Example sentences of "[art] [det] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On July 12 Castro congratulated the deputies on " not having made the least concession in these difficult moments " ( referring to the growing economic crisis ) . |
| 2 | The privatisation programme has been an enormous success in recent years and not the least part of that success has been the extent to which it has widened and deepened share ownership around the country . |
| 3 | Again it 's cheap , and offers the least resistance to outside interference . |
| 4 | The prouder and more articulate seaman had seen his pay and status in continuous decline from 1815 when , at the , end of the Napoleonic wars , " the government , without the least consideration for those who had battled on the ocean in defence of their king and country , disbanded the Fleets and cast adrift some thousands of Seamen suddenly to find employment in the merchant service " . |
| 5 | If there 'd been the least sign of magical activity we 'd know about it . ’ |
| 6 | Whilst byelaws therefore go some way to control fish trying odours from existing fish and chip shops , the primary most effective control still lies with planners to ensure that new premises , or those where a change of use to a fish and chip shop is contemplated , are sited where they will cause the least irritation to local residents , perhaps siting them together with other shops . |
| 7 | for every naive state N , h(N) is not more than the least cost of any path from N to a goal ; and |
| 8 | The boy 's fate was the last and the least reverberation of that disastrous thunder , but not the least pitiful . |
| 9 | Atlantoaxial subluxation with subluxation of less than 9 mm carries the least risk of neurological damage , while atlantoaxial subluxation of more than 9 mm , atlantoaxial impaction , subaxial subluxation , non-reducible rotational tilt of the head , and combined deformities are all associated with a higher risk of neurological deficit . |
| 10 | However , pregnant girls gave the least number of alternative solutions to the problems , and were least competent at describing the steps an imaginary protagonist should take to achieve her aims in five stories . |
| 11 | These five cars received the least modifications of any of the South Metropolitan fleet and in fact it was many years before they were even repainted , running in deep chocolate and ivory , with only the fleet numbers and badges altered . |
| 12 | Far example , madam , my life ; my life , madam is a perpetual stream of pleasure , that glides through such a variety of entertainments , I believe the wisest of our ancestors never had the least conception of any of 'em . |
| 13 | ORCHESTRE : [ Rousseau gives ten reasons why the Paris Opéra orchestra makes the least effect of any European orchestra , the seventh of which is ] the unendurable noise of the baton which covers and deadens the whole effect of the ensemble . |
| 14 | The UK gives the least subsidies of any major marine manufacturing country and only warship yards are regarded as of strategic significance . |
| 15 | [ reading ] " When you read this letter you will be far on your way to your father and mother where you have so long desired to be , and I hope I shall forbear thinking of you with the least shadow of that fondness my foolish heart had entertained for you . |
| 16 | She did not even realize her hair had come down and that she had lost her hat until she found herself leaning against a wall somewhere on the other side of St Jude 's Passage , her lungs bursting , her temples and her pulses hammering out their distress , her whole appearance wild and dishevelled and attracting not the least attention in that place which-no matter what might have befallen her — had seen it all before . |
| 17 | Of all the elements that go to make up the accident causation system , the one that has received the least attention in residential areas is the design of the road network itself . |
| 18 | And then — because the deepest questions curiously acquire the least importance in such interviews — did they ever really think they would return to ‘ Palestine ’ ? |
| 19 | First , allow loo calories from the half pint of skimmed milk , and another loo calories for your daily apple and orange . |
| 20 | The Commercial Property account produced an unchanged deficit at the half year despite exceptional losses during the period of $20m . |
| 21 | There was improvement in all the major lines during the half year except Personal Property which was adversely affected by weather claims in the first quarter . |
| 22 | As for the price paid of 550p , half in cash and half in convertible preference shares , the prospective p/e may be around 14.5 , to judge from an estimated 10 per cent rise in Caradon 's pre-tax profits to £17m in the half year to 1 October . |
| 23 | A pre-tax profit for the half year to 30th June 1993 of $126.2m is announced today ( August 10 ) by the Scottish-based insurance group General Accident . |
| 24 | Page 30 Cluff glitters : Rising gold production pushed Cluff Resources ' pre-tax profits for the half year to 30 June up ninefold to £790,000 and strengthened the possibility that the group could pay a maiden dividend this year . |
| 25 | RISING gold production pushed Cluff Resources ' pre-tax profits for the half year to 30 June up ninefold to £790,000 and strengthened the possibility that the mining and oil group could pay a maiden dividend this year . |
| 26 | NMW Computers , the computer bureau which specialises in settlement systems for the City , has returned to the black with pre-tax profits of £48,000 in the half year to 30 June , writes Neil Thapar . |
| 27 | As evidence Greenpeace mentions the case of Humberside , where the county council has recorded toxic waste imports of 11,410 tons for the half year of 1992 , compared to the HMIP 's figure of 6,920 tons . |
| 28 | The population grew rapidly from the 1770s , doubled in the half century after 1780 , and doubled again between 1841 and 1901 . |
| 29 | For Stenton , the half century before 716 when no Anglo-Saxon king had been able to establish more than a local ascendancy , had ‘ little significance in English political history ’ because it had given no promise of the great advance , as he saw it , towards the unity of England which was to be made by the Mercian kings before the end of the eighth century . |
| 30 | The half century before 716 , in fact , is full of political interest . |