Example sentences of "[adj] and [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Demand is high and dealers in the United States regularly receive inquiries from interested buyers all over the world . |
| 2 | Professor Eversley has stressed that it need not be drawn very high and points to the importance of groups at the margin , who used soap to wash with and wore some cotton instead of home-spun linen : " what seems neces-sary for growth is that the very exceptional expenditures should become a little less so " . |
| 3 | But tension remains high and bricks for the new Hindu temple , each inscribed with Lord Rama 's name , are being baked and blessed at ceremonies around the country . |
| 4 | D. The rural areas have little income but a great need for services , such as hospitals for the old and schools for the young . |
| 5 | The White forces consisted of four major forces : The British and Americans in the North ; Kolchak in the east , commanding a Czech legion ; Yudenich in the west and Deniken in the south . |
| 6 | Third , in addition to text and numerics , output and display architecture has to be capable of delivering both sound and images to the required standards of any given application . |
| 7 | I have vivid memories of that Sunday afternoon meeting with Elfed and Cis in the front room of 73 Caradoc Street . |
| 8 | The British middle class , on the other hand , includes large sections of the economically defined working class ( especially salaried employees ) as well as sections of the petty bourgeoisie proper and sections of the ‘ individual bourgeoisie ’ ( i.e. personal owners of means of production and employers of the labour power of others ) . |
| 9 | The perceived insult to their self-respect angered many Japanese and calls for the subjugation of Korea ( seikanron ) increased ; some , concerned about the decline of traditional martial values at home , sought also to divert the samurai into foreign campaigns . |
| 10 | The whole line of docks seemed to be ablaze and ships in the river , shops , offices , streets of terraced houses and mansions , as well as beautiful and historic buildings like the Walker Art Gallery , the Museum and Central Library , had all suffered as high explosive bombs , land mines and incendiary bombs had rained down upon the city from hundreds of aircraft . |
| 11 | Deciding financial considerations — for compensation where appropriate , lawyers costs where appropriate , fines where appropriate and costs of the trial . |
| 12 | The dispute with Hungary is more serious and centres around the region of Transylvania . |
| 13 | In the words of Stuart Eizenstat , Jimmy Carter 's domestic policy chief , ‘ One can trace from the time of the New Deal through the early and mid-parts of the Nixon administration , a clear , gradual , perceptible increase in presidential power relative to the legislative branch . |
| 14 | Early in April 1848 the committee which Nicholas had set up under Menshikov reported negatively on the two most popular journals of the day , The Contemporary and Notes of the Fatherland , and recommended the creation of a new body to supervise the activity of the regime 's censors . |
| 15 | [ That this House is deeply concerned that ( a ) in October 1991 , the Inspectorate of Pollution issued an improvement notice plus additional requirements upon Coal Products Ltd. , Avenue Works , Wingerworth , Derbyshire , arising from problems of airborne pollution , ( b ) in November 1991 , the North East Derbyshire District Council rejected a planning application for the installation of a plant for the regeneration of active carbon on the same site and ( c ) in December 1991 , the National Rivers Authority issued a report showing that following partial treatment at lagoons in a country park , 40 million gallons of toxic effluent is seeping into the ground near homes at nearby Grassmoor ; and calls upon the Secretary of State for the Environment to undertake an urgent environmental audit of the plant and its neighbouring communities with an immediate project of protecting the health and well-being of both the workforce at Coal Products Ltd. and residents in the surrounding communities , whilst seeking ways and means of safeguarding jobs in an area of high unemployment . ] |
| 16 | In arid and semi-arid regions leaching may be minimal and solutions in the weathering mantle can attain high concentrations of dissolved constituents . |
| 17 | But he could n't quite get the mouth right and traces of the leer still showed through . |
| 18 | The General Household Survey for 1987 reveals that the typical investor in privatisations is male , middle-aged , professional and lives in the South-east . |
| 19 | Unlike normal fat which is smooth and functions as the body 's spare energy larder , cellulite has a granular texture and no known function . |
| 20 | The trouble with [ a view that what is needed is a re-evaluation of the feminine ] is that it still leaves uncriticised the whole association of particular qualities with the masculine and others with the feminine … |
| 21 | One of these is conceptual and bears on the logical coherence of theory . |
| 22 | My father is seated , second from the left and others in the group include Arthur Kingshott , Sid White , Jack Adlam , George Searle , Billy Feltham , Harry Acton and Arthur Rolfe . |
| 23 | He yelled at the students to separate themselves — women to the left and men to the right . |
| 24 | And question ten , you should have the word Preventable and words to the effect Should not have been in that position and not have assumed that the other driver was going to do what he eventually did do . |
| 25 | Compulsive eating , on the other hand , receives less sympathy and rather more tut-tutting and remarks of the ‘ should have more self-discipline ’ variety . |
| 26 | The other is empirical and bears on the way the data of actuality are used to substantiate the theory . |
| 27 | If the door remains closed and visits to the fruit house are kept strictly to a minimum the temperature can be maintained throughout the winter months . |
| 28 | It is essential , in carrying out the test , to use sentential frames which ideally do not share any elements ( although in practice it is usually sufficient if the immediate pre- and post-environments of the substituted items are distinct ) . |
| 29 | Mr Lamont is right to protect the poor and pensioners by the giving of extra welfare benefits . |
| 30 | It was a week after the hurricane , and Stephen had been working non-stop , salvaging coral-stone and tiles from the debris . |