Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gordon and I sit at a table as the old snowys sup their milk stouts and get ready to cross the road to the theatre , where several stars of television are about to perform the fabulous musical My Fair Lady . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm afraid Guy 's not here right now , ’ Virginia began as evenly as she could , painfully conscious of the debauched image her tousled appearance must present . |
| 3 | Quite apart from the question of the right of return , or even the strong feelings which this issue engenders , there are compelling physical and economic reasons for at least a partial return . |
| 4 | Figure 3.1 shows the joint variation of the two properties we have been talking about , and , of course , the possible values which any unit can take . |
| 5 | In a real way , the mass media give political systems their contemporary form and operational concepts within the political system their contemporary flavour . |
| 6 | At a press conference , also yesterday , given by leaders of a loose coalition of anti-apartheid organisations known as the Mass Democratic Movement ( MDM ) , the point was restated that the political prisoners whose unconditional release Mr de Klerk announced on Tuesday — the exact day they will be out is not known yet — would take up their political activities under the banner of the ANC . |
| 7 | The political power which some women have exercised sometimes and in some places in the past and other societies has derived from their position in a familial or kinship group . |
| 8 | And may the odd knife his great carcass dissect ; Lay open his vitals for all to inspect A heart full as black as the infernal gulf In that greedy , blood-sucking , bone scraping wolf . |
| 9 | Warbirds of Norway 's Vampire , former Swiss J-1146 , has gained nose-art in character with the odd nose her last operators gave her . |
| 10 | Behind them , she envisaged the faces of the Committee for the Preservation of Morals , as she had last seen them , glistening with almost sadistic anticipation of the crushing of the young author and of giving Mr Pascall and the cigar-store merchants their proper comeuppances . |
| 11 | Given the turbulent times which still afflict the industry , this is a remarkable achievement . |
| 12 | That 's the admirable way our good Lord arranged it , did n't he ? |
| 13 | But already we can see one most unexpected and surprising consequence of this : if what we may call the phallic or Oedipal trauma came first in human cultural history and was the original event from which all else flowed , then in terms of individual psychosexual development it follows last , preceded by the oral stage whose cultural equivalent succeeded it ! |
| 14 | Thinking , then , of the novelistic discourse as a definite and historically extensive genre , I would suggest that the specific contribution which cinematic variations of the discourse made to the genre may have been the cut . |
| 15 | But the people who suffer , again , are the poor — the shanty-town dwellers who can afford less food because the subsidy has disappeared overnight ; the rural villagers whose primary health post stands empty ; the children who emulate the illiteracy and ignorance of their grandparents rather than their better educated parents . |
| 16 | If Douglas 's brutality epitomizes racial , cultural , and sexual domination in its most callously direct form , Gide 's self-description of remaining in the security of his room , considering it wiser not to intervene , becomes a resonant image of the hesitant complicities which most kinds of brutality and exploitation presuppose and in which most of us are implicated . |
| 17 | In no sense was the new para-professional a threat to teachers , therefore , nor did he detract from or erode the professional autonomy which British teachers enjoy . |
| 18 | It concerns the inherent power which any court of justice must possess to prevent misuse of its procedure in a way which , although not inconsistent with the literal application of its procedural rules , would nevertheless be manifestly unfair to a party to litigation before it , or would otherwise bring the administration of justice into disrepute among right-thinking people . |
| 19 | A YEAR can be a short time in politics , especially in the case of the Labour Party whose internal workings are often slow to react to external stimuli . |
| 20 | The discussion of military issues was postponed until February , but delegates did agree the military oaths for servicemen in the CIS strategic forces , and in the armed forces which seven states were to have in common ( i.e. not Ukraine , Byelarus , Azerbaijan , Moldova ) . |
| 21 | Many different explanations have been put forward , but the similarity of many of the cup-and-ring carvings to such diverse phenomena as lines found by dowsers and the symbols used to describe sacred places in Australia and elsewhere , suggests strongly that they represent aspects of the non-physical reality which ancient people could see . |
| 22 | Among the controversial issues which any negotiations would have to address were the following [ see also p. 36837 for so-called " Harare declaration " on ANC proposals for future negotiations , and p. 36912 for earlier policy guidelines ] : ( i ) nationalization : in press interviews in the days following his release , Mandela had reasserted the ANC 's stated policy of nationalizing certain sectors of the economy , including mines — this immediately provoked sharp falls on South African financial markets [ see also p. 37176 ] ; ( ii ) the armed struggle : Mandela had refused to renounce this policy , repeating on Feb. 14 that government installations were legitimate targets for sabotage [ ibid. ] ; ( iii ) power-sharing : the government and the ANC still appeared to be a long way apart on interpretation — the ANC for its part was not prepared to accept an arrangement similar to the current tri-cameral parliament ; ( iv ) sanctions : Mandela had already stated that " the conditions for which sanctions are being applied still exist " and thus there was no need for a review of the question [ for UK Prime Minister 's unilateral decision to break EC agreement on voluntary sanctions see below ] . |
| 23 | THE monolithic facade which Eastern Europe once presented to the world never seemed the same after West Bromwich Albion visited Bucharest in 1968 to play a Cup Winners ' Cup match against Dinamo in the August 23 Stadium , where it was rarely the 23rd and seldom felt like August . |
| 24 | Home was a casserole dish for a week until I purchased the usual bowl which many goldfish start off with . |
| 25 | His policy of moving towards a more liberal regime led to the usual situation which such changes produce , that is , for the reformers he did not go far enough , for the conservatives he went too far . |
| 26 | And so behaviourist weight loss programmes offer both women and men the possibility of replacing the feminine body which excess weight represents , with a more masculine , in-control one , which will also provide women with some female-specific gains ( e.g. Rachlin 1980 ) . |
| 27 | Within this perceptual framework , White women are frequently seen as agents in the narrative disruption which Black people initiate : it is the ‘ skirts ’ whose sexuality in one form or another is out of control or misplaced . |
| 28 | With ‘ Come gentle swains ’ ( xxiv ) Cavendish has the distinction of being the first composer to introduce into a printed collection the English refrain which three years later concluded every composition in Morley 's collection dedicated to Elizabeth I , The Triumphs of Oriana ( 1601 ) : then sang the shepherds and nimphes of Diana Long live faire Oriana . |
| 29 | Within the marine environment itself some palaeontologists believe that the overall richness of the marine fauna was established early on , say by the Silurian period , and that there has not been a great increase in the total number of species living in the sea at any one time since then , although of course the kinds of organisms inhabiting the sea have changed many times . |
| 30 | What is clear is that civic or community pride — essential if urban decline is not to turn into urban collapse — and the view of local government as an honourable profession , can not survive unless the public service which local authorities provide rests on principles of local democracy . |