Example sentences of "the [adj] [vb base] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French make their main rotors turn clockwise when viewed from above . |
| 2 | The Japanese have their own version of English . |
| 3 | THE New Zealand Rugby League tourists must envy the amount of publicity — and the financial rewards — currently being enjoyed by their countrymen from the unsullied ‘ amateur ’ world of Rugby Union as the latter grind their remorseless way around Wales and Ireland . |
| 4 | The latter constitute our epistemological foundations , the former the superstructure built on those foundations . |
| 5 | Grandparents introduce grandchildren to the simple pleasures of ‘ feeding the ducks ’ ; photographers and artists appreciate views of birds in close up ; the visually handicapped can follow a braille trail ; the disabled have their own boardwalk and comfortable hide ; the Tropical House offers an impression , in miniature , of a tropical rain forest where brilliant humming birds hover at hibiscus flowers . |
| 6 | There will be no such margin of error for any international force called upon to keep Kampuchea 's fiercely warring factions apart when the Vietnamese withdraw their occupying army in September ( see page 63 ) . |
| 7 | Today the most difficult and controversial questions about the depression of the 1930s concern its deeper causes , domestic and international . |
| 8 | This is due to the fact that the mother will have shed her coat , while the young retain their fluffy coat which appears to increase their body size . |