Example sentences of "[vb base] and the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Honour and the Unattainable Ideal . |
| 2 | If he is , he will know that the CBI opposes absolutely the reintroduction of the labour laws that the Opposition propose , the tax changes that the Opposition propose and the minimum wage that the Opposition have in mind . |
| 3 | class room , give the children an exercise to do and that was it , they did it , and no questions were asked and that 's how they want and the other guy was he just did it himself he , he was n't abusive but he , he was n't good with the kids and |
| 4 | The fact that it has not happened says a great deal both about the appointments process and the legal profession . |
| 5 | The results of sequential APGPR propeptide assay of urine and serum were analysed using the Wilcoxon matched pairs signed ranks test and the urinary APGPR concentrations and excretion from normal and morbidly obese groups analysed using the Kruskal-Wallis one way analysis of variance ( ANOVA ) . |
| 6 | SilverPlatter and the Royal Society of Chemistry have announced the availability of Analytical Abstracts ( AA ) on CD-ROM . |
| 7 | There was a fireplace too , as there was in Remove and the other first-floor classrooms , Six and Upper Six , and in the Staff Common Room . |
| 8 | The items fill one or two column inches and are meant to amuse ; the sexual innuendoes abound and the implicit humour is of the seaside postcard variety . |
| 9 | The giant cells of the caterpillar 's body die and the dormant cell clusters suddenly begin to divide rapidly , nourishing themselves on the soup of the disintegrated caterpillar body . |
| 10 | Woodsmoke and the pungent aroma of apples and Michaelmas daisies spiced the dusk . |
| 11 | One little push and the whole world 's one , no woman 's better than the next ! |
| 12 | Then the male fertilizes the eggs once they are inside his pouch and then he looks after them until they hatch and the poor male staggers around with an enormous great pouch full of wriggling er baby sea horses until they 're finally born . |
| 13 | Figure 1 illustrates the appearance of HEp-2 cells with the strongly adherent control strain E851/71 , a weakly diffuse adherent biopsy isolate and the non-adherent control strain Sc13 . |
| 14 | Private pay-beds in UK hospitals remain and the new trust hospitals may be in a much stronger position to compete with the private sector . |
| 15 | We were trying to find out where his particular niches lay and the constant worry at that time was lack of money . |
| 16 | In addition a acids oxidise and the bitter character is altered . |
| 17 | As the sport slowly develops , the boat designs change and the efficient way to propel each boat will consequently alter . |
| 18 | But some things never change and the appalling weather might just have been one of the reasons why the Romans abandoned the village and Britain , 1,500 years ago . |
| 19 | But some things never change and the appalling weather might just have been one of the reasons why the Romans abandoned the village and Britain , 1,500 years ago . |
| 20 | The opposite bank — which stands for success — seems very near but between where we stand and the opposite bank there is a ravine which is going to absorb a great deal of money . |
| 21 | Tom Petty comes to mind as well , and any number of other mid-rock names , as twiddly guitar solos meander and the big sound booms around the venue . |
| 22 | Groups of sensilla at the base of the halteres are stimulated by deformations of the integument when the halteres vibrate and the resulting pattern of nervous impulses is modified by the addition of torques due to the turning movements of the fly . |
| 23 | They 'd been in the cafe for over thirty minutes now , with only the sound of a fruit machine and the loud chattering of a group of youngsters in their late teens for company . |
| 24 | The Palestinians , meanwhile , are to be fobbed off with a degree of internal autonomy — as was proposed in the original Camp David agreements of 1978 , brokered by Jimmy Carter , between Israeli premier Menachim Begin and the Egyptian president , Anwar Sadat . |
| 25 | Middlemarch and The golden bowl are not the same but , though they are a good deal longer , they are not different in kind or quality . |
| 26 | Lindon Harrisson 's work tackling the problems our young people face and the ongoing work of David Martin to democratize the European Community institutions . |
| 27 | Even fewer succeed and the average level of compensation in those cases is just a few hundred pounds . |
| 28 | being of course , is first of all find your home and while he was n't in a home he was driving the neighbours mad because he 's beginning to get confused and wander about and maintain that he has n't had his dinner when two people have already taken him in lunch , you know and the other problem is erm er er having found him a very nice home , he did n't want to go ! |
| 29 | went to bed that night and thought gas , you know and the blooming boiler , lucky it did n't blow up ! |
| 30 | of the , the national average and it 's not because erm they 're paying high wages to get the , the most able people , it 's because there are mechanisms , institutional mechanisms that keep wages high , there 's no market in the jobs for , th these are generalizations but I think they are fairly , fairly true erm becau there is no market for er for the jobs , for civil service jobs that appointments are made and it is much more important who you know than , than what , what you know and the old boy network , as it 's called , in this country is fairly important in the English Civil Service but a similar sort of network tends to be far more important in developing countries , something that is euphemistically called patronage erm but we might call the old boy network or er er jobs for the boys whatever , but erm |