Example sentences of "the [adj] [adj] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The top five retained their relative positions , but the top three increased their distance from the pack — Digital Equipment Corp was the only top company to experience a decrease in revenues , which slid from $1bn to $800m . |
| 2 | Do not the figures reveal that those independent oil analysts who , in the early and middle 1980s , forecast a substantial depletion of United Kingdom resources in the early 1990s got it wrong ? |
| 3 | The latter survey , while a substantial one , possibly came too soon after the reforms of the early 1980s to detect their full impact . |
| 4 | And yet there you stand , gloating , without even the self-command necessary to remove your outer clothes and leave the shopping basket behind before rushing in here . ’ |
| 5 | As the Tory faithful trumpeted their green credibility in the Winter Gardens , Ann Taylor , the Labour environment spokeswoman , was on Blackpool beach amusing photographers and terrifying holidaymakers by paddling in the shallows in a white laboratory coat and protective wellingtons . |
| 6 | The SystemPro series based on the full 80486 has its own Triflex Architecture , comes with fault-tolerance functions and is priced in Japan at from $14,400 . |
| 7 | The debate was inflamed by rumours of Bolshevik backing for the Labour party and the publication of the so-called Zinoviev Letter , in which the Communist International instructed its British members to infiltrate the Labour party and the trades unions . |
| 8 | The affair was in some ways summed up by photographs that appeared in the media in June 1978 of gardai forcing their way past a picket of women and children to allow the American multinational to dump its deadly waste . |
| 9 | In Edinburgh , he managed to get the Danes back on board by winning agreement from the other 10 to give them special ‘ opt-outs ’ to encourage a yes vote to Maastricht . |
| 10 | As the other four offered their own inimitable advice , the police hustled the Celtic defender downstairs and out into the streets where he was thrown over the bonnet of a police car . |
| 11 | LUCA CUMANI improved his impressive Brighton record when the strapping Declassified made it 22 winners from 40 runners at the track in five years for the Newmarket trainer . |