Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September 1989 the Libyan news agency JANA said that Italy could make up for its " wrongdoing " during the colonial period-particularly the deportation to Italy between 1911 and 1942 of some 5,000 Libyans as forced labour-by speedily paying the compensation demanded by Libya , which regarded as inadequate a settlement of dollars 6,700 million reached in 1956 . |
| 2 | During the 1980s both the community and its schools suffered from the severe effects of deindustrialisation , which for the schools was compounded by an above average drop in pupil numbers caused by a fall in the birth rate . |
| 3 | Thus the distance from the bank to the nearest point of the island was about the same all the way around It resembled a moat , about thirty yards wide . |
| 4 | If we work through the former alone the range of choice or the breadth of the spectrum will vary from area to area . |
| 5 | If however the adhesive strength of the interface is less than about one-fifth of the general cohesive strength of the solid then the interface will be broken before the main crack reaches it and a crack trap or crack stopper has been created . |
| 6 | Without the consent of the latter neither the succession to the throne nor the territorial limits of the Grand Duchy were to be changed ; nor was war to be declared or existing legislation altered . |
| 7 | If the answer is no to even one of the above then the product is not truly providing a replacement for the layout artist , that 's the human who normally does page makeup . |
| 8 | After all , back in the Thirties even the holiday posters would tell of ‘ Healthful Hartlepool — the most bracing air in the kingdom ’ . |
| 9 | Agriculture , in the 1920s still the occupation of 27% of Americans , suffered a depression throughout the decade . |
| 10 | Everything is smaller down there — including their eyeballs — to the same extent-so the eye still gets filled up with what it 's looking at in the normal way . |
| 11 | By the 1880s half the wheat harvest was being exported . |