Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Palestinian intifada resumed in early March as the Israeli authorities relaxed the strict curfews imposed on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip during the Gulf war . |
| 2 | Each day 's meals have been put together by nutritional experts to provide the right foods in the right proportion and this includes proteins , fats , fibre , vitamins and minerals . |
| 3 | Meanwhile Conservative councillors have rounded on their Labour opponents saying the latest announcements will lead to complete chaos in the town centre . |
| 4 | ‘ It should not only be retained but given the go-ahead for further development , involving new advanced PWRs to replace the aging Magnoxes . |
| 5 | Together we spent many painstaking months refining the best features from all the entries into one package . |
| 6 | Chapter 3 : Nature conservation : economic aspects considers the economic aspects of nature protection , and stresses that scientific and technological progress can be achieved and can and must reduce the cost of the recovery and that these costs are borne in mind at the planning stage . |
| 7 | The mainstream parties describe the Right-wing successes as a ‘ protest vote ’ that will run its course as soon as they have solved the political asylum question . |
| 8 | If approached by a predator , the crab confronts it with its outstretched claws bearing the stinging anemones , rather as primitive man might have held a wolf at bay by using a flaming torch . |
| 9 | In the USA , some institutions use the opposite meanings , vide Boyer , and Horn , whereas others seem to use the terms interchangeably . |
| 10 | Some Acts require the local authorities to submit schemes and plans for approval by the central department in order to carry out their powers and duties . |
| 11 | If we aggregate together everyone in that ‘ dependent ’ age group , i.e. , those below the age of 16 and above pensionable ages remembering the heaviest demands on services are made at each end of the age range , the percentage of dependants to total UK population has indeed remained remarkably stable throughout this century — 30 per cent in 1901 , 36 per cent in 1951 , 41 per cent in 1977 — and it is likely to remain so for the remainder of the century ; it is projected to be 40 per cent in 2001 ( Grundy , 1986 , p. 21 ; table 5.4 ) . |
| 12 | When this is not the case there will almost certainly , however , be periodic attempts to reconcile the two sets of accounts , by comparing the profit shown in the financial accounts with that revealed in the cost accounts . |
| 13 | The different purposes of payments to influence the outcome of court decisions in Kandyan and British times illustrates the divergent approaches to these tribunals . |
| 14 | Unscrupulous operators took the two months ' imprisonment in their stride . |
| 15 | it was initially the brainchild of Patricia Rawlings MEP , spokesperson on the European parliament 's Cultural Committee , and though it includes both established figures from the UK and Europe , focuses on the emerging talents of young British artists showing the innumerable ways of interpreting old ideas . |
| 16 | She was a founder member , the only woman from another Swiss woman artist , Mary Moser , of the Royal Academy which was established in 1768 in order to advance the professional careers and inspire the ambition of British artists to emulate the Italian artists of the Renaissance in the recreation of the Grand Style . |
| 17 | The image which traditionally represents the event is not the whirlpool of flags , horses and brave knights confronting the Asiatic intruders — instead we are given the sentimental image of a young , mournful maiden nursing wounded Serbs . |
| 18 | The leaders of the 15-country South Pacific Forum met in Kalonia , on the island of Pohnpei ( one of the four constituent states comprising the Federated States of Micronesia — FSM ) , on July 30-31 , for the Forum 's annual heads of government conference . |
| 19 | Much academic attention has been focused on the classification of the social groups comprising the new types of communities in rural areas . |
| 20 | Four models of welfare were expounded to demonstrate the different values underpinning the social policies of the state . |
| 21 | In French elles is used only when all the persons or things referred to are feminine ; if one or more persons or things in a group are masculine the form used is ils , even if the feminine referents outnumber the masculine ones . |
| 22 | Taking minor ‘ tank ’ irrigation in Tamil Nadu as a case , the principle aims of the research are twofold : firstly , through historical research to understand the social and cultural systems which have sustained collective water management in the past and identify the socio-economic and demographic factors associated with their decline ; and secondly , through the comparative study of on-going programmes to suggest the necessary conditions for successful establishment of systems of community resource management in the present day social context . |
| 23 | These ‘ philosophical naturalists ’ searched for the order of Nature not in natural laws of the kind familiar to the physicist , but in universal patterns linking the diverse forms of living structure , patterns that were seen as a direct product of the Creator 's rational thought . |
| 24 | ‘ Some musicians find the constant changes and surprises inherent in Berlioz 's dramatic idiom disrupting , and find a logical development difficult to achieve and to sustain from beginning to end . |
| 25 | ‘ We started from the Linn O'Dee and took 7.5 hours to walk the 20 miles through the mountains to Coylumbridge , ’ said Murray . |
| 26 | Casual encounters on the beat are kept to a minimum by the public , primarily , the police claim , as a result of intimidation , and constables get few opportunities to display the interactive skills that might foster good community relations , although the rare occasions when this happens are seized upon by the men and recalled with pleasure thereafter . |
| 27 | Most of the popular books showing the Mesozoic giants in their natural setting portray them wallowing about in swamps flanked by deep vegetation , their bodies largely under water . |
| 28 | Few clients knew the probable losses they were letting themselves in for , were they to continue trading . |
| 29 | The multi-million pound trail of destruction over the past 12 months includes the following outrages : |
| 30 | The girls of the same families included in the formation by these direct relationships shared the same interests but were , in majority , beyond the immediate formative system . |