Example sentences of "[noun] and the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He served as president of both the Royal Society of Arts and the Italian Royal College of Science ; the latter made him automatically a member of the council of the Fascist party and entitled him to be addressed as His Excellency .
2 The junior Minister , Robert Key , a teacher by profession and a member of the Chorus of St Martin-in-the-Fields , sat on the Select Committee on Education , Science and the Arts and the Conservative Back bench Committee on the Arts and Heritage .
3 Advances in automation , the development of word-processors and the many other applications of information technology have all been blamed for rising unemployment .
4 The latest edition of the manual of the St John Ambulance , St Andrew 's Ambulance Association and the British Red Cross contains the latest information on how to give first aid in such emergencies .
5 The British Show Hack , Cob and Riding Horse Association and the National Light Horse Breeding Society ( HIS ) are the bodies for showing horses , while the British Show Pony Society and the various breed societies cater for ponies .
6 Even by 1910 Matisse had a group of enlightened and daring collectors behind him , Leo and Gertrude Stein and the great Russian collectors Morosov and Shchukin among them .
7 Extensively renovated in 1986 , it remains a Leith landmark and the last remaining example of a windmill tower in this area , other than a number of ‘ doocots ’ still dotted around the Lothians and barely recognisable as windmill towers of the past .
8 The French Green party Les Verts and the ruling Parti Socialiste in the Nord — Pas-de-Calais region have reached an agreement setting out guidelines for economic development in the region .
9 Equally , the post-1934 popular front phase was a generally liberal phase of cultural development in French communist circles , unlike not only the RAPP experiment and the subsequent Zhdanovite policies in the Soviet Union , but also the Cold War communist cultural politics of post-1945 France .
10 In a post-Stalinist epoch it is easy to be dismissive of the moral imperative of Marxism as embodied in the Soviet experiment and the French communist party .
11 To the old long-stay patients re-established in community settings and the younger chronic patients who may never have become institutionalized should be added the relatively small but significant number of mentally abnormal offenders whose discharge from special hospitals gave rise to the 1975 Report of the committee on mentally abnormal offenders ( Cmnd. 6244 ) , together with the growing number of elderly people with mental health problems , including dementia ( Health Advisory Service , 1982 ) .
12 From below he could see that its skin was strangely pale and pink between its wide-straddled hind legs and the tight black bag of its scrotum , he thought , seemed incongruously small and toylike for such a massive , murderous animal .
13 We are not then just talking about the French eating frogs ' legs and the English black pudding : we could eat frogs ' legs in England without affecting our social structure .
14 The Glen came down from their right turgid and fast , shut in by hills on either side , round the rim of the Cheviots and the great curving flank of Yeavering Bell , and across their front to empty itself into the Till .
15 From there they were accustomed to having something like a bird's-eye view , seeing their husbands and the other male members of their families not as the tall figures they were familiar with and on whom they relied but as the busy little children they often privately felt them to be .
16 The strong and independent judiciary , acknowledged by the Government in the Green Paper to be one of the central supports upon which our liberties are based and upon which the rule of law depends , will be weakened by the diminishing quality of available recruits and the growing political influence in their appointments .
17 Surprise , speed and the blessed seething mob outside .
18 A flick of a switch and the flashing blue lights and two-tone horns shatter the relative peace of the night .
19 Pickups are P90s , with a three-way switch and the same basic control layout as the Sunburst 's .
20 Legislative power is shared by the President and the 281-member National Assembly , which is also elected every five years .
21 Within months both president and the other vice president were off on study tours .
22 Legislative power is exercised jointly by the President and the 70-member National Development Council , whose members are also directly elected for five years from a list of candidates put forward by the sole legal party , the National Revolutionary Movement for Development ( MRND ) .
23 The real point at issue between the president and the big Democratic majority in congress was the size of the tax cut , but Ford showed weakness by revealing , at an early stage , a willingness to give ground on size while insisting that the most important requirement was that the legislature should act quickly .
24 It suffered so brutally from war and killing that even after a second time around , in ‘ 39 , after the havoc of Korea , the cut and thrust of Malaysia and Aden , the carnage of the Falklands and the bizarre media-encouraged sand-deaths in the Gulf — even after all that , the terrible word ‘ Gallipoli ’ is burned deep into the very fibre of every soul who was born in Bury , or who had family there .
25 Mother gets wrapped up in the kids and the poor old husband gets left on his ownio . ’
26 Spelling , punctuation , proper arrangement into paragraphs and the general business-like appearance of the work will be taken into account when the candidate 's transcriptions are being assessed .
27 These recommendations were accepted and incorporated into the Courts Act 1971 which merged Assizes , Quarter Sessions and the Central Criminal Court into one Crown Court with two tiers of full-time judges , together with part-time recorders and assistant recorders .
28 Ideologies of management are needed to buttress a system of inequalities in organizations and the major social injustice of the ‘ daily routine of men and women wasting their lives and their intellects to gain their livelihoods ’ ( Salaman 1980b , p. 1 ) .
29 In his heart Corbett knew that the murder of Lady Eleanor and the dreadful silent slaying of that mysterious young woman and her male companion in the nearby woods were inextricably linked .
30 There was a direct correlation between the degree of reticulin collapse and the hepatic venous pressure gradient ( r=0.43 , p<0.05 ) ( Fig 2 ) .
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