Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Politically this was informed by the demands coming from women 's organizations and intellectually by the moralized language of evolutionary science . |
| 2 | This time it was the great Hofburg Palace in the Austrian capital , Vienna — centuries-old seat of the Habsburg emperors and home to the famous Spanish Riding School . |
| 3 | In the higher sea level of the first interglacial , any mud left would be at too great depths to be disturbed by waves and hence for the first time the seas would be clear enough for reef-building corals to flourish . |
| 4 | In terms of value , less than 40% of the items belonging to Polish-born French industrialist Leon Anlen were sold according to Tajan , who took the unprecedented step of ordering a blackout on all information about the sale both to journalists and even to the central press service of Drouot salerooms . |
| 5 | And rather surprisingly , bearing in mind what happens in the Endsleigh first division , that there it is goals scored that dis differentiates between teams , in this league it will be goal difference that will determine the final positions , followed then by the highest number of goals and then by the highest number of goals scored away from home . |
| 6 | Sincere thanks to all the walkers and especially to the many sponsors for their generosity , also to the support team . |
| 7 | It was a complicated struggle between Welfs and Staufer and their supporters and also between the rival princes themselves , some of whom were great ecclesiastics as Adolf , archbishop of Cologne . |
| 8 | The plans for the new building had to provide for these units and also for the Continental Shelf Unit which occupied a building in the Government Training Centre at Granton from 1969 . |
| 9 | Fran followed him slowly , keeping her eyes centred on the polished wooden treads and away from the muscled strength of his thighs . |
| 10 | Even in physique they were very much alike , both being thick in the shoulders and almost of the same colouring , except that Joe 's hair showed a black sheen whereas Harry 's was a dark brown , thick matt . |
| 11 | As you can see , there are staff across all the divisions who perform specialist roles and particularly in the Public Transport , Programmes and Economic Development Divisions . |
| 12 | Poljica 's independence was suppressed by Napoleon in 1806 , and its incorporation first into the Illyrian Provinces and later into the Austrian province of Dalmatia assisted the spread of the Latin script , which by this time had become common throughout Dalmatia . |
| 13 | In some specimens there are indications of transverse ridges on the edge of these plates and also on the lateral arm plates . |
| 14 | The motion-picture industry survived and prospered because this battle was substantially won in the vast majority of communities and especially in the major cities . |
| 15 | The poor performance of the RBI projects is explained and policy implications are determined for the developing countries and also for the global steel , aluminium and petrochemical industries . |
| 16 | Such a view tends to place less emphasis on the war between two countries and more on the internal conflict between the king of France and the duke of Aquitaine , a struggle between two blocks of territory and two rather different legal traditions : the ‘ Angevin empire ’ , once ruled by the English , representing the area of customary law and local independence , the other part of France the more centralising tradition based on Roman law . |
| 17 | Within Outer London , the experience of Bromley and of Newham are almost mirror images : Bromley did relatively badly in the first and third periods and well in the second , while Newham gained in the first and third periods , but had the smallest increase in the second . |
| 18 | Force 6 is not a gale , it has to be force 8 or more for that , but it is still rough enough , with every wave breaking over the bows and sometimes over the whole boat , drenching us as we sat in the cockpit at the back . |
| 19 | The system secures a marked uniformity among the puisne judges and consequently among the appellate judges . |
| 20 | In Hamburg and elsewhere I talked to several former U-boat captains and instead of the brash abrasive characters I had expected , I found them on the whole to be men of sensibility and humour . |
| 21 | The accusations related to three main issues : the reclassification by the Soviet army of three motorized divisions as naval coastal units ( excluded from the CFE treaty and not liable to destruction ) ; the discrepancy between NATO and Soviet estimates of the precise number of Soviet tanks and other military hardware subject to inspection and verification under the terms of the treaty ; and the " surreptitious " withdrawal of an estimated 60,000-70,000 items of Soviet military equipment east of the Ural mountains and thus beyond the territorial scope of the treaty [ see p. 37838 ; 37931 ] . |
| 22 | The true love relationship is not of the ordinary world , this meeting is of another world , partly of emotions and partly of the mystical . |
| 23 | The General and Municipal union concentrated on casuals , seasonals and fixed-term contract workers , on part-timers and even on the self-employed ; the Transport and General union on the same categories of temporary worker , on part-timers , and even on agency workers . |
| 24 | And , so utterly immersed was she in this strange blue and green land that was not feeling strange any more , that she did not even notice that she was weighing sorcery against steel chains and seriously considering the likely outcome . |
| 25 | Our duty is to secure the best return we possibly can or on , on our investments and yet at the same time to have regard to the aims and objectives of the Council itself . |
| 26 | The worries expressed by many in the cities and elsewhere about the possible return of social and environmental conditions reminiscent of Victorian capitalism have proved groundless . |
| 27 | In many cases these activities have promoted gender-neutral policies and perhaps in the long term will have a major impact on some aspects of gender bias in schools . |
| 28 | Sir Patrick was also closely involved in differences between London and Dublin over extradition and clashed with the Irish government over the validity of warrants in several cases and notably over the Irish refusal in 1989 to hand over Mr Patrick Ryan , who is wanted in Britain for alleged involvement with IRA bombings . |
| 29 | Early on a Sunday morning I walked up Plateros and then through the narrow streets to where I had been told a bus , colectivo — some form of transport — would leave . |
| 30 | Scottish & Newcastle ( McEwans and Youngers beers , Newcastle Brown ) have a relatively low holding of tied public houses ( which are mainly in Scotland and the North East ) , but still account for a significant proportion of total beer sales , partly through sales to free houses and partly through the strong position of their brands in the off-licence trade . |