Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be said that in Britain the new public library authorities created in 1972 have in many cases failed to capitalize on the opportunities for better stock provision which the larger units were supposedly able to achieve . |
| 2 | Ella made a violent gesture of annoyance , nearly capsizing the tea tray which the languid girl had now brought . |
| 3 | Understanding the disk organisation has taken me a little time , but this has been amply repaid by the speed and ease of data storage which the hard disk gives me . |
| 4 | In Kuwait City itself the Iraqi forces met some opposition from elite troops guarding the Amir 's palace and from troops stationed in Army and Air Force barracks situated on the city 's outskirts . |
| 5 | More than that , Mosley had completely out-manoeuvred Balestre in an election campaign which the great Gallic dictator had never believed he could lose . |
| 6 | At just after 9.30 a.m. , Morse sat with Lewis , Ashenden , Sheila Williams , and the ( now fully apprised ) Manager of The Randolph in a first-floor suite which the latter had readily put at police disposal . |
| 7 | Under the agreement Germany would provide DM500 million ( about US$295 million ) to a Polish-German Reconciliation Foundation which the Polish government would set up . |
| 8 | The faience plaques of the so-called Town Mosaic from Knossos show what the Knossian houses of the seventeenth century BC looked like . |
| 9 | Historians have to explain how it was that slower increase up to then permitted an expansion of the home market which the later faster rate of population increase did not reverse . |
| 10 | After each such movement , the small old woman , not stiff , but poised , erect and in good rhythm with her horse , responded with minute disposition of hand , leg or body weight which the informed eye could see reflected in the horse 's performance . |
| 11 | The poverty gap which the past decade 's economic orthodoxies have opened across the developed world has widened faster in Britain than in any other EC country . |
| 12 | And when I found out after a bit of dressing-room chat what the other lads were on I had to make a point . |
| 13 | The commercial and business orientation which the public corporation ( as distinct from Ministry ) form of management was designed to preserve , was inevitably diluted by this process , though it remained an important part of the self-image of those working in the industry . |
| 14 | New Towns would be civilized , attractive , agreeable places in which to live , with all the richness of community life which the new social order would bring . |
| 15 | Indeed , when we hold a Conservative party function in Thanet , South , it is not one of those black-tie , celebrity-packed £500-a-plate dinners at the Park Lane hotel which the Labour party holds . |
| 16 | The education process which the 1970s building surveyor had undergone in the fifties and early sixties had not equipped him for a meaningful and identifiable role in the profession of the seventies . |
| 17 | It is proposed to extend the circumstances in which the price and number of shares under the British Gas Sharesave Scheme may be adjusted to include an ‘ open offer ’ ( an offer to shareholders similar to a rights issue ) or any other variation of share capital which the Inland Revenue accepts as sufficient ground for such an adjustment and at the same time to allow for adjustments to reflect changes in the class of shares , or the rights attaching to shares , under option . |
| 18 | This has now developed to include Henley members and has become an official club fixture , the winners rewarded with the Jayemdoubleyou Cup which the late Jack Webb presented and which cup had in fact been his father 's rowing trophy ! |
| 19 | Such issues as domiciliary day care , mobile day care and the day care which the voluntary sector can provide will need to be looked into . |
| 20 | Frankly some of us actually wanted that to be a staff for No. 10 , for the Prime Minister , rather more like today 's Policy Unit which the present Prime Minister has in No. 10 , and less a general body to serve all the Cabinet . |
| 21 | Next the Pig Husbandry Bill outlawing tethered sows was hardly touched , followed by the Badger Sett Protection Bill which the pro-hunting lobby objected to . |
| 22 | Ironically , these kids are doing to the Lo Life name what the real Lo Lifers themselves do to Ralph Lauren 's — using its status for their own ends . |
| 23 | As a result , despite the potentially strong bargaining hand which the pre-war boom gave to skilled labour , workers sustained an almost unbroken record of failure in strike action . |
| 24 | The plan is to do for the food industry what the Medical Research Council 's Cell tech offshoot is doing for genetic engineering in medicine . |
| 25 | To assist the debate many local Law Societies , notably Birmingham and Manchester , have agreed with the local county court what the appropriate rate of charge should be for any particular area , for any particular year , and the courts apply those rates . |
| 26 | Yet we had skills in assessment and rehabilitation and links with the health service which the independent sector lacked . ’ |
| 27 | Lipsey appeared to have provided a theory of the determinants of money wage changes and , by integration , of the time path for the money wage rate which the economic profession found so convincing that it went virtually unchallenged for several years . |
| 28 | People live in the real world , their not really going to be influenced , its about as sensible as saying er a Mills and Boon novel for example tells people about love are saying M I five use from Russia with Love as a training manual its the same kind of level of |
| 29 | Thus it was necessary to find a readily available background material which the chosen instrument would perceive as significantly darker than the plants . |
| 30 | The case studies of school self-evaluation which the Open University has carried out in Oxfordshire and elsewhere suggest that teachers are for the most part ignorant of this literature and of the various research strategies , mainly derived from social science , by which valid and reliable evidence about their professional activities might be gathered and judged . |