Example sentences of "the [noun pl] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the mid-1970s the recessionary shake-out in manufacturing has led to the externalization of various corporate services , previously provided ‘ in-house ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Despite the dangers the first crew want to return … this time to help the child victims of the conflict . |
| 4 | Between the cities the blue-green jungle was riven with great scars where plasma cannon and barrage bombs had been tested . |
| 5 | From the Courts The following case was dealt with by Stokesley magistrates : |
| 6 | We will give the courts the statutory power to increase sentences for those who offend while on bail . |
| 7 | At the courts the same function was performed by touts , petition-drawers and proctors . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This is the moment of truth for the Lions the six build-up provincial games can be forgotten . |
| 10 | As our Army moved forward to meet the Russians the dreadful truth was revealed . |
| 11 | THERE was an article in The Times the other day which said that good spelling did not necessarily make for good writing . |
| 12 | THE New York Times announced it is buying the Boston Globe for a record one billion dollars , making the Times the biggest newspaper company in the US north east . |
| 13 | THE OBITUARY APPEARED in The Times the next day , Tuesday 11th December . |
| 14 | Erm if you wanted to get time to look at the chart to colour the planets the right colour that 's up to you . |
| 15 | It found that in 20% of the cases the white man advanced further than the black . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's a bind ; a poor return for the hours the average county cricketer puts in . ’ |
| 17 | They 're they 're not living out in the in the sticks the vast majority of people , they actually live in in settlements . |
| 18 | One of the reasons the New Spirituality has legs is because it is experiential . |
| 19 | ‘ It was one of the reasons the middle class in Scotland felt the Union worked for them , ’ says Lindsay Paterson , of Edinburgh University 's Unit for the Study of Government in Scotland . |
| 20 | As it happened , the bombs the young officer involved was carrying went off prematurely . ’ |
| 21 | Schrödinger made the states the sole source of change , whilst Heisenberg attributed it all to the variation of observables . |
| 22 | The production is slick and smooth , with the monologues the high point , and Michael Matus as Presley was skilled throughout in his effortless switch from quiet playfulness to nervous energy . |
| 23 | But even for the Iranians the Hellenistic era meant a change in appreciation : the prophet Zoroaster took the place of King Cyrus as the most characteristic Iranian figure . |
| 24 | Judging from all the chatter , everyone in UCD must have got to know each other pretty quickly , Benny thought as she went up the steps the following morning . |
| 25 | For three of the shapes the appropriate name was provided by around three-quarters of the bottom third pupils and by nearly all the top third . |
| 26 | By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda . |
| 27 | Do n't get so caught up in this fantasy that you miss all the opportunities the real world has to offer . |
| 28 | Those who benefited from improved earnings , however , were not the rural poor , but the farmers who were able to take advantage of the opportunities the Green Revolution had to offer . |
| 29 | In her final report on the future of Europe , Kim Barnes looks at the opportunities the single market offers for young people . |
| 30 | His face was a picture of red ferocity , the straggling red hair and beard , the bloodshot eyes , the gaunt-featured face burnt red by wind and sun , which yet showed on the cheekbones and under the eyes the bruising stain of tiredness . |