Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [subord] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the terms of the deal , which marked the first direct trading contact between the two Korean states since the Korean War of 1950-53 , the North would supply 30,000 tonnes of anthracite and 11,000 tonnes of cement in exchange for the rice . |
| 2 | The relevant calculations are stored in the technical sub-files whilst the corresponding wall thickness is kept in the spatial sub-file . |
| 3 | Tensions in the Gaza Strip , which had been subject to a clampdown by the Israeli authorities since the fatal stabbing on May 25 of a 15-year-old Jewish schoolgirl by a Palestinian youth in the Bat Yam suburb of Tel Aviv , rose on June 25 when two Jewish vegetable merchants were stabbed to death . |
| 4 | At one o'clock in the afternoon , eight hours after the first shots had been fired south of Charleroi , Sharpe met more cavalrymen ; this time a patrol in red-faced dark blue coats who thundered eagerly across a pasture to surround Sharpe and his two horses . |
| 5 | American diplomats are more enthusiastic about the commission 's economic plans than the British are . |
| 6 | ( c ) shows the 2nd and 4th horns ( used here because they are more accustomed to low notes than the 1st and 3rd ) placed below the trombones and an octave above the tuba . |
| 7 | There has been a long-term decline in the number of private shareholders since the Second World War , matched by a rise in the importance of the institutional investor ( eg insurance companies and pension funds ) . |
| 8 | The highways were kept free of traffic for four-and-a-half hours until the last straggler finished . |
| 9 | Big crowds turned out around the 1.46 mile city centre circuit , covered eight times after the international field had already done 105 miles over tough territory in Yorkshire and Lancashire . |
| 10 | Alternatively checks can be built into the system that restrict the availability of certain specific products unless the potential users can demonstrate that they are suitably equipped . |
| 11 | Italy is one of Iran 's main trading partners and had until now been largely spared the violence that has led to the deaths of dozens of opponents of the Tehran government opponents in other European cities since the 1979 revolution . |
| 12 | they 're usually made between six and eight months before the first person would move in |
| 13 | not generally towards the end of the sale period because you would be looking at er the brochure or the costs been put together eight months before the first flat was sold , erm a new brochure following a new estimate probably would have been prepared after about twenty months , that is to say er that would have been prepared before the last people entered the er flats |
| 14 | The former world featherweight champion has endured a traumatic eight months since the High Court awarded ex-manager Barney Eastwood damages following McGuigan 's criticism of the ill-fated defence against Texan Steve Cruz in June 1986 . |
| 15 | There are two types of smetana — ordinary and creamed — the latter has a slightly higher butterfat content and there are 132 calories per 100g/4oz compared with 120 calories for the ordinary version . |
| 16 | Both lead ( found in lower concentrations than the legal limit for UK drinking water ) and chlorohydrocarbons were effectively cleared of being the cause of the problem . |
| 17 | Gerald has been known to coin such memorable one-liners as the following : ‘ If the joy of the Lord is our strength , it 's little wonder that the church in Britain has been so weak and ineffective ’ ; ‘ There 's no virtue in being ten or twenty years behind the times ’ ; ‘ Most Christians are nicer than God himself ’ ; ‘ It is the unshared areas of our lives where Jesus is not Lord ’ ; ‘ One of the reasons the church in Britain has failed to grow is quite simply because it is full of people who are extremely rude ’ ; ‘ Putting the life of God into institutional Christianity is rather like putting the life of a human being into a kangaroo … . ’ 'You are only a leader if someone 's following you' ( Gerald Quotes ) . |
| 18 | All of the major political parties since the Second World War have , to a greater or lesser degree , been in favour of extending home ownership . |
| 19 | To delimit ( find extent of ) the CBD using more quantifiable methods than the general observation . |
| 20 | Three particularly objective masters of choreography are de Valois in Job and The Rake 's Progress , Massine with such different ballets as The Good - Humoured Ladies and The Three-Cornered Hat and MacMillan with Mayerling and Requiem . |
| 21 | Eventually all the shelled forms except the pearly nautilus disappeared . |
| 22 | Charlie felt seasick only a few minutes after the English coast was out of sight . |
| 23 | A riot reigned for two and a half hours after the last game ended . |
| 24 | The first real indication of the mood of the new House came on Wednesday , 3 June 1992 , the day after the Danish ‘ no ’ vote and a few hours after the prime minister had told Parliament that he intended nevertheless to press ahead with the bill ratifying the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 25 | Every Dane owes ca £5,000 to foreign creditors when the foreign debt is divided equally , dwarfing the problem encountered in ‘ debtor ’ countries such as Poland and Brazil . |
| 26 | A single order may not be sufficient for this latter aim , and it is advisable to go back to the shelves some months after the new stock has reached them and decide whether a further order is necessary . |
| 27 | Moulvi ali Zoha , a Rohingya Muslim who arrived in Bangladesh on Monday , told United News , a Bangladeshi news agency , that the soldiers were angered by the Muslims ' breaking open the doors of the mosque , which had been kept locked for the last few months since the Burmese authorities clamped down on the Rohingyas . |
| 28 | Kelly and Sear predict that things should actually improve over the next few months as the northern hemisphere continues to recover from the 0.5°C cooling that actually happened in June last year . |
| 29 | It contains large raolecular units while the chemical industry wants small carbon units for feedstocks , so coal must be broken down , usually to make a gas . |
| 30 | Additionally , his father 's side of the family were very enthusiastic adherents of the British Empire and in addition to their being ( as Leonard preferred to call them ) ‘ gentlemen of Hebrew persuasion , ’ they were perhaps more British in some respects than the British themselves , recalling what Hugh MacLennan said in his superb novel of the period , The Two Solitudes : ‘ The French are Frencher than France and the English are more British than England ever dared to be . ’ |