Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only native Hawaiian plants and animals that are n't extinct are found on the high mountainsides ( yes , a lot of people live their whole lives in Hawaii without ever coming across a native species ) , and the biggest problem up there is that type of pig that descended from European wild boars and Polynesian pigs . |
| 2 | Some of the companies making this possible are presented in the following pages . |
| 3 | The weak are bullied by the strong , the little by the big , the pious by the irreligious . |
| 4 | Sale opportunities identified by MAS are matched against the recorded criteria on a reactive basis . |
| 5 | For he moved at once to a post-natal , ecological sorting wherein individual adaptive variants are retained , while the maladaptive are eliminated in the Malthusian crush of population . |
| 6 | The young old are brought within the pale and the rest are left outside ; their needs are perceived as different and marginal to the mainstream development of goods and services . |
| 7 | The nightmare of conductive education is unachievable because nowhere in human history have the different been turned into the normal and neither medical science nor other rehabilitative techniques or educational Interventions can assist in this process . |
| 8 | As children they were spoiled — how can a five , seven , eleven year old be blamed for the lifelong influence of having his shoes cleaned , his tea-cup passed across a table , his hair combed , his every want anticipated by the mother he ached for because she was already so worn out and was not , in the end , his mother ? |
| 9 | The English were faced by the different physical conditions and social organisation of the countries which they invaded . |
| 10 | The French were crushed by the native forces and the Americans were forced to move in to take their place in order to safe-guard their investment , going a little deeper into the quicksand . |
| 11 | False atrocity stories , misguidedly spread to encourage a spirit of resistance , and well-founded rumours that the French were waiting on the far side of the Channel to launch a second invasion added to the prevailing gloom and when , on what the diarist Horace Walpole described as ‘ Black Friday ’ , people in London learned that the Jacobites were already at Derby something approaching panic swept the capital . |
| 12 | The nature of both universal and human expression is identical , the universal being mirrored in the human entity . |
| 13 | All would-be 's stunned by the sudden realisation that they ‘ could be ’ . |
| 14 | A tracheostomy was performed and a catheter contained heparinised ( 10 U/ml ) saline was inserted into the right carotid artery for continuous monitoring of arterial blood pressure . |
| 15 | The following were listed as the key points in economic construction during the coming decade and the eighth five-year plan period : strengthening agriculture ; strengthening the basic industries and infrastructure and reorganizing and transforming the processing industry ; and strengthening educational , scientific and technological undertakings . |
| 16 | Alas , they failed to make a complete list and about 60 names of the fallen were left off the temporary plaque . |
| 17 | Birmingham City Council has now set its community charge , the basic amount payable is shown on the enclosed demand note . |
| 18 | Further work would have been necessary if the following was presented as the unnormalised relation : |
| 19 | ‘ The Catholic Church … was unique among the larger religious bodies by the fact that so many of the most devout were drawn from the working-class and even from the poor . ’ |
| 20 | Any of the casuals who showed signs of being genuinely ill were referred to the medical officer and were treated in the infirmary . |
| 21 | Princeton Diagnostic is headed by the former director of President Reagan 's Drug Abuse Policy Office , Mr Carlton Turner , along with a retired rear admiral and a self-described ’ international expert on toxicology ’ . |
| 22 | Little is known of the relative efficacy and toxicity of different strains . |
| 23 | It can be argued that controls by Central Government are desirable to ensure that a uniform minimum standard of efficiency is obtained where the taxpayer at large is contributing through the national Exchequer to local services . |
| 24 | Hague 31 , sharp , ambitious was elected at the 1989 by-election with a 2,634 majority . |
| 25 | Whatever had happened before or was to happen after , it is clear that the population of western Europe at large was growing between the tenth century and the thirteenth . |
| 26 | Although this feat was probably know to McBride , he most likely was responding to the increasing image control evident in a painting like ‘ The Shelton with Sunspots ’ as a radical departure from the work he had encountered when he first began to review her exhibitions in 1923 . |
| 27 | The ‘ leisure economy ’ describes , of course , a situation in which the affluent are serviced by the non-affluent , the ‘ new ’ workers will work directly on other people 's pleasures . |
| 28 | Intestinal inflammation and bleeding were quantitated with the simultaneous use of indium-111 labelled neutrophils ( four day faecal excretion of indium-111 ) and chromium-51 labelled red cells in patients with ulcerative colitis ( n=12 ) , Crohn 's disease ( n=15 ) , and NSAID induced enteropathy ( n=34 ) . |
| 29 | Amnesty International is calling on the Cuban Government to release all prisoners of conscience immediately and unconditionally ; to permit political detainees to see their lawyers immediately after arrest and regularly thereafter ; and to incorporate international fair trial standards into Cuban law and legal practice . |
| 30 | But standards of teaching were good ; just how good is shown by the large number of South African dancers who won leading positions in British companies before and after the 1939 war . |