Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under managed floating , the domestic monetary authorities intervene in the foreign exchange markets to smooth out excessive short-term fluctuations in the exchange rate . |
| 2 | Labour fingers jabbed at the Liberal Democrats , while Tory order papers were waved in the air . |
| 3 | Mandeville sneered as his strong teeth tore at the coarse rye bread . |
| 4 | Classic bathrooms inspired by the great ages of design . |
| 5 | Yet terms such as ‘ resources ’ , ‘ employee , ’ or ‘ structural alteration ’ may be capable of having a spectrum of possible meanings depending upon the overall scope and policy of the legislation . |
| 6 | A distinctive , erratic song with some metallic-sounding notes coming from the hidden depths of a thicket had finally been identified as belonging to a bluethroat , surely one of the most beautiful small birds in Scandinavia . |
| 7 | This chapter first describes how the British and Spanish political strategies discussed in the previous chapter have created pressures for change in the public enterprises , pressures encapsulated in the idea of ‘ commercialism ’ . |
| 8 | The same is true of political projects responding to the specific problems of the public sector and state enterprises , such as those that have emerged in Britain and Spain in recent years . |
| 9 | The bistable multivibrator or flip-flop shown in figure 10.14(d) has two stable states corresponding to the two possible saturated output levels . |
| 10 | They are : co-ordinating the interactions of multiple types of ambiguity , co-ordinating processes that encode different sources or types of knowledge ; co-ordinating the resolution of several anaphors in one sentence ; and co-ordinating the consideration of possible referents arising from the current sentence and from elsewhere . |
| 11 | Some innovations undeniably lie within this definition , including urban-funding schemes , land registers , industry and enterprise , garden festivals and some specific projects outlined in the 1988 Action for Cities statement . |
| 12 | Traditional local economic policies developed during the 1970s have been replaced by two new forms of economic strategy , labelled by observers ‘ restructuring for capital ’ and ‘ restructuring for labour ’ . |
| 13 | In the final analysis the economic policies pursued in the 1930s , and already outlined in Chapter 1 , were those dictated by a massive Conservative parliamentary majority . |
| 14 | Dozens of early Georgian houses built in the 1720s in Queen Anne style ( surprisingly rare in central London ) had been allowed to fall into decay — to be turned into sweatshops for the clothing industry , to be converted into offices for the fruit-market or simply to become slums . |
| 15 | PAKISTANI authorities have for the first time begun arresting farmers in the North West Frontier Province who have been found planting opium for next year 's harvest . |
| 16 | Notwithstanding this early generation of gas it is likely that a major redistribution ( migration or trap-breaching ) occurred in late Cretaceous-early Tertiary times associated with the major inversion phase of the basin . |
| 17 | An ECU 500 million ( about US$625 million line of credit for food and agricultural products guaranteed by the European Communities ( EC ) to the former Soviet Union , which had been delayed since November , was finally granted to Russia alone , it was announced on March 4 by Deutsche Bank , whose Luxembourg subsidiary was the lead bank of the consortium providing the credit . |
| 18 | These proved too controversial and modified proposals appeared in the 1968 paper Children in Trouble , which formed the basis of the 1969 Act . |
| 19 | For many years the sound of the Precision , whether by accident or design , simulated that of a double bass , with a distinct bias towards the low frequencies emitted by the lower E and A strings , but a comparatively weak response from the other two . |
| 20 | Antiracism in this sense is a phenomenon which grew out of the political openings created by the 1981 riots . |
| 21 | Once the white hanging bells open in the weak sunshine of a late February day , we can begin to believe that winter is nearly over . |
| 22 | Although their release brought the number of political prisoners freed in the previous 16 months to 4,332 , another 2,000 remained in detention . |
| 23 | Guzmán had voted against a measure for the pardon of political prisoners imprisoned under the 1973-1990 regime ( given final congressional approval on March 23 ) , and had strongly rejected the report on human rights abuses released by President Aylwin on March 4 [ see pp. 37958 ; 38095 ] . |
| 24 | In Kuwait it is just that we by the way in Kuwait we have two courts , we have the civil courts and we have the Islamic court , and erm Islamic cases go to the Islamic court and otherwise they go to the civil court , except just we we accept erm how to live our live in a modern way and keeping up with the times , and it is a tradition that we have adopted in Kuwait , and the fact that it is for women can drive in Kuwait versus those that do n't in Saudi Arabia , I do n't believe I 'd like to put that in the Islamic context , it 's just a way of life which we have adopted . |
| 25 | Also , strikes are responsible for an almost negligible amount of lost time compared with total hours worked by the employed population . |
| 26 | Such agreements on extraterritoriality are common where American forces or advisers are stationed abroad , but in Iran it aroused memories of the humiliating capitulations demanded by the British and the Russians in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 27 | In the case of national trends , fiscal and monetary Policies adopted by the Labour government between 1976 and 1979 and particularly by the Conservative government between 1979 and 1982 had a marked effect on many urban manufacturing companies . |
| 28 | The UK experience since 1979 does not provide convincing evidence in support of the thesis that monetary policies determined at the national level and with disregard for policies in the country 's main economic partners can yield significant benefits . |
| 29 | Crossman Block have wholly taken over from Lloyd & Co. and are now the sole solicitors instructed by the interim government . |
| 30 | The proportion of tied houses decreased in the later 1970s : |