Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The S&P500 index , which covers most of the largest 500 firms quoted on the NYSE , accounts for roughly 80% of the market value of all shares quoted on the NYSE . |
| 2 | Recent years have seen a succession of second-rate political memoirs illuminated by the self-serving clarity of hindsight , stashed with dutiful acknowledgements to dreary constituency agents , padded out with hack accounts of official visits to one foreign country or another . |
| 3 | She nodded and her alert hazel eyes flickered around the room , taking everyone in . |
| 4 | Elsewhere in the Asia/Pacific region , depressed economic conditions have in the main continued , notably in Australasia . |
| 5 | Are the colour-coding receptive fields created by the internal circuitry of V4 or is the relevant processing carried out in Vl ? |
| 6 | The acute political problems raised by the succession issue can be seen particularly clearly in the experience of Kenya , Cameroun and Senegal . |
| 7 | Volume was measured separately for each outstanding futures contract by the number of contracts traded during the day . |
| 8 | Continuing anti-US feeling in Iran and the associated strength of the radical Islamic political forces resulted from the US refusal to make a more comprehensive effort to compensate Iran for the shooting down of an Iranian airbus in the Gulf by the USS Vincennes warship in July 1988 [ see pp. 36169-70 ] , and from the fact that it continued to hold , according to official Iranian estimates , some $12,000 million in assets frozen since the 1979 Iranian revolution [ for agreement in November 1989 to release assets see p. 37053 ] . |
| 9 | The ceiling sloped down tightly to the floor , making dark shadowy edges which were well nigh impossible to clean , and three odd narrow passages ran to the three dormer windows , which cast odd blocks of light into the main spaces of the room . |
| 10 | Finally , specific short-term shortages arose in the early 1970s , the most important being the 1972 crop failures ( when grain output was down 3 per cent on the previous year , against a trend growth rate of 3 per cent a year ) . |
| 11 | Unlike a pension fund in either Britain , America or even Japan , these interlocking shareholders have strong economic reasons to care about the performance of the firms in which they own shares . |
| 12 | This chapter first describes how the British and Spanish political strategies discussed in the previous chapter have created pressures for change in the public enterprises , pressures encapsulated in the idea of ‘ commercialism ’ . |
| 13 | In May 1948 numerous European political figures met at the Hague and called for the creation of a European parliament as well as an economic union . |
| 14 | In a short , unexpected speech the King announced that the central commission would be chaired by a judge and would have an Interior Ministry representative and representatives chosen by each of the eight political parties represented in the Chamber of Representatives . |
| 15 | The landowner claimed that Antonio Gilvan da Cruz and the son of the community 's political leader were responsible for the incident and at about 4am on 28 November 1990 , a group of eight armed men arrived at the Custodio house in a remote corner of the Truka land . |
| 16 | Mr Maurer cites the deal announced in January that allowed the Texan heirs of an American soldier to collect $2.75m from Germany for the return of stolen medieval artefacts known as the Quedlinburg treasures . |
| 17 | The town was believed to have been founded in 1163 though most of the surviving old buildings date from the 16th. and 17th. centuries . |
| 18 | WE are taking a break from the usual weekly notes provided by the Herald 's doctor and from next week will introduce rather less frequent information under the heading of Family Health . |
| 19 | His face was thin and you saw those strange blue-coloured eyes set in the darkness of his skin . |
| 20 | It would seem that you have some undesirable dietary habits lurking in the wings . |
| 21 | Her recently born pups were five helpless whimpering bundles curled in the dirty sacking at her feet . |
| 22 | All the associated grave goods belonged to the fourth century , the cemetery itself overlying earlier field boundaries and enclosures . |
| 23 | His description could well apply to the 1960s in the UK , with the proviso perhaps that social changes lagged behind the business cycle somewhat . |
| 24 | As well as this broader-based analysis , there are more specific historical pieces included in the collection . |
| 25 | And possible harmful effects sink into the depths of the medical literature , such as : the serious condition of over stimulation of a woman 's ovaries and other adverse effects from the powerful drugs and hormones used on women in earlier fertility treatments , as well as for IVF now ; higher risks of miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy and damage to women 's fertility from the invasive methods . |
| 26 | Can you imagine advanced scientific methods divorced from the policy and ethics of their actual use ? |
| 27 | The flat I share looks in the opposite direction to theirs , across the access road and the lawns to the old estate wall and the tall old trees rising on the ridge beyond . |
| 28 | Florence reports under 1016 that English counsellors decided upon the exile of the much-respected ætheling Eadwig , Æthelred 's only surviving son by his first consort , and that Cnut , exulting at their abandonment of him , plotted his murder by promising honours , dignities and favour to the nobleman Æthelweard in return for Eadwig 's head . |
| 29 | One of the first decisions taken by the revolutionary government was to create multi-disciplinary mental-health teams operating in the community . |
| 30 | As the discussion in the previous chapter indicated , the central sociological effect of economic transnational practices revolves around the impact of the TNCs on employment . |