Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I am optimistic now that we 've got a stable base for the next year , and I 'm always optimistic for the year after ! |
2 | New accountability processes have to grapple with the problem of legitimising managerial autonomy and discretion ( to achieve results ) with the need to give real rather than fictional accounts to the various publics with which the organisation interacts . |
3 | Originally a sial crust had enveloped the earth , but it then split on one side and compressed into the solid mass of the present-day continents . |
4 | — Although the flight of insects has been referred to on p. 64 , the coordinated activities of the skeletomuscular system of flying insects need further brief discussion ( Tiegs , 1955 ; Pringle , 1957 , 1965 , 1968 ) . |
5 | Reports continued of tacit Iranian support for the Soviet Moslem republics [ see p. 38409 ] . |
6 | The reason is not clear , but must be the result of some subtle change in the genetic information in the nucleus . |
7 | The man forgot one issue , the European Monetary Union , it was Mr Major that took us into the Economic Monetary Union at the wrong way , he took us in on a political decision on the last day of a Labour Party Conference in Blackpool and he 's forgotten that . |
8 | It was thus a political decision in the strictest sense , but it was taken , not in response to any kind of popular pressure , but in response to a narrowly but powerfully based pressure-group campaign in which those who stood to gain most from it financially , such as the makers of television sets , played a prominent role . |
9 | The range of normal values for the oesophageal pH environment has been derived from previous study of 30 asymptomatic control subjects in this laboratory . |
10 | It is possible to analyse possible interactions between the syntactic cue and description type also , but these are best understood on the basis of the data . |
11 | Product stability is , by definition , the inherent stability of the product independent of possible interactions with the immediate container or of questions of the adequacy or otherwise of the protection afforded by the sales package . |
12 | They followed him through a narrow passageway into the old town . |
13 | Although no pyramid has been found with its original contents present , the recent exploration of a narrow passageway within the Great Pyramid built for the pharaoh Cheops has led archaeologists to hope for an undisturbed chamber at the other end . |
14 | Those countries are co-ordinating their industrial and economic strategies at the regional level . |
15 | Not surprisingly , this finding has led to further speculation about the role of hostile , critical and overprotective parenting in the first onset of schizophrenia . |
16 | Accepting this as a broad description of the current state , we now examine some real-time data in order to confirm the direction of change . |
17 | In order to locate the variables that might be worthy of study , and to define the variants of the variables , a broad description of the phonological system has to be prepared beforehand . |
18 | Thereafter , however , he was in regular attendance , being recorded as present at nine out of twelve private meetings in the Painted Chamber and at all four sessions of the actual trial in Westminster Hall , including the final session on Saturday 29 January , in which the sentence of death was passed by all present ( though he did not sign the death warrant ) . |
19 | Solicitors are increasingly becoming the dominant branch of the profession despite the historical recognition that they are the junior part of the legal profession . |
20 | It is clear that in both Australia and New Zealand there is a continuing ferment arising from conflicting support for the old or the new . |
21 | Ten minutes later there was a loud rat-tat on the heavy iron-fronted door of the warehouse . |
22 | The route : a complete crossing of the French Pyrenees from Hendaye-Plage on the Atlantic to Banyuls-Sur-Mer on the Mediterranean . |
23 | TAKE A REFRESHING DIP IN THE WARM WATERS OF THE INDOOR SWIMMING POOL . |
24 | Marx focuses on the dynamic implications of the conflicting principles which the simultaneous existence of the two institutions , family and descent group , implies . |
25 | In Chapter 1 , we defined inflation as a persistent rise in the average level of prices and we pointed out that in the UK the rate of inflation is normally measured as the annual percentage increase in the Retail Price Index . |
26 | They had , especially in the hard hopeless times of the first half of the century , been fused into a homogeneous mass of the discontented and the oppressed . |
27 | This image is eagerly developed by the popular press , which almost daily produces the most ridiculous and exaggerated accounts of the tiny minority of bankrupts who have run up extremely large debts . |
28 | The fact that several provincial towns reported pope-burnings in November 1714 and 1715 should make us question how extensive support for the Jacobite position was at this time . |
29 | A very prosaic theory proposes that the electrical activity of the brain as we sleep produces the mental equivalent of white noise and that , just as we can make ourselves hear music in white noise , our unconscious can pick out a coherent story from the baffling array of visual images presented to it . |
30 | What we witness here is something resembling the Freudian proposition that the repressed returns via the very images , structures , and mechanisms of repression itself : the words which consummate the renewal of man , his salvation , these words return to signify the opposite of salvation which is damnation , and they signify also the desire which only damnation can acknowledge and which salvation must repress . |