Example sentences of "[noun sg] and the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from this tenacious defence of local liberties the Caroline bureaucrats , in common with other administrative technicians of the ancien régime in Europe , found that the main obstacle to modernization lay in the inertia of the average Spanish office-holder and the sheer size of the administrative apparatus — the superfluity of posts that nourished what was later to be termed empleadismo . |
| 2 | As cornering acceleration increases , the increasing castor of the outer wheel and the substantial elasticity of the front longitudinal arm bearing point support the car against side forces . |
| 3 | Five replicates were performed per drug dilution and the standard deviation of the mean is shown . |
| 4 | We noted that in practice there was a connection between two triads — the Marxist commitment to abolish the family , private property and religion and the seeming inevitability of economic inefficiency , religious persecution and political terror . |
| 5 | The eclipse of state medicine , combined with the renewed political clout of nonconformist religion and the stern voice of the purity movement , militated against a revival of the medico-moral alliance . |
| 6 | By working from this new standpoint , Schleiermacher aimed to bypass the antitheses which had emerged so sharply in earlier generations between reason and revelation , natural religion and received authority , the natural and the supernatural , and to offer a fresh synthesis in which both the authentic and distinctive character of religion and the special nature of the Christian faith would be preserved . |
| 7 | Geographical isolation and the hereditary nature of their job made the collier-farmers of the Forest of Dean a distinctive , inward-looking group , but they were a special case . |
| 8 | The principal weakness of the rescission remedy and the statutory alternative of damages in lieu of rescission , is that they do not provide for consequential loss , for example , profits on resale . |
| 9 | THE result of the ballot regarding possible strike action by First Division players will be known today but a solution to the dispute between the Professional Footballers ' Association and the Premier League over payments for televised matches is expected to be announced shortly . |
| 10 | All in all , these , along with the changes in numbers and size of dendritic spines , are what one might expect if , when the chick pecks the bead and learns the association between the pecking and the bitter taste , there is a synaptic reorganization in IMHV and LPO to code for — or represent — this new association and the resulting change in behaviour — that is , to say ‘ do n't peck ’ instead of ‘ do peck ’ when the chick sees the bead a second time . |
| 11 | The money will go to charities including the Motor Neurone Disease Association and the British Institute for Brain Injured Children . |
| 12 | We may have to await reports from the British Association and the Royal Society of Arts , the Engineering Fellowship and other bodies before the necessary sea change occurs . |
| 13 | It draws on similar campaigns by the British Medical Association and the Royal College of Nursing and is aimed at people in the ABC1 social class . |
| 14 | The British Medical Association and the Royal College of Midwives said yesterday that unless cash is allocated for proper counselling , routine testing could put pressure on women at a particularly vulnerable time . |
| 15 | The British Medical Association and the Royal College of Psychiatrists believe that eugenic grounds provide the main justification for a separate offence of incest . |
| 16 | In May both the British Medical Association and the Royal College of Nursing called upon the government to suspend its planned formation of a second batch of trusts in 1992 . |
| 17 | This piece of furniture has become something of a shibboleth : both the Magistrates ' Association and the National Union of Journalists have said that it should be regarded as sacrosanct . |
| 18 | The unions involved , the Civil and Public Servants Association and the National Union of Civil and Public Servants , claim that the in-house bids involve jobs losses of up to 50pc as well . |
| 19 | Information was also given by the Friends of Cathedral Music , the Cathedral Organists ' Association , the Choir Schools ' Association and the National Federation of Cathedral Old Choristers ' Associations . |
| 20 | Recent developments indicate more movement towards site-based management as the National Governors ' Association , the National Education Association and the National Association of Secondary School Principals are calling for greater levels of financial devolution to bring about educational improvement . |
| 21 | Records of the Grand Lodge of Free Gardeners , Scotland , 1849–1901 , were purchased ; those of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Master Bakers Association and the Scottish Area of the Federation of Wholesale and Multiple Bakers , 1932–65 , presented ; and those of the Scottish Craft Centre 1949–90 , deposited . |
| 22 | This monolith sat atop an escarpment which accommodated the raking of the auditorium and the levelled hardcore of a car park , and cast its long shadow over an adjacent bit of parkland , a cosy corner of scrub , stream and wood that drew me and my friends to it like a magnet . |
| 23 | The fact for example that the bandit screens withstood the swinging sledge-hammer and the discharged shotgun at Heaton Chapel Branch last month did not make the experience any more palatable for anyone involved . |
| 24 | The council meeting on that day tackled the question of how to pay for the coronation and the longer-term problem of household expenses . |
| 25 | The council meeting on that day tackled the question of how to pay for the coronation and the longer-term problem of household expenses . |
| 26 | Continue to water and feed both plants until the union has healed , when the upper part of the stock and the lower portion of the scion are cut away . |
| 27 | But somewhere in the middle of it all is the right postcard , the right poster , the right greetings card and the right calendar for your bookshop . |
| 28 | It also helps create links between the additional context of the experiment and the real-life world of the classroom . |
| 29 | It is both absolute and divine , the supreme object of veneration and the absolute identity of all phenomenon which are one with its nature . |
| 30 | Instead , they recommend a steady , annual expansion of the money supply at a constant rate , determined by the predictable steady growth in the velocity of circulation and the predicted growth in the country 's potential output . |