Example sentences of "the [adj] [vb base] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | So far from regarding the 1935 result as a foregone conclusion , Baldwin always felt that the choice of date , intermeshed with the fostering of the suitable national mood , was one of his more considerable political challenges . |
2 | Beaverbrook considered it an achievement that the USA and UK had settled on the 1943 draft as a formula for future negotiations , but US ambassador John Winant , at lunch with Churchill , Berle , and Beaverbrook , thought the Prime Minister wanted the Lord Privy Seal to ‘ soft-pedal ’ the internationalization aspect so as not to offend the USA . |
3 | But all at once the light-hearted feel to the conversation had flown . |
4 | Five of the eight appear on the royal books for 1661 as members of the ensemble known as the Hautbois et musettes de Poitou . |
5 | Speaking on the day of the ruling , David Lange , the New Zealand Prime Minister at the time of the bombing , described the 1986 accord as an agreement forced upon him by French threats from " the highest level " . |
6 | The Indian Supreme Court on Aug. 27 cleared the way for a resumption of investigations into allegations of high-level corruption in connection with the 1986 deal for the purchase of Bofors artillery from Sweden for the Indian army [ see p. 37184 ] . |
7 | I would n't be surprised if the coming slump makes the Thirties look like the proverbial walk in the park . |
8 | He spoke briefly of the responsibility the rich owe to the poor of the Third World . |
9 | If he ended up with a taste for feudalism and aristocracy it was because he believed that the old paternalism was better than the inhuman gulf between ‘ classes ’ — ‘ One would wish to see the rich mingle with the poor as much as may be upon a footing of fraternal equality . ’ |
10 | FORMER Prime Minister Maggie Thatcher now pockets more every minute than the unemployed get in a week . |
11 | CHESTER-based Paul Affleck and South African Ian Palmer both joined Ian Woosnam on the 67 mark in the first round of the Honda Open in Hamburg yesterday . |
12 | He found him , stout and pink , in a brown suit , knee-breeches , and blue-grey stockings , sitting in the farm kitchen on the wooden settle by the fire , smoking a long clay pipe . |
13 | But , the heavens opened as it seems they only can when the British take to the outdoors in mid-summer . |
14 | The New Zealand government looks after the Cook Islands , Niue and Tokelau ; the Americans have Samoa , and the British look after the four islands of the Pitcairn group , selling stamps for the islanders to help them keep up their revenues . |
15 | It is difficult to exaggerate how many eggs the French have in the EC-German basket . |
16 | Many children have been injured in increasing numbers over the last year , and it was the idea of one school teacher in Oxford to bring a group of gendarmes over to England to teach children how the French behave on the roads . |
17 | Larry adds that his optimum rig would be two 4x10s , and listening to the tens perform under an extreme load does tend to qualify his argument . |
18 | Thirty of the forty fall into the four occupations of factory work , retail sales work , domestic work , and office or secretarial work . |
19 | Over 12 acres of Gardens ranging from the formal circular Rose Garden on the site of the Old Keep to the Wild Garden in the ravine . |
20 | A neighbour made the 999 call to a smoke-filled flat in Brighton , East Sussex , after her own smoke alarm went off . |
21 | Maybe other industrialised Nations will affect European trade in the future , as the Japanese have over the last 10 years . |
22 | TICKET sales in Cornwall have approached the 30,000 mark for the ADT County Championship final at Twickenham tomorrow , confounding fears that the Easter holiday would deter supporters from travelling to London . |
23 | In 1976 , unemployment in Britain passed the one-million mark for the first time since the Second World War . |
24 | When Bromhead contributed the article on Differential Calculus to the 1819 Supplement to the Encyclopaedia Britannica he emphasized Woodhouse 's influence . |
25 | Neither the Lamoureux nor ‘ Symphony Orchestra ’ in the early 1930s were first rate ensembles technically , but the authentic feel for the music is there , no mistake about it . |
26 | The following have in the past been regarded as a natural user of land ; water installations in a house or flat , a fire in a domestic grate , burning stubble in the normal course of agriculture , electric wiring and gas pipes in a house or shop , the ordinary working of mines and minerals on land , erecting or pulling down houses or walls , trees whether planted or self-sown ( if not poisonous ) . |
27 | A sticking-point seemed to be the Burmese demand for the Frontier areas to be brought into the constitutional process . |
28 | ‘ We did n't know ’ , he says as the three embark on the master plan , ‘ that we were playing with fire — Greek fire , ’ he adds , ‘ the kind that burns and destroys ’ , in case we do n't know what playing with fire means . |
29 | But the reader is mistaken if he assumes that the humble eat below the salt in that great hall , or that the poor come to the buttery-hatch for alms . |
30 | In the CytR binding site , the substitutions in the five mutant promoters are indicated , the inverted arrows indicate the inverted repeat in the CytR binding site and the tandem arrows indicate the direct repeat . |