Example sentences of "[adj] the [adj] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it is true that the terms of the debate are often unclear , and while confusing signs constantly come even from the Euro-enthusiasts ( such as when the French Foreign Minister called for ‘ une fédération d'Etats souverains ’ the overwhelming evidence indicates that the prime movers in European union mean business . |
| 2 | He had proved during a thorough re-analysis of old observations that the coldest decades in recent history ; the ‘ Little Ice Age ’ of the second half of the 17th century , coincided ( if that is the right word ) with an interval when the Sun was remarkably free from sunspots . |
| 3 | It has borne his burdens , taken part in his wars , and shared his leisure pursuits but , incongruously , its most important period began with the start of the industrial revolution ; as man invented machines to revolutionise his industry , he found more need for the heavy horse ; it provided the means of transport and made possible the rapid improvements in agriculture required to feed the expanding population . |
| 4 | Among people aged 25–74 the only analyses in our paper are of leukaemia and lymphoma for 1984–90 , using data derived from the data collection study . |
| 5 | Before this the slowmoving dancers in their wide spreading tutus and veiled arms have hidden it from view . |
| 6 | Part-time farmers occupied just under half the 250,000 holdings in Bavaria and provided a more stable component in the farming community than their full-time colleagues . |
| 7 | At that time , 21,000 children under the age of ten died in London every year , almost half the total deaths in the capital . |
| 8 | Half the nine cantarists in Coventry had £2 or less in goods , which , although numbers generally are hardly sufficient to average , was typical of their condition . |
| 9 | By now , probably half the small ads in the current issue had been placed by aliens . |
| 10 | Fergus knew the stories ; he knew how it was whispered that once inside the Prison of Hostages no one ever returned to the world of Men , but to Fergus , who had led the Fiana from the age of eighteen , and who knew the secrets and the devices and the weaknesses of half the ancient fortresses in Ireland , no prison was ever sealed so utterly and so completely that there was not a way out of it . |
| 11 | This will account for half the 215 students in the year , and we hope to continue expanding until all first year students participate in one community based general medical firm . |
| 12 | The little minx seems to have half the young men in London at her feet . |
| 13 | Over half the female nurses in a study presented at the meeting said members of the general public believed that male nurses were gay . |
| 14 | Once he lets down his defences half the social workers in Norfolk , amateur and professional , will move in on him . ’ |
| 15 | More than half the British troops in Germany are being withdrawn over the next four years , which will inevitably put more pressure on UK training areas , making the removal of the MoD from national parks even less likely . |
| 16 | Thus , in a study by Abel-Smith and Townsend ( 1965 ) , a third of the poor were the aged , and almost half the old-age pensioners in their study were living below the poverty line . |
| 17 | ‘ If you did , half the top men in this town would be swallowing rubber tubes every weekend . |
| 18 | Instead she nominated some the sexiest men in the entertainment world . |
| 19 | Like other Pseudocrenilabrus , males have an orange tip to the anal fin , which is apparently some sort of egg dummy , akin the anal ocelli in most haplochromines . |
| 20 | Another market , for wheat and general grain , was established by Major Obins and Mr George Woodhouse in 1780 and by 1819 the annual purchases in this market amounted to over 5000 tons . |
| 21 | He was the landlord of the Dowlais ironworks , in the 1840s the largest ironworks in the world , and his paltry returns from the Dowlais lease caused him to drive a hard bargain with those seeking the coal of his estate . |
| 22 | It is conceivable that a partnership could be used as the buy-out vehicle where the managers wish to acquire the shares in Target rather than its business and assets , on the principle that the fewer the corporate layers in the structure , the easier it is to fund borrowings and extract profits . |
| 23 | In 1984 the total holidays in this market sector were in the region of 170,000 . |
| 24 | It resolved to equalize landholdings between Russians and non-Russians , and to ‘ overcome , oust and subordinate the Russian kulaks in the most energetic manner ’ . |
| 25 | On that day we scrutinised all the temporary folders in the box and noted the time that had elapsed since the proper notes had been requested . |
| 26 | In the same way , many suicides jump from tall buildings , but removing all the tall buildings in the country would not stop people from killing themselves . |
| 27 | The monkeys are blue and all the facial profiles in the fresco crowds are identical ; the human beings depicted were , with a few very noteworthy exceptions , not shown as individuals . |
| 28 | ‘ Basically , someone has to take a stand now otherwise all the single-teacher schools in the Borders could go in a very short time , ’ declared the association chairman , Annmarie Crowe , of St Abbs , yesterday . |
| 29 | Sometimes , thinking of all the terrible problems in the world , particularly the horror of the possibility of nuclear war , one is overwhelmed by the sadness of it all , and reduced to tears of helplessness . |
| 30 | We now have one of the most important of all the disciplinary guidelines in this book : |