Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the initial negotiations over ECSC , the international climate changed for the worse as conflict broke out in Korea in June 1950 . |
| 2 | Hostels Researchers at The Policy Studies Institute were commissioned by the then Department of Health and Social Security to study the extent to which hostels for the needy provided care as well as accommodation and food , to enable the department to decide if , how , and by whom they should be funded . |
| 3 | It was also said that good motivation alone was not enough for the unemployed as training was necessary , however determined a person was to obtain employment . |
| 4 | For this work she received two shillings and sixpence per week , quite a nice sum for the 1880's when farm workers were expected to bring up families on twelve shillings a week . |
| 5 | Bangkok was lowered by about 1.5 metres during the 1970's after groundwater beneath the city was pumped out . |
| 6 | As a result , the USA suffered a net outflow of gold in every year but one during the 1960s as pressure of the kind described by Triffin built up . |
| 7 | Further demonstrations , described by observers as the largest since independence , were held subsequently and led to widespread unrest in January 1991 [ see p. 37947 ] . |
| 8 | At present , Wheal Jane produces about 1600 tonnes of tin per year , about the same as South Crofty mine near Redruth . |
| 9 | He has plans now to buy a property in Venice : ‘ I love the palce so much : a five-room apartment there costs about the same as studio flat in Tufnell Park . ’ |
| 10 | Current predictions for the cost of generating electricity with the Super-Phenix put it at about the same as coal but twice as expensive as a conventional reactor . |
| 11 | And I sort of started to get itchy feet to come back and do things in the early eighties and that 's when I went to Liverpool , I did a play with , I did Alfie with Alan who just directed the Commitments and er we went to a b and that really got me fired up to start again , and I sort of did some theatre stuff through the bits and pieces through the eighties until Love Hurts came . |
| 12 | Surrealist photography indeed developed techniques that self-consciously played upon this juxtaposition of the real as signifier and the signifier as real . |
| 13 | Surrealist photographers indeed developed techniques which self-consciously addressed this juxtaposition of the real as signifier and the signifier as real . |
| 14 | It is in both the firm 's and the consumer s interests that this is for some extended period : in the case of the latter because search costs ( presumably ) are finite and so will not be worth incurring if there is only some probability of finding low prices , unless the benefits are substantial . |
| 15 | I think it is helpful to think of the latter as debtor ( creditor-supplier ) agreements since this emphasizes the fact that in such agreements there is some connection between the creditor and the supplier : either they are the same person eg in the credit-sale , conditional sale , of HP agreement ; or there are business arrangements between them . |
| 16 | The Italian ( GlSSI ) study was one of the first where treatment was administered soon after the onset of symptoms to patients suspected of having an acute myocardial infarction . " |
| 17 | In the case of the Brixton gang , the prolific use of photographs of the accused after conviction seems to be to emphasise that these were black youths . |
| 18 | The profile of the sphincter after operation did not differ significantly from the profile before operation in either group of patients . |
| 19 | Their pessimism comes amid estimates that cereal production could reach almost 190m tonnes by the end of the '90s unless action is taken , warns the European Commission , following forecasts drawn up by officials in Brussels . |
| 20 | At home many Americans feared a return to the depression conditions of the 1930s as war production slowed down . |
| 21 | Rugby Union : Black knights move on the Welsh pawns : Steve Bale predicts more of the same as rugby union 's champions , New Zealand , arrive on their tour today |
| 22 | Conservative Michael Fallon hit back saying his own Darlington constituency was far from being an unemployment blackspot and pointing to four pages of jobs carried in yesterday 's copies of The Northern as evidence of available vacancies . |
| 23 | In fact , the only territory on the northern shores of the Mediterranean where malaria is actively transmitted today is in the Chukhurova plain of Turkey . |
| 24 | It is further argued that , in the case of those who are mentally frail , they may no longer be capable of exercising informal consent or its converse — refusal ; and that resistance to leaving their own home may sometimes be as much about fear of the unknown as love of the familiar . |
| 25 | Bank debts were paid back and replaced with equity in a spate of fund-raising that put French firms ahead of the British as equity issuers ( see chart 23 ) . |
| 26 | Conservative councillors called for further talks with the disabled before traffic is banned from the Skinnergate and High Row area on March 29 . |
| 27 | Hospital emergency wards were struggling to cope with the injured as radio announcers read lists of victims and broadcast anguished appeals from those who had not heard from relatives in the area near the explosion . |
| 28 | Hospital emergency wards were struggling to cope with the injured as radio announcers read lists of victims and broadcast anguished appeals from those who had not heard from relatives in the area near the explosion . |
| 29 | All conditional sentences may begin with the subordinate if clause or start with the main clause : If I have time I shall go . |
| 30 | Without oxygen we were limited to 10,000 feet , but the published ceiling is FL360 at max weight , increasing well into the forties as fuel is burned . |