Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Voters elected opposition candidates to governorships in the majority the 16 states in state elections held on Nov. 25 [ see p. 37852 ] .
2 Though these different perspectives on the role of sociology have been and still are the source of much debate among sociologists themselves , for the layperson no such complications exist : that is , many people understand sociology as being only concerned with social problems , social policies and social reform .
3 ‘ I saw the board a few weeks ago , when I — ‘
4 What did do the trick was getting its staff to ring the creditor every 30 seconds for an entire day , then beginning again at eight the following morning .
5 He saved himself from the sack a dozen times .
6 Gloria had taken Dot to the cinema a few times .
7 It also deducted from the sentence the three years which Bao had spent in detention since 1989 .
8 Civilizer was the verb the French colonialists used for their depredations in West Africa .
9 No , I mean , last time I went out would be erm well I 've been out in the afternoon a few times , with my boyfriend , but , the last time I went out in the evening
10 Later in the afternoon the first peals of thunder rolled across the sky .
11 Hawke 's squadron , 28 strong , now bore down upon the French from windward at top speed , all sails set , and around 2.30 in the afternoon the eight warships in the van opened fire on the French rear division , the start of a fierce engagement which caused its most powerful unit , the 80-gun Formidable , to surrender , and three 74-gun warships , the Héros , the Superbe and the Thesée to founder .
12 THE national championships begin in Newcastle today with Martine Le Moignan , the world champion , and Del Harris , the England No.1 , defending their British titles in far less confident mood than would have been the case a few months ago .
13 IBM will , of course , supply OS/2 with its machines , but its market share has fallen rapidly with the advent of low-cost clones , so the number of users out there may not be as high as might have been the case a few years ago .
14 Make , make the resistance a hundred times what it was you 'd only get a hundredth of the current .
15 The problem with rodents is the damage the wild ones wreak in the garden .
16 As you should change the soil in the wormery every few weeks , this is the time to search through the soil for egg capsules .
17 For one , the researcher did not have Roget 's on-line and needed to manually enter into the computer the relevant relations from Roget 's .
18 In our computer models in Chapter 3 , we deliberately built into the computer the basic ingredients of cumulative selection .
19 There are sufficient inhabitants in Stockport for a good Grammar School , but without a department for the teaching the modern languages the school can be of comparatively little use in a commercial population like that of Stockport .
20 The Economist a few years ago conceded that the new system had some merits , but carried with it some important disadvantages ; on the positive side The nomination process is certainly very costly , yet trying to engage the attention of a mass electorate scattered across a huge and diverse country is bound to be expensive .
21 ( b ) Drafting the contract The standard conditions do not need to be expressly referred to unless an alteration is sought .
22 ( b ) The parties to the contract The two parties envisaged under the SGA 1979 are the seller and the buyer .
23 Within the hour the good beachcombers are on the spot and loading their sacks with all manner of bounties cast at their feet by providence .
24 The route was simple to follow , cutting across the open meadows and farming land , past dark copses , and well within the hour the crenellated walls and turrets of Woodstock Palace came into view .
25 Among the later additions came a namesake , James Hall , who had started off the war as a private in Kitchener 's ‘ First Hundred Thousand ’ It was in the Lafayette that Hall , a flyer with almost superhuman luck ( he once came down intact with an unexploded AA shell sticking out of his engine ) , founded the literary partnership with another pilot , Charles Nordhoff , that was to produce ‘ Mutiny on the Bounty ’ Joining the Squadron a few days after its inception was Raoul Lufbery , who , like Bert Hall , had also been a professional flyer before the war .
26 Looking back on the decision a few years later , he interpreted it in these terms : " What I wanted was some counterweight to my changeable and restless inclinations , a science that could be pursued with cool impartiality , with cold logic , with regular work , without its results touching me at all deeply . "
27 In response to the decision the Ringaskiddy Residents Association ( RRA ) issued a plan of opposition :
28 Although he anticipated a change in the relationship as Britain gradually concentrated on its roles in Europe , for the present the two countries continued to take " a broadly similar view of the world " .
29 He called on me at the apartment a few hours before I left for the airport .
30 In the kitchen the two cooks were preparing to depart .
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