Example sentences of "[adv] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We say " the same man " and mean numerically the same human person ; and we say " the same colour " and mean a quality that can be possessed or exemplified by different individuals . |
| 32 | In the absence of our little lepidopterous friends in the Butterflies on a Burning Night it is presumably the two standing figures who are themselves the ( social ) butterflies . |
| 33 | Yet presumably the grand unified theory has determined that the authors think they were correct . |
| 34 | For reasons which are not yet clear — presumably the pre-marketing clinical studies were considered inadequate — Dista was collaborating in a series of research projects to discover how the bodies of elderly patients cope with Opren . |
| 35 | Presumably the major mediating factors are the teachers , and the school , concerned . |
| 36 | But certainly at the moment , erm and at least until presumably the next general election , erm nobody can see much light at the end of that tunnel . |
| 37 | Our results agree in the distribution of proliferation indices by compartments , in that mostly the highest proliferative activity was found in the second compartment when five compartments were calculated . |
| 38 | Slowly the total blinding pain broke down into individual centres of hurt . |
| 39 | He had noticed before how slowly the British matured . |
| 40 | And on a more le local level you 're quite right the better trained people there are , the more they , the happier they feel the more work they have , the more job satisfaction they have . |
| 41 | In the rubber-like state or in the melt the chains are in relatively rapid motion , but as the temperature is lowered the movement becomes progressively slower until eventually the available thermal energy is insufficient to overcome the rotational energy barriers in the chain . |
| 42 | The programme was presented to the Heads of Government at a summit meeting in Milan in June 1985 and eventually the Single European Act came into force in July 1987 . |
| 43 | Eventually the Scottish Typographical Association was founded on a lasting basis in 1853 , composed of branches in towns where there was a moderate degree of printing activity . |
| 44 | The Lincolns played an integral part in the overall harassment of the communist offensive campaign and were effectively the only permanent heavy bomber unit in Malaya . |
| 45 | In 16 , however ( and perhaps in 15 , too ) , it is possible to argue not only that the two sentences can be used to make identical statements , but more specifically that horse and mare make effectively the same semantic contribution to their respective sentences . |
| 46 | On Oct. 9 Radovan Karadzic and Mate Boban , effectively the respective Bosnian Serb and Croatian leaders in Bosnia-Hercegovina , agreed at the permanent Geneva conference on Yugoslavia to a temporary ceasefire , further fuelling rumours that Serbians and Croats were working together to isolate Moslems . |
| 47 | The sink was squared-off and old fashioned , with a white splashback and a tilting mirror ; Forester switched on the fluorescent shaving light and tried to tip the mirror to look at himself , but it would n't stay in place until he found out how to tighten a chrome-plated hexagonal nut on the hinge . |
| 48 | If your camcorder is one of the new low-light models which can take pictures down to levels of 2 lux , you could simply switch on the normal top lighting in your lounge and start recording some perfectly adequate pictures . |
| 49 | There was no central heating in the Old Rectory and she seldom switched on the two-bar electric fire in her bedroom , knowing how worried the Copleys were by their her bills . |
| 50 | An illustration of the complex pattern of cross-party allegiances in the early 1690s is provided by the stance taken on the abortive Triennial Bill of 1693 . |
| 51 | Paul Warren put on the usual impressive display in the Grumman Tigercat , Norman Lees flew David Gilmour 's Mustang N51RR and Peter Henley put Mosquito T.III RR299/G-ASKH through its paces in a smooth , co-ordinated display showing the lines of this classic British World War Two aircraft . |
| 52 | Tonight , over in the nurses ' home on Huntley Street , a bunch of junior doctors would be putting on the usual end-of-year revue . |
| 53 | Simultaneously , the His15 and Arg17 side chains of HPr would separate and the active centre would take on the strained open conformation ( Fig. 2 a ) , ready for the next cycle ; formation of hydrogen bonds to His15 and Arg17 would help to stabilize the open conformation and the protein would be in an overall energy minimum . |
| 54 | Charing Cross — should take on the relocated Royal Brompton and Royal Marsden hospitals |
| 55 | A strong lemon smell , from a local herb known as black branch , hung on the hot steamy air . |
| 56 | It had taken on the private circulating libraries and won , but in winning the battle it lost a war , perhaps even the war that Gladstone so acutely saw they were fighting . |
| 57 | Level Three , on the other hand , is an entirely different kettle of fish as Rambo , strapped into the seat of a stolen tank , single-handedly takes on the entire Soviet Army . |
| 58 | I board the plane feeling no pain , eat the evening meal and continue with the G&T theme , land in Gatwick and make the connection via the smoking area of the bar and another gulped Gordon 's , then pass on the second offered dinner but not the accompanying booze and quietly pass out somewhere over the West Midlands , to be woken by a dishy blonde with an impudent , dimpled smile and we 're here we 've landed we 've arrived , we 're on the stand at the airport and I 'd ask her what she 's doing later because I 'm drunk enough to not care when she says ‘ No ’ as she probably will , but I know I 'm too tired and besides my left eyelid 's stuck again and I suspect it makes me look a bit like Quasimodo , so I do n't say anything except , ‘ Uh , thanks , ’ which is cool or sad , I 'm not sure which . |
| 59 | And so , after General Marshall had spent a night in meditation on the consequences , the failed haberdasher from Independence , Missouri , took on the seventy-year-old national warhorse with his belligerent scowl , his dark glasses and his frayed , oak-leaf-encrusted battle cap ( he was believed to have a man on his staff who did nothing but fray his caps ) . |
| 60 | Back to form Sandy Cottage takes on the classy Lovely Charlott in the 6th Year Marathon . |