Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] and [adv] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 All aluminium saucepans including those from Buckingham Palace here collected in July nineteen forty but unfortunately it was not of the right grade and so housewives then suffered for the rest of the war and having to cook with inferior pans .
2 Like the Japanese with their physical problem , the Fijians with their attitude to the fifteen-man game and perhaps Wales , Scotland and Ireland with their limited resources of top-flight players , the South Africans have minor challenges in adaptation and practice .
3 The crossflow of cars had stopped at the sound of the approaching siren and now drivers and passengers and a small number of pedestrians were all looking around , uncertain of the direction .
4 But Brewer has an uncanny knack of getting injured at the wrong time and so hooker Sean Fitzpatrick will be in charge for the first time .
5 A tasty two-week campaign on national telly will go out in a fortnight 's time in the kids ' peak viewing slot — just between the early evening news and the popular Home And Away soap .
6 While there may be agreement about the lowest levels , below which standards can not be allowed to fall without grave risk to the old person and probably others , individual workers may have very different views and opinions about the acceptability of certain degrees of domestic and personal neglect .
7 These included the Jewish prophets of the Old Testament and also Christ himself .
8 Paradise is the work of a passionate activist , written at the height of the struggle to win recognition of the disaster from the Japanese establishment and even people in Minamata itself .
9 Pre-existing disease of the coronary macro-circulation and perhaps microcirculation may be the most important factors affecting mortality from acute myocardial infarction in diabetic patients .
10 CRYSTALATE , the electronics product group , experienced a ‘ serious disappointment ’ in the second half and hence profits fell from £5.6million to £2.9million in the year to September .
11 Jonathan Davis put Widnes further ahead with a penalty early in the second half and then Goulding darted over with Davis converting .
12 Besides Maxim Gorky and a daughter of L. Tolstoy , it included the President of the Second Duma and even S. N. Prokopovich , the Minister of Food in the Provisional Government of 1917 , who was neither a Bolshevik nor a Menshevik .
13 Apart from the Quakers , and sometimes the Roman Catholics , the Old Dissenting sects did not usually object to the baptism , marriage and burial services of the Established Church and therefore Dissenters appear in Church of England registers like anyone else .
14 This time when they said their good byes they arranged to meet the following morning and so things continued .
15 It seemed to me at the time that the teachers of science at school , who had certainly shown themselves to be opposed to me were , if not actually off their trolleys , a trifle on the demented side and undoubtedly strangers to coolness .
16 Now H.M.I.s with considerable influence , particularly Ruth Foster ( Staff Inspector for Women 's Physical Education and , significantly , Chairman of the Inspectorate 's Drama Panel ) and Jim Gill ( Staff Inspector for Teacher-Training ) took Peter Stone to their bosom , so to speak , and Drama-through-Movement became the official Ministry and then D.E.S .
17 In variable resistors of the decade box type of construction , the varying capacitance and possibly inductance of the switching mechanism can be a nuisance .
18 Following the acquisition of John Cawsey & Company in early 1991 , including 50% of Bundaberg Rum , United Distillers Australia is the largest wholesale spirit distributor in Australasia , with over 40% share of the Scotch market and over 42% of the gin market .
19 The discussion has so far focused on the corporate purpose and thereby role of authorities in the new NHS .
20 To the earlier age belong the churches at Ravenna and those on the Istrian Peninsula and also Santa Sophia at Istanbul ; to the later , many of the Greek , Serbian and Russian churches as well as the Cathedral of S. Mark in Venice .
21 The factors which help to determine , in any situation , what the predominant culture and therefore organisation structure will/should include :
22 This month HIV and AIDS became a statutory part of the national curriculum and now schools have to teach it .
23 It is the present role and perhaps dominance of the tutor which is most usefully challenged .
24 For a FACSIMILE edition ( a photographic reprint of an old book ) , note both information relating to the current edition and also information relating to the original edition .
25 Beneath Denmark Street , west of the city centre , are extensive cellars , dating back to the thirteenth century and once part of an Augustinian monastery .
26 Maurice looked hurt at the very suggestion and suddenly Charlotte felt she was seeing beyond what had once been opaque but was now transparent into the cogs and coils of her brother 's mind .
27 You see the Iesus Hominis I H S. And then round that maria so Christ in the virgin womb and then Iesus round the outside .
28 Patients without endoscopic oesophagitis or with the presence of erosions at the distal oesophagus are younger , usually in the fourth decade and mainly women , while patients with Barrett 's oesophagus ( uncomplicated and complicated with ulcer and/ or stricture ) are significantly older ( usually in the fifth decade ) and mainly men .
29 If you are interested in finding out more about Midland Lifetime , just complete the attached form and either post or take it to your Midland branch .
30 A similar comparison of 1984 and 1992 child benefit rates , taking into account the increase in earnings , shows that the benefit from next April should be £12.55p per child ; instead it will be £9.65p for the first child and only £7.80p for each subsequent child .
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