Example sentences of "[adj] and the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the handle are three bodies of animals he overcame , the Nemean Lion , the Keryneian hind and the Erymanthian boar , and at the base , the tree with the Golden Apples , two of the Stymphalian birds and the Lernaean Hydra . |
| 2 | The same story would continue into the early Cambrian , where the contrasts between the north-west Scottish and the Anglo-Welsh successions are well known . |
| 3 | But Butlin , in bridging the pre-affluent and the affluent phases of modern Britain , was truly formative in his contribution to popular culture and mass modes of consumption . |
| 4 | The British attitude was that American troops should remain pending the completion of the UN task in supervising elections ; the change of policy away from the Moscow agreement , which Britain had so far supported , would be justified in the UN debate on the grounds that the assumptions on future developments at Moscow had proved erroneous and the only course of action now was to appoint a UN temporary commission . |
| 5 | These objects were often used to exemplify the competing images of the Romantic and nobel primitive and the cannibalistic barbarian as suited the arguments or interests of the time . |
| 6 | But the new factor is that both the Serbian and the Croatian leadership have said that they are willing in principle to accept a United Nations peacekeeping force . |
| 7 | If the Tigers can clear other Muslim communities to the south , they will have established a safe corridor between the Serbian and the Bosnian capitals . |
| 8 | It was as if some great mass of thunder-cloud was driving up and up , and darkening the sky before it broke into wind and storm and rain ; except that the night was clear and the only movement was the slight rustle of the branches above , silvered against the stars by the moon 's bright light . |
| 9 | His blue eyes were bright and clear and the frequent pump of adrenaline through his veins as he tracked and shot for fourteen successive days had left his senses sharpened , on a high edge of alertness . |
| 10 | These substances , that may in some people be of relatively minor cross-addictive potential , can always be tackled later when the head is more clear and the primary disease is in more secure recovery . |
| 11 | He protests that the French-backed Intergovernmental Conference ( IGC ) to promote Delors II and III is premature when the consequences of Stage I — including next July 's abolition of French and Italian exchange controls — are far from clear and the preparatory work not done . |
| 12 | He protests that the French-backed Intergovernmental Conference ( IGC ) to promote Delors II and III is premature when the consequences of Stage I — including next July 's abolition of French and Italian exchange controls — are far from clear and the preparatory work not done . |
| 13 | If a rationale is used it should be before the command so that the command itself is clear and the last thing in the child 's mind . |
| 14 | Having made sure that the rear cross-spars are correctly located , the bridle is clear and the stand-off sockets in their right places , push the spar ends well into the leading edge vinyls . |
| 15 | It was still dignified , the eyes clear and the bone-structure good . |
| 16 | Before we move on , let's just have a look at those numerical estimates , can we look at the coefficients on income , notice that in this model because we 've logged both dependent and the independent variables , right , the coefficients that we estimate are elasticities , right , so we can read those coefficients off directly as elasticities and that 's the case for any model in which all the variables are logged right , in er , if we did n't log the data , in order to calculate the elasticity we have to multiply a coefficient the computer gives us by a erm price quantity ratio , price less , less part of the income constant ratio to obtain the income elasticities . |
| 17 | They deserve a more sensitive environment that does not so harshly relegate them en masse to the category of ‘ old people ’ and does not emphasize , in attitudes and actions , their increasing dependency ; many need help , too , in coming to terms with the process of ageing and the major adjustments it entails — to retirement , to relinquishing their home , etc . |
| 18 | But policy assumptions about the economic costs of the elderly in future are premissed on bleak models of ageing and the ageing process , which Gail Wilson summarises as " downhill all the way " ( Wilson 1991 ) . |
| 19 | The centre is also a hive of activity during the day with activities which include a luncheon club , over-60 's club , yoga , language classes , table-tennis and the ever-popular tea dance every Friday afternoon . |
| 20 | Urban amenities available to workers — transport , education , health and leisure facilities — were derisory and the overcrowded housing conditions of the major cities were sordid and degrading . |
| 21 | While to some extent the harmful and the helpful beings in the Chewong universe can be thought of as opposed , they do not fall into neatly discernible complementary categories . |
| 22 | We might , while comparing de Man 's absolutism to Jakobson 's relational categories , add that there is no sign of a distinction at all in de Man 's work between the poetic and the metalingual function . |
| 23 | After further washings in phosphate buffered saline the slides were incubated with peroxidase conjugated strepavidin diluted 1:400 , washed in phosphate buffered saline and the labelled cells were visualised by the diaminobenzidine reaction and lightly counterstained with haematoxylin . |
| 24 | The yield on these accounts fluctuates daily and the current rate of interest is about 6.1 per cent gross . |
| 25 | The parasitic phase is non-migratory and the prepatent period in ruminants is 2-3 weeks . |
| 26 | The parasitic phase is non-migratory and the prepatent period is 15 days . |
| 27 | In fact , such images do to a large extent reflect both the climatic and the historical reality of Siberia . |
| 28 | The once beautiful countryside began to appear hatefully menacing and the leaden skies , black with seemingly endless rain , hung low over the hills . |
| 29 | This was a very different crossing from our nightmare voyage in the Minto : the sea was calm and the great ship was steady as the land . |
| 30 | Mao 's widow had been eager to assume the leadership of the CCP , a prospect not welcomed among the party faithful and the general population . |