Example sentences of "the [adj] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Williams , the economic self-interests of the strong usually determine history . |
| 2 | Others have been concerned about the possible politically destabilising consequences of the overproduction of university and college graduates relative to the capacities of the labour market to absorb them in positions appropriate to their qualifications . |
| 3 | There was no reason for not talking , and the two young soldiers listened to the tall quietly spoken officer as he explained the skills of silent movement . |
| 4 | A one-parent family , living on scraps from the educational world , too proud to seek refuge and warm her hands on the tepid thickly painted radiators of Leeds , to cast off her jerseys and socks on the radiant central heating of Sussex , to lie half-naked in that ill-starred farmhouse in Tuscany . |
| 5 | To consider the hypothesized eastward moving segments of lithosphere in Mongolia and China as involving ‘ micro-plates ’ is to employ the term ‘ plate ’ in quite a different sense from its original definition . |
| 6 | The rich also visited Madeira in their private yachts as part of a grand tour . |
| 7 | The fire still smoked , the damp still grew vegetable growths the colour of peaches on the wall between the grimy windows . |
| 8 | Then the dim increasingly blotted memories of different doors , different faces peering , being naked , shaved , enemaed , injected , while it went on hurting her repeatedly , relentlessly . |
| 9 | The English still play golf for exercise , while Scottish amateurs , whose inner conceit about inventing the game holds them back , mostly suffer from little inclination to practise . |
| 10 | The high forward paddling style is appropriate for a touring boat but not for a WW playboat . |
| 11 | The British soon constructed roads , mainly for military reasons . |
| 12 | This was because Oxford was a good place to be born during World War II : The Germans had an agreement that they would not bomb Oxford and Cambridge , in return for the British not bombing Heidelberg and Göttingen . |
| 13 | A new sixty-year agreement was signed with the company in 1933 , but the British never trusted Reza Shah again . |
| 14 | The British then used Reuters unsettled clans to block Russian railway concessions . |
| 15 | The French also play Berlioz quite remarkably , in fact they 'll often give a more completely satisfying performance . |
| 16 | The growth of industrialisation and Nonconformism resulted in the collapse of the old traditionally supported customs and public charities . |
| 17 | It could be as early as the Claudian period , and it has the typical widely spaced ditches of that period . |
| 18 | Secondary analyses were to include within group comparisons of arrhythmias , oxygen saturation , pulse rate , and blood pressure between the pre , per , and postgastroscopy periods , using the Wilcoxon matched pairs signed ranks test for the frequecy of arrhythmias , and the Students t test for the remaining normally distributed data . |
| 19 | But have the erstwhile long stay patients swelled the ranks of homeless people ? |
| 20 | The 38-year-old now enjoys hero status as a manager among Hillsborough fans — more so than he ever did as a player elsewhere . |
| 21 | Mt Erebus , the 4,045 metres-high volcano near McMurdo Sound in the Antarctic also has bouts of mild Strombolian activity . |
| 22 | During the 1930s the world had seen considerable political and military changes , already the dictators of Europe were making territorial gains , and the Japanese also had designs on mainland Asia , invading Manchuria and waging a savage war on China . |
| 23 | The accused also deny charges of conspiring to cause an explosion , having the bomb with intent and possessing it in suspicious circumstances . |
| 24 | The test is subjective , and it does not matter whether the accused actually had authority or consent . |
| 25 | On the consistent seasonally adjusted basis , United Kingdom unemployment was 1,052,500 in October 1979 , 2,819,200 in October 1983 , 2,641,900 in October 1987 and 2,472,900 in October 1991 . |
| 26 | Innovations believe that with the appropriate educationally designed software and the right database , the Interpreter can readily form the basis of a powerful new kind of language learning tool . |
| 27 | The following also affect ground movement : trees and vegetation , changes in water level , landslides , vibrations , mining operations ( even some distance away ) and flooding . |
| 28 | Even so , there was no avoiding the fact that the S-class completely overshadowed BMW 's somewhat unconvincing attempts to steal some glory from the newcomer by adding some of its technical highlights — double glazing , self-shutting doors and parking proximity sensors — to its 750iL 's options list . |
| 29 | The deceased then asked Mr. Morgan to keep the document and said ‘ if anything happens to me , you should give it to a solicitor after my funeral . ’ |
| 30 | It referred to the previous centrally planned economy as ‘ unimaginable ’ in the changed circumstances brought about by reform . |