Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [adj] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The Kinokuni Children 's Village at Hikotani , near Osaka , admitted its first 90 students on Wednesday , just two days after Channel 4 screened the controversial documentary that depicted life at Summerhill as undisciplined and chaotic .
2 The Level I qualification covers the following administrative functions : and for session 1990/91 comprises the following modules :
3 And Hong Kong is not the sort of story likely to have the traditional happy ending .
4 Of course this makes the present situation sound dramatically worse than it is .
5 But Saracen arrows did not have the power of penetration necessary to pierce the heavy mail hauberks of the Christian knights , and whenever their numbers were inferior they were frequently overwhelmed by the sheer weight and ferocity of their opponents .
6 To do this , the residuals are next treated as new Y data , and the procedure of line fitting is repeated ; the fourth column of figure 10.6 becomes the new column of Y s , the X s remain as they were , and the calculations are performed as before .
7 The drop to zero of the longitudinal voltage ( Figure 2 ) reflects this inability of electrons to be accelerated by an electric field , thus , researchers argued , because the number of mobile electrons in the MOSFET is changed by the gate voltage sweeping the Ferm energy , EF , through the Landau levels , the experimental features of Figure 2 reflect the critical circumstances as successive Landau levels are completely filled .
8 The gondola which takes skiers from load level up to the skiing area proved as popular with visitors last summer as it had in its first winter , with tourists of all ages and states of infirmity able to enjoy the marvellous view along Loch Eli and the Great Glen .
9 Always practise on a sample of fabric first to find the right combination .
10 History of Art 2 complements the first-year course by surveying the main developments in the art and architecture of Europe and the Near East from Late Antiquity to c. 1500 .
11 ‘ Instead it can , for example , be based on the argument that any particular agent 's capacity to absorb information is finite , and that broadly therefore the smaller the unit to be controlled the greater the likelihood of competence sufficient to make the necessary judgement .
12 In thy , once the trigger has been pulled the amount of code necessary to establish the current screen position of the scan should be very small indeed but observing the software in action tends to indicate that this is n't the always case .
13 Self-reported illness , sickness absence rates and a growing number of studies on specific aspects of ill-health all supported the main conclusion : the greatest burden of ill-health and disability was borne by the worst off .
14 The remaining consumer surplus gain of area 2 represents the net welfare gain to the UK .
15 Since then Johnson Matthey has played a major part in the development of methods of refining and melting platinum and iridium in order to produce ingots of alloy able to meet the metric commission requirements .
16 Most of these rules had to be adopted by the Council on the basis of unanimity and it became difficult , and in many cases impossible , to push through the amount and degree of legislation necessary to achieve the single market .
17 The MEI was defined as that rate of discount which would equate the PV of a given stream of future income from a project , with the initial capital outlay ( the supply price ) : where S = the supply price ; PV = the present value ; R = the expected yearly return ; and i = that rate of discount necessary to equate the present value of future income with the initial cost of the project .
18 Features of Okapi '84 included the following :
19 Is the Secretary of State obliged to adopt the judicial view of the period to be served for retribution and deterrence by a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence ? 3 .
20 Does PNC acceptance of Resolution 242 validate the latter as a basis for peace ?
21 The problem is to determine the degree of intensity necessary to allow the third party to make some valid claim , or for the parties to bring a claim against it .
22 On the question of delivery , cl 2.1 of Precedent 2 imposes the strict obligations of compliance with a specified delivery date upon the seller , which a buyer will normally try to require .
23 Clause 3.2 and the first part of cl 3.3 of Precedent 2 cover the same principles , but , as would obviously be preferred by the buyer , in cl 3.3 the procedures are more flexible , and the buyer 's rights are somewhat greater .
24 The final column of Table 10.2 gives the natural rate of growth of population in each region in 1986 .
25 A literal interpretation of section 8 might suggest that the ability to plead the jus tertii provides the defendant with a defence , but it is submitted that in such a case the provisions of section 7 preserve the common law rule that a claimant relying on a possessory interest may recover the full value of the thing converted .
26 Nevertheless , by 1935 , the definitively Stalinised Comintern and its network of party faithful comprised the main organisational basis of Marxism in Latin America , and therefore provided a vital touchstone for all other sectors of the Left , which were forced to define themselves in relation to its characterisation of the Latin American revolution .
27 There are four thicknesses of guard , with number one giving the shortest crop and number four the longest .
28 In part this reflected the usual vested interests of existing local authorities , but there were also the special difficulties caused by an uneven distribution of population .
29 In part this reflected the wider " crisis of legitimacy " affecting the welfare state in Britain and many other Western countries and is part of that critique .
30 In part this reflects the political and constitutional environment in which our government operates .
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