Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Particular attention is given to the provision of financial services for industrial development and agrarian improvement ; the extent of movement into and out of Edinburgh ; the social structure and occupational zoning within Edinburgh ; demographic change ; the role of the law and of secular and ecclesiastical institutions in helping or hindering change ; the nature of social relationships within the town and the extent to which new and more progressive values existed in the city . |
| 2 | Evidence that drug-related corruption had penetrated Venezuelan institutions came with the arrest in June of Adolfo Ramirez Torres , a former governor of the Federal District of Caracas , who was accused of being part of a cocaine smuggling ring . |
| 3 | At the same time , disputes between France and the rest over institutional , political and economic plans grew to the extent where they called into question not just the desirability and possibility of the ultimate goal of political union , but also the current shape and even the viability of the Community . |
| 4 | That of the southern European states led to the establishment of commonplace majority voting , as enshrined in the Single European Act . |
| 5 | In the 1890s about 60 per cent of European emigrants went to the United States , but this proportion tended to drop while South America 's share grew steadily . |
| 6 | A law amending the Constitution and enabling President Aylwin to pardon some 250 political prisoners incarcerated under the Pinochet dictatorship was approved by the Chamber of Deputies on Jan. 22 . |
| 7 | Determined to defuse the crisis , the Croatian authorities complied with the Presidency 's directive and began a withdrawal on Oct. 3 . |
| 8 | Her hazel eyes glinted across the table at him . |
| 9 | She nodded and her alert hazel eyes flickered around the room , taking everyone in . |
| 10 | Some of the rallies were violent , if only because of the resentment which Labour supporters felt at the splitting of the anti-Conservative vote . |
| 11 | The high , family cheek-bones stuck up gaunt and stark and her narrow shoulders jutted through the fabric of her sweater like bony wings . |
| 12 | His two strange secretaries slid into the room and , without a flicker of a glance at us , went to sit at another table . |
| 13 | The man 's face was pale , long and lined , his blue watery eyes squinted in the daylight . |
| 14 | Labour shortages occurred across the economy , particularly in the construction industry [ see pp. 37085-86 ] . |
| 15 | Three youths armed with Armalite pen-knives waited for the band to unload their gear before threatening them and attempting to drive away with their van . |
| 16 | De Gaulle now had to deal with political parties reinvigorated by the return of elections and normal democratic processes . |
| 17 | Labour candidates looked to the record of reform . |
| 18 | Some of the English shareholders withdrew from the enterprise and during 1570 Haug & Co. pulled out entirely having lost heavily . |
| 19 | The truckloads of returned prisoners drove past the office and the girls draped the banner between two windows and hung from the window ringing a handbell so that the men would look up and see the banner and hear them cheering . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , the three would-be breakaways said after the vote that they were ‘ satisfied ’ with the composition of the new leadership , despite the big sacrifices they had to make . |
| 21 | In social research , perhaps the most famous example is that of Elton Mayo 's study of American girls in a factory , where his observations of the importance of the creation of social groups led to the development of a whole school of thought in social psychology . |
| 22 | The British authorities argued at the time that the way to tackle this problem of falling competitiveness , far from being to allow the pound to devalue , was to maintain a rigid exchange rate for sterling and so through the resulting high interest rates and tight money ‘ to squeeze inflation out of the system ’ . |
| 23 | The coverage angered the royal entourage on what was supposed to be a high-profile visit to a close trading partner , and a country where British servicemen died in the fight against Communism in the early 1950s . |
| 24 | The fact that human beings do not always perceive the correct ( rigid ) structure when presented with a mathematically adequate though impoverished stimulus , may be due not ( as Ullman suggests ) to their failing to pick up all of the mathematically necessary information in the stimulus , but rather to their using computational strategies evolved for the perception of non-rigid objects which — even when directed at rigid objects — need more information than is present in the experimental stimulus concerned . |
| 25 | But More also linked eastern thought about reincarnation to Darwinism , since both stressed the presence of the past and the idea that the most primitive forms persisted in the modern . |
| 26 | Indeterminate grey and fibrous innards pulsated in the darkness . |
| 27 | Its engine stopped , the door slid open and a courier-woman in high heels came down the steps and put up an umbrella . |
| 28 | High heels pattered across the cloakroom floor and someone pushed at the toilet door . |
| 29 | The light waves emitted from the surface of the star between 10:59:59 and 11:00 , by the astronaut 's watch , would be spread out over an infinite period of time , as seen from the spaceship . |
| 30 | Translucent shapes undulated through the jungle , glimmering in the sunlight : the only life the Lucifer System had so far offered up for study . |