Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Understandably , the expert systems did not assist the experts a great deal but came into their own when both of the 2 experts were not available and an inexperienced technician had to take over . |
2 | In the mid-1970s a young woman went to a shop to rent a television set and was required to provide a guarantor . |
3 | Since the mid-1970s a growing number of privately owned small psychiatric hospitals has been established . |
4 | Glasgow , Liverpool , Newcastle and Leeds pressed on with their extensive highway systems , but other cities abandoned them and by the mid-1970s an urban road policy in the context of an explicit town planning framework was stood on its head . |
5 | Since the mid-1970s the recessionary shake-out in manufacturing has led to the externalization of various corporate services , previously provided ‘ in-house ’ . |
6 | By the mid-1970s the general policy of winning the confidence of the farming organizations and working on the basis of persuasion and advice was being increasingly questioned . |
7 | Three more tries to Andy Mullins , Simon Dear and Glenister gave the Quins a 24–3 half-time lead . |
8 | It took the mantri a long time to work right round the bull , from shoulder to rump down one side and then from rump to shoulder back up the other . |
9 | During the reign of the pharaohs a popular contraceptive for Egyptian women was a pessary made of elephant and crocodile dung . |
10 | Despite the dangers the first crew want to return … this time to help the child victims of the conflict . |
11 | In the cities a nascent proletariat was beginning to flex its muscles , forming short-lived illegal organizations of its own and staging its first major strikes . |
12 | Between the cities the blue-green jungle was riven with great scars where plasma cannon and barrage bombs had been tested . |
13 | The choice of the superb BRNESC green in Melling Road , Aintree , looked capable of giving the Merseysiders a useful home advantage . |
14 | At the time of the preliminary naval bombardment the Turks had only two divisions at the Dardanelles ; these had been raised to four when the naval attack began and six by the time Hamilton made his first landings , giving the defenders a numerical superiority of six to five divisions . |
15 | This gives the courts a useful power to separate the wheat from the chaff among the pending cases . |
16 | This latter formulation would give the courts a greater scope for substitution of judgment , with the additional risk that they would not have to articulate their rationale as clearly as under the heads of purpose and relevancy . |
17 | Distinguishing between public and private places caused the courts a great deal of difficulty . |
18 | In the corner of one of the courts a small figure of Queen Nefertari is depicted standing by the feet of a colossus . |
19 | The question arose after the Ladies ' Directory case in which Frederick Shaw was convicted of ‘ conspiring to corrupt public morals ’ , and in which one of the Appeal Judges , Lord Simons , had stated that ‘ there remains in the courts a residual power to conserve not only the safety , but also the moral welfare of the State ’ . |
20 | While the courts are chary of ‘ trespassing upon the province of Parliament ’ , because of the doctrine of the supremacy of Parliament , it appears that Parliament is not so willing to accord to the courts a rightful province upon which Parliament should not trespass . |
21 | From the Courts The following case was dealt with by Stokesley magistrates : |
22 | We will give the courts the statutory power to increase sentences for those who offend while on bail . |
23 | At the courts the same function was performed by touts , petition-drawers and proctors . |
24 | This gave the Germans a temporary advantage , but later on was the main cause which brought the US into the war and thus caused German defeat . ’ |
25 | ‘ There is in the political thought of the Germans an old tradition which allows consciousness to escape from complicated political circumstances into the promise of the pure idea ’ . |
26 | Now , today , I 'm going to break away from the notes a little bit , cos I think , there 's so many things you could bring , we could bring in , and I think some of the points made in the notes will naturally come out in our discussion . |
27 | Early on that morning that very same morning in October 1913 , anyone walking or motoring down Westfield Drive , Boston , Massachusetts , would never have given any of the houses a second glance , so ordinary were they , and none more so than number 1015 , a clapboard house like all the others in the street , only one which was in even more urgent need of repainting than most of its neighbours . |
28 | She saw to the side of one of the houses the faded sign for Morgan and family , boot and shoemakers , fastened over what appeared to be little better than a shed . |
29 | Finally , glue a ribbon around the edge of the drum and brush the dragon with a little lustre powder if desired to give the scales a shiny effect . |
30 | This is the moment of truth for the Lions the six build-up provincial games can be forgotten . |