Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] the [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this approach was not as successful as that implemented in probeorder , in that where the map and hybridisation data are in in serious conflict the contigs generated will be a poor compromise between the two . |
| 2 | In the future we need to be quicker than the competition and totally focused on customer satisfaction and production requirements . |
| 3 | If we take a view about fairness , then the funding of capital schemes is fairer if the charge and the cost of the those schemes is spread over the life of the the asset . |
| 4 | I tell this because the humility and openness to God of my friend has always been an example to me . |
| 5 | That is wrong because the Bill and the Local Government Bill were published before that . |
| 6 | As somebody who is still under thirty and er like my good friend Mister young enough to have a positive approach to Europe , I am pleasantly surprised that the people opposite are gon na make my job a lot easier because the narrowness and the anti-diluvian attitudes that we see on the benches opposite explain why , in the last Euro elections , the Labour Party won a resounding victory on the issue of Europe . |
| 7 | Such combinations make up the particles known as mesons , which are unstable because the quark and antiquark can annihilate each other , producing electrons and other particles . |
| 8 | Tess had been calm since the baptism and she remained calm . |
| 9 | To listen to this when the mind and body need to recover from effort is , to use a medical term , contra-indicated . |
| 10 | This Katherine instead reminded her a little of those refugee children she had housed during the war , ever polite , ever ready to comply , but as old as the world and never altogether of it . |
| 11 | Public transport is as elusive as the wildlife and not recommended , besides which the USA is geared to the motorist above all others . |
| 12 | The room we sat in contained two television sets , two oak sideboards , slightly lower than the ceiling and four clocks all stopped at different times . |
| 13 | As the tensile strength of rocks is lower than the compression and shear strengths it is most likely that rock will be shattered during cooling and contraction . |
| 14 | And is not this medium exceedingly more rare and subtle than the air and exceedingly more elastic and active ? |
| 15 | If other sports had riding 's attitude to clothing , Nigel Mansell would drive in a leather flying hat and Ian Woosnam would compete in plus-fours , but one is unsafe and the other unnecessary so the motorsport and golf authorities have not tried to cling to them . |
| 16 | Well , of course , it is inevitable that one thinks of it from that angle from the way one has been brought up but actually one ca n't think of anything more barbaric than the Crucifixion and that way of killing somebody . |
| 17 | It was a delight more magical than the panto and the circus had held when I was little . |
| 18 | The book , said Beatrice , was used like opium or cocaine by poets and painters as a ‘ defence from modern life , this very modern life of noise and advertisement which they profess to find more real than the glory and the grandeur of earlier civilizations … |
| 19 | It looked the same as the other one to her , except perhaps that the knuckle bone of the little finger was more prominent than the rest and the finger itself rather stiff . |
| 20 | Dig a hole bigger than the container and make sure you plant them with the graft union just below the surface . |
| 21 | It seemed bigger than the sun and it sailed with a peculiar swiftness up into the heavens , growing paler and brighter as it did so until it lit up the plain with a dull , yellow light . |
| 22 | He doubted if these boys had been playing soccer — Hurstdown 's sporting young gentlemen would surely scorn such a plebeian game — and , sure enough , the boy bringing up the rear , older and taller than the rest and evidently in charge , was clutching a rugby ball to his chest . |
| 23 | Books can be dangerous because the reading and writing of them involves us in an exercise of intellectual freedom . |
| 24 | This is particularly dangerous because the weight and drag of the second cable may make it difficult to get the nose down . |
| 25 | Single-mode instabilities in high-finesse resonators are particularly simple because the propagation and time-delay effects can be reduced , using a first-order Taylor expansion , to a simple first-order differential equation for the mode amplitude , as will be described in the next section . |
| 26 | Such contracts are appropriate because the timing and level of the peak can be determined with a high degree of certainty . |
| 27 | As one teacher said , ‘ I am still to be convinced whether the energy and time required to do effective evaluation would balance the increased efficiency in teaching which might follow . ’ |
| 28 | The Libyan quarrel was referred to Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria , a very well-educated man , who sided with those theologians who stressed the distinctness of Father and Son ; they should not be said to be of one being but to be as distinct as the husbandman and the vine . |
| 29 | The Beeching proposals for the railways ( figure 6.2 ) can be compared with the 1982–83 rail network ( figure 6.3 ) although , as with bus services , the network itself may not be as crucial as the frequency and cost of train journeys . |
| 30 | While the magnificence of the result could justify the fact that The Red Shoes cost twice as much as The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp , there were many cases where the extravagance worked against the final result , and Michael Powell has recalled that he became ‘ impatient at the complacency of my associates about the mounting costs of our films . ’ |