Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advent of racier papers with topless models featured on the inside pages and a grim concentration on the latest doings of talentless television stars , equally talentless soccer stars and the Royal Family had taken away its market . |
| 2 | A further important point is that on two scores — the overall symptom score and the resistance score — there was a difference between the normal women and a group of normal men who were also given the inventory . |
| 3 | I felt I was n't appreciate anymore and was suffering from the normal jealousies that a father has when the child monopolizes the mother 's attention . |
| 4 | The government 's desire to play down the incident was set against a background of high political tension fuelled over recent months by widespread protests against austerity and official corruption and the persistent rumours that a repeat of the February military coup attempt was imminent [ see pp. 38759-60 ; 39048 ] . |
| 5 | The nineteenth and twentieth centuries saw the continuation of trends already clearly visible — a consolidation of the network of diplomatic links between the European states and a further growth and elaboration of foreign offices . |
| 6 | This confirms the analogy which has often been drawn between the founding treaties of the European Communities and a written constitution in a sovereign state . |
| 7 | The uniformed cops and a couple of detectives were watching their superiors slug it out . |
| 8 | Another Israeli concession was the presence at the negotiating table of Feisal Husseini , the unofficial lieutenant of the PLO leader , Yasser Arafat , in the occupied territories and a resident of Jerusalem . |
| 9 | Erm the next matter is the re-election of the retiring directors and a separate resolution is required for each one er I 've asked Mr to propose the first resolution . |
| 10 | During the 3 hour 15 minute flight they were offered champagne , the finest liqueurs and a choice of dishes from a menu prepared by a cordon bleu chef . |
| 11 | in 1979 she increased VAT from 8pc to 15pc and was in the political doldrums until a torpedo sunk the Belgrano , then lots of flag-waving and bingo another election victory . |
| 12 | Some cattle are reared on permanent pasture on the lower slopes and a few fodder crops of grass , oats and potatoes are grown in the lower valleys . |
| 13 | Bertelli 's text is shorter , but does include a catalogue of the surviving paintings and a chronological table . |
| 14 | These are examples of externalities — the economic effects that a transaction has on third parties . |
| 15 | A good War , with all the right ingredients and a more spectacular ending than most ( I even had my father asking me what all the explosions and the fire had been about , when I got back to the house that evening ) , but too long ago . |
| 16 | All you seemed to need was the right ingredients and a competent chemist . |
| 17 | It requires the right adaptors and a CD-ROM . |
| 18 | Most people will have such shots in their collection — the dark blob in the middle is a yeti , honest ! — but with the right tools and a little practice you can get some brilliant results . |
| 19 | To a boy who declares himself stuck about what colour to use , he says : ‘ Well , Sickert said that when in doubt put a little of the last colour into the next colour you use , and that gives harmony : it does n't work to use a colour in isolation — white and black are the two parents , red in isolation can appear like a wound in the picture — it 's like friendships , we all know the awful consequences if a new person joins a group and the friendships are n't mixed through , it 's the same with colours . ’ |
| 20 | The answer was to form a more tight-knit operations board consisting of the partners running the regional offices and a separate functional board to deal with broader issues . |
| 21 | note that any of the inherent variables that a camera and meter may have can make noticeable differences to the figures in this table . |
| 22 | Khaled Nezzar , the Defence Minister and head of the armed forces and a member of both the HCS and the High Security Council [ see also p. 38702 ] . |
| 23 | At a meeting of the Slovak government on Oct. 13 , certain presidential powers were transferred to Meciar ; the Prime Minister was recognized as C.-in-C. of the armed forces until a president was elected , would represent the Slovak Republic externally , and would have certain judicial powers , according to Bratislava radio . |
| 24 | In trying to bring cattle thieves to justice they faced not only the usual difficulties but a certain amount of popular tolerance of the crime . |
| 25 | ( b ) In English law the choice of law rules governing claims for restitution are influenced by the claim being connected with a contract , having regard to the English conflict of laws rule that the proper law of the obligation to restore a benefit , if the obligation arises in connection with a contract , is the proper law of the contract : Dicey & Morris , The Conflict of Laws , 11th ed. ( 1987 ) , p. 1350 , r. 203. ( c ) Quasi-contractual claims , at least where there is a contract involved , should probably fall per se under article 5(1) : see the opinion of the editors of Dicey & Morris , at p. 341 , to this effect , and the decision of the Scottish courts that a statutory claim to contribution falls within the article in Engdiv Ltd. v. G. Percy Trentham Ltd. , 1990 S.L.T. 617 , 621. ( d ) In the case of a claim for the return of moneys paid under an ineffective contract , there is no artificiality in deducing an implied promise to pay , even though the old theory that restitution was based on the concept of such an implied promise is now largely discredited . |
| 26 | One of the more interesting adjuncts to the Act for Burying in Woollen was the introduction of the funeral ticket — whether first suggested by the jobbing printers or a particularly ingenious coffin-maker is not known . |
| 27 | The remarkable vertical lift here , which transports boats between the Trent and Mersey Canal and the River Weaver about fifty feet below , is one of the wonders of the inland waterways and a unique piece of Victorian engineering ; the only canal lift still in use in Britain . |
| 28 | There is literally no social arena — from the strongest material relationship to the most subtle moral one — in which the possessing classes and a self-conscious proletariat could take one and the same position and figure as an undifferentiated whole . |
| 29 | However , this ley was originally discovered by scouring the whole of the British Isles and a statistical evaluation on the basis of a small square already containing the alignment is therefore not convincing and indeed erroneous . |
| 30 | Eagle 's Nest Direct was the first Very Severe rock climb in the British Isles and a route so serious then that to contemplate leading it at that time of primitive rope technique meant you also contemplated death . |