Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the radicals kept the spirit of Lamarck 's theory alive through into the 1830s by searching for ways of preserving the linear hierarchy . |
| 2 | No , I mean I know that is is not exactly pertinent to the application that is er in , erm I my personal view is that that that bungalows are are practical , we have had it stated by one resident that a house and a bungalow would be acceptable , erm not that I am er anticipating any other planning develop er applications by these applicants but er would a house of a similar nature to one of these that they have proposed , plus a bungalow er , would we have as much opposition to this , to that as as the present ones , or you would prefer to defer until you saw it ? |
| 3 | It was commissioned by the BBC in 1957 for a programme celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the sovereign 's Christmas broadcasts , from King George V through to the present Queen . |
| 4 | Writing from the 1890s through into the 1920s , Max Weber throughout his work was concerned to explain the emergence of a dominant system of rational — legal administration inside large-scale businesses and government agencies . |
| 5 | The Figure omits the clones and probes spanning the rDNA region , because the majority of these clones also hybridise to over half of of the other YAC probes , and so it is not possible to place these clones and probes at a single position on the map . |
| 6 | Half of of the 200,000 square km forest has already been destroyed . |
| 7 | If the salvage is worthwhile then this should be taken up and disposed of to the highest bidder . |
| 8 | Strictly speaking , small pets like fish , birds or mice might be carefully wrapped in plastic and disposed of with the normal waste collection but after spending a lifetime with a faithful companion an owner might be reluctant to part with a pet in this way . |
| 9 | Regular record checks will enable courts to identify cases not set down or disposed of within the prescribed period . |
| 10 | It is used with absorbent disposable potty pouches , which can be removed when the job is done , and disposed of in the same way as a disposable nappy . |
| 11 | As I walked down by the riverside one evening in the spring Heard a long gone song from days gone by Blown in on the great North wind Though there is no lonesome corncrake 's cry of sorrow and delight You can hear the cars and the shouts from bars and the laughter , and the fights May the ghosts that howled round the house at night never keep you from your sleep May they all sleep tight down in Hell tonight or wherever they may be … |
| 12 | Pascal on on the main system . |
| 13 | This was erected in 1801 at about the same time as some of the farmhouses in the parish . |
| 14 | At times , such as during the long wars with France from 1793 to 1815 , they seem to have done so especially to fill the labour gap created by absent men . |
| 15 | Of course , engineers use mathematics extensively , but its use seems to be restricted to the final stages of the design process , such as for the detailed calculation of stresses in structures . |
| 16 | The Scot Basil Spence achieved recognition first , not as an architect of buildings , but as a designer of pavilions such as at the 1951 Festival of Britain . |
| 17 | Certainly , on my visits to exhibitions , such as at the Royal Academy , my impression is that the British public much prefers the older works , as it were . |
| 18 | The point is not simply that we can identify status from speech if we wish to , such as with the clever elaborations developed on radio ; rather , that it is difficult to conceive of an utterance in English in which this is not the case . |
| 19 | In the 1970s Soviet commentators accepted that despite Turkish participation in ‘ imperialist blocs ’ , which acted to restrict joint Turkish actions with the non-aligned states in resolving international problems , such as over the Middle East and disarmament , Turkey and the non-aligned countries faced ‘ very many similar problems ’ . |
| 20 | In some cases , such as on the partial liquidation of a company in accordance with the corporation law of the State of Maryland , such payments would have a capital nature ( Rea v Lazzard Investment Co Ltd ( 1963 ) 41 TC 1 ) . |
| 21 | Smaller quantities are produced elsewhere , such as in the southern states of North America and Italy . |
| 22 | It was the most mature of his symphonies so far , and it shows how quickly he could assimilate aspects of national style , such as in the brilliant arpeggio passage which opens it — the famous ‘ premier coup d'archet ’ ( opening bow stroke ) of which the French were particularly proud . |
| 23 | The brachiopods are still numerous in some environments , but these tend to be rather inaccessible , such as in the deep sea , which inhibits their direct study in the field . |
| 24 | If all three colours overlap ( such as in the fifth matrix ) then a black dot is printed from the black ink reservoir . |
| 25 | Sometimes , such Olympian detachment moves to superciliousness and deliberate archaism , such as in the persistent reference to ‘ Scotchmen ’ in the final essay , on Anglo-Scottish Union . |
| 26 | Whilst this is perhaps more straightforward in certain businesses like banks , or in other activities such as in the military or diplomatic field , it is no less important in other sectors where a security culture has in the past seemed unnecessary . |
| 27 | Computer software has been developed for the estimation of large systems of such equations subject to cross-equation restrictions and also subject to changes of regime , so that the model can be permitted to shift in the face of institutional changes ( such as the switch to floating exchange rates ) while certain underlying behavioural parameters , such as in the desired money velocity function , remain constant . |
| 28 | In some instances , such as in the robot-welding case , jobs are deliberately de-skilled as part of a management strategy to tighten control and reduce costs . |
| 29 | When problems have arisen such as in the urban riots they have explained them away as resulting from a lack of proper parental and school discipline ( blaming the victim again ) or as the work of political agitators . |
| 30 | Many of their posters from the early 1900s through to the 1920s show young women skiing , skating and tobogganing , and women took to the slopes of Grindelwald , St Moritz and those of less fashionable and more affordable resorts , with a zest which matched the mountain air , while their American sisters slid , swooped and glided down the slopes and across the ponds of Vermont or the Rockies . |