Example sentences of "[pron] the [adj] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The project scientist who sent me the disappointed and sceptical account of all this said that there were shrieks from the store room , but not of success . |
| 2 | Expressing his pleasure at working with TAG , said , ‘ My experience over the last 20 years has given me the scientific and technical background which the modern catering industry requires . |
| 3 | Jesus is the prism through whom the diffused and fitful light of the Spirit is concentrated . |
| 4 | But the conclusion to be drawn from this may be less acceptable to those for whom the democratic and pluralist nature of local government is one of its key defining characteristics , since local government ( both elected and unelected ) seems increasingly to be drawn into ‘ corporatism at local level ’ . |
| 5 | rankled with the Caribbean public on whom the social and political significance was not lost . |
| 6 | As this captive audience is primarily young males amongst whom the unemployed and ethnic minorities are over-represented , it is believed that they , and those like them , constitute our ‘ public enemies ’ . |
| 7 | Erm we 're giving them the appropriate and suitable skills to be able to do their job . |
| 8 | The prime task of the 1905 revolution had been to break up the large estates and with them the political and economic power of the nobility . |
| 9 | The Hatherley ball to raise money for a hospice charity had become an important even ; in Gloucestershire because Ayling did what people craved on such occasions : he brought them the rich and famous whom they usually saw only on their television screens or in their newspapers . |
| 10 | The key issues for the future of the Association are sustaining the number of voluntary welfare workers and their helpers and giving them the financial and other support they need to deal with both increasing and more complex welfare needs . |
| 11 | 1 have chosen to call them the Northern and Southern Bands ( Map 3.1 ) . |
| 12 | Erbani , Lorieux and Carminati in the pack are no strangers to the international arena with 75 caps between them , but Fouroux and his assistant coach Daniel Dubroca hope that the French will show willingness and enthusiasm for battle and put behind them the inept and inexplicable performance witnessed at Strasbourg . |
| 13 | But I find it hard to accept that all our land should be so buttoned up , and that we should allow ourselves the arrogant and indulgent belief — against every lesson in history — that we can run things better than nature . |
| 14 | In other words , the conviction of the Israelites that they were ‘ God 's chosen race ’ is now generally regarded by scholars as not greatly different from the fundamental belief on which the Sumerian and Babylonian city-states had been based , namely , that the king was divinely elected . |
| 15 | As such , it engendered both the commitment and the determination to create new peacetime conditions in which the political and economic failures of the 1930s would truly become things of the past . |
| 16 | Will he further discuss whether it would be better to argue for Edinburgh as a location for the bank — a location much more acceptable to other Europeans than London , which the Labour and Tory Front-Bench teams have argued for ? |
| 17 | According to one of my sources , it is the origin of the American term ‘ railroading ’ , which has long been used as a slang term throughout the USA to mean compelling somebody to do something they do not want to do , and for which the legal or other administrative justification is marginal or dubious . |
| 18 | They aim to explore and celebrate , not just those elements of discourses of femininity which the traditional and egalitarian feminist psychologies of women focus on , but also those which they ignore or reject . |
| 19 | SET IN the dipping wooded hills of Lambton Park , through which the wide and tidal Wear cuts a deep valley , this grandest of early Georgian houses looks south down a long wide avenue , smothered solid with daffodils in the spring . |
| 20 | These are some of the factors accounting for the apathy with which the deaf and dumb population welcomed the BDDA , but there was discontent also among members and sympathisers . |
| 21 | This marked a shift from the integrated singular order within which the bardic and similar orders were first defined , though in its disputed origins the guild may once have been close to them . |
| 22 | A suspended second ( or ‘ sus 2 ’ ) chord is one in which the major or minor 3rd is replaced by the second to create a more unfinished , open , suspended feel . |
| 23 | For the eight years of their marriage , the Beetons developed a partnership in which the personal and professional were intertwined . |
| 24 | Without these criticism lacks intellectual rigour , and is unable to justify itself adequately in a world in which the personal and social utility of the arts is increasingly called into question . |
| 25 | Those practices must be brought to an end , and I know that my hon. Friends will strongly support the Government when we say that enough is enough and that if we are to have a compulsory competitive tendering regime , it must be one under which the private and public sectors are able to compete with absolute equality . |
| 26 | Thus , we have apparent flip-flops before nasals as between Jenewary , Frencis , in which /a/ is raised to [ Ε ] , and Wanysday , mantion , in which /Ε/; is lowered to [ a ] : if raising before dentals also applied , then massage and others suggest a further possibility of a flip-flop rule , and a wider range of environments in which the mid and low vowels are exchanged . |
| 27 | But at least the new examination seems to offer greater scope for teachers to develop programmes of work in which the internal and external assessments can be seen by the pupils to be interrelated in a more purposeful way . |
| 28 | But poverty is not evenly distributed among older people , and gender is one of the clearest lines along which the economic and social experience of old age is divided . |
| 29 | Anselm seems to have treated Rufus with more generosity and trustfulness than he showed to Henry I. This can probably be explained by his greater experience of the unreliability of kings ; perhaps also by a certain attractive openness in Rufus which the prudent and wily Henry lacked . |
| 30 | The emphasis on helping the visually handicapped pupil to develop skills to cope with his school environment , rather than adapting the environment significantly to accommodate the visually handicapped child , may , however , be usefully tempered by an understanding of the way in which the developmental and experiential levels of the child can be affected by his school life . |