Example sentences of "and [art] [adj] [noun pl] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sample C is attached firmly at each end to a strain gauge ; one of these is a force transducer measuring the applied sinusoidal force and the other records the sample deformation . |
| 2 | One of them goes round putting the chimneys on and the other checks the flue . |
| 3 | Perhaps the Masai have taboos against fellatio and the other things the French , with their gastronomic traditions , favour in the sexual realm . |
| 4 | In 1984 the Lords objected to Conservative proposals to abandon elections for the GLC and the metropolitan counties the Government intended to abolish . |
| 5 | With the evolution of multicellular organisms , both the range of possible behaviours and the organizational problems the organism has to solve increase . |
| 6 | In similar circumstances in previous elections the dissatisfied Tories would have given the Liberals and the Social Democrats the benefit of their protest . |
| 7 | One might surmise that Dame Sirith was written to create and fill a brief space of moral relaxation for an audience who knew well both the moral and the social conventions the tale plays with . |
| 8 | But here we have a situation where proxy votes from the manager of Woolworths and the local Boots the Chemist , have steamrollered through this motion . ’ |
| 9 | Both for the nocturnal owls and the diurnal raptors the sample of predator species has been designed to encompass as wide a range as possible for body weight and pellet size . |
| 10 | But alike in the British and the American traditions the expectation that the poet would have a message was so ingrained that even by those readers most alert to and informed about Eliot 's French connections The Waste Land was still thought to deliver an urgent signal — usually about the bankruptcy of the European , or the Western , cultural and civic traditions . |
| 11 | By 1975–76 it had risen to £10.3 billion — two and a half times the level inherited from the Conservatives just two years earlier . |
| 12 | This year 's spending of £6.5 million is four and a half times the level of two years ago . |
| 13 | but I , I disagree with them lending money to the extent , the old way was better when it was two and a half times the salary , your salary |
| 14 | In , the typical overhead of indexes and related files leads to a final size of about two and a half times the size of the corresponding serial file . |
| 15 | artwork one and a half times the size which it will be reproduced . |
| 16 | The swollen testis was two and a half times the size of the normal one and very hard . |
| 17 | It is going to be nine and a half times the footprint of Hambleton three and a half times the footprint of Brayton Bath it will tower in its mass beside them and it is totally unreasonable and wrong for anybody to describe it as merely of local concern . |
| 18 | It is going to be nine and a half times the footprint of Hambleton three and a half times the footprint of Brayton Bath it will tower in its mass beside them and it is totally unreasonable and wrong for anybody to describe it as merely of local concern . |
| 19 | Chandrasekhar calculated that a cold star of more than about one and a half times the mass of the sun would not be able to support itself against its own gravity . |
| 20 | This tape will achieve a satisfactory curtain fullness with a minimum of one and a half times the track length using a thick fabric , but double fullness is preferable , particularly with lightweight fabrics . |
| 21 | It needs fabric fullness of two and a quarter to two and a half times the track length , depending on the thickness of the fabric . |
| 22 | A detachable lining which can be removed and washed separately need not use the same fullness as the outer curtain ; one and a half times the track length can be sufficient . |
| 23 | Including these tremendously long towels which are er one and a half times the length of the table because they have to go over everybody 's lap as a napkin kind of communal napkin . |
| 24 | Suicides by vets are more than three and a half times the average for all groups , says the latest issue of Population Trends from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys . |
| 25 | Yes , it used to be two and a half times the wage and in the long run rather than mess about taking the house off them |
| 26 | Boots ( retail division ) may consider giving employees moving from low-cost to high-cost areas a loan of up to a maximum of one and a half times the employee 's expected first year 's gross salary . |
| 27 | For four and a half centuries the village and manor have belonged to the Earls of Pembroke . |
| 28 | He goes on to argue that the bourgeoisie have always used sections from within the ‘ dangerous classes ’ to control those who are overtly troublesome , perhaps following the maxim that ‘ it takes a thief to catch a thief ’ , when he argues : ‘ for one and a half centuries the bourgeoisie offered the following choices : you can go to prison or join the Army ; you can go to prison or go to the colonies ; you can go to prison or you can join the police ’ ( ibid. 23 ) . |
| 29 | For two and a half years the Empire was subjected to heavy casualties on the battlefield , acute economic austerity , and massive social dislocation . |
| 30 | My Lords , for about two and a half years the defendant , Mr. Gary Thomas , made his home with his brother Webster in a council house 29 , Juniper Court , Morris Road , London , E.15 which belonged to and was let by the respondent local authority the Waltham Forest London Borough Council ( ‘ the plaintiffs ’ ) to Webster . |