Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [subord] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A free market will undersupply a public good because of the free-rider problem . |
| 2 | TL dates of three burnt flints have been measured at the British Museum , and these straddle a mean of 190.000 years BP , but there is a large variation about this mean because of the inhomogeneity of the radiation environment in the cave outlined above . |
| 3 | The area office has a discretion to extend the time limit but can not be relied upon to exercise this other than in the most extenuating circumstances . |
| 4 | Early reviewers were more upset by the social conscience which poems like this displayed than by the outlandish verses , and did not understand why a poet should be concerned with the study of ‘ low and rustic life ’ . |
| 5 | And it 's not always that easy because on the whole , news interviewers are a much tougher breed than the nice gentle Brians of this world who are the disc jockey sitting in a studio with two hours to fill , pile of records , let's get A , B and C in and do a nice ten minute slot with them . |
| 6 | In such areas the landscape was as much medieval as in the open-field lands but it was very different and had a different pattern of settlement within it . |
| 7 | The philanthropist Albany in Fanny Burney 's Cecilia ( 1782 ) is regarded even by his creator as ‘ partially deranged ’ , and in any case spends less time with the authentic poor than with the middle-class Belfield , fallen on evil days . |
| 8 | One is intensive arable as in the Fens , New Holland in Lincolnshire , and on much of the chalk ; there are few or no hedges or trees , but open country with no sense of enclosure or division . |
| 9 | At the commencement of the conversions the vehicles were lifted , and all parts of the underframes and bogies brought back to nominal new as for the standard LMSR coach . |
| 10 | They knew it was all funny because of the funny voice he put on . |
| 11 | The consequences , as pointed out in Schroeder ( A ) Music Publishing Co v Macaulay [ 1974 ] 1 WLR 1308 in the Court of Appeal , is that all acts taken under the clause prior to judgment remain undisturbed but that future ones will , assuming the successful party chooses to rely on the judgment , be unenforceable. 8 Consideration In any contract there has to be consideration but the question which has frequently arisen in restraint of trade cases is whether the court is at all concerned as to the adequacy of the particular consideration in the instant case . |
| 12 | Despite the findings of the Dragon Project and other workers over the years , it is still too early to be at all dogmatic as to the nature of the energies at ancient sites or how they might operate . |
| 13 | Accordingly , it is not necessary in order to establish that corporate power is legitimate to show that the existence of companies is conducive to the general welfare , and the state has no right to intervene in their affairs in the name of the public good other than by the traditional means of alterating the background legal constraints within which all businesses and citizens must operate . |
| 14 | It 's all ready except for the steak . |
| 15 | Many of today 's spreadsheets and word processors possess extremely advanced presentation capabilities and the launch of programs like Excel , Wingz , Word for Windows , Ami ( NB that 's i acute as in the French for friend ) and WordPerfect 5.1 all tend to confirm this . |
| 16 | What more obvious than for the allies to outflank the French right to cut their lines of communication with Vienna ? |
| 17 | If the pond-building books fail to acknowledge Murphy 's Law , it is nowhere more evident than at the point where neat diagrams demonstrate the laying of slabs over flap of liner . |
| 18 | Curiously enough the use of phosphatic material to build hard parts is generally primitive — calcium phosphate shells are nowhere more numerous than in the earliest Cambrian . |
| 19 | If there is a twist to the plot , then it is nowhere more apparent than at the window management level where , it seems , Hewlett-Packard Co is determined to make its Visual User Environment stick . |
| 20 | If there is a twist to the plot , then it is nowhere more apparent than at the window management level where , it seems , Hewlett-Packard is determined to make its Visual User Environment stick . |
| 21 | This is nowhere more apparent than in the leafy avenues of middle-class suburbia , among the 2CV owners and Guardian readers , the teachers and social workers , where family life is pictured tumbling happily among Early Learning Centre climbing frames , glowing cosily out from safely bohemian pine-scrubbed kitchens . |
| 22 | The division between two schools of thought is nowhere more apparent than in the field of Zambian foreign policy . |
| 23 | The changing nature of ‘ town and country planning ’ is nowhere more apparent than in the area of what Circular 22/80 calls Planning and Business Activity . |
| 24 | This is nowhere more apparent than in the sixth quatrain : " Golden tongue " decently translates , but is purchased with a lame rhyme in " the shades among " . |
| 25 | They continued to evolve with undiminished vigour through the Tertiary , and their fossil remains are nowhere more abundant than in the ‘ crags ’ of later Tertiary age . |
| 26 | The concept , however , is nowhere more relevant than for the London area itself , which has recently been reaffirmed as a home of the rapidly expanding international office sector . |
| 27 | Energy use in industry is thought to be around 50 per cent less efficient than in the West . |
| 28 | This is nowhere more necessary than in the analysis of homophobia . |
| 29 | This was nowhere more true than on the northern border , where the nobles who held office as Wardens of the Marches , a system that had reached full development by the end of Edward III 's reign , were in effect allowed to maintain permanent standing armies at the Exchequer 's expense . |
| 30 | The statement that ‘ the parties that contended in turn for domination regarded the possession of this huge state edifice as the principal spoils of the victor ’ is nowhere more true than in the immediate pre- and post-colonial competition among indigenous interests for the administrative positions hitherto reserved for the imperialists . |