Example sentences of "[adj] and [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We calculated 95% confidence intervals with exact error factors for Poisson mean for numbers less than 30 and with the asymptotic error factor approximation for larger numbers . |
| 2 | I live close to the Union Canal and use its towpath for cycling , so my comments will relate to this and to the neighbouring Forth-Clyde Canal . |
| 3 | Adultery has been a hanging matter — both in this and in the usual sense of the phrase — for the literature of the past , and perhaps it could be suggested that both senses may at times be presented to the mind by what Amis does with the subject , and that there is no striking difference in this respect between what he did in the Sixties and what he has done in the Eighties . |
| 4 | The idea of the still image is one which has already been mentioned several times both in this and in the preceding chapter . |
| 5 | What administrative , economic or social conditions already present in the central highlands appeared in the Northern Band in the 1890s and in the Southern Band around 1910 ? |
| 6 | The argument is that school-leavers are mainly only temporarily unemployed and in the first few months of work are likely to switch jobs as they search for the ones that suit them best . |
| 7 | But globalisation means that companies have to invest where they can produce cheapest and at the best quality and where they can earn profits . |
| 8 | Lutyens joined their practice as a young man and was much influenced by Peto , who was brilliant , eccentric , energetic and funny and during the later part of his life became increasingly keen on garden design . |
| 9 | Its loss ratio must accordingly be quite high and as the dominant UK export credit underwriter , this should not be surprising . |
| 10 | The price for the first seems high and for the second low for a house with six acres and a lodge , but it used to be the headquarters of British Coal 's opencast mining subsidiary , which can not have done it any good . |
| 11 | So if you 're Afro-American , female , below the age of 12 and with the next Do The Right Thing in the back of your mind , call Universal and ask for Spike . |
| 12 | Just as we might buy a new outfit , then take it home and change out of the old and into the new , so Paul likens the complete change needed if we are to live as followers of Christ . |
| 13 | Chairman Peter Hollings still insisted yesterday its £18.3m bid last year was ‘ generous and in the best interests of both companies ' shareholders ’ . |
| 14 | And it applied also to the Chartists — ‘ A nation can not become free and at the same time continue to oppress other nations ’ . |
| 15 | But most of them could not understand his lasting despair , for was he not free and in the very home of democracy ? |
| 16 | The corporation was self-elected and of the weakest kind . |
| 17 | The ratio of the radioactivity bound to the ulcerated and to the intact mucosa was calculated for each group of animals of the B series . |
| 18 | It was hoped that this would lead to a positive referendum result in Denmark in late April or early May 1993 and to the subsequent completion of the Maastricht ratification process . |
| 19 | Digitizing began in 1973 and completion of the digitizing of the 1:1250 basic scale maps is expected by 1993 and of the 1:2500 series by 2005 . |
| 20 | The British Friesian quickly became very popular and by the late 1940s it was the country 's dominant breed , although it was sometimes decried for being uglier , having a worse udder and giving lower quality milk than the Ayrshire and the Shorthorn . |
| 21 | This paper describes an alternative approach whereby the thermal histories of coals from the Palaeozoic and from the Tertiary are deduced from simulation experiments in which samples with different natural maturities are heated under identical conditions of time and temperature . |
| 22 | As chilling of the petiole of leaf 1 inhibited phloem translocation for about 20min , we assayed the effects of chilling the petiole on heat stimulus-induced systemic accumulation of pin activity in leaf 2 and on the systemic electrical signal . |
| 23 | Library membership runs from July 1st of year 1 to December 31st of year 2 and for the 1993/94 year costs £75 . |
| 24 | Keep the same colour sequence throughout , marking in the first two rows any stitches knitted with col. 1 , in the second pair of rows those stitches knitted with col. 2 and in the third pair of rows the stitches knitted with col. 3 . |
| 25 | He does it again in Ephesians 4:4–6 , 2 Thessalonians 2:13,14 , Galatians 4:4–7 , Romans 8:9–11 and in the well-known ‘ grace ’ of 2 Corinthians 13:14 . |
| 26 | The Thames and Severn , begun in 1783 , was six years later passing thirty-ton barges into the Thames at Inglesham , but even so the river itself remained largely unimproved and in the 1790s manufactured goods from Birmingham for London were still being carried overland from the end of the Oxford Canal . |
| 27 | There are insult-words for women who have too much sex ( slag ) and women who have too little ( pricktease ) ; women can be tasty and at the same time cunts . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , while regarded by the vast majority of members as good , proper and for the immediate and ultimate improvement of professional standards , the concept was challenged on a number of points , though these challenges were directed against the logistics of the proposal rather than the philosophy . |
| 29 | ‘ Nevertheless , they consider that it was entirely proper and in the public interest for the Daily Mirror to mount its own investigation into drug-related crime . |
| 30 | In the first volume of ‘ The Impossible Dream ’ Peter King told of the rescue and repair of the Duke taking the story through to 1985 and in the second volume he tells of the return to steam culminating in the blue riband run over the Settle and Carlisle in September 1990 . |