Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the Editor of The Times , 18 December 1990 : Sir , You said in your leader of 14 December , ‘ the highly political decision to enter the European exchange rate mechanism last October and at an exchange rate of DM2.95 to the pound looked like a mistake at the time . |
| 2 | In Kilronan churchyard lies the blind harper who , it is said , wrote the music for the tune that became ‘ The Star-Spangled Banner ’ — Turlough O'Carolan , led across Ireland on a white horse by his servant , and sleeping with his harp in the bed so as not to let the instrument 's wood warp in damp rooms . |
| 3 | Major pharmaceutical companies often did not have the multi-disciplinary expertise to develop the necessary products and processes and Chiros was collaborating with several of them , Richards said . |
| 4 | Finally , the amount by which the total award exceeds the prescribed element must also be specified . |
| 5 | The second volume , however , had a number of letters as well as an unfinished play to make the required length . |
| 6 | The motion , tabled when the government invoked a technical measure to pass the first reading of the 1993 budget without a division , failed when the Communist Party ( PCF ) deputies once again refused to back it , saying that they would not vote with the right . |
| 7 | If economic weakness exposed the British to American leverage , it also gave them bargaining power , given the anxiety of the Americans to achieve certain objectives . |
| 8 | An intact skin protects the internal structures from water loss and assists in temperature regulation . |
| 9 | However , junior officers upholding the sanctity of Japan 's rural heritage led the physical attack on politicians and zaibatsu leaders in a series of assassinations . |
| 10 | These allowances , plus a few others , are deducted from the total income to produce the taxable income . |
| 11 | Finally , it may be mentioned that Hassan , Feinstein and Manko ( 1990 ) have recently obtained another particular solution describing the non-colinear case using the generating technique of Gutsunaev and Manko ( 1988 ) as described here in ( 12.56 ) and ( 15.57 ) . |
| 12 | The few moments that Merrill spent in front of the mirror told her that she had made the right decision to wear the black dress which exposed one bare shoulder . |
| 13 | The deepening economic recession defused the worst industrial problems , but the failure of fusion had deprived the government of the only way of bringing coalition and party into line . |
| 14 | Mr Parsons had turned to stand with his back to the fire , the eternal male hogging the best place in the room . |
| 15 | Now , as from the times of childhood , she rode Fenna , seated in the deep hollow of the meeting place of scaled neck , veined wing and rising battlement of spine ; a throne protected from the great gale of his flight , as safe as the rocky cradle secures the foetal child , leaning back towards the bumpy spine as she had leant before , she gave herself over to their journey . |
| 16 | We organise excursions as part of our courses and participants have ample opportunity to meet the hospitable local people and practise Spanish . |
| 17 | AS PART of a week-long visit to Queen 's University , a party of four academics from the South China Agricultural University visited the Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland , Hillsborough . |
| 18 | Get the wing-tip holder to keep the down wind wing-tip high and apply a little aileron to prevent it falling during the first part of the take-off run . |
| 19 | On this view , however , it can not be the phonological system in which priming occurs , because both reading aloud and answering definitions by an oral response use the phonological system ( since both culminate in the subject saying a word ) ; yet these two activities do not prime each other . |
| 20 | John Ehrlichman , Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs , has provided vivid testimony of the low esteem accorded the legislative branch in the Nixon White House . |
| 21 | To Fermin Caballero , writing at the turn of the nineteenth century , this pattern of agricultural settlement constituted the chief bar to progress : a more intensive system was the key to higher production but the physical relation of the labourer and farmer to the land , the distance from the house in which he slept to the field he worked , made intense cultivation impossible . |
| 22 | In its hardline response ETA reiterated that the armed struggle remained the decisive factor in the process of attrition against the " political enemy " . |
| 23 | During the summer , these two weeds reviled each other , as fabulous creatures will ; the lowly weed accused its brother of grandiose , spendthrift ambitions , and the tall weed called the low weed mean and miserly . |
| 24 | The renovated statue carried the Prussian Iron Cross and the Prussian Eagle , added in 1814 but removed by the former East German authorities in the 1950s . |
| 25 | One European scientist noted the potential military danger of a biological weapon containing vomitoxin , a substance that has been found in some of the samples of yellow rain . |
| 26 | He 's now heavy on the front brake , while his right foot strokes the rear brake lever . |
| 27 | It is a refreshing experience to follow the hon. Member for Chichester ( Mr. Nelson ) and I hope that the level of debate on the European Community that we have attained today will be reflected in our two-day debate on 20 and 21 November . |
| 28 | For those weary of collecting paintings or objets d'art , this dispersal of the John Willett Collection of African Ungulates offers that long-awaited opportunity to purchase the complete skeleton of Megaceros Hibernicus ( est. £30,000–40,000 ; $15,500–20,700 ) . |
| 29 | Near the summit locks on the canal , however , is a preserved building called the Etruscan Bone and Flint Mill , which was built in 1857 to process raw materials for the potteries . |
| 30 | Commercial and political freedom liberated the commercialised aristocracy and gentry to establish oligarchy in parliament and stately-home civility in the countryside . |