Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The five CODESA working groups met for the first time on Jan. 20 in Johannesburg . |
| 32 | The rich merchants contributed to the magnificent civic building which arose in those years ; the town and guild halls , exchanges , municipal belfries , warehouses and city houses . |
| 33 | Their primary concern was the possibility that the decline of American influence in Southeast Asia could still precipitate an American-sponsored military pact of ASEAN states directed at the Soviet Union . |
| 34 | The international economic institutions established after the Second World War ( GATT , the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the World Bank ) were based on liberal premises unacceptable to the Soviet bloc , which remained , until recently , economically almost completely isolated . |
| 35 | The military report claimed that when Georgian authorities protested to the Russian army headquarters in Gudauta , they had been told the attack had been to avenge shelling on Saturday of a Russian army unit . |
| 36 | The combined maps issued by the three tramway companies used a symbol to indicate through services , under the description ‘ Services are operated ’ , and the intending passenger might have been forgiven for expecting to see Company 's cars working on them . |
| 37 | Within the pulse period of 102ms , the γ -emission forms a single broad peak , in contrast to the two narrow peaks seen in the other high-energy γ -ray pulsars . |
| 38 | Fascinating because it has been brought together by one of Britain 's leading painters ( although Hodgkin denies that the bright colours and strong forms employed by the Mughal period artists have influenced his art ) it is also an important entity in its own right . |
| 39 | Our repayment was to leave these happy rural innocents hankering after the tacky charms of Gameboy ( the mobile computer game ) . |
| 40 | Very quickly , the local Labour parties identified with the social issues of the day . |
| 41 | Only the conclusions or any outstanding disputes go to the full Cabinet . |
| 42 | Van den Boogard concentrated his study on revealing characteristics shared by the Anglo-Norman fabliaux which could be explained by reference to the peculiar situation of the Anglo-Norman community . |
| 43 | Then he went back to contemplation of one of his local scenes , his broad shoulders hunched in the vivid purple shirt , his head pressed forward . |
| 44 | Broad shoulders shrugged beneath the white T-shirt , as he moved away from her . |
| 45 | He turned to rest his head on the high stone mantel above the fire and she could see the broad shoulders outlined by the fiery light in the grate . |
| 46 | There would , of course , be a temptation for small partnerships and sole traders to convert to the Limited Company form of operation just to avoid tax on distribution to the proprietors , so it might be necessary to levy a Stamp duty on companies as part of their annual running costs ; this would compensate the national exchequer for any abuse . |
| 47 | In the summer of last year , we again lost control and caustic losses reverted to the earlier high levels . |
| 48 | In a special preface to their communiqué the Foreign Ministers extended to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe " the hand of friendship and co-operation " and expressed determination to " seize the historic opportunities resulting from the profound changes in Europe to help build a new peaceful order … based on freedom , justice and democracy " . |
| 49 | In any case , the repressive methods employed by the Armed Police , the Civil Guard and the legal system itself were more than a match for unarmed industrial workers . |
| 50 | Transitional stages in the evolution of definite cross-veins may also be observed in wings of the more specialized Palaeodictyoptera and among living Orthoptera , where both irregular and definite cross-veins occur in the same wing . |
| 51 | The two major 165K and 155K immunoreactive proteins detected by the two sera in lanes 3–6 and 9–12 comigrated on immunoblots with PLC- β1 and PLC- β2 present in bovine brain and HL-60 cell membranes , respectively ( results not shown ) . |
| 52 | A 60-day state of emergency was imposed in Nalchik , capital of the Russian Federation North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria , on Sept. 27 , following demonstrations by protesters demanding the release of the leader of the Confederation of Caucasus Mountain Peoples , Musa Shanibov , detained earlier in September for forming armed units to fight with the Abkhazian separatists in their conflict with Georgia [ see p. 39110 ] . |
| 53 | The anatomical points used are vital and specific combinations correspond to the particular ailments . |
| 54 | By the end of their career , however , the old behemoths had either a ) realised the inherent contradictions contained in the old cloth or b ) run out of ideas for their record sleeves . |
| 55 | To take but one example from the many available , a well-known medieval armorial design comprises a shield with three spike-like shapes starting from the top edge of the shield , points downward and meeting towards the bottom . |
| 56 | The official response was equally conditioned by short-term considerations centring on the reserve position and by lack of understanding of the issues involved . |
| 57 | Wisden had some strong words to say about the fourth game , back in Trinidad : ‘ England put up a performance which exposed to the crowd of 21,000 what depths of incompetence they had reached … after two days off following the Test defeat , the first practice was made optional — and Gower himself was one of the six who failed to attend . ’ |
| 58 | In later years wave after wave of Confucian , Hindu , Buddhist , Christian and Islamic influences swept from the flowering civilizations of Asia and entwined with the pre-existing " oceanic " animism of the islanders . |
| 59 | If these costs do not materialise , there remain the political risks associated with the controversial nature of the technology . |
| 60 | Male ‘ sex passion ’ was either the result of stimulation from external sensations , or of involuntary influences coming from the sexual organs themselves . |