Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were footsteps outside the door , and a trilling laugh that Paige recognised the merest instant before the door was thrust open and Drew came in , a giggling Lori attached to his arm . |
| 2 | It 's the very essence of human beings to call in question every form of life , every form of thought , and to raise the possibility of thinking and living in some other way , and perhaps just for this very reason , some final and definitive formulation of the , of human nature , of human knowledge , of human conduct , is in principle unobtainable , and that the best that the philosopher can ever hope to do , is to show that this formulation , that formulation or the other wo n't work . |
| 3 | In mid-turn all the weight will be on the inside foot whilst the other remains in the strap . |
| 4 | He had the unfinished nocturne and the portrait . |
| 5 | POLICIES for agricultural support and the environment need to work together to the mutual benefit of farming and the countryside . |
| 6 | POLICIES for agricultural support and the environment need to work together to the mutual benefit of farming and the countryside . |
| 7 | Claiming that the landscape was created by farmers and can only be maintained by farming , she added : ‘ Our policies for agricultural support and the environment need to work together , to the mutual benefit of our farming industry and of our countryside . ’ |
| 8 | Registration can be confidently expected to occur in due course unless the company 's articles impose restrictions on the transferability of its shares . |
| 9 | In the event that no single party enjoys an overall majority in the Commons then the issue of sending for the Prime Minister and refusing a dissolution become matters so charged with political manoeuvring that the Crown would be drawn into politics in a public way that would be bound to invite a keener scrutiny as to what should be her proper role within the British constitution . |
| 10 | Thus , the NSC had before it the State Department 's political assessment that the area was , to repeat , ‘ the target of a co-ordinated offensive plainly directed by the Kremlin' . |
| 11 | In Western cooking such a mixture can add zing to almost anything from scrambled eggs to vegetables , soups , stews and sauces and poached or baked fruits , with the grateful advantage that the result will not taste as though you have succumbed to panic and thrown in a spoonful of curry powder . |
| 12 | That was a case in which the house had a path running to the steps which went up to the road , the house being at a lower level than the road , and the plaintiff met with an accident on those steps … |
| 13 | It was on a lower level than the rest of the works and was lit by windows which ran the length of the wall facing the doorway . |
| 14 | The aisle is roofed at a lower level than the nave and the triforia have the function of masking the lean-to roofs which cover these vaults . |
| 15 | Pots will be attractive here and the pool acts as a real focal point , set within a brick circle at a slightly lower level than the patio . |
| 16 | They took the escalator down to the lower level and the Grillapolis café . |
| 17 | All this reflected a recognition at the highest political level that the country 's foreign relations must include , at least for the time being and probably permanently , an unprecedented effort to shape and direct opinion abroad . |
| 18 | A set of six Louis XV fauteuils attributed to Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot are expected to realize FFr4–6m ( £400–600,000 ; $700,000–1m ) and two Louis XV lacquer commodes , one in European lacquer and the other in Chinese , probably by Jacques Dubois , bear the estimate of FFr2–3m ( £200–300,000 ; $350–530,000 ) . |
| 19 | It can be distinguished by the form of the disk armament , the shape of the oral shield and the lack of transverse striations on the ventral and lateral arm plates ( see Table 1 ) . |
| 20 | O. parcita can be distinguished from the other species which have striations on the ventral and lateral arm plates by the shape of the adoral and oral shield and the arm ( see Table 1 ) . |
| 21 | In contrast , the average tax rate is the percentage of total income that the government takes in income tax . |
| 22 | Then swiftly she launches into a staccato attack on political buffoonery and the Government in general before lashing at the crass assumptions that men make about women , and reaching the parts of chaps ' angst-filled sexuality that mere innuendo could never find . |
| 23 | They included , in May , the legalization of private banking and the reduction of taxes on company profits from 89 per cent to 59 per cent in an attempt to encourage investment . |
| 24 | He was wearing a polonecked sweater of such advanced dilapidation that the hem hung in long woollen fronds almost to his knees , and as he tremblingly attempted to light his pipe he looked very vulnerable . |
| 25 | Many departments of radiology require a sigmoidoscopy before a barium enema , but this seems to be an unnecessary constraint when the indication for the barium enema is simply iron deficiency and when there are no symptoms of rectal disease . |
| 26 | Cell fusion and genetic research at Oxford over the past two decades have shown that malignancy and the ability of tumours to spread and kill an animal can be suppressed by the function of normal cellular genes . |
| 27 | Now the Supreme Court declared that decision that the constitution gives the power to regulate interstate commerce to the national government , I E it was n't a matter for New York , it was n't a question of whether New York or New Jersey should control it , it was a matter for the federal government not for either of the states . |
| 28 | It is against that decision that the father now appeals . |
| 29 | The law does make provision for a person on a child-abuse register to know and to challenge that decision but the information does not have to come through the school record . |
| 30 | Euphoria over the government 's commitment to Emancipation had created a short-lived hope that the Tsar might carry through a major redistribution of wealth ‘ from above ’ . |