Example sentences of "[conj] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Quickly , ’ said George , tugging at one of Zach 's well-darned sleeves , ‘ let's grab them chairs afore the big 'uns get them . ’ |
| 2 | Issues concerning denial and/or the differential interpretations of events and their implications were evident throughout the study . |
| 3 | In many cases the scope of a project has to be scaled down because of the restricted data available and/or the restricted resources of the research worker . |
| 4 | He/she in turn coordinates the work of other staff involved — the subject specialist librarians ( see next section ) and/or the departmental representatives appointed to coordinate their department 's requirements will the library staff . |
| 5 | THIS REGIMENT BELIEVES IN ORDER , DISCIPLINE & THE STRICTEST CODES OF CONDUCT , SO YOU WO N'T BE HERE LONG ’ , |
| 6 | ‘ They 're like The Eagles while we 're like Eddie & The Hot Rods … ‘ |
| 7 | Not forgetting ( Mike adds ) those who have been around a little longer : Four Idle hands , Lesley Paul Rich , Tiberius Minnows , The Ghosts ( Of An American Airman ) and those new-kids- on-the-block Terri Hooley & the Rockin' Humdingers ! |
| 8 | 13 1775 & that Body is vastly improv 'd the longer it is kept & the little remains of fat shine a little more thro' & it is now very much the colour of Indian Copper , i.e. it is very near the colour of finished work 'd mahogany & is really a beautiful mass , the Legs are now perfectly dry and from the Beginning to the end there is nothing of putrefaction . |
| 9 | When Rowland recently got up on stage with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds at London 's Town & Country Club ( reuniting three of the four surviving BP members ) the old songs were greeted with hysteria . |
| 10 | Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs , Bath 's Theatre Royal ( 0225–448844 ) |
| 11 | Detergent-released DRTF1/E2F was further assayed for reactivity with anti-peptide A ( antiserum 3 ; tracks 6 and 7 ) and anti-peptide 18 ( antiserum 11 ; tracks 8 and 9 ) in the presence of either unrelated peptide 1 ( tracks 6 and 8 ) or the homologous peptides ( tracks 7 and 9 ) . |
| 12 | The teeth are not polished and hard like those of other animals that crush shells , such as the chimera , stingrays or lungfish , which are all modern fish , or the extinct placodonts , which are marine reptiles of the Triassic . |
| 13 | No minerals have yet been exploited in Antarctica or the subantarctic islands , though coal and metallic ores are known to exist in exploitable amounts , and there are strong expectations — as yet no more — that oil and gas may occur in exploitable deposits offshore . |
| 14 | It is not clear whether it is the limited powers of the Tribunal or the wide powers of the Government which led to none of the first sixty-eight complaints to the Tribunal being upheld . |
| 15 | Many were , indeed , buried during the Hannibalic War or the civil wars after 49BC , when much of the fighting took place in Italy , but many other hoards were buried at times during the first century BC when there was no fighting there . |
| 16 | Walker , however , could try to peak this summer for the steeplechase or the 5,000 metres . |
| 17 | The secrecy of the League was primarily due to its connection with the White Knights of Britain , or the Hooded Men as they were sometimes called . |
| 18 | The next thing to check is whether there is a build-up within the radiator of air or the gaseous by-products of corrosion in the system . |
| 19 | Next , check whether there is a build-up within the radiator air or the gaseous by-products of corrosion . |
| 20 | Hemmed in by a board school , a gasworks , a depot for Bass ale , and the neighbouring St Pancras Station , King 's Cross Goods Station was proclaimed by its retired outdoor Goods Manager to be in appearance ‘ prosaic enough — you ca n't go into ecstasies over the beauty of its situation or the classic lines of its architecture ’ . |
| 21 | It had better be a pretty big one , though , or the gravitational forces will tear you into spaghetti before you get inside . |
| 22 | Hundreds gather on the platforms at Hof station , Bavaria , holding sheets of paper with names aloft on sticks , anxiously scanning the faces of the crowds pouring out of the trains , just as Germans did when millions fled before the advancing Russians or the avenging Poles and Czechs at the end of the war . |
| 23 | As the outcome bears no relation to either an efficient market or the declared aims of government policy , it sets up pressures for those who feel injured to seek political solutions , which mean greater government intervention and greater inefficiency — a treadmill with which I regret to say we are all too familiar in the United Kingdom . |
| 24 | The Nazi threat to socialism and the working-class movement — whether in Germany , the Soviet Union , or the Western democracies — made it increasingly difficult to maintain an attitude of equal hostility to all imperialist powers . |
| 25 | These will often be found in a local study centre , or the rare books section of a reference library , and local record offices in particular will have a wide range of early printed material as well as manuscript sources . |
| 26 | In the City of London or the Metropolitan Police District , the Commissioner for London or the Metropolitan Police Commissioner ( respectively ) applies directly to the Home Secretary . |
| 27 | In the City of London or the Metropolitan Police District , the Commissioner for London or the Metropolitan Police Commissioner ( respectively ) applies directly to the Home Secretary . |
| 28 | It is thus that ‘ national liberation ’ , or the breakaway movements , so often take on the colour and rhetoric of the group they see as dominating them . |
| 29 | This phenomenon is the basis for identifiable diffuse networks , such as the ‘ Cambridge school of molecular biologists ’ , or the Lewisian geologists trained at Imperial College . |
| 30 | At least in the higher animals , it is more likely that the visual perception of shape and motion have evolved in response to such biologically significant environmental features as the gait or stance of hunter or prey , or the facial grimaces and tail-waving of conspecifics . |