Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Thankfully she made a quick and full recovery , and was outstanding for the Irish Under-21s at last month 's Home Countries Championships .
2 As might be expected the agreement was greatest for the unambiguous cases of severe dementia and diminished as the diagnosis became less clear cut .
3 If a planning authority wished to restrict its activities , it was held that it was only right for the extra costs to be reimbursed .
4 On the major question of the legal basis for pension schemes in the future , Mr. Murphy said ‘ The Working Party consider that the principles of trust law appropriately updated , continue to be valid , but we think it would be right for the central principles of trust law to be re-stated and put into the context of pension schemes .
5 Fear of Bolshevism and the prevalent anti-Marxism in the German middle classes , made even more acute through the shrill tones of Nazi propaganda , unquestionably formed a wide negative base of Hitler 's popularity .
6 He had left the warmth of the Blue Boar after the usual extended throwing out time , and now felt elated as the four pints of rough local cider began to work on him .
7 Having recognized that form is a reflection of the underlying energy pattern and that it interacts with it , it is possible for the best sites to be found .
8 Meanwhile Home with great determination had been to the hospital in London and obtained Macmillan 's written resignation , which was read to the Conference on Thursday afternoon : ‘ I hope that it will soon be possible for the customary processes of consultation to be carried on within the party about its future leadership . ’
9 I hope that it will soon be possible for the customary consultations to be carried out within the Party about the leadership . ’
10 Gadansk 's Honour is a possible for the 1,000 Guineas at the following Newmarket meeting , but her participation depends on the performance of Miznah in tomorrow 's Nell Gwyn Stakes .
11 If your employment ends because of , say , revolution overseas , the contract may be regarded as frustrated , ie completely brought to an end by operation of law , because it is no longer possible for the contractual duties to be performed as you and your employer originally envisaged .
12 Senior civil servants , the privileged connoisseurs of prime-ministerial style and procedure , tend not to be purist about the operational implications of Cabinet conventions , except when routinely deploying them in the occasional public lecture or dismissing requests for the early declassification of harmless material .
13 The bond between grandparents and grandchildren can remain strong during the difficult years of adolescence .
14 One way is to be more specific about the expected effects of internal markets .
15 The A34 is absolutely solid between the two roundabouts on both lanes .
16 Last year the workshop session that followed Mr Barker 's presentation revealed that most publishers appeared to know very little about the financial realities of retailing .
17 One feels sorry for the little ones in some circumstances and they nearly become like children — but not quite .
18 As we stepped into the street , behind the others , as grateful for the iced Cokes in prospect as they were , she whispered to me : ‘ You are doing well , Adolph .
19 On the very Sunday that the new church opened we looked in vain for the empty seats in St Luke 's : it seemed that God had given to us at the mother church a new group of people who had either moved into the area or who were to be converted and we saw the truth of the saying : ‘ Give and it will be given to you , pressed down and running over . ’
20 Again , I remember a great many rehearsals , sixty or seventy each for the first performances of the Bach or the Beethoven .
21 Anxiety on this score became acute during the last decades of the fourth century , and the first of the fifth .
22 Hungary and Russia settled a number of claims outstanding between the two countries during an official visit by President Boris Yeltsin to Hungary on Nov. 10-11 .
23 I searched in vain through the ensuing histories of children for any evidence to validate this belief .
24 To his right the ground rose gently towards the southern cliffs and he could see the dark mouth of a concrete pillbox , undemolished since the war , and as seemingly indestructible as the great hulks of wave-battered concrete , remnants of the old fortifications which lay half-submerged in the sand along part of the beach .
25 In December 1697 a civil list of £700,000 a year was established , which , for the first time , distinguished between money provided for defence purposes and that for the other expenses of government .
26 One can only speculate on the implications of that for the last years of life and , in particular , for the acceptance of tending roles .
27 Pointing to the way in which poverty structured the lives of the majority of her respondents , she concluded that ‘ young Black women and young white women become pregnant for the same sorts of reasons , and this is because they share the same socio-economic contexts ’ ( Phoenix , 1988a , p. 154 ) .
28 Healthy , lustrous hair will complement any cut , although at this time of year it may become rather depressed after the exhausting effects of the sun and sea .
29 Those students making this mistake should practise saying coward and card within the same space of time ; observing that the different between the two lies in a slightly more forward a element , followed by slight tension in the lips for coward , while the lip position is static for card .
30 Mean arterial pressure was not different between the two groups during the placebo period 98 ( 7 ) mm Hg in enalapril group v 97 ( 9 ) mm Hg in hydrochlorothiazide group ; p=0.9004 ) or during the whole treatment period ( 88 ( 7 ) mm Hg in the enalapril group and 90 ( 7 ) mm Hg in the hydrochlorothiazide group ; p=0.5263 ) ( fig 2 ) .
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