Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is of far greater historical significance that the legends of Kosovo helped to keep alive for centuries the spark of Serbian national consciousness which burst into flame with the Karadjordje revolt of 1804 , and which led ultimately to the founding of an independent Serbian kingdom . |
| 2 | It 's that most cursed of expressions a family show . |
| 3 | The body count in that most British of places a fish shop , was nine dead . |
| 4 | For those interested in comparisons the four sector clocks offered varied in price : £1,600 and £1,200 ( Christie 's ) ’ £820 and £650 ( Sotheby 's ) . |
| 5 | The distinction , termed ‘ polarisation ’ was deemed necessary to make more transparent to customers the possible ties of their advisers , and to eliminate the ability of an intermediary to pass off as an independent adviser yet suggest the policies of the advisers ' own company ( or those which provide the highest commission ) . |
| 6 | As a protective measure it designed and distributed free to members a large luminous badge displaying the word " deaf " . |
| 7 | The yacht was pulled clear by speedboats an hour later . |
| 8 | He had scarcely known Maggie , could not have known that he could not have chosen a better treat than this mysterious park , with its vast statues carved out of the living rock : the huge-mouthed cave with its mighty teeth , the vast stone giant , his shoulders visible through bushes a hundred yards away , half hidden in greenery ; and above all , the great carved stone dragon with its broken wings , and wild Chinese eyes . |
| 9 | ‘ Even on the most ordinary of programmes the amount of work you do on sets as they come into the studio — preparing them , repairing them even , making them shootable — is quite involved . |
| 10 | ‘ He ’ s never content with things the way they are . ’ |
| 11 | Instead , it his removed from teachers a defence to civil proceedings . |
| 12 | This is within , as members will be aware , the overall financial position that the County Council finds itself in , of having to get its expenditure within the cap , and the fact that the increase in cap for the authority as a whole , does not in any way , mirror the increase in standard spending assessment for Social Services Committee , where we have been fortunate in terms the increase for this county , erm , and a variety of other factors which , which mean that it would be nice to think that where S S A increases for this Committee , it also increases for the County Council . |
| 13 | While the crop itself will be resistant to herbicides the weed competition will not and can thus be considerably reduced by a broad-spectrum herbicide . |
| 14 | Cover outdoor sandboxes to prevent cats using them — although toxoplasmosis is not dangerous to children a pregnant woman could be infected in this way . |
| 15 | To help with raising this portion of the budget , Highlander has a regular mailing list for donations , distributes nearly 7,000 mailed copies of the ‘ Highlander Newsletter , ’ and generates a certain amount by ‘ self-sufficiency ’ i.e. profits from the sale of records , books , cattle , and from farm produce which is surplus to requirements The donations from the ‘ Public ’ source also form a significant part of the total running budget of Highlander , and this generally consists of awards from Charitable organisations , Trusts and Foundations interested in adult education , leadership development , or specifically sympathetic to the aims of particular programs , ( e.g funding for cultural exchange workshops ) . |
| 16 | Thus , by accepting in appropriate cases the existence of management control subject to constraints the continuing significance of ownership interests can be captured without misrepresenting the nature of ownership involvement in the management process . |
| 17 | Indeed , these stereotypes can be used to render obvious to outsiders the motivation and blame for particular incidents . |
| 18 | Worries centre on what appears to be an acceptance by IBM that its mainframe business has slipped into irretrievable decline , and as that perception becomes widespread among users the decline can only accelerate as those that had planned to grow their mainframe installations pause and reconsider the options . |
| 19 | This book was the result of a suggestion by the BBC that S. P. B. Mais describe seventeen haphazard excursions for the purpose of stimulating in listeners a desire to explore and rediscover their own island . |
| 20 | All detectorist know how rich in losses the banks of rivers and the edges of ponds can be . |
| 21 | It was low in numbers a century ago , when the Piedmonts of Italy were being imported for beef and good red milking cows came from Bergamo , but by 1979 it numbered 150,000 and is now a well-established milk and meat breed in France , though almost extinct in Italy , where it is known as the Tarina . |
| 22 | They found themselves terribly short of officers the other day so they practically had to promote me . ’ |
| 23 | But in the most unlikely of places the announcement that a nuclear power station , a motorway , an institution for criminals , and so on is to be built , is likely to result in protest which requires police assistance , and sometimes law enforcement . |
| 24 | The same is probably true of breach of contract but once we move outside the area of wrongs which are civilly actionable in damages the law becomes more uncertain . |
| 25 | Now come on James you were saying you were short on callers the few that you 've got you do n't want to get rid of . |
| 26 | XIXs in 1957 , the grounding of two Mk.XVI aircraft of the Battle of Britain Flight due to incidents a year or so later , 1960 probably saw the lowest dip in the airworthy Spitfire population . |
| 27 | Stephenson also sends Durham Edition down for the Food Brokers Ferrero Rocher Handicap Chase but due to defections the weights go up 14lb and he is topweight with 11st 10lb . |
| 28 | Stephenson also sends Durham Edition down for the Food Brokers Ferrero Rocher Handicap Chase but due to defections the weights go up 14lb and he is topweight with 11st 10lb . |
| 29 | It may be possible to gues the outcome in the northeast , but the Southwest is anybody 's and all three main parties have their eyes on it and local issues are being played to the maximum . |
| 30 | But there is no intention of turning the area into a clearway because it would not be possible to police the area effectively . |