Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WASHINGTON , D.C. The new acting chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts , Republican Anne-Imelda Radice , has articulated a non-confrontational course for the embattled federal agency . |
| 2 | TCCB , known in the past to have administered punishment for long-past ‘ sins ’ , or at least for the disreputable later exposure of them , will have to decide whether Beefy 's tale of being ‘ extremely inebriated ’ in Perth five years ago , when he forgot his bat and had to go back for it before smashing 48 off Western Australia , is an indictable offence . |
| 3 | While at Howard University he had taken up a position as a consultant on Caribbean affairs , this led him into full-time work for the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission , where in 1948 , he became its Deputy Chairman based in Port of Spain . |
| 4 | The open-form torsion angles are observed values for the phospho-free state of HPr ; the closed-form torsion angles of Ala16 are for the modelled phosphorylated state of HPr . |
| 5 | Mrs Kinnock , 47 , last month announced her intention to stand for the 1994 European Parliament elections in the South East Wales constituency . |
| 6 | Introduce fair votes for the 1994 British elections to the European Parliament . |
| 7 | Although I fully understand why my right hon. Friend can not attend the conference of Parliamentarians , will she tell the House now whether the Government support the recent call by Mr. Robert McNamara for a global commission on population in preparation for the 1994 United Nations conference on population ? |
| 8 | Endara criticized Arias 's decision as political opportunism , claiming that he intended preparing his candidature for the 1994 presidential elections . |
| 9 | In contrast , the right-hand pair of bars show the average amount of perceived depth for the two simulated viewing distances in the ‘ window ’ condition in which the vertical and horizontal perspective cues were present only in the peripheral fronto-parallel regions and the central region containing the stereoscopic corrugations provided consistent perspective cues for the actual 57-cm viewing distance . |
| 10 | Such adherence to international standards makes it but a one-step process for the actual final assembler of the complete system to obtain either US FCC or European VDE electronic emission approvals . |
| 11 | In the first study four of the 26 subjects with symptomatic infections had influenza B and showed a 38% increase in the mean time taken for the variable fore period simple reaction time task , from 320 ( SD 24 ) ms when recruited to 440 ( SD 90 ) ms when symptomatic . |
| 12 | Superficially , the results for the lexical alternant class of ( pull ) were much the same also . |
| 13 | These do not seem like promising beginnings : English was merely to be an extra accomplishment for young middle-class women — a ‘ convenient sort of non-subject to palm off on the ladies ’ as Eagleton puts it ; and a substitute for a classical education for the discontented working classes . |
| 14 | She paused and looked up at the small gentle fields for the placid yellow outline of the Jersey cow . |
| 15 | Those of you who know me from my earlier scribblings in PFK will be well aware of my feelings in relation to our responsibilities to do our best to maintain and care for the delicate marine creatures we take from the wild . |
| 16 | For the dull pink flowers on the insides of the shoes , Mars black derived from permanent rose . |
| 17 | The young office worker in a safe sedentary job may well take up rock-climbing as a dangerous , physically exacting antidote for the dull occupational part of his life . |
| 18 | The legislation offered no compensation for the estimated 3,500,000 blacks dispossessed of their land since 1950 . |
| 19 | Life magazine put him on the cover and that single photograph of Manson , with his evil , hypnotic stare , became for the hysterical mass media , the face of a violent , drug-crazed substrata of society : the monster hidden in the heart of every hippie and longhaired supporter of a culture which seemed certain to encompass an increasing section of youth and bandwagonners . |
| 20 | From the outset he had decided that he did not much care for the tall fair youth who seemed to look down his long nose at everything . |
| 21 | Perhaps the most satisfactory music in recent years has come from writers involved in the liturgy of a particular community , effectively as composers-in-residence , Among those in Britain writing for the Roman Catholic Church may be mentioned Stephen Dean , Philip Duffy , Bernadette Farrell , Paul Inwood , Alan Rees , Bill Tamblyn and Christopher Walker . |
| 22 | Father Tom Connolly , the spokesman for the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland , blamed any decline in young people 's behaviour on adults . |
| 23 | A spokesman for the Roman Catholic diocese of Leeds said : ‘ Those who criticise or accuse do so as private individuals . |
| 24 | The British government , whether Conservative or Labour , wants a solution that provides some safeguard for the Roman Catholic minority . |
| 25 | Perhaps the most striking case was that of William Patrick James Fair ( Bill Fair ) who had been a student for the Roman Catholic priesthood at the Carmelite College in Cork . |
| 26 | You would n't know it was autumn except for the odd dry leaf blowing down the road from the cemetery . |
| 27 | This becomes increasingly valuable during the final 16 weeks of the course , when our trainees will be getting closer and closer to the point where they become capable of managing the section , initially for the odd late shift , but very definitely with a view to being able to run the department outright by their final two weeks . |
| 28 | It was a matter of very small beginnings for everybody , and then as the pictures that they made became more and more popular , more and more acceptable , used not merely in fairgrounds or in odd corners of shops and this sort of thing , for the odd fifteen minutes or twenty minutes of movie , but entered into the music halls , became one of the acts in the music hall entertainment erm this really was the foundation of a new industry , a new industry of entertainment , a new industry of information . |
| 29 | I would also nominate William Trevor , who is comparison a miniaturist with a Dostoevskian eye for the odd little incident , the world of the irrational and the way it impinges on ordinary life . ’ |
| 30 | Where badgers have shouldered their way under sheep-fencing , look for dried earth or polishing on the wire , and for the odd loose guard hair . |