Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Lower Saxony the magnitude of the electorate is a little below the national average . |
| 2 | Ideally , this should be the same as P(G) for each G. The discrepancy between them can be quantified as a number , commonly called C. This is zero when each P' ( G ) equals the corresponding P(G) . |
| 3 | Is that David the designer ? |
| 4 | In the extensive woodlands of the Low Weald the pedunculate oak ( Quercus robur ) is the dominant tree , often with a secondary layer of holly ( Ilex aquifolium ) , field maple ( Acer campestre ) , crab apple ( Malus sylvestris ) , gean ( Prunus avium ) , Midland hawthorn ( Crataegus laevigata ) , and the occasional wild service tree ( Sorbus torminalis ) . |
| 5 | erm talking about the sorry David the Playhouse being an entertainment centre , perhaps you should utilise the space a little bit more I 'm sure if we go down stairs now into the foyer bar it 's probably empty as it is erm many nights of the week . |
| 6 | Here she stopped to watch old Twomey the butler shaving himself with a cut-throat razor . |
| 7 | By 30 March the building was ready but empty . |
| 8 | Pevsner again is dryly acute : ‘ Old Wolverton the traveller does not notice , New Wolverton he can not overlook . ’ |
| 9 | In a letter published in ‘ The Times ’ on 2 March the Cardinal said , ‘ Whatever stance individuals make take over the morality of the nuclear deterrent , there must be general agreement on the aim of preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to non-nuclear states . |
| 10 | About 4600 Ma the Moon accreted homogeneously from a medium that , relative to the Earth , was depleted in iron and in volatiles . |
| 11 | The Wing-coupling Apparatus — There seems little doubt that in the primitive Pterygota the fore and hind pairs of wings moved independently of each other ( as in the Isoptera and Odonata ) , and that coincidence of motion was a later acquisition associated with the development of a wing-coupling apparatus ( Fig. 28 ) . |
| 12 | Even choice of proper names , or of whether to call a character fair or dark-haired , is a matter of style — in this Halliday the pluralist must agree with Lodge the monist . |
| 13 | In some LEAs the uptake is as low as 55 per cent in primary schools . |
| 14 | Even more worrying is that in some LEAs the uptake of free school meals by those eligible for them is less then 65 per cent . |
| 15 | On 30 May the king announced that the militia was to be mobilised and might — an important innovation — be required to serve where ‘ occasion shall require ’ , i.e. if necessary outside their own counties . |
| 16 | The critical temperature of C02 is 304 K. The isotherm at this temperature is called the critical isotherm . |
| 17 | Similarly , in Cassel v Riverside Health Authority ( 1990 ) The Independent , 22 December the Court of Appeal disallowed the cost of a small swimming pool , which had been allowed by Rose J , the trial judge , in the sum of £30,000 . |
| 18 | By 12 February the paper had done some digging , which had taken it , bashfully , to Southampton Row and Indica , and had summoned up many of the spectres upsetting the generation still in thrall to Dad 's war stories . |
| 19 | On 2 May the Game Conservancy Ball in aid of Game Conservancy , will take place at Grosvenor House . |
| 20 | On 2 May the dean closed Nanterre indefinitely , saying , ‘ There is a strange climate in the faculty … a very real war psychosis ’ ( quoted Posner , 1970 , p. 64 ) . |
| 21 | Rectal compliance decreased in a non-linear way with no further decline between 30 and 40 cm H 2 O. The pressure elastic modulus increased steeply until a distension pressure of 35 cm H 2 O with no further increase to 40 cm H 2 O. This suggests that rectal tone is reduced as the muscle fails to resist further distension at 35 cm H 2 O and higher pressures . |
| 22 | The Times 23 July The Financial Times 22 July The Guardian 22 July |
| 23 | But when the new Parliament assembled on 31st May the balance of parties was the same as before , and in negotiations which followed , Disraeli offered Palmerston a seat in a Conservative Government , with the possibility of being Prime Minister . |
| 24 | In 1821 Elisabeth the daughter married Dr John Reid , physician [ q.v. ] , from a Nonconformist family in Leicester ; he died thirteen months later , 2 July 1822 . |
| 25 | Old Morris the Jew was an easy ‘ touch ’ . |
| 26 | On 30 November the Decree on Missionary Activity was voted through chapter by chapter , and then approved in its entirety . |
| 27 | On 12 November the programme went on the air . |
| 28 | They were concluded on 13 October 1989 and on 2 November the case was listed for trial in the Crown Court at Isleworth , the trial to commence on 11 December . |
| 29 | On 2 November the ban on the 5 October route was challenged by fifteen DCAC members who walked it , accompanied by a large crowd who followed them on the footpaths . |
| 30 | On 22 November the question was first raised in the Commons and John Nott , then Minister of Defence , replied : ‘ It would be wholly against our policy to supply equipment such as Rolls-Royce engines direct to Argentina . |