Example sentences of "the [adj] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose that the orbital radii are rx and rG for Cygnus X-1 and the blue supergiant respectively , and that the normal to the orbital plane is tilted at an angle i with respect to our line of sight . |
| 2 | Others are working with the displaced in the internal refuges run by the church . |
| 3 | The unemployment rates among married heads of household moving from the owner-occupied to the local authority sector is about six times the rate of those moving in the opposite direction ( Murphy and Sullivan , 1986 ) . |
| 4 | The stimuli may have remained the same but almost all other aspects of the training situation were radically altered in the shift from the simultaneous to the successive procedure . |
| 5 | Other experimenters have varied the procedure , following Lawrence in training subjects on two discrimination tasks involving the same stimuli but changing the response requirement not by changing from the simultaneous to the successive arrangement but in some other way . |
| 6 | The so-called Anabaptists ' take-over of Munster in 1536 became for more than a century afterwards a byword among the respectable for the supposed anarchy , savagery and madness which were bound to result if ever the " multitude " gained political power . |
| 7 | They have been collecting tins from their customers to help the needy in the Russian town of Kostroma , which is twinned with County Durham . |
| 8 | Milkmen have been collecting tinned foods and medicine from their customers to help the needy in the Russian town of Kostroma , which is twinned with County Durham . |
| 9 | When the 27-hour non-stop TV spectacular was last staged in 1990 , the Hampshire people proved as dotty as anyone in the bizarre ways they raised cash for the needy in the local community . |
| 10 | This feature sharply distinguishes the repressive from the aggressive stance towards the dispute , which consists in holists and individualists giving incompatible answers to the questions they address , each set grounded on a prior commitment to their own approach . |
| 11 | Is it really beyond the realms of the possible for the international community to put any tangible pressure on Ceausescu ? |
| 12 | The department offers opportunities for postgraduate study in all areas of systematic theology from the Patristic to the Mediaeval era ; from the Reformation to modern times ; in philosophical theology , from the pre-Socratics to the encounter with modern humanist systems ; in comparative religion and the history and phenomenology of religions , and in such specialised topics as theology and ecology ; feminist theology ; theology and imagination ; theology in the post-modern world ; theology of world religions ; Celtic Christianity ; ecumenical theology ; and theology , ideology and culture ( representing some prominent research interests of current members of staff ) . |
| 13 | The railway is currently under construction and will be using the trackbed of the long-closed Newbury Railway , previously standard gauge and originally Brunel 's broad gauge . |
| 14 | His decision to do so , however , appears to have been motivated more by his belief that he had been personally insulted by the Spanish during the earlier marriage negotiations and by a romantic desire to restore his sister and brother-in-law to their inheritance than by any wish to display solidarity with the Protestant cause , which was crumbling away before the seemingly irresistible progress of the Hapsburg armies . |
| 15 | Mrs Smelley did n't think he should have gone until he had been called up , while Grace was still tending the wounded on the Western Front , so she did n't even know what he had done . |
| 16 | From my position at the entrance to the dug-out I could see the wounded in the sunken road in the same positions they were in before the shelling started . |
| 17 | Helicopters were bringing in supplies and evacuating the wounded from the blockaded city . |
| 18 | Since evidence suggests that humans also possess binocular cortical neurones and that their connections with the left and right eyes are susceptible to modification , as with the cat and monkey ( Aslin and Banks , 1978 ) , it is not difficult to see the possible extrapolation from the cellular to the hemispheric level ( see also Kinsbourne , 1975b ) . |
| 19 | The centralisation of political organisations means that the function of power and patronage is essentially vertical , running from the local , through the regional to the national level ; there is little need for a strong element of local community participation in order to keep political machines functioning . |
| 20 | Eleven years later the World Federation of the Deaf at the seventh Congress in Washington awarded him an International Solidarity Merit Award , and Gallaudet College , taking advantage of his presence made him the first recipient of a medallion for " outstanding international service to the deaf " , which he received at a special convention attended by the Vice-President of the United States . |
| 21 | Lowe continued his career until 1871 when he fell victim to a pulmonary disease which prevented him from joining the services for the deaf at the new St. Saviour 's Church . |
| 22 | Reaching the uninitiated with the sugared pill of commercialism is valid enough . |
| 23 | So you have on the one hand , handouts to the rich on the other hand , money taken from the poor . |
| 24 | and you 've got a group , the rich within the agricultural sector who are going to invest and they are more likely to invest in agriculture . |
| 25 | Later , with the shutters closed against the night , the four of them sat within the ingoing of the great fireplace of the hall , on two cushioned benches on either side of the glowing , hissing log fire . |
| 26 | In 1975 , for instance , journalists arriving in Beirut would invariably be told by the Lebanese of the halcyon days which had just ended , of the peaceful Phoenician land in which Christians and Muslims had shown the world that historically religious antagonists could live in peace . |
| 27 | It says much for the sang-froid of the practised musician that , despite the intrusion of a bomb hoax , both Dame Joan and the orchestra resumed the published programme as if no interruption had occurred . |
| 28 | Lost in the Musick of the whirling Flail , |
| 29 | Given that 100 companies are going under every week in the west midlands and that 1,000 companies are going under in England , Scotland and Wales , will the Secretary of State apologise to business and to the unemployed for the false promise throughout 1991 of a recovery which never materalised ? |
| 30 | It was the consummation of a campaign waged for five or six years to change the acceptable face of the unemployed into the unacceptable face of the scrounger . |