Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CITY share strategists believe that if Labour forms the next government , or leads a coalition government in a hung Parliament , investment sentiment will swing away from companies linked to the British economy in favour of those making the bulk of their profits overseas . |
| 2 | It seems likely that in very primitive multicellular forms the main mode of communication was chemical — a substance released by one cell , say signalling for the cell to contract , could fairly quickly diffuse to other cells , ensuring that they too contracted . |
| 3 | From Norman times the local keeper of the peace was termed Constable , his duties consisting of ensuring the upkeep of prisons , stocks etc. , and assisting the church warden in seeing the villagers attended church regularly . |
| 4 | Nothing would have induced me to part now except an overwhelming sense that the course of action which has been pursued has put the country- and not merely the country , but throughout the world , the principles for which you and I have always stood throughout our political lives-in the greatest peril that has ever overtaken them . |
| 5 | When Jazz was in bed , lying staring at the strange patterns the lime-tree leaves , illuminated by the lamp-post , made on his bedroom ceiling , his father came up to him , moving softly round the door . |
| 6 | In the north , the courts of barons and kings were ousting them , though even in feudal courts the ultimate authority of the body of ‘ suitors ’ continued to be widely recognized . |
| 7 | Moreover , for geographic reasons the strategic benefits of Cam Ranh Bay in peacetime are likely to turn into a liability during war . |
| 8 | Heavily dependent on foreign aid , the government launched in 1990 a second three-year programme for economic rehabilitation ( with agricultural exports the key sector ) , supported by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) which promised $112,800,000 in June . |
| 9 | The working conceptions the individual holds of authority and , by extension , organization , no matter how much overlaid by experiences and learning about management , are based on his early experiences of his family and authority figures , such as parents and teachers . |
| 10 | Mr. Kinnock has pledged to limit classes to a maximum of forty pupils if Labour wins the General Election . |
| 11 | THE future of Darlington 's colleges would come under threat if Labour wins the general election , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 12 | In the normal subjects the fasted mean serum APGPR concentration was at the detection limit of the assay but postprandially two peaks of APGPR immunoreactivity were seen in the first and second hours after the start of the meal ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 13 | Assuming , as is often the case , incompressibility so that the values of E(p) and v(p) may be obtained : Substituting these back in the expressions for and and performing the inverse transform if possible yields the time-dependent forms of the radial and transverse stresses . |
| 14 | He folded his arms , leaned back in his chair , sighed , devoured with his sad , sunken eyes the writhing girl . |
| 15 | In the intervening months the Labour Party has built up a range of policies for education , science and industry which will help Britain build the strong , competitive economy it so desperately needs . |
| 16 | And I know she knows , but I worry that maybe I have n't said the right words the right way . |
| 17 | ‘ Callanish , I can hear you calling out to me … ’ and as she spoke these strange words the looming bench and drifting bin seemed to Creggan to grow larger and taller and darker , and he was afraid . |
| 18 | What makes Front Line Africa controversial is also what makes it particularly useful — that a third of it is entirely devoted to the political and economic steps the rich world can and should take to hasten the end of apartheid . |
| 19 | Fran regretted her hasty words the very moment she saw the way his mouth thinned into a cold anger . |
| 20 | In an important way casual working demands the same disciplines of the worker as more traditional working . |
| 21 | In the double glazed bedrooms the dark wood furnishings are modern and stylish , with a hair dryer provided in the bathrooms . |
| 22 | Speaking from behind a barred gate and protected by armed guards the unnamed brother said : ‘ We would n't be surprised that because of that book someone sought retribution , and has tried to take out all Ian 's seed , which is a Middle Eastern style of doing things . |
| 23 | ( At present , securities houses offer their private clients the best price in the market , even if they are not offering it on their screens . ) |
| 24 | Through their ( respective ) straightforward colonial and convoluted imperialist trajectories the transnational practices of these two countries etched the forms of capitalism onto the global system . |
| 25 | The Indian Ocean Newsletter of Sept. 12 suggested that Djohar had infuriated representatives of many of the country 's 24 political parties the previous week , by setting unilaterally Oct. 25 as the date for the first round of elections to the Federal Assembly and by imposing new conditions for parties ' participation . |
| 26 | Distal to the oral papillae the second oral tentacle pore is particularly prominent . |
| 27 | There is one long pointed apical papilla flanked on each side by 3–5 long thin oral papillae the distalmost of which may have the free end enlarged . |
| 28 | Before her marvelled eyes the Southern Cross lifted itself off the horizon and hung glowing , silent and fierce . |
| 29 | Syria , drawn into partnership with Egypt in the United Arab Republic created in 1958 , withdrew from it in 1961 , and at different times the two crossed swords through proxies in Lebanon . |
| 30 | you you used to go the weekly meetings the Labour Party . |