Example sentences of "the [adj] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oldham-based ML Electro-Optics Ltd has added three new backplane chassis to its range : the SX8000-4 can support four Ethernet local networks on the backplane , as well as cascading from the front ; the SX8000-2 also includes support for an additional four Token Ring local networks and up to 14 FDDI networks ; the SX8000-3 adds a 1.5Gbps bus on a 96-pin connector , with 32-bit or 64-bit parallel data transfer capability , the company says . |
| 2 | For Williams , the economic self-interests of the strong usually determine history . |
| 3 | Our reserves include the largest privately owned nature reserve in Europe — Abernethy in Scotland , a glorious piece of mountain , moorland and native Scots pine forest with exciting and rare birds like the crested tit , capercaillie , Scottish crossbill ( the only species unique to Britain ) , golden eagle and ptarmigan . |
| 4 | This is significantly more than should occur by chance if the true risk were equal to the largest previously observed proportion ( p=0.04 ) . |
| 5 | The research will involve the creation of a computer database of segmental information for 100 of the largest publicly quoted companies . |
| 6 | Others have been concerned about the possible politically destabilising consequences of the overproduction of university and college graduates relative to the capacities of the labour market to absorb them in positions appropriate to their qualifications . |
| 7 | There was no reason for not talking , and the two young soldiers listened to the tall quietly spoken officer as he explained the skills of silent movement . |
| 8 | The other radicals who were present argued that they should join with the eleven newly elected people , ‘ reasoning that since we held the initiative we would be able to force the pace , drag some of them along in our wake and force the others quickly to resign ’ . |
| 9 | As a result , a three-hour tribute to the brave aqua-mammal will pre-empt tonight 's scheduled address to the nation by President North , which will now take place after the eleven o'clock nightcap news . |
| 10 | A follow up of the 278 long stay patients discharged between 1985 and 1988 failed to trace only six people , who were presumed to have become vagrants ( three had been vagrants before their admission ) . |
| 11 | The Cuban decision raised immediate fears in the USA that the 1980 officially sanctioned exodus of 125,000 Cubans [ see pp. 30474-75 ] might be repeated , and there were reports that the US navy was reviewing contingency plans to mount a naval blockade . |
| 12 | A one-parent family , living on scraps from the educational world , too proud to seek refuge and warm her hands on the tepid thickly painted radiators of Leeds , to cast off her jerseys and socks on the radiant central heating of Sussex , to lie half-naked in that ill-starred farmhouse in Tuscany . |
| 13 | To consider the hypothesized eastward moving segments of lithosphere in Mongolia and China as involving ‘ micro-plates ’ is to employ the term ‘ plate ’ in quite a different sense from its original definition . |
| 14 | The greatest ever rock format , the eight-track cartridge ( from the personal collection of Danny ‘ he 'll have to go ’ Kelly ) |
| 15 | Some of the greatest ever test series have included the Springboks — nobody loves a free-flowing , fast game more than the South Africans . |
| 16 | They had listening devices in the building , and early on the nineteenth allegedly heard Koresh ordering paraffin to splashed around . |
| 17 | Looking now at all legitimate births , not just first births , remarried women contributed 7 per cent of the 40,231 pre-maritally conceived births in 1976 , 18 per cent of the 41,250 in 1986 . |
| 18 | The rich also visited Madeira in their private yachts as part of a grand tour . |
| 19 | The fire still smoked , the damp still grew vegetable growths the colour of peaches on the wall between the grimy windows . |
| 20 | Then the dim increasingly blotted memories of different doors , different faces peering , being naked , shaved , enemaed , injected , while it went on hurting her repeatedly , relentlessly . |
| 21 | What is the length of the longest ever recorded freight train ? |
| 22 | The English still play golf for exercise , while Scottish amateurs , whose inner conceit about inventing the game holds them back , mostly suffer from little inclination to practise . |
| 23 | Simple toys from all over the world , made from the cheapest often discarded materials . |
| 24 | The high forward paddling style is appropriate for a touring boat but not for a WW playboat . |
| 25 | John Carty , Scottish officer for the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union , said last night that it was a case of wait and see for the plant , which employs just under 500 staff after the 67 recently announced redundancies . |
| 26 | The British soon constructed roads , mainly for military reasons . |
| 27 | This was because Oxford was a good place to be born during World War II : The Germans had an agreement that they would not bomb Oxford and Cambridge , in return for the British not bombing Heidelberg and Göttingen . |
| 28 | A new sixty-year agreement was signed with the company in 1933 , but the British never trusted Reza Shah again . |
| 29 | The British then used Reuters unsettled clans to block Russian railway concessions . |
| 30 | The French also play Berlioz quite remarkably , in fact they 'll often give a more completely satisfying performance . |