Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The astonishing attack came as enraged creditors branded the disgraced coach chief ‘ scum , ’ a ‘ cheat ’ and a ‘ fraud . ’ |
| 2 | The French authorities repatriated the two in 1987 and 1988 respectively , ostensibly for medical reasons , without seeking permission from New Zealand . |
| 3 | A spokesman for the Assembly stated that it was hoped to hold elections by the end of 1992 , but that they might have to be postponed for a few months given the parlous state of the country . |
| 4 | Thus , while Article Seventeen of the Thirty-Nine Articles incorporated the Reformed doctrine of predestination , its comments about the reprobate and the absolute assurance of salvation were left vague . |
| 5 | Further changes required the greatest prudence . |
| 6 | Although , some critics termed the novel coarse meaning different things , some of them . |
| 7 | In Denmark , Sweden and Norway the trade unions work together in similarly long-established federations called the National Organisations ( Landsorganisationen , or LO ) which exist not only for manual employees but with separate confederations for white-collar and professional workers . |
| 8 | High railings guarded the small courtyard gardens , the gates of which were usually protected by push-button security-code entry locks . |
| 9 | British soldiers saturated the latter area with CS gas before taking up occupation . |
| 10 | Thoughtful pagans regarded the ethical demand of the Christian proclamation as too tough to be practicable , and feared that the proclamation of peace and love to enemies would make the empire pusillanimous in self-defence . |
| 11 | I have pointed out that the early structuralists treated the discursive elements in their analysis as ‘ natural ’ , as empirically given . |
| 12 | Six years separated the two brothers , and although both were fair-haired , Charles Sherman at twenty-one bore the strongest resemblance to the senator . |
| 13 | Similar pressures influenced the Australian reforms ( Ozanne , 1990 ; DCS , 1986 ) . |
| 14 | Thousands of Chinese pro-democracy protesters arrested the previous year continued to be detained without charge or trail . |
| 15 | For the later prehistoric period , rather more evidence is now available from Dartmoor and the major river valleys of what early landscapes looked like in the 2000 years or so before the Roman Conquest , and how such early arrangements conditioned the later , more easily recognised , post-Roman countryside . |
| 16 | It is harder to measure how far the campaigns of the civil wars affected the great mass of the population or the country 's internal economy , but the damage may not have been particularly great , as much of the fighting was confined to limited areas . |
| 17 | The succession of leading industrial regions have ( sic ) provided the basis for regional social and political movements which have , at critical moments , contested and to varying degrees determined the ensuing course of national and sometimes international economic development . |
| 18 | It is also undeniable that he sees a part of the truth — such ceremonies educated the young at large to respect their elders and betters and to aspire to the same glory ( Polyb. 6.54.3 ) : they were civic festivals . |
| 19 | The peninsular lands incorporated the modern provinces of Calabria , Basilicata ( or Lucania ) , Apulia , Campania , Molise , and the Abruzzi , and the trading city of Gaeta . |
| 20 | They and the principal innkeepers occupied the aldermanic pews at the front of All Saints church , where the social hierarchy was as carefully formalized in the seating arrangements as in any rural parish . |
| 21 | The second-half power cut hardly mattered because Oldham , embarrassingly inept as three goals punctuated the first half , were not much better when they were allowed to play . |
| 22 | In their northward migration toward the tundra these peoples encountered the Nenets Samoeds and adopted many features of their reindeer-herding way of life , so that a northern type of Khantyn Selkup and Ket culture developed . |
| 23 | For simplicity , these authors treated the high-finesse case in which the dominant dynamic instabilities arise due to excitation of adjacent longitudinal modes , which are also cavity-resonant . |
| 24 | Later instalments disclosed the wondrous sights the astronomer had been privileged to see . |
| 25 | However , none of these changes affected the sexual division of labour within the home , and the equality of tasks and responsibilities that began to be envisioned for husbands and wives after World War II was in practice often associated with subordinate and superior status . |
| 26 | These amendments postponed the original 1975–6 carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon vehicle emission standards until 1980–1 , and established a relaxed standard for oxides of nitrogen ( the revision readjusted the balance between air quality and fuel economy by raising the emission limit from 0.4 to 1.0 grams per mile ) to take effect in 1981 or even later ( table 8.2 ) . |
| 27 | These bodies regarded the cultural form as part of a commercialized industry and were unwilling to provide grants for activities designed to make a profit . |
| 28 | Some of these trends predated the present government . |
| 29 | Since this condemnation of research opportunity , few studies have penetrated deeply beneath the sensitive skin of ‘ police culture ’ , and even though Chatterton in his notes to my thesis argued there has been a considerable amount of ‘ participant police research ’ , I would question whether many of these inquiries achieved the finer grain and detail' of the insider 's account , for they can never really know or tell if they have been excluded from the inner workings of police practice or prevented from gaining access to the hidden realities ‘ contained inside the heads of the constables ’ . |
| 30 | However , technical hitches plagued the first night . |