Example sentences of "the [det] [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must confess that I have not the least idea what this phrase could mean in an orthodox Christian context . |
| 2 | And rather alarmingly in a third , she lay flat on the balustrade of the gallery with one leg pointing towards a portrait of the Duke of Wellington who , with Lord Palmerston , was one of the few statesmen whose private life had been sufficiently scandalous to qualify him to be a ffeatherstonehaugh hero . |
| 3 | This is just one of the many incidents which local residents have warned about all this time . |
| 4 | The latter gains its incisive bite from a performance by Peter Sellers as the Machiavellian union chief Fred Kite , but too many of the other Boulting films take facile swipes at absent-minded professors or barristers , and ignorant , lazy bureaucrats . |
| 5 | She travelled in a chariot drawn by cats , the latter being her sacred animal symbol and familiars . |
| 6 | Some day , she supposed , Fen would be setting up home there with his girlfriend , and the less she knew about the interior of Chimneys the less material her jealous imagination would have to fester upon . |
| 7 | The more citations their earlier work received , the more often they continued being productive . |
| 8 | That last statement sounds uncharacteristically naive on the part of the former stockbroker whose shrewd reading of the form book has been greatly instrumental in providing the wherewithal to build possibly the most up-to-date training establishment north of Watford Gap . |
| 9 | In much the same way our curatorial concern for software centres on the external physical record of programs and data-coding sheets , punched paper tape , punched cards , flowcharts , manuals , magnetic discs , publicity literature i.e. the distinct physical media of creation , representation , distribution , and storage . |
| 10 | In much the same vein his contemporary Macaulay wrote that " institutions purely democratic must , sooner or later , destroy liberty , or civilization , or both . " |
| 11 | Three years later Hicks was dead and in the same year his eldest son , John Phillimore Hicks also died . |
| 12 | The same man whose golden-brown eyes had tormented her dreams … |
| 13 | It may also be the same man who last month raped a mother who was pushing a pram at Tarrant , Hants . |
| 14 | To some extent , the Boilerhouse succeeded in attracting new audiences to the V&A ; at the same time its five-year relationship with an important national museum attracted invaluable coverage and prestige for the privately funded Design Museum which was the successor to the Conran Boilerhouse . |
| 15 | At the same time her deep sense of duty and obligation impelled her to keep up appearances for the sake of the public . |
| 16 | At the same time her groping fingers felt emptiness and she knew where she was . |
| 17 | The nobility readily supported the king 's ‘ just quarrel ’ , but at the same time their military importance was greatly enhanced , the financial relationship between the king and the nobles moved substantially in favour of the nobles , and both the profits of war and the generosity of the crown enabled them to extend and safeguard their inheritances . |
| 18 | Everyone renewing their membership in 1987 will receive a surprise free gift as a ‘ thank-you ’ for their continuing support , and — for 1987 only — if you can enrol five totally new members all at the same time your own membership will be free . |
| 19 | About the same time his second son Daniel [ q.v. ] , |
| 20 | At the same time his pathological detestation of ‘ popery ’ guaranteed that he would vote with the Whigs over great questions of policy , such as the Hanoverian succession and the war with France . |
| 21 | In this way not only are the expenses of ( the worker 's ) reproduction considerably lessened , but at the same time his helpless dependence upon the factory as a whole , and therefore upon the capitalist , is rendered complete ’ ( ibid. , p. 547 ) . |
| 22 | His final letters from Aden , for example , although highlighting his fascination with " bolshevik mysticism " , record at the same time his growing interest in another potential outlet for his talents and energies a business entrepreneurial career in the shipping line of Antonin Besse , his erstwhile benefactor in Aden . |
| 23 | At the same time his specialised senses detected an overpowering impression of money . |
| 24 | Brian Wilson , the former Beach Boy who ingested Grade A drugs at the same rate his fellow Californians gulped down vitamins has brought out his autobiography . |
| 25 | When two bodies attempt to exist within the same sub-space their functional association needs to be checked . |
| 26 | The same population which hero-worshipped Hitler would not tolerate ‘ little tin-pot gods ( Nebengötter ) alongside the Führer ’ , and wanted an end to ‘ this glorification of persons who would otherwise practically be nobodies ’ and to the uncalled for luxury-living in a Party which had come to power stating that it would wipe out such corruption . |