Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The legislation , hailed as the strongest civil rights protection for the disabled anywhere in the world , prohibited discrimination in employment , public accommodation , transport or telecommunications . |
| 2 | Despite this development , the struggle between the two previously warring factions has continued , the original republicans developing a populist , nationalist party , and the former treaty party developing a concern with law and order , and moderation on the national question . |
| 3 | In the summer of 1974 a committee chaired by Mary Warnock was established to consider how to make educational provision for the handicapped more effective . |
| 4 | The Brehon Laws representing the most ancient code in Europe and existing centuries before the birth of Christ , long , long before any conquest or plantation in Ireland , made special provision for the sick both for their accommodation and for their protection . |
| 5 | Although the Soviet Union had become the major influence on revolutionary socialist movements since 1917 , the Communist International had always looked upon Germany as the next most likely centre for a proletarian revolution . |
| 6 | Mr Maconie should realise that the Roman Catholic hierarchy does f— all to help AIDS victims , seeing it as a gift from God to rid the world of some of its scum , when it has the power to change attitudes for the better all over the world . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm not sure what to tell them about how I want it done , ’ she had said to Faye before leaving , running uncertain fingers through the dense yet fluffy waves . |
| 8 | But they got the bit about the eight o'clock milk ? ’ |
| 9 | However , to achieve effective co-ordination between the new publicly funded bodies and the long-established private sector organisations , such as the Scottish Council and others , it must be recognised that the latter group is not able to subsidise projects nor to encourage company participation with a formula of matching expenditure . |
| 10 | Yeah the Second World War , right , so er I can tell you now that in actual fact there 's no structural change during the thirties here but there is structural change during the war . |
| 11 | ‘ The man who dreamed of toppling the Deutschmark carries the responsibility for the single most disastrous day in our post-war economic history , ’ he said . |
| 12 | His idea of a millionaire 's treat was to take his first wife , Hope Hancock , to the cinema for the 11 o'clock morning show . |
| 13 | He 's a cultural icon , a standard-bearer for the dispossessed yet still proud black urban youth . |
| 14 | Is it right that liability for the second most heinous crime in English law , which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment , should be satisfied by this relatively low grade of fault ? |
| 15 | For some older people the establishment of groups for the elderly merely emphasizes age segregation . |
| 16 | Trovoada had been under increasing popular pressure to take action against Daio after the latter publicly criticized him on April 3 . |
| 17 | Ring me , and we 'll take your calls after the six o'clock news . |
| 18 | We hope some day that we shall have won all the battles , and then can relax and develop more of the social side of the retired member 's association , but until then we enjoy the friendship and satisfaction of working together to secure a better deal for the elderly everywhere , and remember that , hopefully , you will all be pensioners one day . |
| 19 | It was almost as if the Biennale 's President wanted to engineer a confrontation between the two most important trends to emerge in post-war Italy . |
| 20 | BORIS YELTSIN , maverick and volleyball enthusiast , is the only plausible rival to Mikhail Gorbachev for the first freely elected president of the Soviet Union . |
| 21 | As the Secretary of State introduced employment action as an emergency programme for the jobless almost six months ago , since when unemployment has risen by several hundred thousand , can he tell us precisely how many people are on employment action ? |
| 22 | In her own words : ‘ I left home on the 9.30 a.m. train to attend a Medau class in London , travelled across to Balham in time for music , followed by the evening of training , then still in track suit back to Paddington for the 10.30 p.m. train , arriving home at 1 or 2 a.m. the next day . |
| 23 | Four years later , in the summer of 1953 , the BBC broadcast The Quatermass Experiment , a six part serial by Nigel Kneale , and a landmark as the first popularly accepted science fiction production . |
| 24 | If I 'm interviewing you at half past twelve for a piece for the one o'clock news , I do n't want to have to take out reams and reams and reams of tape . |
| 25 | ‘ I mean , Miss Shannon Lea , ’ he said with exaggerated patience , ‘ that there 's plenty of snow for the taking right outside this cottage . |
| 26 | Besides two short piano pieces from Sanctus , Words For The Dying also includes the luminous The Soul of Carmen Miranda , one of three spontaneous and highly promising recordings with Eno that will set the tone for the next album , ‘ a rock'n'roll record I can be happy with because the percussion wo n't hit me over the head . ’ |
| 27 | The Bermuda talks not only resulted in an agreement for air transportation between the two most important civil aviation powers , but provided the pattern by which all other bilateral agreements on civil aviation were arranged . |
| 28 | Thinking of the red really |
| 29 | She sank slowly to the bottom and opened her eyes and saw the legs of the four underwater . |
| 30 | The Republican administration of the 1920s also responded to the desire of business for protection against foreign competition . |