Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would be true for at least two of the examples of ( 18 ) , to which we may add at random : ( 32 ) some delegates who were German frowned the starling which is inquisitive is female It is emphatically not the answer to say , " those which can not become postnominal attributives turn into prenominals instead " , for two reasons : first , as we have already seen , there is a major difference of function between prenominal position and predicative position as occupied by the adjective in the sort of relative clause proposed ; and , second , this still leaves us facing the question of why some relative clauses can apparently be reduced to postnominal adjectives and others can not ( indeed this question , previously passed by , has been in serious need of an answer from those who want to relate prenominal adjectives — or simply attributives in general — to predicative position ) . |
| 2 | The proportion of the national area of thirteen tropical American countries described as steep sloped is very high — 80 per cent for Honduras , Panama , Haiti and the Dominican Republic and not less than 50 per cent for eleven of the thirteen . |
| 3 | At the moment they 're just a voluntary body , but it looks as though works councils will become mandatory for eleven of the twelve states in the E C , with the implementation very soon of the European Social Works Council Directive , Britain as usual being the odd one out , because of course it 's part of the Social Chapter . |
| 4 | But nevertheless , how far can you go along towards giving certainty to for example the building industry on the amount of new housing which would come from green field sites for Sorry from the non- conversion element . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , that unique number is generated from the FONT ID times 128 plus the size which limits the total to that appallingly restricted 255 . |
| 6 | The Scottish Natural Heritage figure is up over the grant in aid for 1991-92 for the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland and the Scottish Countryside Commission by 21 per cent . |
| 7 | This is all logical enough given Fforde 's conviction that collectivism comes from ‘ areas other than the British Conservative party ’ , but Fforde seems to forget that the Conservatives were in power for fifty-five of the 100 years from the dawn of collectivism to the edge of Thatcherism , and must , therefore , have been at least partly responsible for some of Keith Joseph 's ‘ detritus ’ . |
| 8 | The hospital was the first stop for wounded from the Gulf and they are well equipped to deal with the influx if it comes . |
| 9 | Hurd argues that the Arab world itself must create this new system ( presumably under Western tutelage ) and a conference to this effect between eight of the nine partners in the alliance ( Morocco being the sole absentee ) occurred in Cairo in mid-February . |
| 10 | Although , as has been argued already , the significance of the 1934 Congress is to be located in its general guiding principles rather than in specific theories , it is nonetheless worthwhile examining briefly the substance of the 1934 debate not only because it sets out the agenda for a detailed discussion of socialist realism , but also because Nizan 's second novel , Le Cheval de Troie , was produced , for the most part in the Soviet Union during 1934 in the shadow of the Congress itself . |
| 11 | Erm do n't bother about that about the cancelling . |
| 12 | They 'll tell you all about that on the course . |
| 13 | This use of Shakespeare , the central figure of Anglo-Saxon culture , stresses that the poem is not only about the cultural change in Venice , but about that at the heart of our own language and culture also . |
| 14 | ‘ They also understand about that at the time Kenny left he was obviously under a lot of the stress . |
| 15 | In the meantime her mother would worry , but there was nothing she could do about that at the moment . |
| 16 | Keith has to get up for school in the morning , but he 's not thinking about that at the minute . |
| 17 | Erm I 'm not sh w w well would you really have , have , have worried about that at the time ? getting out of feudalism then why exactly how you 're gon na go from there . |
| 18 | well you know , the five per cent reduction you know , do n't worry about that at the minute and and all this sort of thing so |
| 19 | you can worry about that at the early end of the week |
| 20 | forget about that for the mo |
| 21 | On a visit to Mrs Chamberlin she explained that she did not like to leave her aunt and would from then on come only once a week , and she put it about that for the moment , neither she nor her aunt would be at home on Wednesday afternoons . |
| 22 | This raises problems about the legitimacy of the Arab nation ( or , if not , about that of the Libyan one ) ; and it certainly casts doubt on those proposed unions with Chad , Syria and Morocco . |
| 23 | EEC trade , as measured at least by exports , has , since British accession , been at a rate of growth of about that of the OECD as a whole — well below that of the newly industrialised countries of Asia and exactly equal to that of the Efta countries . |
| 24 | But on the other hand nothing was done about that beyond the statement of the obvious that there would be no votes for mental health within the welfare budget to fund alternative long-term community care to that given in institutions . |
| 25 | We do not hear much about that from the Opposition . |
| 26 | We rarely hear anything about that from the Opposition . |
| 27 | But we 'll we 'll think about that nearer the time . |
| 28 | ‘ Do you know about that by the way ? ’ |
| 29 | I think also in those very tough times ahead I think it 's a very difficult decisions to be made about what services are provided erm , and what operation people are actually going to be able to have done and I wonder how much local people are gon na have a chance to say anything about that in the situation in which their health service their health authority is based so far away . |
| 30 | which is actually poorly understood , we 'll talk a bit more about that in the next lecture . |