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

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1 A South Bank Centre touring exhibition at the Camden Arts Centre , ‘ Air , Land and Sea ’ examines the affiliations between Lanyon 's constructions and paintings , and where possible re-unites the related artefacts , thus illuminating his working methods and presenting new perspectives .
2 Increasingly , under LMS , schools will have the freedom to choose a local firm or individual to provide the many services they need to run effectively .
3 Although such overtures to work the mines were directed at the Lord of the Manor , really at this time the landowner was not it , a proper legal position to let out the veins on his land where these Carried the Royal Minerals , gold and silver .
4 It is not realistic or helpful to view the two sectors , of formal and informal care , as separate .
5 B. & C. was unable or unwilling to provide the necessary funds and on 16 April 1990 administrators of Atlantic were appointed by the court .
6 Like the views of their predecessors in classical Marxist thought , modern functionalist views do not regard it as useful or necessary to demonstrate the precise mechanisms by which state policy responds to structural imperatives ; instead they focus on macro-social issues and trends .
7 But , despite repeated public protestations to the contrary , senior politicians of both main parties have been discreetly considering their tactics in the event that neither Conservatives nor Labour secure the 326 seats needed to win immediate power .
8 Why is it not inhibited by the fact that the water entering these is also hotter than that entering the upgoing fingers ?
9 Note that more than one DC can be activated via a package at the same time , up to a maximum of 10 , provided that each satisfy the above conditions .
10 Many people think that this combines the good points of the one-to-one interview with those of the panel interview .
11 If we approach these tensions from the perspective of assuming that these represent the dialectical poles , or at least some of them ( for of course others could be discussed here had we the space : for example the tension between " knowing how " and " knowing that " in design activity ) of a design activity which encompasses all of these in a vertical moment of synthesis , a synthesis that is counterposed horizontally ( ie over time ) by the changing movements of the activity itself ( from product critique through to problem definition to cognitive modeling of potential solutions etc ) , a movement of understanding and practice which parallels in its sphere the circle of historical understanding and historical praxis ( and just as the latter is the " way in which history itself moves " so the former is the " way praxis itself moves " ) so design can be seen as embodying that movement in its movement from or across actuality ie in its activity of transformation from one set of " givens " to another ; in its movement from problem to product .
12 The way was now open for peace negotiations with France , and these negotiations inevitably looked rather like the negotiations which had ended the wars against Louis XIV in 1713 — sensible enough at a time of high expenditure but not fair to allies nor likely to allow the British negotiators to gain the largest possible amount at the bargaining table .
13 In the same way , you could create a selection of miniatures , as a gift , that all feature the favourite flowers of the recipient .
14 The four main zaibatsu were more than able to supply the financial needs of the two main political parties , but in return they expected state support to continue .
15 From the second-floor landing , a ladder-like stair , more steeply raked than those serving the lower floors , leads up to a large loft , wholly accommodated in the roof space of the main block , which was not exploited as living accommodation in the original conversion scheme .
16 ‘ Better to die for this , than live to help the dark powers conquer .
17 However , it is a good discipline to bring your negotiations down to concise statements so that both have the same expectations .
18 In March 1939 Norman Bentwich , who more than most realised the desperate straits of the Austrian Jews , wrote to Josef Löwenherz in Vienna :
19 The irony is that Dr Oliver has done more than most to document the real reasons why conductive education is attractive to parents from Britain and many other Western countries .
20 Riders rarely brake with more than two fingers ( often with only one ) and that allows the other fingers to concentrate on holding on .
21 In Latvia , thoughts are turning to bringing the former Soviet satellite state back into the ‘ light ’ and that means the suppressed aviators are beginning to stir .
22 And that includes the major issues of change and development within the labour movement itself ; the most serious indictment of all involved in trade union education in the past fifteen years is their failure to inspire a regeneration of the ideology of labour as a collective movement for democratic advance combined with the widespread dissemination of a modern organisational competence .
23 Hasan hunched over the wheel of his car with a great effort of concentration , swinging it this way and that to avoid the atrocious pot-holes .
24 The acts of 1866 and 1869 extended the geographical locations covered by the regulations , while the Admiralty and the War Office were now mandated to provide hospital facilities for inspection and treatment .
25 Table 2.7 of the Employment Gazettes of 1981 and 1986 give the following figures for unemployment ( thousands ) in the UK in April of 1979 and 1986 : Draw age-sex profiles for the two years .
26 The enclosures have been carefully sited and designed , and each supplies the essential features to answer the needs of particular types of animals .
27 In a year , it 'll add up to over a hundred thousand pounds — if that happens the social services department says it 's budget will be so stretched it may be forced to make cuts in other areas .
28 We saw in Chapter 8 that Garrett 's model of sentence production does contain these two components ; and the examples of spontaneous speech by aphasic patients we gave in sections 9.2.1 and 9.2.2 illustrate the two patterns which occur if one of the components is damaged and the other spared .
29 Pay-per-view channels were buying up exclusive rights to the really big bouts and this left the regular channels desperate to find some way of increasing the number of championship fights .
30 Yes , this one here , it should be one overall , it should be just one overall picture of the item like the land , and this shows the different proportions of land in the north and south .
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