Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we look back to Chapter 1 , we can see that the constitutional authorities regarded the British constitution as properly providing for representative government of a liberal-democratic kind . |
| 2 | John , who had many times heard the distant rioting of armies of drunken , brawling navvies on a payday randy , recognized it at once . |
| 3 | A keen sportsman , he has several times completed the Great North Run . |
| 4 | It 's very interesting to note that in contemporary political philosophy there is almost no room left for democratic decision making because in most theories that we 're given , more or less everything is already decided at a constitutional level I mean think of theory of justice , it 's the theory of justice that decides the basic nature of a constitution so the role of members of a government is simply to interpret and apply the constitution so they can make the most efficient tax policies given the basic constitution , but no individual has the authority to challenge that constitution and change it by democratic means . |
| 5 | The source of the effect seen in subjects given the S1-S2 treatment is accordingly difficult to interpret . |
| 6 | The cumulative number of words assigned the correct ranks for these texts are shown in diagrammatic form in fig 4.9a and 4.9b . |
| 7 | I have pointed out that the early structuralists treated the discursive elements in their analysis as ‘ natural ’ , as empirically given . |
| 8 | A spokesman for the Assembly stated that it was hoped to hold elections by the end of 1992 , but that they might have to be postponed for a few months given the parlous state of the country . |
| 9 | The second-half power cut hardly mattered because Oldham , embarrassingly inept as three goals punctuated the first half , were not much better when they were allowed to play . |
| 10 | For simplicity , these authors treated the high-finesse case in which the dominant dynamic instabilities arise due to excitation of adjacent longitudinal modes , which are also cavity-resonant . |
| 11 | Commuting became fashionable again in the 1980s , and BR responded with new suburban electrification schemes , over a thousand new electric passenger vehicles and ( when replacement finance was not available ) 1950s units given the asbestos-removal treatment and a mid-life facelift . |
| 12 | Thoughtful pagans regarded the ethical demand of the Christian proclamation as too tough to be practicable , and feared that the proclamation of peace and love to enemies would make the empire pusillanimous in self-defence . |
| 13 | These are usually low status roles , whereas the roles given the masculine gender are predominately high status , such as Businessman . |
| 14 | PAIN , along with parents , lawyers and many others involved in the Orkney case , wanted to see those guidelines given the full backing of the law . |
| 15 | The setting in some ways was a little unusual in that rival fans occupied the other half of the same block of terracing . |
| 16 | Some 200 Azerbaijan Popular Front fighters occupied the Interior Ministry and the television centre after the republic 's parliament refused to endorse the appointment . |
| 17 | Two squadrons of Hessian hussars occupied the lower slopes of the Pratzen , drawn up in battle array , spotless as if on parade . |
| 18 | One of the units occupied the coastal town of Khafji , 20 km south of the border with Kuwait . |
| 19 | It was nonetheless held by the majority of the House of Lords that the three year period ran from the date when the workman suffered the injury and not from the earlier date when the manufacturers manufactured the defective machine . |
| 20 | I we I think the fire fighters used the white skirt tied the way it wa on my shoe |
| 21 | First , the Stock Exchange has set up a new market in company equities called the Unlisted Securities Market ( USM ) . |
| 22 | It 's collected into books called The Great Lovers ' Valentine World Anthology of Love Poetry or whatever . |
| 23 | As a result , we get books called The British System of Government or , more fashionably , The British Political System , where politics is added to institutions . |
| 24 | In their northward migration toward the tundra these peoples encountered the Nenets Samoeds and adopted many features of their reindeer-herding way of life , so that a northern type of Khantyn Selkup and Ket culture developed . |
| 25 | We ran the experiment in 12 sessions of eight subjects each ; eight of the sessions involved the eight groups , the remaining four sessions the subjects doing the experiment on an individual basis . |
| 26 | In order to facilitate such cross-border activity , EC rules have in important respects harmonised the national systems of company law and business regulation , thereby providing the underlying framework upon which implementing national rules is based . |
| 27 | While publications designed for mass appeal concentrated upon the issue of immigration , the more esoteric magazines and recommended books promoted the antisemitic notion of a world Jewish conspiracy . |
| 28 | Showell Styles balanced the junior tales about Septimus Quinn with a sequence of adult novels built round a middle-aged naval officer who , at thirty-three , had moved only from midshipman to the unsatisfactory rank of acting lieutenant because of intermittent periods of unemployment at the end of the eighteenth century and a sad lack of useful patronage . |
| 29 | It was a perfect summer dawn and the red flames matched the red disc of the sun as it rose over the misty hedges . |
| 30 | Sometimes , it is true , they must have been little more than what Marc Bloch described as ‘ l'endroit où on passe ’ ; but one may presume that efforts were made to drain long-distance roads and keep them clear of obstruction ; and kings and princes in several countries regarded the main roads as their roads . |