Example sentences of "[conj] the [adj] [coord] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's sure to be one which is perfect for you , whether in wool or mohair , or the humbler and less expensive synthetics . |
| 2 | While appreciating the sophistication and fluidity of de Gaulle 's conceptions , one can not overlook the extreme reactions they provoked at the time or the extensive and mostly critical academic literature that has grown up around them since then . |
| 3 | Each must decide as he pleases , according to whether his temperament urges him to prefer the prolific , radiant , almost jovial abundance of Rubens ; the mild dignity and eurhythmic order of Raphael ; the paradisal — one might almost say the afternoon colour of Veronese ; the austere and strained severity of David ; or the dramatic and almost literary rhetoric of Lebrun . |
| 4 | The alternative electrostatic headphones are by nature precision assemblies and , like electrostatic loudspeakers , remain firmly in the upper price bracket except where the simpler and less costly electret principle with a pre-charged diaphragm or backplate has been used . |
| 5 | This imbalance might have initiated the aberrant breeding behaviour of the males , so that the violent and sometimes fatal courtship , coupled with the inhospitable climate of Aldabra helped to maintain the imbalance . |
| 6 | What is important is the idea that the newest and most powerful media , namely ads , might be used to beneficial ends . |
| 7 | Is it desirable that the finest and most sensitive part of a woman — that which God gave her , should on the one hand be wounded with such a wound as no proud and gentle nature ever recovers from , or else should on the other hand be deadened so that the woman becomes only half herself , and this is what the tyranny of the medical profession has accomplished . |
| 8 | In the urban fringe it has already been shown in Chapter 3 that recreation can have an adverse impact on farming , but other work has shown that the 500 or so informal recreation sites which cover 5.7 per cent of London 's Green Belt ( Ferguson and Munton , 1979 ) are not heavily used by either car-owing suburban dwellers ( who leapfrog over the green belt into so-called proper countryside since they perceive the sites as being too near to be worthy of a special car trip ) or by carless inner city residents ( who spurn the use of public transport ) ( Harrison , 1983 ) . |
| 9 | Our results are in agreement with those of Marks and Thompsett who found that the earliest and most frequent finding in patients with pancreatic disease was a decrease in amylase secretion . |
| 10 | While NATO must maintain for the foreseeable future a mix of nuclear and conventional forces in Europe , the declaration reaffirmed that no weapons would ever be used except in self-defence and that the lowest and most stable level of nuclear forces to prevent war was sought . |
| 11 | I suggest that the Labour and particularly Liberal feel , think very carefully about the quality of service that is provided by this county er council cos at the moment there is neither justice or equity in it . |
| 12 | And er , concludes from the observation of his own children I suspect that the vague and very real fears of children , which are quite independent of experience , are inherited effects of real dangers , and abject superstitions during ancient times . |
| 13 | One reason they have not done better is that the largest and most inefficient Italian banks remain in the hands of the government , which has done its best to protect them . |
| 14 | Even so , it is a pleasing feature of the recent celebrations that the young and mostly confident practitioners of molecular biology have been able to rub shoulders with its inventors — not just with Watson and Crick , but with their mentors , people like Perutz , for example . |
| 15 | It also needs to be backed up by simple guidelines , and supported by detailed product information : there is no question that the best and most effective advertising is based squarely in a complete understanding of the product . |
| 16 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the best and most subtle way to prevent such attacks is to ensure that the British people know that they have a Government who are taking the steps necessary to keep firm control of immigration and particularly to prevent people from abusing our immigration rules by entering this country under the bogus concept of being political refugees ? |
| 17 | I am determined that the highest and most stringent safety requirements should be adhered to , and the regulatory bodies must be satisfied that any work done at Dounreay is carried out to the highest standards . |
| 18 | It was certainly a little depressing that the wealthiest and most important man in the area did not seem to admire her , as all the other men did . |
| 19 | By 1908 Wilson noted that the 1,000 or so Chinese seamen shipped at United Kingdom ports in 1905 had increased by 1907 to 5,000 and a deputation of 40 seamen was organised to wait upon Winston Churchill , then President of the Board of Trade . |
| 20 | Bowers et al argue that the simplest and most effective measure is the speed hump . |
| 21 | It will be asked in any event to make a detailed assessment of the church 's quality and , where two churches are being considered for redundancy , it is likely to make a strong case that the finer and more historic church should continue in use . |
| 22 | It is evident that the larger and more popular temples may have played a considerable part in the economy of any province . |
| 23 | Elsewhere , the twin bells of a sturdily traditional wind-up clock squeal , wakening another slumbering pair , younger , fresher , clearly less ossified in their morning habits than the first but equally resistant to the day . |
| 24 | In the seventeenth century the broad water of the Thames was used far more than the narrow and often bad roads for practical transport and festive occasions . |
| 25 | As already indicated , £20 — £39 embraced an assortment of yeomen , minor gentry , and lesser merchants and manufacturers who in towns , other than the biggest and most important , might well have formed the ruling elite . |
| 26 | They can hardly be surprised when others make use of this representation rather than the narrower and more qualified one . |
| 27 | Warm , loving and consistent discipline , in which reasons are given ( when the child can understand them ) , is thought to produce the rational sort of ‘ obedience ’ rather than the mindless and emotionally dependent following of orders . |
| 28 | It was an age of militarism , though not yet of popular militarism ; its wars and battles were a good deal more than the courtly and rather ineffective rituals which some historians have tended to imagine . |
| 29 | Budgets in the public sector should serve a number of purposes rather than the single and rather narrow concept of compliance . |
| 30 | In a similar way , as we shall find later , although the widowed and still married give similar pictures of the practical division of roles in their married lives , the widowed tend to interpret these apparently similar marriages differently , remembering themselves as having been closer couples than do those who are still married . |