Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This picture offers us a useful parallel with the Handel portrait dating from about 1728 and has the same kind of confidential candour . |
| 2 | These aims will be achieved by video-recording children at play with their mothers , starting when the children are six months old and following the same children through until twenty-one months of age . |
| 3 | Whilst the experiment was limited to trainee engineers and by the type of microcomputer used , the results of this investigation indicated that : 1 ) the mode of man-machine interaction which was most popular and has the fewest dissenters , was one in which the user directed the course of action , as in the modular program ; 2 ) a fast design time was most likely to be achieved by the use of an optimization technique ; 3 ) an optimum design was most likely to be achieved by a preprogrammed optimization technique , but only where the problem , design parameters and constraints were understood ; 4 ) the technique thought most likely to allow some gaining of insight was one in which the user has control of the program , as in the modular program . |
| 4 | If this land comes into private ownership , it is very doubtful and dim the same amount of access and the same amount of conservation will be , er private conservation will be given and we wo n't have the control over it we have now . |
| 5 | It is about creating an expectation that children will share ideas , help one another and make the most of one another 's resources while the teacher is busy elsewhere . |
| 6 | Alain became interesting to his father when he showed that he was exceptionally clever and had the same flair for finance . |
| 7 | They are very similar and have the same requirements . |
| 8 | 274 a Court of Appeal consisting of Parker and Bingham L.JJ. considered the apparent conflict between Reg. v. Lawrence and Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 and applied the former decision . |
| 9 | The course takes place from either 09.00-12.00 or 13.00-16.00 and covers the same kind of work as Executive Course I but is less intensive . |
| 10 | Or maybe a process of natural selection had winnowed out the overworked and discontented , the theoretical and jaded and left the few who were propelled back to the school by the same affection , curiosity and remembered enthusiasm that had drawn us . |
| 11 | Even in the engineering companies the role of the unions seemed to have been limited to ensuring that , in other than their temporary status , temporary workers were not disadvantaged and received the same fringe benefits ( except membership of company pension schemes ) as regular workers . |
| 12 | If the national curriculum were about bringing difference Into the open instead of separating the desirable from the undesirable and suppressing the latter , we might see more people who are confident in their identity and can integrate from the basis of knowledge and strength rather than one of weakness . |
| 13 | Maguire did the business as expected at Cheltenham and then travelled to Fairyhouse to ride Omerta in the Irish National and achieved the same result again . |
| 14 | ‘ It is my wish that my Clerk Mr. Prince who is well acquainted with my business and affairs and in whom I place great confidence should continue in the management and conduct of the same … to sell and dispose or exchange all or any of my works on Ornithology and specimens of Natural History in the manner I have been accustom to do … to continue or complete as far as practicable the publication of any work or works of mine on Ornithology and to do all other [ illegible ] by issuing a Prospectus advertising the same … to purchase all necessary materials articles and things fit and proper for the carrying on of my business … to borrow for a temporary period any money from my Bankers , Messrs Drummond and Company … and if there by any surplus available for the purpose to invest the same in purchase of Stock … to pay the rent and taxes … make up , adjust and settle all and every or any Accounts … [ and generally ] to do perform and execute all and every or any other acts deeds matters and things whatsoever are necessary to be done in all other my concerns engagements affairs and business whatsoever during my absence from England as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as I myself might or could do if I were personally present and did the same . ’ |
| 15 | On a more cultural note , the Chinese and Asian fashion shows and song and dance were enjoyed by all and complemented the many important issues such as safety , women 's health and violence against women which were addressed during the weekend . |
| 16 | for the record , No 55020 Nimbus was taken into service on 2 December 1962 and named the same day . |
| 17 | Males should judiciously manipulate her throughout her life to suppress the latter and develop the former . |
| 18 | The parliamentary façade of Bismarck 's Prussia , the french democracy which had crushed the Revolution of 1848 and did the same to the Paris Commune in 1871 , and even Britain 's constitutional monarchy seemed merely to disguise flagrant injustice . |
| 19 | Fortunately , all such waves can be expressed as the sum of a constant term and an infinite set of harmonic sinewaves , the sinewave of lowest frequency in the harmonic set being known as the fundamental and having the same period as the original nonsinusoidal wave . |
| 20 | All firms are entirely equity-financed and have the same balance sheets : assuming that there are 100,000 shares outstanding . |
| 21 | We arrived at Tywyn at 10:56 and walked the half mile to the Talyllyn . |
| 22 | ‘ Most single people enjoy living alone and make the most of it while it lasts . ’ |
| 23 | The old Eythrope house which had stood near to Bridge Lodge had belonged to the Earls of Chesterfield , who had pulled it down in 1810 and made the most of the high price of building materials then prevailing owing to the Napoleonic wars . |
| 24 | There was no doubt that they were expected to admire the former and scorn the latter ; anyone misguided enough to get the preference the wrong way round , would be regarded as at best naïve and misguided , and at worst corrupted in sensibility . |
| 25 | In November 1832 Nicholas sent an emissary to Turkey and Egypt to stiffen the resistance of the former and confront the latter with the prospect of Russian intervention . |
| 26 | Hopefully you will never be in this situation if you have made a realistic appraisal of your incomings and outgoings and taken measures to raise the former and reduce the latter . |
| 27 | This building was completed in 1982 and occupies the same site in the walled garden as the original estate conservatory , where peaches and carnations were once grown in one of the Oxfordshire 's oldest greenhouses . |
| 28 | Both were just 23 and shared the same love of horses , fresh air and country pursuits . |
| 29 | Ayala Lasso also expressed the hope that the admission of the Koreas would reduce regional tension and provide the two states with " an appropriate forum in which to consider the many things they have in common and to overcome the few remaining obstacles to their unification " . |
| 30 | They sounded the same and wore the same white overalls , but Mr Smith had cloven hands — like a hoof with wiry brown hair — sticking from the starched overall sleeves . |