Example sentences of "the [adj] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pupils become involved in the collection and manipulation of data and are motivated validity of the end product so that projects lose the contrived which marred many projects in the past . |
| 2 | For our parse , we can choose the largest which satisfies this condition . |
| 3 | As a child of the Thirties I heard much talk of J.P.M. and Fred Shaw ( the NCLC Organiser ) , Plebs and the Railway Service Journal — and the Manchester Guardian — were as much a part of my youthful literary life as Mickey Mouse and Film Fun . |
| 4 | From the rich they take larger sums by threatening to strip naked unless paid to leave ; terrified middle-class party-givers will give them anything as long as they go quickly . |
| 5 | Before the Second World War , virtually the only people able to practise archaeology on a full-time basis were those employed in museums , or the few who had sufficient wealth to be self-financing . |
| 6 | She knew him when he came ; though he trod quietly his step was unmistakably light and long and confident , and he was one of the few who came that way by night alone , yet not furtively . |
| 7 | Those who are most adept at wielding the bow are not always in control of the pen , and the few who possess equal facility in both often lack the will to write . |
| 8 | During the nineteen-twenties she spent some time in London , and after her second husband , Maurice Platner , died in 1929 she moved to Johannesburg , where she died in 1932 . |
| 9 | This chapter looks at the development of a conservative fascist tradition and the following one assesses racial nationalism . |
| 10 | ‘ We have only advertised two posts in the past year , the previous one attracted 300 applicants . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ With the advent of TV in the Fifties you got lots of kids ' badges , while in the Sixties they grew larger and more colourful , and in the Seventies you had weird punk badges . ’ |
| 12 | In fact , Kitty was the only one of the three who had enough time off during the day to help out on the barrow , but as she never got up until the sun rose and slipped away long before it had set , she still was n't what Granpa would have called an asset . |
| 13 | I was the only one of the three who had any confidence in Burmese , and so was able to be bilingual in teaching and in giving notes . |
| 14 | During the 1940s he directed many films for and British National . |
| 15 | Throughout the 1690s he advanced substantial sums through various channels . |
| 16 | The systematic alteration in decisions between each period and the succeeding one renders each opportunity offered to the market more competitive than that offered in the preceding period that is , it is offered with fuller awareness of the other opportunities being made available , against which it is necessary to compete . |
| 17 | Oncogenic human papillomavirus was found in the cervix of 26 ( 41% ) of the 63 women who did not smoke , 22 ( 58% ) of the 38 who smoked 1–10 cigarettes a day , 28 ( 61% ) of the 46 who smoked 11–20 cigarettes a day , and 26 ( 76% ) of the 34 who smoked >=21; cigarettes a day . |
| 18 | The internationalisation of Arab banking was encouraged by the oil price rises of the 1970s which generated large petro-dollar surpluses for a number of Persian Gulf states . |
| 19 | It is noticeable that the group that in general is in control of the transport system ( ie males aged 25–60 ) have , on any given day , the highest percentage making access walks but no walk journeys , so that many in this group will be more familiar with easier , shorter journeys than those such as women , children and the elderly who have over-average representation in the walk journey category . |
| 20 | For the elderly who have some form of infirmity , the normal daily routine of keeping the body clean and disposing of its waste products can be exhausting , hazardous , and , in some cases even painful when the back must be bent and the limbs slowly manipulated into the appropriate positions to get in and out of the bath , and down and up from the lavatory seat . |
| 21 | It was the latter which represented new clearings . |
| 22 | Of the latter he gives horrific examples , which sicken him and enrage him ( though as much in Mrs Pound 's genteel English version as in Pound 's red-necked American ) . |
| 23 | In the latter she wasted little space on such theoretical concerns as the position of monarchy in modern society , concentrating instead on the more trivial aspects of palace life . |
| 24 | By the 1780s it had twelve employees ; and complaints against its interference with the correspondence of private citizens figured in a number of the cahiers presented to the States-General in 1789 . |
| 25 | What is certain , however , is that around the tail end of the '80s he met fellow Skin victim Jarboe , signed their other band Swans to a disastrous one-album major deal and cheered up . |
| 26 | What is certain , however , is that around the tail end of the '80s he met fellow Skin victim Jarboe , signed their other band Swans to a disastrous one-album major deal and cheered up . |
| 27 | So far 500 individuals are seeking to become members , compared with the 970 who joined last year , and the 2,572 who joined in 1987 . |
| 28 | Because that way it stays on if you do it the other way it 'll drop off it 's as simple as that , okay , cover the pad and as you spiral up the arm all you need to do is to cover about two thirds of what you 've just done before , just like a spiral , you find the bandages , the more you use those roller bandages of yours the worse they get to control because they lose their , you know , nice and stretchiness , so you just do , cover up the pad at the top , tie always on the top of the arm never underneath here . |
| 29 | Russell , 51 , produced the shots with a seven-iron at the 127-yard fourth and the second with an eight-iron at the eighth which measures 118 yards . |
| 30 | Using the Macintosh 's mouse-driven user interface to the full it allows complete tyros to become publishers almost overnight . |