Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Dr James I. Packer describes ‘ adoption ’ as ‘ the highest privilege that the gospel offers ; higher even than justification ’ ( packer 1973:230 ) .
2 It was well known amongst that elite of which he was a part that the Chairman detested news of crisis .
3 It even seems to be capable of converting the fonts across by rasterising them and taking them across as a bitmap that the film recorder will image as a graphic .
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5 It really is a bit odd the way those two bits of the wood do not connect .
6 The usual proxy for the market in the UK is the FT All Share Index and this may also be found in the r m S. For October-December 1986 the return on the market was 28 per cent and the standard deviation of this was 14 per cent .
7 In March 1980 the state began to react to local concern .
8 It it it 's not the sort of thing when the gas man calls that the man is being having a gun pointed at him he says wait a minute can I see your card please .
9 This includes ensuring that a proper market and proper information exist for the products that the exchange trades ; and that transactions are properly recorded .
10 In the year of assessment 1993/94 the trust has income of £50,000 .
11 On March 12 the government announced the further postponement of the presidential elections [ see p. 38754 ] to allow candidates sufficient time to campaign throughout the country .
12 Sanctions remained in force , although on March 22 the Security Council 's sanctions committee did announce that humanitarian aid would be approved for Iraq under the terms of the original sanctions resolution ( 661 of Aug. 6 , 1990 — see p. 37639 ] in view of the circumstances of the threat of famine and epidemic .
13 On March 22 the captain of the oil tanker Exxon Valdez , Joseph Hazelwood , was acquitted of three major charges and convicted of one misdemeanour in connection with the oil spill caused by his vessel off the Alaskan coast in March 1989 , the worst in US history [ see pp. 36541 , 36606 ] .
14 But I shall never lead a normal life because I 'm so short — we 're both short — that 's why Tilda stands on the deck half the day , it 's because somebody told her that you only grow taller while you 're standing up .
15 Lot six a Canton card case this the card case showing I 've got several offers I 've got to start at three hundred pounds got that in several places three hund three twenty , three fifty , eighty , four hundred I bid four hundred , four twenty , four fifty at four hundred and fifty pounds , anybody else ?
16 You know , I sit in my stockroom half the day with my electric kettle and a fag and a cup of coffee .
17 If an electron jumps from an orbit n to the orbit with n 2 the loss of energy is
18 By taking six simple steps you could make your home snug fur half the price .
19 By March 1985 the figure had fallen to 21 per cent .
20 From September until the end of March 1993 the organisation will be following through a plan of restructuring and its constant search to find future funding for both its core activities and to develop further aspects of its collection and educational work .
21 At 31 March 1993 the company had 12 members who are the directors .
22 From March 1993 the project and construction management activities of Wimpey Construction Management will operate in the UK under the Grove name as the Management Division of GROVE PROJECTS .
23 In part 2 the author has given you the option of turning off those infuriating flashing lasers and electric grills , which I found helped me to think a little easier but , alas , did n't help me in solving the problem .
24 SCHEDULE 1 Part 2 The Student Disks
25 Wolves 1 Middlesbrough 2 THE final 25 minutes of this nerve-wracking game must have been as dramatic as any in Middlesbrough 's history .
26 John Pullen , of London Zoo , said : ‘ There 's no way a chimp could understand which company to go for , it has to be complete luck — but then what I understand of trading in that way sounds like complete luck half the time . ’
27 On March 2 the trial of 21 police and Securitate officers began in Timisoara .
28 On March 2 the Bank of Spain assumed responsibility for Banco Ibercorp , the merchant bank of Ibercorp , which was in deep financial difficulties and had failed to find a buyer .
29 As the temperature drops towards T 2 the number of available configurational states in the system decreases until at the temperature T 2 the system possesses only one degree of freedom .
30 As the temperature drops towards T 2 the number of available configurational states in the system decreases until at the temperature T 2 the system possesses only one degree of freedom .
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