Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I very much regret that both the Syrians and the Lebanese stayed away from the multilaterals and that , although present , the Palestinians did not join in in a positive way . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , the British edged closer to the Triple Alliance and might still be persuaded to take the strain of direct opposition to Russia , if Russia moved . |
| 3 | The passionate concern for their fellow countrymen shown by the French contrasted sharply with the stiff upper lip of the British . |
| 4 | Thirty years later , the rapid reconquest of the duchy by the French owed much to the threat posed by the French king 's artillery against the defences of towns which preferred to surrender than to make a fight of it . |
| 5 | Helped by his immense clubbability , Sinclair 's influence in the higher reaches of Whitehall by the mid-1930s extended well beyond the Foreign Office . |
| 6 | The first process depends on the carbon dioxide concentration and the path length from the external air to the chloroplasts , the second depends only on the amount of radiation absorbed , and not on the CO 2 concentration or the temperature . |
| 7 | The difference between them is that the first regress can only be stopped by certain ( = infallible ) beliefs , while the second insists merely on the existence of beliefs which are non-inferentially justified . |
| 8 | The 560 differs also from the later machines , in that when the machine is turned on , the same configuration of lights will come on as were on BEFORE the machine was turned off , including any of the pattern variation switches numbers 3 to 6 that were on . |
| 9 | In one corner of the rectangular office a television set had not been switched off and the title sequence of a forgotten film from the seventies flickered silently on the screen . |
| 10 | It was when he finally reached the end of the turning by the Rotherhithe.Tunnel entrance that he saw the three standing together across the street . |
| 11 | However , the map of unemployment in the mid-'60s looked very like the map of government-assisted areas ; and indeed the level of unemployment was an important element in the designation of assisted areas . |
| 12 | The clerestory continues all round the church . |
| 13 | That 's where the fuel tanks are located and though it seemed likely that the partial tearing away of the wing had also ruptured the fuel lines and spilled the fuel , there was no way of being sure and no one , again as far as I know , has ever come up against the problem of what happens when an oxyacetylene jet meets a fuel tank under water . |
| 14 | Neighbourliness among the poor suffered greatly during the inter-war years , when unemployment rather than low wages became the chief cause of poverty . |
| 15 | Traditionally pacifists had looked to the evolution of a transnational civil society and the gradual withering away of the nation state as the key to human progress — a view elaborated most influentially by Richard Cobden . |
| 16 | It 's called the Denman 's Summer Festival Focus on Europe , and , do n't miss the exciting chance to come to Denman College during the Denman Summer Festival , when we should be celebrating the closer coming together of the European commu Community . |
| 17 | Physical disability makes shopping difficult , and sometimes forces the elderly to rely entirely on the good but fairly limited range of foods that can be delivered to their door by the milkman . |
| 18 | He quickly levelled off at 1500ft and one of the B-52s passed ahead of the helicopter and the other behind . |
| 19 | The former is extremely sensitive to orbital parameters , whereas the latter depends greatly on the nature of monsoons . |
| 20 | Our present understanding of the relationship between ΔC p and the hydrophobic effect [ 17 , 18 ] , leads us to conclude that the latter contributes little to the formation of the single strand helix , and consequently , that water molecules may not be appreciably ordered around the faces of the bases prior to stacking . |
| 21 | As the output of the latter declined significantly in the late 1970s and early 1980s , so the relative share of service output in the economy rose . |
| 22 | The latter looked admiringly at the other two who have been preserved long past their life expectancy . |
| 23 | The latter operate solely through the state apparatus ; the former are active both in the individual workplaces and in the wider arena represented by the state . |
| 24 | John Deverall ( 1979 ) , in a fascinating but as yet unpublished dissertation on the ‘ Public Medium/Private Process ’ dichotomy , draws our attention to authors such as Richard Sennett ( 1974 ) and Iris Murdoch ( 1970 ) , the former deploring the cult of the individual in modern society and the latter arguing fiercely for the arts as ‘ unselfing ’ . |
| 25 | A major exchange of exhibitions of antiquities starts this month when the George Ortiz Collection travels to the Hermitage in return for a pick of objects from museums in the former USSR , the latter showing initially at the Kunsthaus Zurich . |
| 26 | The first of these described two arduous journeys from Constantinople via Salonika ( taking in Mount Athos , which he climbed ) across the Scardus and Bertiscus ranges , then further north into Montenegro and across the Mirdita country of central Albania ; while the second described a journey from Samsun across the Anatolian plateau , through Cappadocia , past Lake Van to Erzerum , and so back to Trebizond , the latter stretch roughly across the route taken by Xenophon and the Ten Thousand . |
| 27 | The luck of the 401st on the 27th turned completely around the next day . |
| 28 | The Fifties lasted well into the Sixties , thanks to our parents . |
| 29 | He also has to be a front runner for the captaincy of Scotland and indeed , if so chosen , would become only the eighth to do so from the fullback position , following W.D . |
| 30 | Having decided for themselves that the problem lay in the lack of will and determination on the part of the Indo-Chinese to join whole-heartedly with the French in resisting communism , the US had to obtain assurances from the French that a programme of French government will be developed ; national armies will be organized ; France will despatch sufficient additional armed forces to Indo-China to insure that the restoration of peace and internal security will be accomplished in accordance with the timetable of the overall military plan for Indo-China ( which made it sound more like a military parade than a war and that the French will eliminate their policy of colonialism . |