Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neil Sedaka , writer of Breaking Up is Hard to Do and Laughter In The Rain had played the Albert Hall last night , but showed just as much enthusiasm for the provincial stage.Mike Rowbottom reports |
| 2 | Some versions substituted for the front pair a .5 Browning heavy machine gun , and some jeeps had a single Vickers fitted in such a way that the driver could operate it . |
| 3 | I mean what does it mean for the actual people living here ? |
| 4 | DISAPPOINTED charities were only grudgingly grateful for the estimated £30 million boost to their income announced by the Chancellor yesterday . |
| 5 | While the Ibrox club can be thankful for the estimated £4m they will receive in total from participation in the European Champions League , |
| 6 | The Philippines government , still searching for the estimated £6.5bn that the Marcos family squirreled away , is unimpressed with this fairy tale . |
| 7 | In 1162 the senate of Rome made great efforts to preserve the column of Trajan for the Roman people and visitors to Rome were beginning to admire the great classical monuments of the past — the Arch of Constantine , the Pantheon and the statue of Venus . |
| 8 | The circuit for the 2-bit data latch is shown in Fig. 12 and the Plugblock layout in Fig 13 . |
| 9 | Of the 80 unrelated control subjects , 53 were homozygous for the 3.6 kb fragment ( 3.6/3.6 ) , 23 were heterozygous — that is , they possessed both the 3.6 kb and the 3.5 kb fragment ; 3.6/3.5 kb ) — and four were homozygous for the 3.5 kb fragment ( 3.5/3.5 ) ( Table I ) . |
| 10 | The catalogues which accompany these events have rather different characters , for although there are entries for the exhibited works in each sort of catalogue , and usually an introduction , historical catalogues often have additional essays . |
| 11 | Oh that was approximately about erm , well I 'm talking about now in my time it must be over twenty year ago , when he introduced that and the simple reason was there was an argument between the deputy harbourmaster and the boatmen which are the cos they used t it all happened over a ship called used to be a collier , used to run here regular and that used to discharge so much coal at Cliff Quay , then it used to go into the dock at Tolwells Quay and finish unloading because it used to bring two or three different lots of coal , it was a four hold ship , she had four holds , and there 'd be one hold for the chemical works and perhaps there 'd be three holds for and that se |
| 12 | It may therefore prove a useful trailblazer for the digital multimedia systems which will be cheaper , more powerful and more readily available during the 1990s . |
| 13 | The animal 's enclosure has to be suited for the specific species . |
| 14 | Requires a similar planting medium to that for the preceding Acorus species . |
| 15 | The planting medium should be the same as for the preceding species . |
| 16 | Child Benefit is the only benefit that carries automatic entitlement , and this accounts for the virtual 100% take-up of this benefit . |
| 17 | She was honest enough to admit yesterday that in general terms , the tennis was an embarrassment and an awful spectacle for the 74 people watching . |
| 18 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 19 | Well , if death can ever be glamorous , that , I suppose , is the glamorous side of war casualties , but I think we need to spend the rest of our time very much looking at what it was like for the ordinary people of St Aldate's. erm And here , I apologise for producing a modern slide of Carfax , but I think just to remind you that we are talking about a very busy crowded city area , and erm about a city whose whole aspect was changing during the war . |
| 20 | Such sources are valuable for the wide-ranging data they provide and , particularly , for the historical dimension they add to primary data that is necessarily bound to the present day . |
| 21 | A well-flighted right wing cross by Paul Raynor seemed perfect for the unmarked 6ft 4in player , but he headed over from seven yards . |
| 22 | Thank you very much indeed for the smelly duck — or should I say scented , it is such a nice smell ! — and for the pretty scarf which , you may be surprised to hear , Mark admired when I was wearing it the other day though he had n't realized it was new and from you ! |
| 23 | For the Norwegian trials people will you send it to Kare K A R E , space capital O , stop , and for the Swedish people will you send it to Edvard E D V A R D |
| 24 | A yearly rent of £32,000 has been agreed for the 1,250 sq ft of trading space . |
| 25 | The half-life of a radioactive substance is the time interval taken for the radiant species present to lose half its radioactivity . |
| 26 | Indeed , early research on the use of paraprofessionals in the US indicated that a major barrier to the optimum use of this category of social service personnel was the lack of appropriate training for the professional staff who supervised and directed their work ( Denham and Shatz , 1969 ) . |
| 27 | Some of them were carrying placards , with slogans that read : Stop the war against Russia , No guns for Poland and Help for the Soviet people . |
| 28 | There is a sense of deep admiration for the Soviet people and Soviet state here which can not be denied , an admiration echoing personal experience . |
| 29 | The 1961 Programme , hailed by Khrushchev as a ‘ Communist Manifesto of the modern era ’ , was best known for its assumption that the achievement of a fully communist society had become an ‘ immediate practical task for the Soviet people ’ . |
| 30 | The birth of the first of their four children signalled a complete change in her life as , lacking convincing models for the successful media personality and mother , she created her own . |