Example sentences of "the [adj] [adj] [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Hurd stunned even diehard Tories by revealing that Britain will step aside from the European mainstream if Denmark goes for rejection . |
| 2 | The Fynn Valley professional has enjoyed little success so far this year — he has made the cut in just one tournament — and his latest downfall was in the Spanish Open where rounds of 76 and 73 kept him out of the prize money . |
| 3 | Simultaneously the status of the professional improved as players began to assert themselves not as ‘ club servants ’ or ‘ skilled workmen ’ but as entertainers who should be paid in accordance with their market value . |
| 4 | Why are the unemployed poorer than students , or the sick , or widows or old-age pensioners ? |
| 5 | Then on the third page , some wards with very high rates of unemployment , I think they are the top twenty if memory serves me right . |
| 6 | In contrast to Clare , her sister Miranda was leading the fast and frivolous life of the exciting sixties as Britain launched into the first real business boom since Hitler 's war . |
| 7 | A new awareness of regional questions emerged in the early 1960s as land use pressures mounted : a substantial rise in numbers of both population and households was forecast ; the numbers of vehicles on the roads was rising fast ; countryside pressures on recreation sites was being felt ; and ( as an immediate problem ) the cities ran out of housing land within their boundaries . |
| 8 | But the industrial robot has come a long way since the early sixties when Joe Engelberger set up Unimation , the world 's first industrial robot making company . |
| 9 | It would be hard to find an artist more suited to the political needs of museum exhibitions in the early 1990s than Wifredo Lam , who would have been ninety years old this year . |
| 10 | Almost three quarters of married women are now looking for work , 21 per cent more than in the early 70s when mum 's prime concern was caring for her children . |
| 11 | Accelerating inflation partially offset this trend in the early seventies as companies were being taxed on the inflated values of their stocks of materials and semi-finished goods , but the Labour Government of 1974–9 retrospectively removed taxation from increased stock values . |
| 12 | This form of transport was available in Funchal until the early 1980s for tourist excursions in the centre of Funchal and near the Savoy and Sheraton Hotels . |
| 13 | Back in the early Eighties as Marlene observes , a ‘ stupendous era ’ lay ahead for women and this prologue with its oddball assortment of characters is , one supposes , a disturbing reminder of women as sexually passive victims and a particularly ironic comment on the complexity of their relationships with men . |
| 14 | The meeting closed with the presentation of floral arrangements to two Kent teachers , Hilda Lodge and Eleanor Pitman who had both started Medau in the early 50's as members of Dr. Anni Noll 's post-natal class and having enjoyed that introduction Medau became a way of life and they both went on to quality as Medau teachers and have both taught continuously in the Kent area ever since . |
| 15 | And DUP man Willie Cully , jailed for 12 years in the early '70s for terrorist offences , was defeated after gaining 485 first preference votes . |
| 16 | The bank was merely a device to raise capital for railway and port construction and was transferred to the National Provincial after Jackson obtained parliamentary authority to build the West Hartlepool harbour and dock in 1844 . |
| 17 | This ‘ castle ’ was built in the late 1700s for Richard Arkwright , whose highly mechanised spinning mill just to the north of the cliff made him his fortune , and is now regarded as one of the birthplaces of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 18 | RioFinex planned to examine the Mawddach estuary in North Wales in the late 1960s for placer gold derived from the Dolgellau gold deposits . |
| 19 | In the late nineties when workers showed excessive interest in bread-and-butter issues , the revolutionaries denounced their petty-bourgeois , trade-unionist mentality . |
| 20 | The 3 year deal was struck in the late 80s when Kevin Maxwell was in control of United . |
| 21 | The play is set in the late Eighties when power dressing was at its peak — which explains the bold jackets , short hemlines and figure-hugging dresses . |
| 22 | In this country , the Beano adopted the term in the late 1950s for Minnie the Minx 's devastating punches , which destroyed armies of boys . |
| 23 | The revival of interest in what can only be described as a strategy of import led growth began in the late 1950s as uneasiness over the optimistic , autarkic assumptions of the Khrushchev period increased . |
| 24 | Video cameras were used regularly in the late 1980s for crowd surveillance at soccer grounds , and as a method of enforcing post-match arrests ( Uglow , 1988:95 ) . |
| 25 | The success of the rural reforms had already faltered in the late 1980s as farmers found that competitive risk-taking generated losses as well as profits . |
| 26 | The stalemate among the 39 participating countries was gradually broken in the late 1980s as relations between the superpowers improved [ for the most recent developments on the negotiations , see pp. 38217 ; R153 ; 38986 ] . |
| 27 | IN THE LATE Fifties when news-gathering was still a soft-hat and trenchcoat job , Helen Mason became a reporter with the Daily Record . |
| 28 | Formulated originally in the mid sixties for use in large commercial marine set-ups and improved over the years . |
| 29 | West Germany said yesterday it had agreed to cut its armed forces by nearly a fifth to 400,000 by the mid 1990s if US and Soviet negotiators agreed on cutting conventional arms . |
| 30 | But , in the mid '90s when Mercedes reviews its transmissions ( in service since 1979 ) , we might see a complete move across to five-speed automatics . |