Example sentences of "[adj] the [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | As these family dramas were played out around Low Birk Hatt farm and the Hauxwell family battled against the twin effects of an overpriced heavily mortgaged farm , and an agricultural depression which presaged the deep national depression of the thirties the other people in Baldersdale coped with their lives . |
| 2 | It is with this fact , semi-consciously , that the new teacher in particular struggles . |
| 3 | ‘ Want , want , want , ’ Alyssia repeated bitterly ; ‘ is that the only word in your vocabulary ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Given that the appalling tragedy in the Horn of Africa will not end until there is peace , and given the changes in the pattern of the United Nations ' work in recent years , which our Government have so actively supported , does the Minister think that we are now reaching a stage where British troops could be deployed under a United Nations banner in humanitarian action as a precursor to effective aid ? |
| 6 | Over his mouth and nose was a white mask of the sort that the Japanese wear in the streets of Tokyo . |
| 7 | It had been Conneau who , in fact , had made possible the famous escape in 1846 by maintaining the pretence of his patient 's illness on the appointed day , thereby preventing the prison governor from making his daily visit . |
| 8 | In financing the development at home and abroad of the railways , it made possible the enormous growth in the production first of iron , later of steel , which characterised the secondary stage of the Industrial Revolution and guaranteed it as an irreversible change . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Numerous reports from all over Germany make clear how little the German people in the last months of the war was attuned to the heroic strains of the message preached above all by Goebbels . |
| 11 | Between 1976 and 1986 the average error in the Treasury 's forecasting of the PSBR ( whether negative or positive ) was £2.3 billion , and in the 1983 edition of the Treasury 's Financial Statement and Budget Report it was estimated that the average error in forecasting the public sector borrowing requirement for the year ahead was ofthe order of 1.5 per cent of GDP . |
| 12 | By 1935 the dominant force in the unions led by Bevin and Walter Citrine , the TUC secretary , was tired of Cripps 's radicalism and of Lansbury 's pacifism and decided to demolish Cripps and Lansbury Politically . |
| 13 | And you see doing th er that er junior the junior school In the earlier junior school we were at the church as well , which was on the next street , St John 's Church at Mansfield . |
| 14 | Two other books — Shakespeare 's Imagination ( 1946 ) and St. Francis : Nature Mystic ( 1973 ) — also drew upon his ornithological knowledge , making each the definitive contribution in its field . |
| 15 | In 1891 the average attendance in the morning was 68 pupils and 7 teachers and in the afternoon 127 pupils and 10 teachers . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And at the same time let us take care with washing and cleanliness and other precautions to see that we do n't ingest the morbid agent in any liquid or solid form . |
| 18 | By 1876 the growing interest in his metallic asbestos packing encouraged him to patent it and found the Beldam Packing and Rubber Company , which later became Beldam Crossley . |
| 19 | In 1895 the Congregational Chapel in Aylesbury agreed to repeat the Lord 's Prayer during Sunday services ; three years later the Church accepted a proposal from its younger members to have a vase of flowers in chapel during services and someone donated a vase . |
| 20 | We can add to this the uncertain environment in which decision makers operate . |
| 21 | But is this the only way in which a complicated and highly structured civilization can evolve ? |
| 22 | Nor is this the only area in which the former chairman has left himself open to potential conflicts of interest . |
| 23 | The caption read : ‘ Is this the new love in Darcy 's life ? ’ |
| 24 | This the general situation in the physical sciences , but research in the humanities and social sciences is not dependent on research council funding to the same extent . |
| 25 | Before this the slowmoving dancers in their wide spreading tutus and veiled arms have hidden it from view . |
| 26 | Despite this the common tendency in SI writing on most forms of directed or purposeful activity ( other than agitation or ‘ destructive creativity' ) is negative . |
| 27 | Add to this the rapid growth in the numbers of expeditions , climbers and trekkers which has occurred in recent years and it is not surprising that the problem has reached massive proportions despite the availability of new access sites from Tibet which was opened to climbers in 1980 . |
| 28 | More than once she has unbolted the front door in the night and gone out in her nightdress . |
| 29 | Although half the incontinent people in the MORI survey had consulted their general practitioner , other surveys have suggested a much lower proportion . |
| 30 | For example , the public sector services ( the bottom three categories in Table 3. 1 ) , grew rapidly in the 1960s and early 1970s and accounted for over half the total increase in service jobs in this period . |