Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The building programme , the largest undertaken this century , provides for the construction of 26 new prisons between 1983 and 1995 , at a total cost of £870 million at current prices . |
| 2 | Even with these forecasts , the programme is the largest undertaken this century . |
| 3 | I think I learned the lesson even then that the frail receive more love and attention than the healthy . |
| 4 | During the 1920s this fact had been used against universal family allowances because , it was claimed , they would have the ‘ dysgenic ’ effect of encouraging the idle and the feckless to have more children ( Gray ; 1927 ; McDougall , 1921 ) . |
| 5 | Now Fergie junior , one of the few real success in United 's so-far disastrous Premier League start , has come through the toughest test any youngster can undergo — pleasing his father . |
| 6 | Admitting failure is the toughest test any executive can have . |
| 7 | I understand the emotional pull that devolution has for people in Scotland , but I hope that every Scot will examine very carefully what it would mean in practice for Scotland and for the rest of the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | The rich produce more waste |
| 9 | The upward trend in the numbers of unemployed getting supplementary benefit , for example , continued in the 1980s ; the numbers trebled until two-thirds of all the unemployed received this benefit , despite the fact that it was never designed for them . |
| 10 | The Vanishing puts this vibe to good use by matching the metaphysical feel of the European road movie with the narrative pace of the post-Hitchcock thriller to come up with an intriguing , slightly disjointed meditation on death , desire and motorway café culture . |
| 11 | The English took little note of the fantasy before about 1585 ; the favourite form was still the ‘ In nomine ’ . |
| 12 | It is true that in the late 1430s the English suffered some reverses and territorial losses . |
| 13 | They might have been supplied by sea , but the English had more ships than that first fleet driven off , and presently many vessels appeared at the mouth of Tweed , not to attempt attack this time but to patrol up and down , blockading the harbour . |
| 14 | Although tired and running out of provisions , the English had several advantages : a good defensive position ; a united command ; and the use of an army which had already proved highly successful against the Scots , a combination of archers and dismounted men-at-arms for which , in the conditions prevailing on the day , the French cavalry and the crossbowmen of their Genoese allies proved no match . |
| 15 | I explained that I 'd found someone to substitute for me — one of the Carter boys was looking for holiday work — but he kept making objections about unqualified staff , mentioning a notorious case a few years earlier when one malcontent teacher wreaked his revenge by teaching a group of teenage Italians that the English greet each other in the street with the phrase ‘ Piss off , wanker . ’ |
| 16 | It was then that the British gained much credit — especially with President Eisenhower — for their part in the creation of an alternative structure . |
| 17 | They did not : the Canadians had one sort of sovereign , and the British had another sort . |
| 18 | The opportunities of the British to make any impression were , as usual , largely dependent on the presence of others of like mind within the labyrinthine corridors of power in Washington . |
| 19 | With the British having more distance to cover at that time than any other nation , including the Americans : ‘ Cable enterprises supplanted the railways as popular investments ’ 2 . |
| 20 | ( Of course they do ; it shows that the British buy more products than their industries are capable of supplying . ) |
| 21 | It is always a matter of surprise for people who belong to nations with written constitutions to discover that whilst the British enjoy many freedoms their constitution is not a written one . |
| 22 | Despite such criticisms , the British found these courts useful and by the end of the century they had jurisdiction over most rural areas . |
| 23 | THE British have more sex surveys than they have sex . |
| 24 | Although the British needed this route to support Egypt , many of them saw Pan American as opportunistic and poised to exploit its advantage in the postwar years . |
| 25 | The simple truth is that if the British withdrew this country would become an economic wasteland and whether there is a Catholic voting majority at some point in the future or not there will not be a united Ireland as no one would want to pay the enormous costs involved . |
| 26 | Because German opposition was light in this sector , and because the Germans thought that , after their bleeding at Verdun , they were incapable of massed attack , the French made some gains . |
| 27 | The French had little room for manoeuvre , and in May 1358 a treaty known as the ‘ First Treaty of London ’ was drawn up , under which Edward was to have a Greater Aquitaine in full sovereignty , together with Calais , Ponthieu and Guînes . |
| 28 | Again , in the case of Vietnam , this was accompanied by bitter political acrimony , at least on the operational level , between the Americans on the one side , the British and French on the other , about whether or not the French fighting in Vietnam were to be regarded as allies and whether or not the French had any entitlement to resume their pre-war position in Indochina . |
| 29 | He no longer thought the French had any intention of leaving Vietnam . |
| 30 | The French cite several explanations for the downturn but the most important , they say , was the severe frost which devastated the Loire and Bordeaux regions last year . |