Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [coord] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rock is n't the art form of the chattering classes and only a minority of its practitioners have any expertise in elucidating a rigorous conceptual rationale for their work . |
| 2 | For most people , a love of animals tends to extend to several pets , the odd donation and perhaps a rally . |
| 3 | The same is true for many other periods ; for instance , coins provide a date for the deposit of the great Viking hoard from Cuerdale in Lancashire of c.AD905 , and this in turn provides a date for the associated objects and hence a pivotal fixed chronological point for our understanding of Anglo-Saxon metalwork . |
| 4 | Clark 's burst saw off the Spanish zone and then a desperate English press reduced the margin to 11 points with seven minutes to go , but that was as close as England were to come . |
| 5 | In particular , it did not prevent Robert Hersant from creating , from 1950 and from nothing , what became by the 1980S France 's biggest newspaper publishing group -over 40 titles totalling over one quarter of the circulation of the regional dailies and over a third ( 38 per cent ( of the national daily press . |
| 6 | As late as the summer of 1939 Sir Stafford Cripps , expelled from the Labour Party and hardly a natural Baldwin man , was urging him to be a brick in a wall of anti-appeasement national unity . |
| 7 | The new Defence Minister , understood to be a strong supporter of Saddam Hussein 's stance on Kuwait , had been Inspector General of the armed forces and previously a deputy Chief of Staff , and had been decorated for his service in commanding the First Army Special Corps during the Iran-Iraq war . |
| 8 | And his own man in the Washington Field Office , the CI-3 team , and putting in the longest hours and never a word of complaint , and that had won him the job in the Attaché 's office in Rome . |
| 9 | Cos they did n't thunk too much beyond rumbles and scavvying and the scarring ceremonies and maybe a squirm together when they got high . |
| 10 | However , the country as part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the liberal period of the late nineteenth century belonged to the German orbit and consequently a body of commercial law ( separate from general civil law ) was implanted in the form of a Commercial Code ( Statute 37 of 1875 ) following the principles of German commercial law . |
| 11 | The method 's worked twice for me , so it may be the definitive cure or just a pathetic coincidence . |
| 12 | The later Range Rover , although slightly higher geared than the old model and quite a lot heavier , should do more than 50 mph in third . |
| 13 | Calves may show clinical signs during the prepatent period and occasionally a massive infection can cause severe dyspnoea of sudden onset often followed by death in 24-48 hours . |
| 14 | virtually all the early canals and probably a majority of the later ones , were overwhelmingly local in both promotion and finance … |
| 15 | There were whoops and cheers , mock kissing attempts , challenges to put names on the masked faces and then a song . |
| 16 | The process repeats itself in the second test-tube and then a drop is removed and used to seed the third test-tube , and so on . |
| 17 | But this means extra weight to punch the tackle out the required distance and also a greater effort , which inevitably leads to inaccuracy . |
| 18 | Their course is so far short : the first national Green Party founded in New Zealand as the Value Party in 1972 , the next in the United Kingdom in the following year and then a long gap until Ecolo in Belgium in 1980 heralded a rush either to set up or amalgamate existing groups into parties in the early and mid-1980s . |
| 19 | Hopeful youngsters clashed with old timers playing out their last few seasons in the reserve leagues , which were as competitive as the first-team games and often a lot tougher . |
| 20 | He 's got big ones and small ones , yellow ones and pink ones , he 's got the revolving variety and even a custom made wedding one . |
| 21 | No camera lens can match the flexibility of the human eye and only a few experiments in stereoscopy attempt two-eyed ( binocular ) vision , essential to true 3-D perception . |
| 22 | The importance of the contest was well appreciated by the Unionist Party which sent not only the Prime Minister but also a number of other cabinet ministers to Bannside to canvass for Dr Bolton Minford . |
| 23 | Later , he spent more than one hour with the Prime Minister and afterwards a bland joint communique was issued . |
| 24 | The spark that does often make people go is when there are changes in the international organisation or indeed a change in the fortunes of the company . |
| 25 | They may have contained either small units of the regular army or perhaps a locally raised militia . |
| 26 | I went to the medical centre and there a male doctor did a very degrading examination of my body . |
| 27 | The work can then be spread out to the measurements required on the blocking board and just a few pins are needed to hold the wires into place . |
| 28 | Of much greater significance , however , is the skyline of the fells rising to the east , where above the 2000-ft contour and barely a mile apart two important rivers have their beginnings — the Eden , destined to flow north to the Solway Firth , and the Ure , bound eastwards for Wensleydale and ultimately the North Sea . |
| 29 | They tend to be alkaline , with soluble salts at the plant-soil interface and sometimes a brown mineral horizon below . |
| 30 | Here , though , the procedure of the auctioneer was somewhat different , for at first the most attractive girls were auctioned to the highest bidders and then a sort of reverse auction took place in which the unattractive ones were distributed : instead of ascending , the bidding descended until the man prepared to accept the least payment got the girl . |