Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been given every chance to develop , for the West Indies youth team 's tour of Australia in 1988 , another trip to Zimbabwe in 1989 and every representative President 's XI or Under-23s going in the Caribbean against touring teams . |
| 2 | Whether this interference is constructive or destructive depends on the optical path difference , and so the pattern of bright and dark bands reflects the pattern of constant density surfaces ( in a two-dimensional flow configuration ) . |
| 3 | Sex might be more or less important to a person in later life , but the level would be higher or lower according to the general level of importance throughout adult years . |
| 4 | You either turn left to go to one side of Petswood or right to go to the other side of Petswood . |
| 5 | The school day should be extended for older pupils , with many activities currently classed as voluntary or extra-curricular brought within the normal working framework of the school timetable . |
| 6 | Where some saw in the Hermetic texts an anticipation of Christianity , Bruno saw an alternative . |
| 7 | Few biologists have not at one time or another marvelled at the exquisite fit that can be found between the characteristics of an organism and the characteristics of its environment . |
| 8 | All of us have at one time or another contributed to the Great Bores of Today , with our moans of the other night when we sat down to watch television and ‘ there was nothing on ’ . |
| 9 | Almost all of what was said about this in Chapter 3 is relevant wherever TNCs create jobs , but there are some additional factors to be considered where this occurs in the Third World . |
| 10 | Vols. 1 & 2 consist of the two Janźček Cypresses ( ) and the two Smetana Quartets with some Dvořák miniatures ) . |
| 11 | By allowing experiments to be performed on a computer which would be impractical or dangerous to perform in the physical world , it also allows the design engineer to probe new areas . |
| 12 | In addition , dense infiltration of the lung by eosinophils occurs , and where these accumulate in the small bronchi in large numbers , they may be seen as greenish plugs at necropsy . |
| 13 | That there are now 40-odd rugby development officers in Australia when there were two or three to capitalise on the 1984 Grand Slam tour is tremendous ’ . |
| 14 | Short-term contract working in manufacturing differed from short-term contract or seasonal working in the three service sectors described above and , indeed , from the other forms of temporary working we have examined in this study , ion that many of the temporary workers concerned were " involuntary " temporary workers . |
| 15 | The hydrogen nucleus consists of a single proton ; helium contains two protons and one or two neutrons , these two ‘ isotopes ’ being known as helium-3 and helium-4 ( written 3 He , 4 He — He being the chemical symbol for helium and the 3 or 4 referring to the total number of constituents within the nucleus ) . |
| 16 | Since Balbinder clearly made more progress in a small group where he could have a lot of attention , and where all worked at the same pace , this could be an answer . |
| 17 | During the summer months hordes of visitors regularly congregate there to eat and drink at their leisure on the paved terrace between the mellow sandstone walls of the inn itself and the river 's edge , where many sit on the low stone parapet and look below them through the clear , greenish water at the mottled dark-brown and silvery backs of the carp that rise to the surface to snap up the crisps and the crusts thrown down to them . |
| 18 | The films give an increasingly wide berth to messy problems like sexuality and violence and , whereas Ealing 's films during and immediately after the war had interrogated what was happening to England , many or those made in the 1950s just do n't seem interested . |
| 19 | These concentrations are of the same order as those found in the plasma of patients taking 5-ASA preparations orally ( 10–15 µm ) and are far lower than those required to inhibit cyclo-oxygenase , lipoxygenase , or the binding of FMLP to neutrophils ( IC 5 10 , 6 , and >5 mM respectively ) or those found within the colonic lumen of these patients ( 10–20 mM ) . |
| 20 | Now those companies that have built their own operating system ( and around 60% or more do in the real-time area ) can retain their investment and buy into the new operating system as the company reckons it can emulate any existing operating system . |
| 21 | Now , in 1980 , having largely escaped the first round of cuts by the Tory government , the Housing Corporation , which is a major source of funding to housing associations and co-ops , has been cut too , leading to an ever worsening situation for those ineligible for council housing or unable to buy into the private market . |
| 22 | In fact , Chesterman had put the charge of perfectionism in person in his CBC interview , where Karajan had suggested that the word was one used by those too idle or impatient to attend to the basic disciplines of their craft . |
| 23 | Our great editor was moved , as a result , to insert a sentence or two commenting on the major changes at this level in my particular group . |
| 24 | Here you can enjoy a round or two surrounded by the magnificent Highlands , with the RIVER DEE winding its way close by . |
| 25 | At Oxford he had written poems of considerable competence , most of them religious but a handful presumably composed with Dolben in mind ; only one or two hinted at the great originality he was to display in maturity . |
| 26 | I referred him to various people who knew his father , including one or two working in the Eastern European section of MI6 at the time . ’ |
| 27 | It is what I hope death will be ; an everlasting ringseat show of stormy seas , sky and cloud , an island and headland or two silhouetted in the far distance . |
| 28 | He had a point or two to make about the present regime but if there was a hint of criticism it was of the gentlest sort . |
| 29 | And it was that kind of debate that that went on the last few years . |
| 30 | I often say that if we thought as much about the English language and teaching it and all that that means as the French do about their language and the Alliance Francaise , we would back the British Council to the hilt . |