Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given this rather narrow political agenda the KJHG seeks , however , to address and overcome previous limitations primarily in the following areas : |
| 2 | Because my good lady 's always said , you married that bloody union the day you started work . |
| 3 | The sooner we get away from that bloody bank the better . |
| 4 | My first appearance had been in the Junior Indoor Championships the previous year , when I had been eliminated in the heats . |
| 5 | Could I enquire madam chairman er is the same areas on that specific document the same one as we agreed in nineteen ninety two ? |
| 6 | Although only a small minority of Europeans live in disadvantaged rural areas the land which they occupy constitutes as much as half of the total surface area of western Europe . |
| 7 | The performance of the instrument belies its humble price ; the action is even and consistent across all twenty-four frets , and even down to the relatively unflappable low B. The minimalist headstock and long top horn combine with the bass 's reasonable weight for a well-balanced and comfortable instrument , with total access to all frets an added bonus . |
| 8 | At each interim valuation the builder will pass the original nominated invoices received during the month to the quantity surveyor for inclusion in the interim certificate and payment . |
| 9 | If we take his timescale literally and approach the late 1870s and 1880s , and merely flick through the pages of Punch magazine — a sure guide to the pulse of respectable discontent in Victorian England — we have an uncanny experience of déjà vu , assailed by complaints of assaults by ‘ roughs ’ on London 's underground railway system ; riotous holiday excursions ; ‘ brutal assaults on elderly females ’ by frightful characters such as ‘ Burly Jack ’ , ‘ Bloodstained Bill ’ and ‘ Smashjaw Ned ’ ; the streets already disfigured by fights involving ‘ the too free use of that popular institution the British boot ’ . |
| 10 | She gulped down the Martini offered to her and sat down on the sofa by Penelope , who edged away into her corner , recognising in Robina Fairfax 's shapeless grey woollen dress and strings of painted wooden beads the kind of woman she sometimes met at her landlady 's ‘ evenings ’ . |
| 11 | Any grubby social thoughts the film might have evoked can be swiftly rejected in favour of a more universal muse . |
| 12 | In tracing that elusive ancestor the family historian therefore needs to be aware that long before the age of the railways people did sometimes travel long distances and that it was very common for men , women and adolescents to move within a few miles radius of their birthplace . |
| 13 | He was running then to that old heap the Indian was drivin' . |
| 14 | The sooner you get that old Druid the better . |
| 15 | The result on the whole process is that at low light intensity the photochemical process is limiting and the rate of photosynthesis depends on the irradiance . |
| 16 | There , even on this windy and showery day of late April , there was a stillness and a warmth , and in the flower-beds that had been laid out among the stretches of lush emerald turf the daffodils and narcissi were at least two weeks ahead of their fellows in the outer world . |
| 17 | Subsidiarity may be even worse than worthless , because if people of the intellect of my right hon. Friends the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary believe that it will be some protection when in fact it will not , that illusion may lead to a great deal more movement to the centre than they would like to see . |
| 18 | My right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Scotland and for Defence have spoken in complete unison on this . |
| 19 | Will he ask his right hon. Friends the Home Secretary and the Secretary of State for the Environment to bring that home to the support services and the district decision-takers in South Yorkshire and to urge on them the prior claim of South Yorkshire police at this time ? |
| 20 | If one is in the midst of a worldwide tempest of economic recession , whom does one want on the bridge — my right hon. Friends the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary or their shadows , the two Ks ? |
| 21 | My right hon. Friends the Secretary of State , the Prime Minister and the Minister for Trade are dedicated to pursuing sensible GATT solutions to these problems . |
| 22 | My right hon. Friends the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary are good Europeans , but also sound British parliamentarians . |
| 23 | My right hon. Friends the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer deserve every praise for joining the exchange rate mechanism at a sustainable parity , despite prophesies of doom from Europhobes ; they were wrong and my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister got it right . |
| 24 | On European monetary and economic union , I will say only that I wholeheartedly support the views expressed by my right hon. Friends the Prime Minister , the Foreign Secretary and the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 25 | It is very much to the credit of my right hon. Friends the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for the Environment that they have returned to basics and have not looked at finance in isolation . |
| 26 | I am delighted that we will continue that process under my right hon. Friends the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State in the new Parliament which will be formed some time late next spring or in the summer . |
| 27 | It reflects the proposals which my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for the Environment , for Scotland and for Wales issued for consultation on 5 November . |
| 28 | On the hon. Gentleman 's request for a revenue support grant statement from my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for the Environment and for Wales , the hon. Gentleman is correct in intimating that statements on those matters are necessary , and I hope that they will be made very soon — I hope next week . |
| 29 | In a short speech , I shall not attempt to make again the points made so tellingly by others , not least my right hon. Friends the Members for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) , for Shropshire , North ( Mr. Biffen ) , for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) , the right hon. Members for Bethnal Green and Stepney ( Mr. Shore ) and for Plymouth , Devonport ( Dr. Owen ) and my hon. Friend the Member for Stafford ( Mr. Cash ) . |
| 30 | With permission , Mr. Speaker , I should like to make a statement on the European Council in Maastricht which I attended with my right hon. Friends the Foreign Secretary and the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |