Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Companies in future will be able to write off against taxes only the first $1 million of what they pay any director or executive . |
| 2 | So the sharing 's a bit like doing the times only the other way round is n't it like doing it backwards . |
| 3 | Everyone I spoke to was against the widening of the roads especially the steep pass down into Kinlochewe . |
| 4 | Her letters , like his own comment in 1913 on his letters to her , suggest that at eighteen he had begun for her eyes alone the long process of self-discovery with assured confidence of her support . |
| 5 | Swans flying down from Siberia to Britain travel in family parties so the young cygnets compile such maps as they follow their parents . |
| 6 | I slipped an old Eurythmics tape into the cassette deck I have installed where Armstrong 's meter used to be and adjusted the speakers so the full effect came in the front rather than the back . |
| 7 | Though hampered for lack of space ( the Guardian gives its readers much the shortest shrift in this respect ) , Selvey provides a lively account , brimming with inside knowledge . |
| 8 | the introduction of new semi-automatic machines … the increasing use of unskilled and semi-skilled labour in trades hitherto the exclusive preserve of the skilled man … the adaptation of a rudimentary system of standardised and interchangeable parts … the predominance of factory over the workshop as the unit of production … the introduction of aspects of Taylorism , particularly the premium-bonus system ’ . |
| 9 | We have n't got to the reselling stage with these yet because we 've been going about six months so the first resale is eighteen months away . |
| 10 | Technical disturbances arising from the interaction between communism and the novel form are consequently in Nizan 's eyes merely the logical outcome of the communist writer 's refusal to acquiesce to what are perceived as the oppressive structures of bourgeois politics , ethics and culture . |
| 11 | However this by definition means only accepting candidates exactly the same length , which we have already established is most likely not going to be possible , so allowing candidates with the same reduced zonal coding is more realistic ( eg. for code ‘ muuu ’ all candidates will , rill , roll , wool , awl , oval and oral would be kept ) . |
| 12 | As early as the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. the Greek philosophers and historians had shown a keen interest in foreign doctrines and customs and had been inclined to recognize some value in them . |
| 13 | To program a computer to understand a discourse , Artificial Intelligence researchers need to reproduce this process , and to give computers both the necessary language knowledge , and the necessary schemata . |
| 14 | Two centuries later the normal embalming period was 70 days . |
| 15 | Six months later the Great War had broken out and she had found a new cause . |
| 16 | Eleven months later the new Secretary of State said that he was equally committed to a very substantial expansion in student numbers , and stated that the government 's plans were for an increase of 50,000 by 1993 . |
| 17 | The occasion became one of national self-assertion and two months later the whole edifice of Eastern European solidarity was undermined when Hungary allowed East German citizens to exit to Austria via its territory . |
| 18 | A few months later the decyphering organisation which had existed for not far short of two centuries also disappeared . |
| 19 | A few months later the same man , with his daughter , met Russell at a petrol station . |
| 20 | Jackie collected union funds whenever the meagre wages permitted , Joy Prentice came to work every Monday with a swollen lip or a black eye , the wheel kept turning and the machines rattled backwards and forwards , backwards and forwards . |
| 21 | This is to prevent the offeror from acquiring more shares than he bid for under the partial offer , and shareholders in the target from receiving more favourable treatment from the offeror by selling in the market during the 12 months following the partial bid . |
| 22 | Other peaks came during the months following the prohibited times of Advent and Lent . |
| 23 | The relative stability in the months following the purported declaration of independence back in May last year was very welcome and we must do all that we can to re-establish it , but sheer names on pieces of paper will not do so . |
| 24 | All were thought to be victims of the fierce military repression which took place in the first three months following the military coup of September 1973 . |
| 25 | With this second choice for eqn ( 9.8 ) is replaced by solutions Now the light cone of a source within the horizon tilts so that it points outward . |
| 26 | To give all subjects roughly the same earnings opportunities over the two repetitions of the experiment , we changed the parameter pairs from the first to the second repetition of follows : Each group consisted of eight subjects : so there were eight who had parameter pair A on their first repetition and parameter pair H on their second ; eight who had parameter pair B on their first repetition and parameter pair G on their second ; and so on . |
| 27 | 5 From a crouched stance , the student snakes out the lower arm in a tiger claw towards the groin area , to grab and rip . |
| 28 | It 's our duty anyway to get these words though the last minutes of discussion have been possibly the most valuable cos if we can not use language accurately |
| 29 | In the centuries following the Arab conquest , the dominant sect was of course Sunni . ) |
| 30 | For example , where 18 months ago the annual income on a level annuity might have been 13 per cent , now a new annuity might offer 12 per cent . |