Example sentences of "[adj] and the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its shares fell 2p to 55p But it was Scottish and the rest of the takeover in-crowd , with new time buyers active , which dominated the day 's trading . |
| 2 | However , both Royal Scottish and the Bank , might have missed out on the business had it not been for quick-thinking Dave Chinchen , a Bank Officer at Southampton High Street Branch . |
| 3 | ‘ When you have the killing of a Marine and the beating of the navy man , some response was certainly called for , ’ said Mr Edwin Smith , a University of Southern California law professor . |
| 4 | The shooting dead of a US marine and the wounding of another at a Panamanian roadblock on Saturday forced the US to take the situation more seriously . |
| 5 | The fuel consumption of my 1966 IIA two and a quarter petrol is horrendous and the oil consumption is not much better . |
| 6 | The year was 1876 and the coachman was later fined for his behaviour , but the incident illustrates the reactionary 's response to new forms of transport . |
| 7 | It is affected by wind , the barometer , freshwater and the position of the changing channels in the estuary . |
| 8 | The building will be opened on September 30 and the video , The Iron Horses Are Back In Harness , will run in their purpose-built presentation theatre on the site . |
| 9 | Apart from the stray references to external events in the letters between Helen and Edward , the incomplete Fiction is a fuller guide to the decisions Thomas was making between Easter 1895 and the summer of 1896 than reinterpretation of the Morgans novel . |
| 10 | The coat is whitish and the muzzle and insides of the ears are red . |
| 11 | There are two species of colugo , the Malayan and the Philippine . |
| 12 | Ventilation in 19th century mines was very primitive and the air in the confined space in which a passage was being cleared , soon became foul and lacking in oxygen . |
| 13 | The food is seriously French and the bill is serious in any language . |
| 14 | Out of 12,000 mostly unskilled workers taken on to staff the park , of which two thirds have been French and the rest from abroad , as many as 4,000 are thought to have quit in the last few months , prompting worries about mounting costs on the operators ' training and employment budgets . |
| 15 | So we got there and he said right okay you 're the press chappy he 's right I 've put your press people over there so while respect Lieutenant Commander that really wo n't do because everything including the Band of the Royal Marines is between them and the Princess Royal so we argued about this and the compromise eventually was that that everybody would have to stay there until the ceremony started and then we could bring the stills photographers round to the end and up to one side where it was all happening mainly to get a picture of his wife cutting the cake . |
| 16 | At first the allowance was £10 for each child under sixteen years of age , but this and the income limit were raised during the First World War , and later , in 1919 , the age limit for the child was abolished provided he or she was still in full-time education . |
| 17 | It drew a distinction between this and the Chief Constable 's responsibility for the direction and control of the force . |
| 18 | To avoid both this and the possibility of being forced into national level negotiation with Wilson , the Federation Council at a meeting held on 29 November 1912 , resolved " that the state of the shipping trade warrants a substantial increase in the wages of seamen all round the coast from January 1st. next , and that meetings of the district committees to give effect to this resolution be held forthwith " . |
| 19 | If the widening of the 20 per cent lower income tax band to £3,000 in 1993/94 is taken into account ( which will be worth a further £25 a year to all basic and higher rate taxpayers ) , then the net effect of this and the change in the MCA on a married man aged under 65 who pays tax at the basic rate of 25 per cent will be an increase in tax of £1.17 a week or about £61 a year . |
| 20 | It 's made from layers of plastic resins , with a clear wear layer protecting the printed design , and frequently with an air cushion layer between this and the backing , for extra comfort and warmth underfoot . |
| 21 | He looked at Kate as he said this and the message was quite clear to her . |
| 22 | It is precisely the subsequent attack on this and the development of an exclusionary and residual welfare state for the poor , coupled with generous fiscal welfare for the non-poor , which seems characteristic of disorganized capitalism . |
| 23 | He fought for higher oil revenues to finance this and the development programmes that would transform Iran 's economy . |
| 24 | The judge saw the justice of this and the sentence was reduced to twelve years . |
| 25 | Er and so we are looking at ways in which we can actually erm develop this and the firm as a whole is doing that as well and er we are to a certain extent that initiative . |
| 26 | of doing this and the opportunity is one where they are told to do and they will not miss the opportunity . |
| 27 | One response to this and the funding crisis in the early 1980s was to introduce charges for the home help service , up to a weekly maximum , which varied from authority to authority , but was in the region of £2 . |
| 28 | This and the building of shopping centres and roads for larger numbers of cars created jobs in construction and materials . |
| 29 | This and the replication in Murchison House , Edinburgh , of courses given at Keyworth led to a substantial increase in staff attendance . |
| 30 | The division of the movement suggested this and the spectre of a resurgent Germany under Hitler 's leadership made Fascism as alien as Bolshevism had been ten years before . |