tenant from the 25th day of December 1986 for the term of seven years PAYING therefore the net yearly rent of £2500 clear of all deductions by equal quarterly instalments commencing on the 25th day of December 1986 next and thereafter on the usual quarter days . |