Example sentences of "[det] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may have prevented some children of artisans falling into poverty as a result of the decline of skilled occupations , but it did little for the lowest stratum who were always the most vulnerable to severe poverty . |
| 2 | And to hide the microphone under a table or behind a curtain , while guaranteeing the naturalness of the content , does little for the acoustic quality — and of course raises an issue that President Nixon memorably pioneered . |
| 3 | Thus the real cost of £1,000 worth of BES shares to anybody earning more than that during the fiscal year , which starts on Monday , would be only £500 . |
| 4 | Nigel was determined to have none of that during the next Parliament . |
| 5 | In the production or processing of discourse with a low degree of reciprocity ( for example , a manual , a road sign , a circular letter ) we can say very little about the individual identity of the person or persons in communication with us ; their name , gender , age , personality , appearance , and so on . |
| 6 | The Labour Party has done precious little about the political education of its members ’ . |
| 7 | Being able to machine knit gives no indication of the personality of the worker , in the same way that being able to drive a car shows very little about the actual driver . |
| 8 | The difficulty here is that central planning may know very little about the actual way of working of the different departments , so a theoretically superior plan may be impracticable . |
| 9 | Leeson , by nature taciturn , had told her very little about the original photograph and nothing at all about the research he and the Bristol archivist had done on it . |
| 10 | Police still know precious little about the dead man , least of all why anyone should want to kill him . |
| 11 | If you do that through the cheapest method which is the stand alone system it wo n't pull that off . |
| 12 | In 1971 the small group of regular journalists at the Old Bailey received £150 damages each for the intolerable insult of being collectively described in " The Spectator " as " beer-sodden hacks " . |
| 13 | Along with a Chinese freelance photographer , Cavell had called for her that morning and whisked her round some of Taipei 's famous landmarks , the all-marble Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial , a colourful Buddhist temple , and the Grand Hotel with its magnificent Chinese architecture , pausing only long enough at each for the young man to take the photos that would help introduce Maria to the Taipei public , before escorting her back to the apartment and approving the outfit she planned to wear to the dinner the radio station was hosting for the rest of the local media that night . |
| 14 | Others require two bound copies , one each for the main university library and the departmental library . |
| 15 | Under the federal Constitution adopted in 1901 , legislative power is vested in the bicameral Parliament , comprising a 148-member House of Representatives elected for a three-year term and a 76-member Senate ( 12 seats for each of the six constituent states and two each for the Northern Territory and the Capital Territory ) . |
| 16 | Under the Federal Constitution which came into force in 1901 , legislative authority within the Commonwealth of Australia is vested in a bicameral Federal Parliament consisting of the Senate whose 76 members ( 12 from each of the country 's constituent states and two each for the Northern Territory and the Capital Territory of Canberra ) are directly elected for a six-year term and retire by rotation , one-half from each state on June 30 of each third year ; and the 148-member House of Representatives elected for three years ; each state has its own legislature , government and constitution . |
| 17 | That about the first weekend . |
| 18 | You have to admit that about the sexual act . |
| 19 | And think of that as the upper tonic . |
| 20 | In the end I 'll have to see him , but I want to keep that as the reserve move . ’ |
| 21 | I take that as the hon. Gentleman 's first spending commitment , except that he is making it on behalf of employers and businesses . |
| 22 | Such newspapers were to sell over 3 million copies each during the great press battles of the 1920s and 1930s : sales of such magnitude that they easily dwarfed the circulation of the dailies of the late 19th century . |
| 23 | Godelier argued that two principal contradictions are formulated by Marx : the first being that between the capitalist class and the working class , the second — the basic contradiction — being that between the development and socialization of the productive forces and the private ownership of the means of production . |
| 24 | With the development of the capitalist mode of production there is an intensification of two principal contradictions within capitalism ; that between the forces of production and the social relations of production , and that between the working class and the bourgeoisie . |
| 25 | Indeed , there could be no greater contrast than that between the social security benefits that have been made liable to tax , and therefore reduced in value , and the way in which the Thatcher Governments have allowed the value of tax benefits to escalate . |
| 26 | The internalist would claim that for the causal clause to turn justified true belief into knowledge , it must not only be true but be believed by a to be true . |
| 27 | The affinities of L703766 for all mutants were very similar to that for the wild-type receptor ( Table 2 ) . |
| 28 | " This Meeting , with every feeling of humanity for the distressed Sufferers , who have the misfortune to be shipwrecked on the coast of this Island , have to regret that numbers of the Country prople , shaking off all fear of God , or regard to the laws , are in the constant practice against every rule of Christian charity , or hospitality , of resorting in numbers to the shores , where strangers have the Misfortune of being shipwrecked , and that for the sole purpose of plunder ; which practice this Meeting hold in the greatest abhorrence , and now declare their disapprobation of ; and in order , as much as possible , to remedy this evil , this Meeting not only collectively , but individually , pledge themselves to use their utmost exertions , not only for the preservation of the property of the individuals , who may have the Misfortune to be wrecked on these coasts , but also for bringing to condign punishment all and every such persons as may be found plundering from wrecks : " |
| 29 | I thought you 'd been doing that for the thirty whatsit of July . |
| 30 | Perhaps Spinoza could have strengthened it in various ways , by saying that people can not on odd occasions deliberately act out of the character they try to give their lives , without destroying that character , and that for the rational person the character of a life which includes good relations with other people at large is essential for personal fulfilment . |