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

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1 — Although the flight of insects has been referred to on p. 64 , the coordinated activities of the skeletomuscular system of flying insects need further brief discussion ( Tiegs , 1955 ; Pringle , 1957 , 1965 , 1968 ) .
2 The range of normal values for the oesophageal pH environment has been derived from previous study of 30 asymptomatic control subjects in this laboratory .
3 It is possible to analyse possible interactions between the syntactic cue and description type also , but these are best understood on the basis of the data .
4 Product stability is , by definition , the inherent stability of the product independent of possible interactions with the immediate container or of questions of the adequacy or otherwise of the protection afforded by the sales package .
5 Those countries are co-ordinating their industrial and economic strategies at the regional level .
6 Thereafter , however , he was in regular attendance , being recorded as present at nine out of twelve private meetings in the Painted Chamber and at all four sessions of the actual trial in Westminster Hall , including the final session on Saturday 29 January , in which the sentence of death was passed by all present ( though he did not sign the death warrant ) .
7 They had , especially in the hard hopeless times of the first half of the century , been fused into a homogeneous mass of the discontented and the oppressed .
8 This image is eagerly developed by the popular press , which almost daily produces the most ridiculous and exaggerated accounts of the tiny minority of bankrupts who have run up extremely large debts .
9 In Toulouse also , the steadily falling value of comital coins in the second half of the century made them relevant at last to the needs of the merchant classes .
10 The agricultural riches of Catalonia lay in the wheat plains and vineyards of the centre and the rich cultures of the coastal plain .
11 However , it 's the notes in the former chord which by intervallic interchange become chromatic notes in the latter chord , and it 's this approach which produces the most effective results .
12 The children sit for normal exams at the local school and have so far maintained a necessary standard .
13 It is often said that Yugoslavia exports lower-quality products to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe than to the West .
14 After 1933 , too , the ferocious personal enmities and political conflicts within the Nazi élite , which otherwise would have torn the system apart , were resolved only in Hitler 's own charismatic authority — in his indisputable position as the base of Nazism 's popular legitimacy and the embodiment of Nazism 's ‘ idea ’ .
15 Damage and suffering are inflicted on patients in the course of clinical treatment as a result of " the undesirable side effects of approved , mistaken , callous or contra-indicated technical contacts with the medical system
16 To tone the face and chin even further , extend the lower teeth outside the upper set and hold .
17 Then extend the lower teeth outside the upper set and hold .
18 Extend the lower teeth outside the upper set and hold .
19 Extend the lower teeth outside the upper set and hold .
20 Extend the lower teeth outside the upper set and hold .
21 Extend the lower teeth outside the upper set and hold .
22 We will permit access by private operators to the British Rail track network .
23 The offence is in outline very similar to the pre-existing offence under the Public Order Act 1936 , section 5A , although it adds ‘ behaviour ’ to the list of proscribed activities for the first time .
24 ( By 1890 the twenty largest cities in the western world included five in the Americas and one in Australia . )
25 Mr Yeltsin is a successful career communist who fought his way up through the construction-industry bureaucracy to become first secretary of Sverdlovsk , his home town and one of the largest cities in the Soviet Union .
26 For striking views of the famous road and railway bridges spanning the Firth of Forth , take buss from St Andrew Square bus station to South Queensferry .
27 Specifically it is not in our interest to deny to the United Kingdom protection against possible dangers from the Soviet Union .
28 We have done much to develop regional policies over the past decade .
29 Shonfield ( 1965 ) has argued that the problem of bureaucratic power in advanced capitalist societies centres on the adaptation of political institutions to the interventionist state .
30 During the war he served with the Royal Navy Combined Operations in the Far East before working as an overseas executive for Fison 's .
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