Example sentences of "the [noun] the [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | It also deducted from the sentence the three years which Bao had spent in detention since 1989 . |
| 5 | Civilizer was the verb the French colonialists used for their depredations in West Africa . |
| 6 | Later in the afternoon the first peals of thunder rolled across the sky . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The problem with rodents is the damage the wild ones wreak in the garden . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In our computer models in Chapter 3 , we deliberately built into the computer the basic ingredients of cumulative selection . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ( b ) Drafting the contract The standard conditions do not need to be expressly referred to unless an alteration is sought . |
| 14 | ( b ) The parties to the contract The two parties envisaged under the SGA 1979 are the seller and the buyer . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In other words , are the Houses the sole judges of the correctness of the judges ' behaviour , or not ? |
| 18 | In response to the decision the Ringaskiddy Residents Association ( RRA ) issued a plan of opposition : |
| 19 | A RARE movie — the mainly horrible How The West Was Won is another — that tries to include the whole arc of the West in its plot , expending its first hours on the virgin land as Kevin Costner communes with nature and Indians , but the finale has to admit the good days are gone , as demonstrated by the coming of the brutish cavalry intent on making the Sioux the first victims of the expansionist whites . |
| 20 | Although he anticipated a change in the relationship as Britain gradually concentrated on its roles in Europe , for the present the two countries continued to take " a broadly similar view of the world " . |
| 21 | In the kitchen the two cooks were preparing to depart . |
| 22 | The look the two men exchanged spoke more volumes than would fit into any book . |
| 23 | The two most important are its financial markets , in which it sources its funds , and its competitive commercial markets , in which it earns the returns the financial markets require . |
| 24 | Along the lane the earliest snowdrops gleam . |
| 25 | Ashley wrote , ‘ In the male the moral effects of the system are very sad , but in the female they are infinitely worse … |
| 26 | Note that Manager privilege gives the user the highest privileges on the system . |
| 27 | According to the story the fallen quails create a pile round the camp many , many miles in diameter , and three feet deep ! |
| 28 | So , for example , in the West the visible signs of our health services are ‘ high tech ’ modern hospitals , specialised equipment and hospital doctors glamorised in TV series , rather than sewerage systems and rubbish collectors . |
| 29 | Not surprisingly , the steep climb to the inner ward at the top is rewarded by possibly the most stunning views from any castle in England — to the west the Welsh mountains , to the east the Pennines and , on a clear day , the Wrekin to the south east . |
| 30 | Now in pursuance of the premisses the said lords spirituall and temporall and commons in Parlyament assembled for the ratifying confirming and establishing the said declaration and the articles clauses matters and things therein contained by the force of a law made in due for me by authority of Parlyament doe pray that it may be declared and enacted that all and singular the rights and liberties asserted and claimed in the said declaration are the true auntient and indubitable rights and liberties of the people of this king dome and soe shall be esteemed allowed adjudged deemed and taken to be and that all and every the particulars aforesaid shall be firmly and strictly hold en and observed as they are expressed in the said declaration . |