Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A word that coins the same message . |
| 2 | CITY share strategists believe that if Labour forms the next government , or leads a coalition government in a hung Parliament , investment sentiment will swing away from companies linked to the British economy in favour of those making the bulk of their profits overseas . |
| 3 | The number density of energetic ions and electrons is so high that were you or I to cross the belt we would receive 500 times the lethal dose of such particles . |
| 4 | By Friday 8 July residents of Camelford were being supplied with water at up to 500 times the Maximum Admissible Concentration under the EC Drinking Water Directive of 200 ug/litre ( 0.2 mg/litre ) . |
| 5 | It seems likely that in very primitive multicellular forms the main mode of communication was chemical — a substance released by one cell , say signalling for the cell to contract , could fairly quickly diffuse to other cells , ensuring that they too contracted . |
| 6 | In an experiment carried out by Anthony Arak , a zoologist from Cambridge University , the large calling male was removed from ten groups ; in eight cases the other group members dispersed . |
| 7 | From Norman times the local keeper of the peace was termed Constable , his duties consisting of ensuring the upkeep of prisons , stocks etc. , and assisting the church warden in seeing the villagers attended church regularly . |
| 8 | The net electrical output from the plant 's four units is 3498 megawatts — enough to supply 4.5 times the present power demand of Gothenburg , Sweden 's second-largest city . |
| 9 | The underlying balance-of-payments problems stemmed essentially from the scale of government overseas expenditure and foreign investment , these amounting to more than eight times the aggregate current account deficit for 1946–50 ( see Table 1 ) . |
| 10 | Those that will demand up to eight times the usual premium . |
| 11 | Protestors complained of forms being resold at eight times the original price , and accused officials of reserving share applications for family and friends . |
| 12 | Nothing would have induced me to part now except an overwhelming sense that the course of action which has been pursued has put the country- and not merely the country , but throughout the world , the principles for which you and I have always stood throughout our political lives-in the greatest peril that has ever overtaken them . |
| 13 | Georges Bookshop in Bristol sold 762 copies during the signing and 70 copies the following day . |
| 14 | When Jazz was in bed , lying staring at the strange patterns the lime-tree leaves , illuminated by the lamp-post , made on his bedroom ceiling , his father came up to him , moving softly round the door . |
| 15 | In the north , the courts of barons and kings were ousting them , though even in feudal courts the ultimate authority of the body of ‘ suitors ’ continued to be widely recognized . |
| 16 | Moreover , for geographic reasons the strategic benefits of Cam Ranh Bay in peacetime are likely to turn into a liability during war . |
| 17 | Heavily dependent on foreign aid , the government launched in 1990 a second three-year programme for economic rehabilitation ( with agricultural exports the key sector ) , supported by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) which promised $112,800,000 in June . |
| 18 | The working conceptions the individual holds of authority and , by extension , organization , no matter how much overlaid by experiences and learning about management , are based on his early experiences of his family and authority figures , such as parents and teachers . |
| 19 | Mr. Kinnock has pledged to limit classes to a maximum of forty pupils if Labour wins the General Election . |
| 20 | THE future of Darlington 's colleges would come under threat if Labour wins the general election , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 21 | In the normal subjects the fasted mean serum APGPR concentration was at the detection limit of the assay but postprandially two peaks of APGPR immunoreactivity were seen in the first and second hours after the start of the meal ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 22 | Assuming , as is often the case , incompressibility so that the values of E(p) and v(p) may be obtained : Substituting these back in the expressions for and and performing the inverse transform if possible yields the time-dependent forms of the radial and transverse stresses . |
| 23 | He folded his arms , leaned back in his chair , sighed , devoured with his sad , sunken eyes the writhing girl . |
| 24 | Nationally the Liberals , chaired by David Moorish and boasting a logo that resembles something from the side of a soap powder box , will field around 70 candidates the next nearest is in Leeds . |
| 25 | After eight months the Chinese said we were going to be tried , but one month before the trial we were released . |
| 26 | In the intervening months the Labour Party has built up a range of policies for education , science and industry which will help Britain build the strong , competitive economy it so desperately needs . |
| 27 | And I know she knows , but I worry that maybe I have n't said the right words the right way . |
| 28 | ‘ Callanish , I can hear you calling out to me … ’ and as she spoke these strange words the looming bench and drifting bin seemed to Creggan to grow larger and taller and darker , and he was afraid . |
| 29 | What makes Front Line Africa controversial is also what makes it particularly useful — that a third of it is entirely devoted to the political and economic steps the rich world can and should take to hasten the end of apartheid . |
| 30 | Fran regretted her hasty words the very moment she saw the way his mouth thinned into a cold anger . |