Example sentences of "[adj] and [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We calculated 95% confidence intervals with exact error factors for Poisson mean for numbers less than 30 and with the asymptotic error factor approximation for larger numbers . |
| 2 | Adultery has been a hanging matter — both in this and in the usual sense of the phrase — for the literature of the past , and perhaps it could be suggested that both senses may at times be presented to the mind by what Amis does with the subject , and that there is no striking difference in this respect between what he did in the Sixties and what he has done in the Eighties . |
| 3 | The idea of the still image is one which has already been mentioned several times both in this and in the preceding chapter . |
| 4 | What administrative , economic or social conditions already present in the central highlands appeared in the Northern Band in the 1890s and in the Southern Band around 1910 ? |
| 5 | But globalisation means that companies have to invest where they can produce cheapest and at the best quality and where they can earn profits . |
| 6 | Lutyens joined their practice as a young man and was much influenced by Peto , who was brilliant , eccentric , energetic and funny and during the later part of his life became increasingly keen on garden design . |
| 7 | And it applied also to the Chartists — ‘ A nation can not become free and at the same time continue to oppress other nations ’ . |
| 8 | But most of them could not understand his lasting despair , for was he not free and in the very home of democracy ? |
| 9 | The corporation was self-elected and of the weakest kind . |
| 10 | The ratio of the radioactivity bound to the ulcerated and to the intact mucosa was calculated for each group of animals of the B series . |
| 11 | It was hoped that this would lead to a positive referendum result in Denmark in late April or early May 1993 and to the subsequent completion of the Maastricht ratification process . |
| 12 | Library membership runs from July 1st of year 1 to December 31st of year 2 and for the 1993/94 year costs £75 . |
| 13 | There are insult-words for women who have too much sex ( slag ) and women who have too little ( pricktease ) ; women can be tasty and at the same time cunts . |
| 14 | ‘ Nevertheless , they consider that it was entirely proper and in the public interest for the Daily Mirror to mount its own investigation into drug-related crime . |
| 15 | In the first volume of ‘ The Impossible Dream ’ Peter King told of the rescue and repair of the Duke taking the story through to 1985 and in the second volume he tells of the return to steam culminating in the blue riband run over the Settle and Carlisle in September 1990 . |
| 16 | But by the fourteenth century , contemplation had become something very different and in the second part of his book , Hilton explained to his nun what the modern , innovative Contemplation involved . |
| 17 | Our objective is to ensure that our charges , taking one year with another and despite the additional burden of JAA , do n't rise faster than inflation . |
| 18 | Single pieces of card , were used in some trials , in others several were used in a variety of positions relative to one another and to the central strip . |
| 19 | A CONSTITUTION MAY BE DEFINED as a body of laws , customs , and conventions that define the composition and powers of organs of the state and that regulate the relations of the various state organs to one another and to the private citizen . |
| 20 | But Olson nevertheless slides from these precise comments into grander generalisation and appears to attribute the characteristics associated with specific exponents of the essay technique to writing as such and to the whole culture . |
| 21 | As stated above production has almost halved since 1979 and at the same time the price of its premium Bonny light crude has fallen from $40 per barrel to $28.65 and is always threatened by the North Sea producers . |
| 22 | While we are on the subject of indirect taxes , will the Government tell the House how they will continue to cut direct taxes and improve public services without at the same time raising VAT as they did in 1979 and in the last Budget ? |
| 23 | The change effected by Gandhi by the use of satyāgraha , however , makes his principle more explicit and at the same time links it more closely with his concept of Truth ( Satya ) , and non-violence ( ahi sā ) . |
| 24 | Meanwhile in 1766 , Edward Snape , farrier to George III and to the second troop of Life Guards , published a proposal to establish in London what might be called a ‘ teaching hospital ’ for instruction on the diseases of horses . |
| 25 | China had established diplomatic relations with Russia on Dec. 27 , 1991 and at the same time recognized the 10 other republics of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) and Georgia . |
| 26 | The scientists attributed the deterioration in ozone levels to particles boosted into the stratosphere by volcanic eruptions in 1991 and to the continued increase in worldwide emissions of chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) and other ozone-depleting gases . |
| 27 | Wallace , signed for £1.2million from Southampton , last played a League game in May 1991 and until the last fortnight it seemed his future lay away from Manchester . |
| 28 | Yet while it may not be possible , in a given case , to come to a clear decision one way or the other , it can not , I shall argue , be coherently assumed that a decision is logically impossible and at the same time insisted that the object in question exists in an ontological sense . |
| 29 | In the sixth week of 1845 it held 260 people ; for the same week in 1846 the figure was 320 and in the last year of the Famine 893 . |
| 30 | Men 's competition entries were low , nine being typical and in the 1911 Spring Meeting the 26 entries were hailed as a record and an event of high quality , even though only one player broke 90 gross . |