Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were footsteps outside the door , and a trilling laugh that Paige recognised the merest instant before the door was thrust open and Drew came in , a giggling Lori attached to his arm . |
| 2 | It 's the very essence of human beings to call in question every form of life , every form of thought , and to raise the possibility of thinking and living in some other way , and perhaps just for this very reason , some final and definitive formulation of the , of human nature , of human knowledge , of human conduct , is in principle unobtainable , and that the best that the philosopher can ever hope to do , is to show that this formulation , that formulation or the other wo n't work . |
| 3 | In mid-turn all the weight will be on the inside foot whilst the other remains in the strap . |
| 4 | He had the unfinished nocturne and the portrait . |
| 5 | A consequence of this decision could have been the creation of evidence that the project was merely an exercise in ‘ façadism ’ — the policy of retaining only the external skin of a building as a ‘ screen wall ’ to new accommodation , which often creates a disagreeable distinction between the ‘ stage set ’ of the preserved shell and the entirely rebuilt interior . |
| 6 | To obtain additional internal volume and a satisfactory relationship between new floor levels and existing or modified window openings , the original ground floor , which consisted of two panels of suspended timber construction under the areas formerly accommodating pews , separated and flanked by strips of tiled floor on a solid base where the gangways ran , was removed to give a further 400mm ( 16in ) of height . |
| 7 | POLICIES for agricultural support and the environment need to work together to the mutual benefit of farming and the countryside . |
| 8 | POLICIES for agricultural support and the environment need to work together to the mutual benefit of farming and the countryside . |
| 9 | Claiming that the landscape was created by farmers and can only be maintained by farming , she added : ‘ Our policies for agricultural support and the environment need to work together , to the mutual benefit of our farming industry and of our countryside . ’ |
| 10 | Registration can be confidently expected to occur in due course unless the company 's articles impose restrictions on the transferability of its shares . |
| 11 | This situation will change in due course as the younger generation becomes less and less involved in traditional family businesses and educational standards continue to improve , but for the foreseeable future job opportunities will exist for most nationalities in those parts of the Middle East where local populations are insufficient to meet the labour requirements of commerce and industry . |
| 12 | In the event that no single party enjoys an overall majority in the Commons then the issue of sending for the Prime Minister and refusing a dissolution become matters so charged with political manoeuvring that the Crown would be drawn into politics in a public way that would be bound to invite a keener scrutiny as to what should be her proper role within the British constitution . |
| 13 | Thus , the NSC had before it the State Department 's political assessment that the area was , to repeat , ‘ the target of a co-ordinated offensive plainly directed by the Kremlin' . |
| 14 | In Western cooking such a mixture can add zing to almost anything from scrambled eggs to vegetables , soups , stews and sauces and poached or baked fruits , with the grateful advantage that the result will not taste as though you have succumbed to panic and thrown in a spoonful of curry powder . |
| 15 | It was on a lower level than the rest of the works and was lit by windows which ran the length of the wall facing the doorway . |
| 16 | Again the forecast shows cycles , but this time the worst-case curve shows that each successive peak is at a lower level than the one before and each successive trough is deeper . |
| 17 | The aisle is roofed at a lower level than the nave and the triforia have the function of masking the lean-to roofs which cover these vaults . |
| 18 | Pots will be attractive here and the pool acts as a real focal point , set within a brick circle at a slightly lower level than the patio . |
| 19 | That was a case in which the house had a path running to the steps which went up to the road , the house being at a lower level than the road , and the plaintiff met with an accident on those steps … |
| 20 | They took the escalator down to the lower level and the Grillapolis café . |
| 21 | The judge having reviewed the relevant authorities said that a contract which contains an unenforceable provision nevertheless remains effective after removal of the severance of that provision if the following conditions are satisfied : ( a ) The enenforceable provision is capable of being removed without the necessity of adding to or modifying the wording of what remains . |
| 22 | The attempts to enter ‘ Europe ’ in 1961 , 1967 , and finally in 1973 were always accompanied by a sense of economic weakness and the perils of isolation . |
| 23 | IBM claims that the Power/4 implements a unique parallel processing architecture , with memory bottlenecks reduced by the use of local memory for each processor in addition to shared system memory , eliminating the need for continuous updating of the cache for each processor unless the data is actually shared . |
| 24 | All this reflected a recognition at the highest political level that the country 's foreign relations must include , at least for the time being and probably permanently , an unprecedented effort to shape and direct opinion abroad . |
| 25 | The concessions impressed the public , but were worthless without a new policy decision at the same political level as the original one to re-introduce interrogation-in-depth techniques . |
| 26 | Some analysts were gloomily looking to the FT-SE 100 index to fall below the 2,200 level if the 15 per cent base rate is maintained for any length of time . |
| 27 | A set of six Louis XV fauteuils attributed to Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot are expected to realize FFr4–6m ( £400–600,000 ; $700,000–1m ) and two Louis XV lacquer commodes , one in European lacquer and the other in Chinese , probably by Jacques Dubois , bear the estimate of FFr2–3m ( £200–300,000 ; $350–530,000 ) . |
| 28 | O. setosa is recognisable by the skin covering of the disk , the low density of granule-like armament , the shape of the oral shield and the glassy arm spines . |
| 29 | It can be distinguished by the form of the disk armament , the shape of the oral shield and the lack of transverse striations on the ventral and lateral arm plates ( see Table 1 ) . |
| 30 | O. parcita can be distinguished from the other species which have striations on the ventral and lateral arm plates by the shape of the adoral and oral shield and the arm ( see Table 1 ) . |