Example sentences of "the [noun] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Voters elected opposition candidates to governorships in the majority the 16 states in state elections held on Nov. 25 [ see p. 37852 ] . |
| 2 | It was all very well for countries where uniforms were fashionable — as they certainly were not in Britain and the United States — to encourage among the labourers the soldierly virtues , not the least of which was to be poorly paid . |
| 3 | Though these different perspectives on the role of sociology have been and still are the source of much debate among sociologists themselves , for the layperson no such complications exist : that is , many people understand sociology as being only concerned with social problems , social policies and social reform . |
| 4 | It may be possible to close the accounts a few days before completion and open separate bank accounts . |
| 5 | ‘ I saw the board a few weeks ago , when I — ‘ |
| 6 | What did do the trick was getting its staff to ring the creditor every 30 seconds for an entire day , then beginning again at eight the following morning . |
| 7 | It would be useful to have a general term for elements which fall short of being constituents , but which nonetheless have a semantic function relatable to the meanings the same forms carry when they are semantic constituents . |
| 8 | He saved himself from the sack a dozen times . |
| 9 | Gloria had taken Dot to the cinema a few times . |
| 10 | It also deducted from the sentence the three years which Bao had spent in detention since 1989 . |
| 11 | Civilizer was the verb the French colonialists used for their depredations in West Africa . |
| 12 | No , I mean , last time I went out would be erm well I 've been out in the afternoon a few times , with my boyfriend , but , the last time I went out in the evening |
| 13 | Later in the afternoon the first peals of thunder rolled across the sky . |
| 14 | Hawke 's squadron , 28 strong , now bore down upon the French from windward at top speed , all sails set , and around 2.30 in the afternoon the eight warships in the van opened fire on the French rear division , the start of a fierce engagement which caused its most powerful unit , the 80-gun Formidable , to surrender , and three 74-gun warships , the Héros , the Superbe and the Thesée to founder . |
| 15 | Gerard Fusil was only too aware of the dangers the 175 racers faced between the Caribbean and the Pacific coasts of a country aptly nicknamed the Switzerland of Central America . |
| 16 | THE national championships begin in Newcastle today with Martine Le Moignan , the world champion , and Del Harris , the England No.1 , defending their British titles in far less confident mood than would have been the case a few months ago . |
| 17 | IBM will , of course , supply OS/2 with its machines , but its market share has fallen rapidly with the advent of low-cost clones , so the number of users out there may not be as high as might have been the case a few years ago . |
| 18 | Make , make the resistance a hundred times what it was you 'd only get a hundredth of the current . |
| 19 | The problem with rodents is the damage the wild ones wreak in the garden . |
| 20 | As you should change the soil in the wormery every few weeks , this is the time to search through the soil for egg capsules . |
| 21 | For one , the researcher did not have Roget 's on-line and needed to manually enter into the computer the relevant relations from Roget 's . |
| 22 | In our computer models in Chapter 3 , we deliberately built into the computer the basic ingredients of cumulative selection . |
| 23 | There are sufficient inhabitants in Stockport for a good Grammar School , but without a department for the teaching the modern languages the school can be of comparatively little use in a commercial population like that of Stockport . |
| 24 | The Economist a few years ago conceded that the new system had some merits , but carried with it some important disadvantages ; on the positive side The nomination process is certainly very costly , yet trying to engage the attention of a mass electorate scattered across a huge and diverse country is bound to be expensive . |
| 25 | ( b ) Drafting the contract The standard conditions do not need to be expressly referred to unless an alteration is sought . |
| 26 | ( b ) The parties to the contract The two parties envisaged under the SGA 1979 are the seller and the buyer . |
| 27 | Within the hour the good beachcombers are on the spot and loading their sacks with all manner of bounties cast at their feet by providence . |
| 28 | The route was simple to follow , cutting across the open meadows and farming land , past dark copses , and well within the hour the crenellated walls and turrets of Woodstock Palace came into view . |
| 29 | In other words , are the Houses the sole judges of the correctness of the judges ' behaviour , or not ? |
| 30 | Among the later additions came a namesake , James Hall , who had started off the war as a private in Kitchener 's ‘ First Hundred Thousand ’ It was in the Lafayette that Hall , a flyer with almost superhuman luck ( he once came down intact with an unexploded AA shell sticking out of his engine ) , founded the literary partnership with another pilot , Charles Nordhoff , that was to produce ‘ Mutiny on the Bounty ’ Joining the Squadron a few days after its inception was Raoul Lufbery , who , like Bert Hall , had also been a professional flyer before the war . |