Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , for ten , twenty , forty hours or so the millions sit back to watch the show as the huge tropical storm lashes and bursts and howls its way around the islands , shaking , shuddering and drenching the place as if it held all the concentrated fury of nature and had decided to unleash it upon this one unfortunate spot . |
| 2 | It was a simple , but very pertinent observation and re-emphasised that over the last 18 months or so the All Blacks have been steadily squeezed in the nutcracker of their own ambition . |
| 3 | An obvious source for Mozambique is South African reparation ; a post-apartheid South Africa will , however , probably have neither the funds nor necessarily the political will to pay . |
| 4 | Fortunately , their gibes have fallen on deaf ears and all the more credit is due to those gentlemen who , in face of considerable discouragement , have succeeded to such a marked extent . ’ |
| 5 | However , players excel and quality rises when one 's team is being cheered on by four or five thousand enthusiastic fans and even the hundred plus that turn up here every week can lift a team , so , please , continue your support in the forthcoming season . |
| 6 | ‘ They were a hazard to the Galapagos turtles , they were attacking the sand cranes and also the brown pelicans we brought in from the wild because they were injured , ’ said John Dreyer , for Disney World . |
| 7 | When Iraqi Kurdish civilians were among those killed during the operations there were protests from the Iraqi government , the two Iraqi Kurdish organizations and also the German government . |
| 8 | An approach to organizational politics which focuses on patterns of dominance goes beyond the by now familiar references in organization theory and public administration to the ‘ environment ’ of organizations and especially the political system , an example of which is found in Wamsley and Zald ( 1976 ) . |
| 9 | The purpose of the sacrifice is to ensure the fertility and well-being of the individual , his family and domestic animals and ultimately the whole community . |
| 10 | She 's cut taxes , she 's made concessions and somehow the British people simply have n't picked up the ball and run with it . |
| 11 | Well all we had was Broadfield School and that 's where my boys had to go to Broadfield , they went into Broadfield School and erm , they all got on alright you know , they got on well there and then from there they went to when the new school was built they went to Netteswell school you see , but two of my sons are electricians and unfortunately the eldest one , one of the electricians I could n't put him to apprentice because I could n't afford it cos I had a hard to struggle to bring them up you know in those days , we did n't get erm any family allowance or anything those days , and erm , so therefore he could n't go , but he sort of got on and got his own factory , but my other son who 's an electrician , one of the twins he 's erm , he 's got his City and Guilds he passed , he went , he was able to go to the school when the new schools were built you see , when Netteswell school was built he was able to go to night school and er learn all you see , then there was the one at Burnt Mill was n't there , down the bottom ? |
| 12 | Haunted by the spectre of Northern Soul , wrapped in perfect pop melodies and probably the best record this year . |
| 13 | National systems of testing use light sampling methods and therefore the direct impact on the curriculum is unlikely to be large . |
| 14 | My local electronics dealer tells me he is confident that there will be GPS under £1,000 within six months and then the real price war will begin as the manufacturer battle it out for the lucrative yacht market . |
| 15 | For example , you begin to ask yourself what would you see as important to accomplish in the next six months , the next 12 months and maybe the next couple of years . |
| 16 | But in recent years sterling has appreciated against the US dollar but depreciated against the major European currencies and also the Japanese yen . |
| 17 | On this occasion , at least , the schools and even the general newspapers have not failed the research enterprise . |
| 18 | None is required of schools and only the barest details are maintained on the files : |
| 19 | I looked at several texts directed at the upper half of secondary schools and roughly the same categories emerged as for social studies . |
| 20 | It may be reasonably speculated that English ethnocentricity , then as now , would assume that , first the Scots and later the Irish , were let into Westminster , but the legislation gives no warrant for this assumption . |
| 21 | It is hoped to include , not only the smaller of gauges , 3½ins–5ins but also the larger 7½ins gauge . |
| 22 | Noble rot is , as all wine buffs will know , nothing to do with decay in stately homes but simply the French way of describing botrytis cinerea , the mould that forms on over-ripe grapes to produce the smooth taste of Sauternes . |
| 23 | A short-term modification was made which forces into this framework not just the lexical ambiguity of single words but also the other candidate words for any given location in the input . |
| 24 | Such hopes as there may have been — American , French , even Vietminh — of a cease-fire or negotiated settlement lingered on for several months but once the French had begun fighting they presented their case , modestly , that military operations were designed with no thought of reconquest but simply to persuade the Vietminh that they had no hope of victory . |
| 25 | ‘ Encounters ’ rarely result in any police casualties and invariably the only witness to these alleged events are the security forces themselves . |
| 26 | The posts could be sorted , for example , on the basis of the scores implied by any set of factor weightings and the resultant ranking , then examined taking into account views on the relative importance of posts and also the then current gradings . |
| 27 | However , despite a varied programme there has been great difficulty in gathering support for the other functions and indeed the last one had to be cancelled . |
| 28 | In contrast , our simulations were designed for cold winters and indeed the zonal mean temperatures in the lower stratosphere for two of the past 10 years ( 1984 , 1989 ) were similar to the 330-p.p.m.v. results presented here . |
| 29 | He remained secretary of the National Federation , so becoming the link between the leadership and the constituency associations and hence the key figure in rebuilding the party following the split over Irish home rule and the defection of the Liberal Unionists . |
| 30 | The show scene in Australia is very active , as are the obedience trials and latterly the fast-growing Schutzhund sport . |