Example sentences of "[adj] and the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its shares fell 2p to 55p But it was Scottish and the rest of the takeover in-crowd , with new time buyers active , which dominated the day 's trading . |
| 2 | ‘ When you have the killing of a Marine and the beating of the navy man , some response was certainly called for , ’ said Mr Edwin Smith , a University of Southern California law professor . |
| 3 | The shooting dead of a US marine and the wounding of another at a Panamanian roadblock on Saturday forced the US to take the situation more seriously . |
| 4 | It is affected by wind , the barometer , freshwater and the position of the changing channels in the estuary . |
| 5 | Apart from the stray references to external events in the letters between Helen and Edward , the incomplete Fiction is a fuller guide to the decisions Thomas was making between Easter 1895 and the summer of 1896 than reinterpretation of the Morgans novel . |
| 6 | Ventilation in 19th century mines was very primitive and the air in the confined space in which a passage was being cleared , soon became foul and lacking in oxygen . |
| 7 | Out of 12,000 mostly unskilled workers taken on to staff the park , of which two thirds have been French and the rest from abroad , as many as 4,000 are thought to have quit in the last few months , prompting worries about mounting costs on the operators ' training and employment budgets . |
| 8 | To avoid both this and the possibility of being forced into national level negotiation with Wilson , the Federation Council at a meeting held on 29 November 1912 , resolved " that the state of the shipping trade warrants a substantial increase in the wages of seamen all round the coast from January 1st. next , and that meetings of the district committees to give effect to this resolution be held forthwith " . |
| 9 | If the widening of the 20 per cent lower income tax band to £3,000 in 1993/94 is taken into account ( which will be worth a further £25 a year to all basic and higher rate taxpayers ) , then the net effect of this and the change in the MCA on a married man aged under 65 who pays tax at the basic rate of 25 per cent will be an increase in tax of £1.17 a week or about £61 a year . |
| 10 | It is precisely the subsequent attack on this and the development of an exclusionary and residual welfare state for the poor , coupled with generous fiscal welfare for the non-poor , which seems characteristic of disorganized capitalism . |
| 11 | Er and so we are looking at ways in which we can actually erm develop this and the firm as a whole is doing that as well and er we are to a certain extent that initiative . |
| 12 | This and the building of shopping centres and roads for larger numbers of cars created jobs in construction and materials . |
| 13 | This and the replication in Murchison House , Edinburgh , of courses given at Keyworth led to a substantial increase in staff attendance . |
| 14 | The division of the movement suggested this and the spectre of a resurgent Germany under Hitler 's leadership made Fascism as alien as Bolshevism had been ten years before . |
| 15 | He always considered himself to be Reformed and praised the Westminster Assembly , that there was ‘ never a synod of more excellent divines than this and the Synod of Dort ’ . |
| 16 | This and the unpleasantness of needle insertion ( suggesting poor needling technique ) led to an unusually high drop out rate in both the group given electroacupuncture ( 17% ) and the controls ( 15% ) in the study . |
| 17 | He at length quoted the evidence given by Wells , the butcher and pointed out that , if the jury believed this and the evidence of Drew 's landlady , Mrs Goodall , then it was in direct contradiction to the majority of other witnesses . |
| 18 | Both the system which has been set up to do this and the evidence of its operational effectiveness will be audited . |
| 19 | This and the text of the symposium which was also published will be referred to here . |
| 20 | Accept this and the gateway to other worlds will slowly swing wide for you and each day will bring forth new wonders , so that you become once more as a child , absorbed and enchanted by all there is of which to learn . |
| 21 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 22 | The connection between this and the concept of form as sketched much earlier in this paper-the notion of form as enabling ways of life , of form as a part of " processes of human individuation " — is contained within the concept . |
| 23 | First , section 401 applies to provisions which supplement or vary the particulars of an existing charge and therefore in some situations it will be necessary to distinguish between this and the creation of a new charge . |
| 24 | Aelfwald was residing in the far north of his kingdom when George arrived in Northumbria in 786 and this and the association of his cult with Hexham seem to locate this Bernician prince essentially outside Deira . |
| 25 | Fortunately her mother had been told to expect this and the reason for it was explained . |
| 26 | This is subject to the proviso that where it is essential that an instrument comes into effect immediately , it can be brought into effect before it is laid , but that the Speaker and/or Lord Chancellor should be informed of this and the reason for it . |
| 27 | But this and the extent of cover is in danger of changing . |
| 28 | But despite this and the sickness of his family , William pressed on with his study of Bengali with a native teacher named Ram Basu . |
| 29 | Combining the H pylori positive patients with and without renal failure provided a wide range of gastric juice ammonium concentrations ( 1–43 mmol/l ) but there was no correlation between this and the severity of the H pylori related antral gastritis ( Table ) . |
| 30 | Many organisations fail to take account of this and the importance of personal contact becomes lost in techno-culture or the ‘ memo culture ’ of the organisation , while the individual has no sense of where he fits in or how he can contribute . |