Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are ( 1 ) anti-imperialism ( in effect , an anti-US stance ) : increasingly , as Washington insists on defining indigenous anti-US sentiment within the region in terms of ‘ Communist subversion ’ , Marxism comes to be regarded as the natural channel for such feelings ; ( 2 ) an acceptance of the Marxist premise of ‘ the exploitation of man by man ’ ; and ( 3 ) a refusal to accept the existing economic order , or to be bound by conventional economic remedies for Latin America 's development problems ( either of the orthodox ‘ monetarist ’ variety which the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) is trying to introduce into most major Latin American countries , or of the moderate reform-and-investment strategies pursued by Christian Democratic groups , for example in Chile from 1964 to 1970 ) . |
| 2 | Justice Foster said of the discordance between the evidence of the epidemiological witnesses called by the Australian Federation of Consumer Organisations and the Tobacco Institute of Australia , ‘ It was not a disagreement which the learned primary judge or this Court could reasonably resolve . ’ |
| 3 | More than that , Mosley had completely out-manoeuvred Balestre in an election campaign which the great Gallic dictator had never believed he could lose . |
| 4 | In a letter in the Gentleman 's Magazine of 1790 , ‘ Philippos ’ , identified by Pugh as Granville Penn , who was to play a central role in the foundation of the London Veterinary College , wrote that he ‘ had often lamented the failure of the plan which the late ingenious M Bourgelat had formed for establishing a veterinary school in England ’ . |
| 5 | The power resources of bureaucracies combine with what Wright has called the ‘ political incapacity of non-bureaucrats ’ ( 1978 , p. 225 ) — that is , the inability of political institutions to exercise the control and direction of bureaucracy which the classical liberal theory of the state presumes — so as to give bureaucracy a prominent role in policy-making . |
| 6 | The Interior Ministry announced on May 22 that increasing unrest was the preliminary stage of a military coup which the banned Islamic fundamentalist Nahda movement had been preparing since 1988 . |
| 7 | The importance of the ‘ people factor ’ in bringing the small business sector 's share of the UK 's economic activity up to that of other advanced countries is a theme which the new Small Firms Minister , Tim Eggar , intends to pursue . |
| 8 | It is not the citizens charter that the consumers of this country want ; they want a Ministry of Food and Farming which the incoming Labour Government will introduce . |
| 9 | On June 26 Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence , a move which the Serbian-dominated federal government refused to recognize [ see pp. 38274-75 ] . |
| 10 | Though savage rites might be interesting and even valuable , their greatest value was that , in showing the importance of ritual in a society , they pointed towards the place which the higher Christian rituals should have in his own society . |
| 11 | This is a truth which the late nineteenth century relearned , particularly in France , and in reaction to a predominantly static picture of reality implicit in much positivist and naturalist thought . |
| 12 | In other words , the ideology of limited intervention which the current Conservative administration espouses sits uneasily with its need to respond to the demands of industrial and property production and to those for environmental conservation and local control over land policy . |
| 13 | He even rejected an emotional plea for delay which the senior French envoy made on his knees , after which the thwarted ambassador hurried back to Inverness and began to burn his official papers . |
| 14 | The corporatist view , by perceiving the company as a unit which welds together the interests of its participants into a harmonious common purpose defined as the public good , seems to draw on the ideal of community and seeks to inject it into an area which the dominant legal ideology regulates through contract and hierarchy . |
| 15 | Lessingham made it a habit to leave his agenda behind , a small personal protest against the amount of paper which the formal weekly meeting generated . |
| 16 | That experience angered and frustrated me sufficiently to consider coming to this place to try to change the evil which the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) was letting loose on decent families in decent communities . |
| 17 | New Towns would be civilized , attractive , agreeable places in which to live , with all the richness of community life which the new social order would bring . |
| 18 | Given the appalling historical baggage which the European far right carries with it , it is not surprising that their inclusion in the Strasbourg assembly has begun to create serious difficulties . |
| 19 | There is no doubt that the great majority of senior staff in polytechnics would prefer much greater freedom from their local authorities , hence their support of Model B in the 1981 Green Paper and their disappointment at the form which the National Advisory Body has taken . |
| 20 | Despite occasional misgivings , however , he was optimistic enough to speculate about the form which the next Labour Government might take … |
| 21 | Anyone who forgets that this is how men and women thought of the goods of life in those days will never be competent to judge the small but genuine improvement which the great capitalist expansion brought to a substantial part of the working classes in the third quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | In September , O'Brien called a meeting in an attempt to establish a Derry branch of the association but it never got off the ground ; indeed even at the height of the civil rights movement NICRA had branches in north and south County Derry but in the city itself the principal civil rights organisation was the DCAC , which although affiliated to NICRA , was completely autonomous . |
| 23 | While it is not easy to establish as an empirical matter what the current income-wealth distribution is , even if it could be established , the question of what degree of inequality should be the trigger for government policy remains . |
| 24 | Hugh was the most forceful advocate of the principle which the new papal decree embodied . |
| 25 | Ms Maeve Sherlock , president of the National Union of Students , said : ‘ The Government must now take on running a scheme which the best financial experts in the country want nothing to do with . ’ |
| 26 | That abolishes Wages Councils but denies the lowest paid British workers a minimum rate of pay which the other eleven member states provide . |
| 27 | Frankly some of us actually wanted that to be a staff for No. 10 , for the Prime Minister , rather more like today 's Policy Unit which the present Prime Minister has in No. 10 , and less a general body to serve all the Cabinet . |
| 28 | Do you have any idea what the average annual rate is for this ? |
| 29 | Historians have to explain how it was that slower increase up to then permitted an expansion of the home market which the later faster rate of population increase did not reverse . |
| 30 | Open-field farming , with few or no hedges must have produced a very bare landscape , totally lacking in visual interest which the great modern prairie farms of East Anglia have actually re-created in the last few decades . |