Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More striking by the 1820s than the continuity of the theme of the incompatibility of slavery with a true moral and religious order was the much fuller expression than at the end of the eighteenth century of the precepts of economic liberalism as part of the antislavery appeal ; abolitionists now clearly departed from mercantilist policy assumptions . |
| 2 | The gift is the largest since the gallery 's founding in 1832 . |
| 3 | The Nov. 15 protests were the largest since the crushing of demonstrations in Bucharest by miners in June [ see pp. 37544-45 ] . |
| 4 | And Dunlop 's string with a score already well into the thirties for the season knows the time of day when assessing its youngsters . |
| 5 | It was not possible to transcend the anecdotal because the structure of the INSET programme was not sufficiently supportive . |
| 6 | As the fortunes of the mine declined we discover him during 1877 paid as " John Latham and boys " with his account as low as £31 for a month ; a far cry from the 1840's-1860's when the dressing staff of old men , women , boys and girls averaged 100 and their total wages ranged from £142 to £241 . |
| 7 | The Italians want such a group created right away , the British once the region 's disputes are settled ( whenever that may be ) . |
| 8 | It was their talk on the cliff-top as the sun had gone down that had changed it all . |
| 9 | He 'd limped along under some EEC scheme which paid you to employ the unemployable until the equipment had vanished overnight and BDM became Bankrupt , Desperate and Melancholy . |
| 10 | Within the EEC de Gaulle 's efforts led to the first summit meetings of the Six since the Community began , in Paris in February and in Bonn in July . |
| 11 | I drove via Barking to call in on Duncan the Drunken before the traffic built up , but his garage was locked and that meant calling at the house . |
| 12 | 10,000 children died of it in 1859 , and from the 1870s until the turn of the century there was little downward trend in deaths . |
| 13 | All this was to seem academic by the Seventies when the boom finally stopped and the dream future of abundance and leisure popped like a rosy soap bubble . |
| 14 | when was it built all them factories it was built in the seventies when the boom was in |
| 15 | These losses roughly equalled the total inflow into the Mediterranean before the dam was built . |
| 16 | The guerrillas duly launched the missile north across the bay of Beirut at Jounieh , the first stage of the projectile falling into the Mediterranean as the warhead sped off towards the sleepy Christian harbour and its unsuspecting inhabitants . |
| 17 | I might 've guessed the worst when the scrum fell apart for me like the Red Sea . |
| 18 | The worst of the slimy pools of sweated and casual poverty were more likely to be filled by the native than the immigrant . |
| 19 | This means rolling to the right with a clockwise main rotor or to the left if the rotor rotates anticlockwise . |
| 20 | The five storey corn mill , built in 1820 , was still working in the 1970's when the house and mill were discovered by sculptor Anne Campbell . |
| 21 | In some areas the birth of a child might add a shilling or more a week to the wage , leading to some pessimistic projections of runaway demographic increase , notably by followers of Thomas Malthus whose " Essay on Population " of 1798 was the most important ideological underpinning for the views of those who were beginning to urge a much harsher attitude towards the poor as the cost of their relief surged . |
| 22 | Provided you do n't mix friendships with finance — especially on the 4th when the Sun makes a decisive aspect to your ruler Saturn — then this looks like being a month when you are fussed , feted and fawned over . |
| 23 | Indeed the amount of oil spilt worldwide has fallen since the 1970s while the volume shipped has grown . |
| 24 | Because of inflation , real food prices in the great majority of Latin American countries were higher at the end of the 1970s than the beginning . |
| 25 | The village reached its peak in the middle of the 19th century-when the population reached 846 and the occupations listed in the census of the time show it to have been totally self-sufficient . |
| 26 | A brief account of Bourdieu 's notion of ‘ habitus ’ provides an example of how we might assimilate the apparent paradox of an external physical world which is nevertheless in a more immediate relationship with the unconscious than the world of articulate symbolism . |
| 27 | The Greater Pilton area has particular problems relating to children and the elderly where the casualty rates per head of population are over twice those for Lothian Region as a whole ( Table 29 refers ) . |
| 28 | When some of us are small we hear a great deal of criticism , more of the negative than the positive . |
| 29 | Presumably the employee would have led evidence as to the latter if the employer 's accounts had indeed contained such information . |
| 30 | Right erm I would just like to mention that it does n't say here that the A P C have set up er a separate er lobby group erm on which I have the honour to be a member with Patrick er to try and influence the MPs because one of the things which er is coming out and it 's it 's actually shown in paragraph three point three A at the bottom , the questioning whether the demand should be necessarily met or whether in fact , and this links to the government 's present erm reluctance to direct airlines to work from current unused capacity for example at , at erm at Luton and I think that there may well be some pressure put that er we should try and change that . |