Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below it stood the childhood doll 's house she had intended to renovate for posterity and the guitar whose broken strings had halted her on the path to world fame as a singer of gypsy ballads , in a costume of scarlet and yellow sewn with little mirrors . |
| 2 | But no distinction can be drawn in Advaitin thought between Reality and the highest Self or Ātman , so the quest for Truth involves knowing the Self which also involves ahi sā for to injure or inflict deliberate violence on another is to violate the ātman which all men share . |
| 3 | This depends on the judges ' views of the merits of the case before them or ( I would add ) the direction their political inclinations lead them — what I call below their ‘ view of the public interest ’ . |
| 4 | Regional pride , the growth of language and caste-based movements , suspicion of the Hindi-speaking north , have eroded the support which national parties used to enjoy . |
| 5 | The coalition had regard to-the- mechanics of the single transferable vote and made some attempt to match the number of candidates nominated with the support which those candidates might expect to attract in each constituency . |
| 6 | The benefits that actually count are the benefits to those genes that give the shell its protective properties . |
| 7 | It would make better sense if the money which new contractors raised to sustain their bids were to go , as the Campaign for Quality Television ( CQT ) urges , into programme-making . |
| 8 | 689F 2 ) , who says that the Persian king pays his soldiers in food , dividing the meat and bread equally , and that this corresponded to the money which Greek employers paid to their mercenaries . |
| 9 | They report hearing voters who are ‘ ready to sacrifice ’ but are still skeptical of how Mr Clinton will use the money his new taxes raise . |
| 10 | It may even be that our exceptionally limited use of the sense of smell , and our twentieth-century obsession with eliminating body odours , are a recognition of the chaos our unmasked scents could create in our overcrowded lives . |
| 11 | These benefits were not , of course , costless , and there were aspects of the reorganisation which some managers felt were decreasing their efficiency . |
| 12 | Palestinian negotiators asserted that the Israelis were at last beginning to appreciate the damage their punitive measures had done to popular support for the peace talks in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip . |
| 13 | no particular reason for the rise its general movements and not a serious movement as far as we 're concerned includes the whole element of debtors from ourselves to our wholesale debtors which is our own manufacturing operation where they 're selling to outside customers there 's nothing particularly significant in that . |
| 14 | Expressive tools give children opportunity to express on the computer their own ideas about reality , so that they can learn through representing , exploring and reflecting on the consequences of their own models . |
| 15 | The racism which these YCs were sharing , did not have the tone of bitterness or fear , which was frequently encountered in the talks with white working-class youngsters . |
| 16 | At least John Quincy Adams left the clerk his personal details after the ceremony , unlike one couple married there in 1650 , who went away and ‘ … gave not their names ’ . |
| 17 | The second would be that arts teachers would not benefit from the experience their fellow teachers were gaining in curriculum building and which would be useful to practices in the arts . |
| 18 | The structures below made by Aaron ( 4.5 ) demonstrate an extension of the experience which interlocking bricks provide . |
| 19 | Finally , because of the difficulty which individual workers find in withdrawing from closed shop agreements , individual liberty in this country is directly under attack from the unions . |
| 20 | The name of the user whose special links are to be viewed . |
| 21 | Since Siah told me this story about a supreme storyteller , 1 have told the story myself many times . |
| 22 | Cleavers , or goosegrass , the weed whose sticky stems and seeds cling to clothing , appeared among the pea vines in June , but was quickly and easily dealt with . |
| 23 | Economics has been roundly dismissed as a miserable science , and to the layman its contradictory conclusions and evident practical inabilities are more likely to provoke scorn than respect . |
| 24 | .. were of a violet grey colour , and seemingly very dense , for although endowed with an almost inconceivably powerful ascensive force , they retained to the zenith their rounded summits . |
| 25 | Much of the activity ( and one says this with both elation and exasperation ) is the kind which good teacher-librarians , not tied to purely literary objectives , have long advocated , but extended to include not only the " newer " media but also the resources of the world outside . |
| 26 | A more formal and impersonal system of management , of the kind which other farmers disparagingly attribute to manufacturing industry , therefore prevails . |
| 27 | Next door , in the house on the right , someone had been watching the visitor 's arrival from the side of an upstairs window , a middle-aged woman with a startling mass of red hair piled high above a powdered face with a well rouged mouth and plucked and pencilled eyebrows , a woman dressed in a dark crimson gown , of the kind which some years before would have been described in fashionable circles as ‘ tea gowns ’ . |
| 28 | The newly-elected councillor should welcome the opportunity of serving on these outside bodies for only by so doing can he obtain a full appreciation of the part which these bodies play in local administration . |
| 29 | In this way , new requests for credit may run up against a powerful and undeniably sensible combination of background knowledge and personal experience which rules them out , even when the applicant whose personal circumstances ring these alarm bells would have been a satisfactory payer . |
| 30 | The courts should not deny themselves the light which Parliamentary materials may shed on the meaning of the words Parliament has used and thereby risk subjecting the individual to a law which Parliament never intended to enact . |