Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Applied to problem P1 of Section 8.2 , it gives x 2 l = 7 , x 4 l = 1 , x 43 = 3 , x 45 = 1 and x 46 = 4 , which has a cost of 67 compared with 92 for the initial BFS given in that section . |
| 2 | I was quite apprehensive about the whole NCT ‘ scene ’ . |
| 3 | No , there had n't been anything odd about the previous Saturday , either about her husband or about her own behaviour . |
| 4 | Flood prevention work has just been completed , and the houses stayed dry through the wettest October on record . |
| 5 | It will be over a quarter of that for the entire EC , more than twice West Germany 's and equivalent to those of France , Belgium , Denmark , Luxembourg , Greece , Ireland and Portugal added together . |
| 6 | ‘ He left this for the little Romany Rei I reckon you be he so take it bor an plant no gorja curses on his grave . ’ ’ |
| 7 | claims that Holiday Inns ' commitment to TQM , introduced to the group in 1989 , made it easier for the 14 Scotts ' Hospitality properties to switch their franchise to Marriott Hotels , who are long-standing TQM enthusiasts . |
| 8 | To help you choose something more exciting for the budding Nick Faldo or Laura Davies in your family , STEVE NEWELL has plotted an 18-gift course from expensive luxuries to handy stocking fillers : |
| 9 | On that form he started favourite for the 1988 Cheltenham Gold Cup but ran a listless race before being pulled up . |
| 10 | On that form he started favourite for the 1988 Cheltenham Gold Cup but ran a listless race before being pulled up . |
| 11 | Candidates backed by the UDHK won only two seats in the indirect elections on Sept. 12 for the 21 Legco members representing " functional constituencies " ( business , trade and social service groups ) . |
| 12 | Following the allegations of fraud in the July 1989 legislative and municipal elections in five states [ see p. 36811 ] an independent tribunal ruled in September that the left-wing nationalist Democratic Revolutionary Party ( Partido de la Revolución Democrática — PRD ) had in fact won 14 of the 18 seats in the state legislature in Michoacán , as opposed to the six initially conceded to the PRD against 12 for the ruling PRI , and that there had been widespread voting irregularities in the other four states . |
| 13 | They marched from Geneva , Charles leading one army over Mont Cenis , while his uncle Bernard led another through the Great St Bernard Pass . |
| 14 | Rookies such as Lee Sharpe , Les Ferdinand and Gary Pallister are also named for a game in which defeat would be not so much unthinkable as indefensible for the beleaguered England manager . |
| 15 | Given the current retail environment in the U.K. and the U.S. , the Group sees significant growth opportunity in 1993 for the repositioned Johnson Brothers brand . |
| 16 | ‘ Band morale is very high after the recent UK dates . |
| 17 | When the time approached for a decision on when to ground PA474 , the feeling within the RAF was that PA474 should be kept airworthy for at least another ten years , and the suggestion was made that R5868 should go to Hendon instead , as it was by far the most historical of the two Lancasters . |
| 18 | On the Iraqi side of the frontier , the town of al-Amarah , on the easternmost of the three Baghdad-Basrah roads , was seldom free of military activity , with convoys of trucks and armour pouring into it , and private cars and taxis carrying battlefield coffins on their roofs frequently setting off in the opposite direction . |
| 19 | On 1st June 1885 , a group comprising 118 of the exiled Nez Perce arrived at Lapwai , while Joseph 's 150 followers continued on to the Colville Reservation . |
| 20 | Almost half of the seventeen DUP candidates for the 1973 Assembly were Free Presbyterians . |
| 21 | Around half of the 2,300 NHS hospitals were now providing only emergency services . |
| 22 | We shall examine how they arrived at an indicator of relative need for non-psychiatric hospital in-patient services ( which accounts for over half of the total NHS budget ) . |
| 23 | Pateman naturally sought , and was given , assurances that his reduced salary , which was only one-half of the National WEA 's prescribed scale of £400 a year for District Secretaries , would be paid in full and on a regular basis throughout the year . |
| 24 | Congress ( I ) , which emerged with 12 of the 13 Lok Sabha seats and a clear overall Assembly majority with 87 seats , hailed the result as a triumph , and a Congress ( I ) state administration was sworn in on Feb. 25 . |
| 25 | The pomp of Parks , Thompson and Dexter must seem further away than ever for a club that has now failed to progress beyond the group stages in 12 of the 21 Benson & Hedges Cup . |
| 26 | A big , physically powerful lawyer born into the most distinguished of the half-dozen Hong Kong families with a genuine claim to ‘ old money ’ status , T S Lo was by his early forties one of the grandest figures in the colonial establishment . |
| 27 | In fact , never mind them , I do n't think some of the first-class London sides would survive . |
| 28 | Last Monday , in the worst picket line clashes seen in Britain since the 1980s , protesters fought with police as buses arrived with newly-recruited workers , hired to replace some of the 340 Timex workers sacked nine weeks ago . |
| 29 | There are plenty of great walks to try out in the forest itself and some of the surrounding peaks — the forest boundaries include some of the lower Cairngorm summits . |
| 30 | IBM Corp chairman Louis Gerstner has called a halt to plans to break up the company , the Financial Times claimed yesterday : the paper said Gerstner told a group of executives , ‘ The whole of IBM is greater than the sum of its parts , ’ and put the strategy into reverse ; John Akers had planned to bring outside investors into some of the decentralised IBM units such as AdStar and Pennant Systems , and was planning to sell some of them outright . |