Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We first consider tests of the rational expectations hypothesis in those relatively few cases when the expected variable is directly measured . |
| 2 | At the climax to the debate a few minutes ago the hon. Member for Cunninghame , South ( Mr. Lambie ) was addressing a single Labour Back Bencher . |
| 3 | A few minutes ago the hon. Member for Bristol , East ( Mr. Sayeed ) attacked my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol , South ( Ms. Primarolo ) for being absent from the Chamber for the statement . |
| 4 | A few minutes later the elderly owner of ‘ Primrose Cottage ’ was on the phone . |
| 5 | He goes on to remark that a few minutes later the same antlers could be in use with the animals full weight behind them as they slash and batter those of an opposing stag . |
| 6 | Feudal organizations provided historical precedents for and in some cases even the institutional forms for modern corporatism ( Maier , 1981 ; Kocka , 1981 ) . |
| 7 | In some cases even the national interest would have to be considered . |
| 8 | It is one of the very few institutions where the shared goals overcome nationalist or racial considerations . |
| 9 | There are , however , some houses where the institutional additions are just too substantial to demolish , or represent an investment that will prompt someone to offer a higher price . |
| 10 | The sight of a photograph of a cancerous lung causes me to shrink with disgust from the very thought of smoking ; a few hours later the physical craving revives , obliterates the memory , and causes me to smoke again . |
| 11 | ‘ Five bodies were found yesterday ( Wednesday ) , today another two and just a few hours ago the last body , ’ said a human rights officer . |
| 12 | A few months later the same man , with his daughter , met Russell at a petrol station . |
| 13 | A few months later the decyphering organisation which had existed for not far short of two centuries also disappeared . |
| 14 | It was identified as such only a short while after Delta Cephei itself , and if it had been found a few months earlier the short-period stars would probably have been known as Aquilids rather than Cepheids . |
| 15 | Some weeks later the same group was observed brainstorming spontaneously about their writing . |
| 16 | Some years ago the technical director of Hyatt International Hotels was reported as saying that ‘ if the air conditioning works , the telephone system works and the lift installation works , there is a good chance that the hotel works ’ . |
| 17 | Some years ago the Advisory Board for the Research Councils ( ABRC ) proposed its notorious ‘ RTX ’ scheme whereby some universities would be major research institutions ( R ) , while others would become teaching-only ( T ) establishments . |
| 18 | Some years ago the British Council identified primary care as one of the priorities for development of a link programme between Britain and Brazil . |
| 19 | Some years later the influential Republican senator , Robert Taft , was still exploiting the American belief that the British were " the best propagandists and the most unprincipled people " in the world when he accused Acheson , the then US secretary of state , of doing whatever the British asked him to do . |
| 20 | Apparently , some years later the whole story broke and Rod and the crew — those that survived the war — were awarded the Freedom of the Town of Boston . |
| 21 | Rightly , because there was no easy link to be made and only a few years previously the best criminologists were explaining the increase in crime as an inevitable consequence of prosperity . |
| 22 | Speaking at an Amnesty International meeting in Blackpool , Mr Waldegrave said that up to a few years ago the Soviet Union 's record was appalling and its policy unyielding . |
| 23 | It also transpired that parts of England ( east and south-east ) were put on full invasion alert at the time , but it seems that ‘ Cromwell ’ had been ignored in some places where the junior officers who happened to be on duty had not been let into the secret of what it meant . |
| 24 | One of two possible methods is to divide off one end of the tank using a clear divider and install the new fish into the smaller section , after a few days when the other occupants of the tank have accepted the newcomer then remove the divider and let all of the fish mix . |
| 25 | But a few days later the Soviet Government organ admitted that ‘ possibly neutralisation would be conducive to the creation of a system of collective security in Asia ’ and that ‘ the proposal for this system is cherished by all those who seek the normalisation of the situation in Asia ’ . |
| 26 | A few days later the victorious army entered Addis Ababa and paraded before the Empress Zauditu on Jan Meda , that great open space where Menelik had reviewed his troops . |
| 27 | A few days later the previous owners sent her pedigree and a short letter , explaining that their grandchildren were to blame for Sorrel 's temper . |
| 28 | A few days later the national press carried the headlines that the UM plants in the Midlands had now been made idle as a consequence of the Merseyside strike . |
| 29 | It will be the first time that the Unita leader has met a British minister , and only a few days ago the Angolan ambassador in London was assured by a Foreign Office official that there were no plans for such a meeting . |
| 30 | Historians have found some manors where the local custom was for the widow to receive a half proportion , or even the whole , and yet in others apparently none — although in these cases it is more likely that the documentation is being misconstrued . |