Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Profits at Unilever are forecast to rise from £575m to around £595m for the third quarter . |
| 2 | DEC is trying to gain visibility for the 661 companies it says are converting programmes for Alpha RISC . |
| 3 | The prismed bomb aimer 's station provided excellent visibility for the pin-point accuracy required . |
| 4 | The staircase and walls are of white marble , with the addition of lapis lazuli for the geometrical floor pattern . |
| 5 | In the winter of 1956 , he was further irritated by problems with his teeth : he was about to have X-rays for the three which remained to him . |
| 6 | When Fokine developed his mimed dance and danced mime , the old dualism of dance and mime was largely eliminated , although twentieth-century choreographers still use the strictly academic technique as the firm basis of their design . |
| 7 | But ‘ Miserere nostri ’ is medieval in technique as the lovely ‘ Ave rosa sine spinis ’ is in feeling , and at his finest — as in the glorious antiphon ‘ Gaude gloriosa Dei mater ’ — we hear him as the heir of the Eton composers , not of Josquin . |
| 8 | East Germany , where the lingering Protestant work ethic marched shoulder to shoulder with Leninist concepts of electrification as the vitalizing force that would change society , has the world 's highest per capita emissions of sulphur dioxide and carbon dioxide . |
| 9 | Monsignore de Haerne had previously already founded Catholic institutions for the deaf in Belgium , France and Portugal and was later to found one in India . |
| 10 | Students turned against their universities and universities are the most important institutions for the professional-managerial class . |
| 11 | Instructions were given for easing the routines in homes and institutions for the elderly . |
| 12 | For example , the local authorities implementing the Griffiths Report on Care in the Community ( 1988 ) are dependent on central government making the resources available to complete the changes from long-stay institutions for the elderly to community care . |
| 13 | Six weeks later a great demonstration in the Royal Albert Hall demanded the establishment of a Merchant Seamen 's League to put the boycott into effect and " to assist them in maintaining their benevolent institutions for the aged and infirm " A short time ago , he declared in 1918 , he had received a document from four leading German trade unionists attempting to justify the U-boat campaign by arguing that " only a campaign of frightfulness against the British and neutral vessels trading to ports in the United Kingdom and the starving of the people of the British Isles would bring the war to a speedy close " . |
| 14 | It is true that they set up the great caring institutions for the poor , the handicapped and the sick — forerunners of the welfare state . |
| 15 | the extent to which the family took on responsibility from other institutions for the poor , the sick , the old and the unemployed . |
| 16 | Sometimes they were envisaged as semi-penal institutions for the unregenerated poor . |
| 17 | Small investors will pay less than institutions for the first instalment though how much less will not be known until June 29 after the international offer closes . |
| 18 | Small investors will pay less than institutions for the first instalment , although how much less will not be known until June 29 after the international offer closes . |
| 19 | The frustrations and criticisms arose from clear enough aspirations on the part of institutions for the maximum attainable independence — but far from agreed as a concept within institutions and organizations . |
| 20 | ‘ What I have been interested to witness over the last year to 18 months is a newly confident Left in the Socialist International saying we have a common formulation about the best way to proceed . |
| 21 | The exhibit 's called ’ Yellow Peril ’ , and is supposed to question the way we in the west think about the Chinese . |
| 22 | He was recruited because a man could not be found to act as porter for the annual salary of £27 . |
| 23 | In another entry the master had sent the porter for the medical officer at three o'clock in the morning to attend a single woman in childbirth . |
| 24 | Mr Bullins , porter at Magdalen College for forty years , and senior porter for the last ten , put on his bowler hat and the bland expression he always assumed on such occasions , and walked to staircase III in New Buildings , overlooking the Deer Park , where E. A. J. de Chavigny had some of the most desirable rooms in college . |
| 25 | The request was first submitted a number of months ago , but all attempts through the usual channels have failed . |
| 26 | One of the authors lived in St Helens for the last three weeks of the strike , becoming as immersed as possible in all aspects of the activities of the strike committee . |
| 27 | One hang-up for the profit-motivated British garage is that they feel it is not worth taking on work for less than a tenner . |
| 28 | But one can not overlook the point that all other known medieval European versions of this tale , written in or translated from Latin prose , present it as a moral example ; it can be allegorized , with the housewife as the Christian soul , the absent husband Christ , the lover worldly vanity , the procuress the Devil . |
| 29 | The field-work for the first was conducted in 1964 as part of the research for the Committee on the Management of Local Government . |
| 30 | It 's identified generally with many of the glories of bourgeois cooking through the 18th and 19th centuries . |