Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As secularists , they saw the Islamic resurgence as retrograde , leading away from the kind of society they hoped to create . |
| 5 | These changes also had a significant impact at the political level as government sought to introduce reforms to accommodate these changes . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The same would have happened in the lower house if Solidarity 's share of seats had not been limited in advance to 35% . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One leading Republican called OEO " the greatest boondoggle since bread and circuses in the days of the ancient Roman Empire " . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was difficult to keep parallel with the watery ground because thorn thickets and fallen trees blocked their way . |
| 19 | Fitt brought down the Labour Government because Labour had increased Northern Ireland 's representation at Westminster from 12 to 17 seats . |
| 20 | Motif edges do have to be bound with the main yarn in the usual way as work progresses . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We had stopped celebrating Christmas in the proper manner after Father died . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She was forty seven and the youngest member since Commissioner Catherine Bramwell Booth had made her reluctant appearance at the first High Council . |
| 27 | ‘ Shout down any coal pit in Yorkshire and half a dozen fast bowlers will come up ’ was an adage born out of the 30s depression when cricket was one of an extremely limited range of alternatives to a miserable , lowly paid struggle in coal mining . |
| 28 | Duncan , the son presented to the English king as hostage some twenty years earlier , now appealed for William II 's help in return for a promise of fealty . |
| 29 | Together with moves towards greater urbanization ; more complex economic systems ; shifts in societal and familial structure ( in particular the movement away from the earlier extended family unit to the nucleated one ) , there developed the situation whereby the woman 's role was placed firmly and almost exclusively in the private sphere of activity as wife , mother and homemaker ( a removal encouraged by the purity laws ) , whilst that of the man was located in the public sphere as worker and family supporter , and active participant in social , political and religious affairs ( see , for example , Prov. |
| 30 | All replies will be regarded as on the public record unless confidentiality is requested by the commentator . |