Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liverpool have been holding on since November 9 for news of the left-sided 22-year-old while government officials check to see if there are any objections from the FA or Players ' Union . |
| 2 | Pointing out difficulties is a very common behaviour but is one of the riskier ones because research shows that it is far from certain how people will take it . |
| 3 | However , the main impact of tourism has been felt in the European Alps where tourism has led to a dramatic reversal in population decline , major changes in the socioeconomic structure of local communities , and often very intensive physical development in the landscape ( Mallet , 1978 ) . |
| 4 | If we make ourselves the bar , if we suggest that self-determination is the right of every people on earth but the Germans , we risk creating resentments in Germany which could be quite as destabilising to the European order as reunification . |
| 5 | Aware that any serious tightening of short-term interest rates added billions to federal debt-service costs , even the feistiest central bank might hesitate to tighten the monetary screw when inflation threatened . |
| 6 | As secularists , they saw the Islamic resurgence as retrograde , leading away from the kind of society they hoped to create . |
| 7 | These changes also had a significant impact at the political level as government sought to introduce reforms to accommodate these changes . |
| 8 | Arsenal finished the 1925–6 season as League runners-up with 52 points , five behind hat-trick champions Huddersfield , in the highest position ever reached by a London club ( Arsenal 's previous best was sixth in 1909 ) . |
| 9 | Just two machines , four people and gradually that got up to a reasonable size er i it grew on the back of companies like , , , manufacturing what I call the coordinated look cos knitwear was utilized for bringing other things together . |
| 10 | The same would have happened in the lower house if Solidarity 's share of seats had not been limited in advance to 35% . |
| 11 | A similar boundary is constructed in the lower right where paint is scraped away in a band to reveal the surface of the canvas itself . |
| 12 | One suggests that the change in the intragastric environment after vagotomy leads to an increased concentration of potentially carcinogenic N-nitroso compounds within the stomach . |
| 13 | Less than a week after riots over price rises in basic commodities left 22 dead in the greatest upheaval since independence 18 years ago , the Consultative Group of donor governments finds itself reviewing Malawi 's human rights record with two large question marks hanging over the debate . |
| 14 | One leading Republican called OEO " the greatest boondoggle since bread and circuses in the days of the ancient Roman Empire " . |
| 15 | Our results show that the causal agent exits the wounded cotyledon when phloem translocation is blocked , so the systemic effect must either arise from a chemical signal travelling through a route that does not involve the transport of photosynthate , or a physical signal . |
| 16 | The accord follows a threat by the Greens to withdraw their support for the Socialists in the regional assembly unless consideration for environmental factors was built into development strategies . |
| 17 | It accelerated in the nineteenth century as industrialisation took place , and increased even more rapidly in the twentieth century under the impact of advanced technology and science . |
| 18 | This was more so in the nineteenth century as Nonconformity grew stronger and more involved in the mainstream of national life , but it had always been the case . |
| 19 | There is little , if any , need for external software to assist in the creation of the complete document although support is provided for most of the major players . |
| 20 | It was difficult to keep parallel with the watery ground because thorn thickets and fallen trees blocked their way . |
| 21 | Fitt brought down the Labour Government because Labour had increased Northern Ireland 's representation at Westminster from 12 to 17 seats . |
| 22 | The Party has gone out of its way to foster the image of the Armed Forces as guardian of the motherland , school of patriotism and the expression of those qualities that the Party seeks to promote in homo Sovieticus . |
| 23 | Many parents of potential boy soldiers , sailors and airmen would have been very reluctant to allow their sons to join the armed forces if homosexuality had been allowed among those who were to train them . |
| 24 | Has my hon. Friend reflected on the likely effect of Labour 's policy to establish a minimum wage of £3.20 per hour for every 16-year-old — and , indeed , on the effect on recruitment to the armed forces if defence spending were reduced by 50 per cent ? |
| 25 | Motif edges do have to be bound with the main yarn in the usual way as work progresses . |
| 26 | This was the usual practice when mail was given out : a recipient of a letter would normally get 150 , two letters 300 , and the penalties for a parcel were 500 and above depending on its contents . |
| 27 | Tropical Plants R & D section head Mike Lothian won the longest drive whilst Transport and Property general manager Bryn Hodson won the Veteran 's prize . |
| 28 | A more demanding public — hopefully prepared to pay the proper price if horse holidays are to survive — have produced a flexibility in which accommodation matches equestrian standards , and individual needs of riders are increasingly met . |
| 29 | We had stopped celebrating Christmas in the proper manner after Father died . |
| 30 | Undoubtedly there have been numerous policy turnabouts , most noticeably at the time of the Cultural Revolution when forestry resources were misused for unsuitable land reclamation ( Gustafsson , undated ) , which in certain particularly vulnerable areas may have exacerbated the destructive floods of autumn 1981 . |