Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Just as you thought the coupe for the masses had receded into a misty-eyed memory of metallic-blue Ford Capris and diamond-white Opel Mantas , along comes the Calibra ; a practical yet sleek four-seater to set the high-mileage rep 's heart alike .
2 A gain of 400 in the first amplifier/filter will then produce an output of almost two and a half volts from the total earth 's field vector , avoiding overload and permitting a peak-to-peak measurement by rotating the core .
3 Much of the normal scientist 's knowledge will be tacit , in the sense developed by Michael Polanyi .
4 Any future progress must take place after the end of the normal day 's business , if nobody objects .
5 If you go to the normal parents ' class you get -Oh yeah — another one , does n't know a lot , just got pregnant for the fun of it , but the midwives , Ros and Maureen , they treat you different .
6 In Chapter 1 it was suggested that Mean Length of Utterance ( MLU ) measured in morphemes provides a useful summary of the normal child 's mastery of grammatical structure .
7 It has a particular quality to recognize substances as being either " self " , i.e. part of the normal body 's metabolism or " non-self " , i.e. a foreign substance from outside .
8 The Drive channel is governed by the usual Gain and Volume pots , for selecting the amount of overdrive in the sound , and for setting the level between that and the Normal channel 's output .
9 The growing number of learned topographies produced by the Georgian gentry 's taste for travel rarely had much praise for the Sussex roads , however beautiful they found its landscape .
10 But since she knew that the Czech word for ‘ please ’ was ‘ prosím ’ she was hoping that the polite woman 's parting phrase had been the equivalent of an English ‘ Excuse me , please ’ while she went away to hand her card over to Vendelin Gajdusek .
11 In a previous BBC serial about the moral bankruptcy and satanic drabness of a fictional new town , the polite credits ' acknowledgment to the real modern conurbation which had admitted the cameras had an inadvertent satirical ring .
12 The Maggot now ordered me into the right-hand pilot 's seat and told me to keep my thieving hands off his knobs .
13 But it kept the Salvadorean government 's free-market economic model intact .
14 The 27-year-old mother 's ordeal began when the kidnapper jumped out at her after she had parked her car at the top of a multi-storey at a shopping centre in Eastleigh , Hants .
15 For the full-time farmer 's son , and 95 ’ % of all German farms are run by family units , there was a very good Master Farmer training system .
16 In Uganda he is visiting the Ugandan National Council of Women , an umbrella organisation which supports women 's groups throughout the country , and the Ugandan Women 's Credit and Finance Trust , which finances small businesses .
17 A report from Israel on June 23 said that the remaining Ethiopian Jews were to emigrate on commercial flights , following the interim government 's decree ( on June 21 ) allowing freedom of movement for all citizens .
18 The Interim Committee 's programme also envisaged making a levy on oil-producing countries which benefited from the crisis through higher prices , to help other IMF members pay interest on their borrowings from the fund .
19 While most obviously a reaction to the coalescence of the right , it was also a reaction against the establishment in north Korea on 14 February of the Interim People 's Committee under the leadership of Kim Il Sung .
20 He was a founder member of the Junior Ministers ' Convention in 1888 .
21 The junior boys ' race sees another clash between NorthEast champion Glen Hilton , of Durham City Harriers , and the North-East Schools Inter-Counties winner Chris Hilton , of Chester-le-Street .
22 In the junior boys ' championship Stephen Logan ( Knowsley DC ) was third with 196.80 points .
23 Stephen Birse , who competes for Middlesbrough and Cleveland , completed a fine double in the junior boys ' shot and javelin with throws of 12.41 metres and 47.37 metres both qualifying distances .
24 Thus it is ironic that he more than once offers a cold-hearted appraisal of the junior hobbits ' utility .
25 Simon , a reserve for the world junior championship this month , won the junior men 's event .
26 He streaked the junior men 's event with a distance of 57.18 metres and showed his worth by finishing third to Great Britain 's Paul Head in the senior men 's section , making 52.54 with the heavier hammer .
27 Long jumper Anthony Mason , of Ipswich Harriers , cleared seven metres for the first time in his career to smash the junior men 's record by 34 centimetres , and 16-year-old Keith Davis shaved a tenth of a second off the under-17 400 metres record with a time of 52.0 seconds .
28 She eyed , with as much dispassion as she could muster , the broad athlete 's physique of the man opposite her across the white-clothed table .
29 Its slight irregularity could be either intentional or an accident due to the hard-edged woman 's discomfort with the beads of meaning .
30 The lazy man 's guide to word-processing
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