Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were n't huddling because of the trying to ease the pain a bit ? |
| 2 | Talk of the 17th prompted the comment in the 1913 suggestion book as to whether the 2nd hole might not become the 17th and the 3rd hole the 2nd , a not uncommon suggestion today . |
| 3 | William III , helped by the ‘ Protestant wind ’ that kept the English navy pinned in harbour while William 's Dutch fleet could choose a convenient place to land , was able to carry out a successful invasion with quite a substantial military force , so the events of the 1680s underlined the possibility that James II might be able to make a successful return from exile . |
| 4 | A broadside written towards the end of the 1680s defended the Church of England against the charge that their stress on obedience and subjection had been pressed so far as " to set up arbitrary Power , and the Will of the Prince , above Law " . |
| 5 | I was probably the eagerest volunteer the Trust had ever had . |
| 6 | The evangelical antislavery imperative in the 1820s formed a conjunction with a reaction against West Indian treatment of nonconformist missionaries and powerful leadership in antislavery activism by major figures of dissent : Jabez Bunting and Richard Watson of the Wesleyans , Joseph Ivimey of the Baptists , the Congregationalists Henry Waymouth and John Angell James . |
| 7 | Although the organized activists were not on the whole the very poor , the poorest joined the demonstration . |
| 8 | A punitive approach to the poorest survived the accumulation of indications that much even of the worst poverty was not self-inflicted , but derived from the inability of the market to provide sufficient homes , jobs or adequate incomes . |
| 9 | Bill unleashed from the two-and-nine queue a score of eager young people . |
| 10 | On the political left a journal like Marxism Today claims that there has been an underlying and probably permanent shift to anti-socialist values . |
| 11 | Now the eighteen-forties sees the development of manufacturing process , clothes are getting easier and easier to make , cheaper and cheaper , so fashion is changing faster because people can afford to , whereas in earlier times , if you wore a woollen dress , it had been you know , you know , somebody had done the sheep for you , had spun the wool and woven the wool and you were damned if you were going to take this dress off until it fell to pieces round you . |
| 12 | The twelve member states , by a separate protocol , would authorise the eleven to use the Community 's institutions for the purpose of implementing social policies pursuant to the Social Charter . |
| 13 | The Mini Master with the 582 promises a take-off roll of 650 ft , landing roll of 520 ft , and a range of 575 miles , without reserve , at a 75 per cent cruise of 110 mph . |
| 14 | The Spanish opposed the introduction of majority voting in the Council of Ministers on environmental laws unless a special fund was set up to help poorer countries meet EC standards . |
| 15 | On the Spanish left the period between the November 1933 election and the end of 1935 became known as the bienio negro , the ‘ two black years ’ , during which the reforms of 1931–3 were reversed or flouted , socio-economic power reverted sharply to landlords and employers , the left itself experienced unprecedented repression and the seeds of civil war were decisively sown . |
| 16 | But the Spanish paid a price in the peace settlement for entering the war on the French side . |
| 17 | The Spanish think the Community should aim for a common defence policy . |
| 18 | ‘ For instance , there was one little overdubbing room in Air studios which was tiny — it was about as big as an armchair — but we used to put the AC30 in there and put the mic facing the window and get this amazing sound . |
| 19 | In the summer of ‘ 86 there was something called the Harmonic Convergence , which was supposed to usher in the Age of Aquarius — people who were going on about it back in the 60s jumped the gun by about 20 years . |
| 20 | One of the eight described the importance of the school for the flow of information through the community . |
| 21 | Indeed , the greatest praise an innovation can receive is for people to say : ‘ This is obvious ! |
| 22 | Gone are the days when guys thought it was girlie to be groomed , the new man of the 90's makes a noise about the fact that he knows how to look good and what 's more these guys now have more beautifying products than old socks ! |
| 23 | On the allied left the course of battle had fluctuated throughout the day . |
| 24 | And — have I got the right to take the risk ? ’ |
| 25 | The close correspondence of diversity increase with rise of sea level in the Cambrian suggests the possibility of a causal correlation ( Brasier , 1979 ) . |
| 26 | In the case of the first one to be founded after 1850 — Dundee in 1853 — a deaf person , Alexander Drysdale who was then headmaster of the Dundee School for the Deaf took the lead to establish an adult mission . |
| 27 | The end of the eighteenth century and the first years of the nineteenth brought a time of confusion and revised Swiss administration in the wake of the Napoleonic wars , and in 1803 , St Gallen 's monastery was secularised along with others in Switzerland , the new canton of St Gallen was formed , and the city became its capital . |
| 28 | A proviso stipulated though , that should the working produce a profit ( nett ) of £10,000 a year , then be could at the beginning of any of the sub-terms enter as a partner and receive one-third of the nett profit instead of the aforesaid one-quarter ; and to pay a third of the expenses . |
| 29 | Since the insertion of the dielectric increased the surface charge density on the plates by a factor with the voltage remaining unchanged , we may conclude that the capacitance has also increased by the same factor , yielding |
| 30 | The 1560s marked the beginning of a period of economic dislocation and social upheaval which stunted the development of Muscovy 's fragile ‘ proto-bourgeoisie ’ . |