Example sentences of "[noun sg] the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Mary I married Philip of Spain she decreed they ruled England jointly , and for the next few years until Elizabeth came to the throne the following strange convention was adopted for recording their regnal years : On 17 March 1649 the monarchy was abolished and during the period until parliamentary government was overtaken by the Restoration , English official documents were dated by the year of grace . |
| 2 | In 1238 , as your Grace may know , when there was no apparent successor to the throne the then Scottish king called his magnates together and , in their presence and with their consent , designated the House of Bruce as his heir-presumptive . |
| 3 | With that backdrop of hair the small round shoulders gained in defencelessness and pallor — but come on , the Isles was no place for local contrasts . |
| 4 | In the teeth of a recession the reworked Labour Party and the reworked Mr Kinnock are level-pegging with the Tories . |
| 5 | In this case the appalling British bat which is fouling up churches . |
| 6 | The film includes one sequence where , à la Peter Greenaway , Jost composes a shot intended to reproduce a painting , in this case the multiple white hues of ‘ Young Woman with a Water Jug ’ . |
| 7 | In Kirknewton 's case the nearest large settlement is Livingston , to where the service 285 provides 15 return journeys per weekday and 26 single journeys on Sunday . |
| 8 | In the normal case the interfering public authority is the court which entertains the suit for defamation . |
| 9 | In Leeson 's case the General Medical Council had disqualified a doctor for infamous misconduct in a prosecution brought by the Medical Defence Union , an organisation designed to uphold the character of doctors and to suppress unauthorised practitioners . |
| 10 | In this case the only possible solution when retrieval times become too long is to turn to an inverted file or a multilist . |
| 11 | In this case the only predetermined variable is and the exogenous variables are g , v t and . |
| 12 | In this case the necessary yawing movement is caused by the high drag of the badly stalled wing . |
| 13 | Similarly , the use of the demonstrative of proximity " this ' can be seen as reflecting the speaker 's perception at the time of the narrated event , in which case the spatial deictic centre is temporarily shifted from the location of the I as speaker to that of the I as character in the story . |
| 14 | The vertical axis is the potential , in this case the best possible solution to the design problem . |
| 15 | In that type of case erm perhaps the Court will not pay too much regard to the defendant 's personal circumstances because they 're not going to make that much difference , but if it 's not that serious a case the other main consideration that comes into play is the defendant 's own personal circumstance . |
| 16 | In each case the entire beneficial interest in the deposit belongs to B to the exclusion of A who made the deposit . |
| 17 | She obviously wants to graduate to serious emotional drama , but all she does is turn interesting subjects ( in this case the buried feminist history of women 's baseball ) into mush . |
| 18 | In this case the true productive potential of the UK economy will be less than that implied by official gross or net investment data . |
| 19 | For example you could use the letter P , in which case the last two lines might be : " It 's my patience , you brat , so come here and take that ! " |
| 20 | In each case the same serious message is coming through — we are poisoning our environment , we are disrupting the interrelating ecosystems that form the background to human existence , we are endangering God 's creation . |
| 21 | In the extreme case the maximum conceivable luminosity reaches the spectacular value of L or . |
| 22 | Occasionally in UK beds are just not available ; in this case the worst delayed flights get priority . |
| 23 | When Deborah went across to it she saw that there was a faint footpath running in the direction the broken single arm was pointing . |
| 24 | As a movement in the same direction the German foreign office set up a legal and commercial department in 1885 and the British one acquired a legal adviser in 1893 ( a post of Legal Assistant Under-Secretary had already been created in 1876 ) . |
| 25 | She suggested in Cleaning-up TV that the forces pushing for ‘ permissive ’ reform were in large part the British Humanist Association , the National Secular Society , the Homosexual Law Reform Association and the Abortion Law Reform Association . |
| 26 | For their part the urban middle classes tolerated the Junkers because they guaranteed the shape , content and continuance of German middle-class life and ambition over the vast bulk of the rural German population . |
| 27 | Despite the passage of the draft budget the Lebanese financial crisis , largely induced by the renewed fighting between pro-government and pro-Aoun forces , meant that the value of the Lebanese pound continued to fall , reaching US$1.00=L£650 in early May . |
| 28 | For instance the first two letters of this chapter , ‘ It ’ , are at this moment sitting in RAM locations 6446 and 6447 of my computer , which has 65,536 RAM locations altogether . |
| 29 | In this instance the individual exhibited items are unnumbered and put in a check list ; the main critical writing is within 136 pages , written in ten sections by Judith E. Stein ( six sections ) and Ann-Sargent Wooster ( four sections on video ) . |
| 30 | ‘ It will not advantage the lower paid workers in a free collective bargaining situation if those who are the strongest get the most . ’ |