Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adj] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If at any stage in the discussions on Monday , or in all the other discussions that I have attended in the past two years , it had been a question of majority vote , there would have been much less agreement , and to the extent that decisions had been imposed by a majority , they would have been much less effective . |
| 2 | Indeed , each of the five times since 1915 that there has been a minority government in power it has been Labour , dependent either on the Liberals ' support , their abstentions , or on all the other parties not uniting to defeat them . |
| 3 | Scum won 1–0 away and as all the other teams right behind drew — i think Scum is 9 ( 8 ? ) points ahead just now — not a good thing … |
| 4 | The Bernese Oberland is perhaps the Swiss region best known to English speaking tourists because of the dramatic massif of mountains , high valleys and ridges that lies south-east of Lakes Brienz and Thun , and between these the popular centre of tourist traffic , Interlaken . |
| 5 | When the " Geddes Axe " fell in February 1922 , it proposed cuts in the social services which alienated once and for all the Prime Minister 's last admirers on the left ; moderate Unionists like Stanley Baldwin disliked the Geddes Axe as being too arbitrary and too indiscriminate , but the rest of the party criticized it as too little , too late , and unlikely to be implemented anyway . |
| 6 | 1 He shot down once and for all the established accounts of British politics ; they were " quite wrong " as descriptions and explanations of how things worked . |
| 7 | And for all the lithe elegance of the finale ( not rushed off its feet , as it sometimes is ) I 've heard more pungent , sharper-witted performances , with greater delight in the comical banter of the second theme . |
| 8 | There are no easy answers but maybe a few guidelines as to what might be happening , for Margaret , staring dry-eyed and forlorn into a new day , and for all the other people who have ever had that sort of feeling . |
| 9 | Getting the slaves across the Atlantic was always a difficult problem for the Royal Africa Company and for all the other traders . |
| 10 | ‘ And for all the other men I killed . ’ |
| 11 | For all the truth of these points , and for all the striking contrasts , military production would appear to function more as a favoured section of the economy than as a separate one . |
| 12 | A general election last Thursday would have settled once and for all the political policies that the country will follow for the next few years . |
| 13 | This was purely business , and for all the jolly camaraderie Kate was aware that most of the men she 'd met this evening had grave reservations about her ability to do her job well now that they 'd seen her . |
| 14 | ZOLA Budd-Pieterse tomorrow sets out to exorcise once and for all the wretched memory of her darkest hours back in Britain five years ago . |
| 15 | But for all Patrick Milligan 's wrath , and for all the constant beatings he administered to Ellie with his thick leather belt , he was unable to break her will . |
| 16 | Thank you Jackie Stewart and Helen , for your tremendous care and kindness , and for all the wonderful Celebrity Challenges that I have always thoroughly enjoyed . |
| 17 | And for all the last minute protests by the Gotha Museum , nothing further has been heard from them . |
| 18 | It gave me a huge appetite and for all the wrong things , ’ she says . |
| 19 | Ravishing experience though that was , we came to it too precipitately , and for all the wrong reasons . |
| 20 | For many this was our first experience with firing live ammunition and also anti-tank weapons , and for this the disused pit of Rugby 's was used , and when some proficiency was obtained we were allowed to use the ranges at Milton near Gravesend . |
| 21 | The new war led in turn to a breach with France , and during 1740 the British government became seriously alarmed at the simultaneous assembling of a French fleet at Brest and a Spanish one at Ferrol [ or El Ferrol ] , Spain 's chief Atlantic base , 12 miles [ 21 km ] north-east of Corunna . |
| 22 | The Class 47 locomotive Society was formed in July 1983 and during 1988 the 47401 project had been formulated with the specific aim of preserving D1500 . |
| 23 | No song lasted more than three minutes , and after each the carrot-haired kid cursed us to death . |
| 24 | It has all the paraphernalia of a public inquiry and after all the necessary preparations are made it can go on for weeks . |
| 25 | But the physical direction of the economy through manpower planning did not last all that long , and after 1947 the financial budget was restored as the principal means of economic guidance . |
| 26 | Apart from this reference , and despite all the subsequent exchanges between AFHQ and subordinate commands on both Cossacks and Yugoslavs which were to follow in succeeding days , AFHQ was not to refer to Robertson 's order again . |
| 27 | It contained representatives of the three Armed Forces and of all the political currents supporting the Nationalist cause . |
| 28 | But we Scots were a bloodthirsty race then , and of all the black deeds that blacken Scottish history , I believe that the hunting of the Rannoch Macgregors was probably one of the most horrendous . |
| 29 | I 've been particularly impressed today to learn how people come here every year , particularly for this meeting and of all the various ways in which money can be raised . |
| 30 | It sickens me every time I think of all the money Caliban has won ; and of all the other people like him who win money . |