Example sentences of "with the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was on Philip Randolph 's ‘ March on Washington ’ platform in Chicago , and it was whilst lecturing in Boston that he made his first real contact with the Jamaican nationalist movement and significantly with Norman Manley . |
| 2 | Gloria disappearing between the double swing doors with the round port-hole windows too high to see through , and Dot in the dark brown corridor standing , standing , waiting , for however long it took . |
| 3 | No doubt the coming year will be a tough one , with the long-awaited White Paper on child care law , local government reform looming , and the Scottish Office making ominous noises about ending the statutory appointment of directors . |
| 4 | And it 's signed with the warmest personal regards of the film director , Mr David Puttnam |
| 5 | It had occurred to her that by devoting her life to her work she would never have the chance to look after her own babies , and her thoughts turned once more to the young man with the dark wavy hair and the expressive blue eyes . |
| 6 | We know nothing of her months there , and we only know that when she returned it was with the dark inner side of her nature woken , so that she must be kept chained and guarded . ’ |
| 7 | He knew that Grainne was gentle and strong and sensitive ; he knew this as if it was something he had been born knowing ; even so , he found himself remembering that the Wolfline were said to have old enchantments in their blood , and that the old enchantments were tinged with the dark sinister magic of the first sorcerers , and that the descendants of those long-ago Wolfkings could still spin their own bewitchments and weave their own spells . |
| 8 | He asked me who the young man with the dark curly hair was , and I told him . |
| 9 | She was a tall , very thin child with the dark curly hair , aquiline features and wild poetical eyes of the Irishwoman . |
| 10 | The agreement represented a sharp break with the traditional flat-rate basis of earnings , the manual unions accepting productivity bonuses for flexible working practices ( Income Data Services , 1985 ) . |
| 11 | After the initial impact of Anatolian and Persian designs and their consequent fusion with the traditional decorative schemes of each country , European designs tended to reflect the broader artistic and design movements of each successive period . |
| 12 | What if the man had for years been an opera singer in England — it was a chillul hashem , a profanation of the Divine Name , to mix operatic arias in with the traditional sacred melodies . |
| 13 | Employment opportunities include not only work with the traditional large-scale centralized business system but also involvement in database systems , distributed systems and small business systems . |
| 14 | It is true that this formulation of treating a person as an equal is consistent with the traditional liberal conception of equality , amounting to the familiar idea of equality of opportunity , and even this restricted concept of equality appears capable of generating a competing individual right which is strong enough to defeat the welfare-tax protester 's claim to be allowed to divert some of his tax into non-welfare spending schemes . |
| 15 | Either way they were led to find fault both with the traditional tsarist regime and with the spreading market system . |
| 16 | Feminist sociology , on the other hand , in its critique of the male-centred character of all previous criminology , has involved itself with the traditional criminological concerns . |
| 17 | And much as I coveted a wonderful watercolour by Albert that I came across in an Alice Springs gallery for 4,000 dollars I was even more taken with the traditional native art , particularly since it seemed to offer useful hints about a problem I had of seeing the outback in ways other than through the window-on-the-world vision that developed in Renaissance Italy . |
| 18 | The troops were delivered to their start lines with the traditional logistical efficiency of the US armed forces . |
| 19 | In countries like Colombia and Venezuela , there has been some tinkering with the traditional agrarian system , but on the other hand , Cuba has experienced a complete restructuring of the agrarian sector . |
| 20 | i ) It is congruent with the traditional fungal taxonomy and with phylogenetic trees of fungi based on nuclear SSUrRNA data : the two pyrenomycetes ( P.anserina and N.crassa ) branch very closely together and their distance to A.nidulans , a representative of the plectomycetes , is shorter than that to S.cerevisiae , belonging to the endomycetes. ii ) The position of P.wickerhamii is unexpectedly closer to S.cerevisiae than to all other ascomycetes , whereas the distance between S.cerevisiae and P.wickerhamii lies in the same range as that between the two ascomycetes , S.cerevisiae and A.nidulans . |
| 21 | In such cases , the district treasurer would have argued that financial control over the hospital remained with the traditional departmental budgets . |
| 22 | This stance , however , contrasts with the traditional British view that local government , enhances democracy , both by providing a vehicle of political education and as a means of increasing the liberty of the citizen by breaking down the power of the centralized state . |
| 23 | Frequently , this strategy is referred to as the ‘ best practicable means ’ or ‘ good practice ’ strategy and is associated with the traditional British approach to air pollution control . |
| 24 | A RDBMS uses the concept of the table ( with the traditional row-column layout ) as its basic structural entity . |
| 25 | [ 2 ] The outcome was compared in babies operated on with the traditional light general anaesthesia and in those who received analgesics before , during and after the operation . |
| 26 | The Group retains a strong concern with the traditional macro-economic issues of fiscal and monetary policy , inflation , the exchange rates for sterling , UK trade policy and aggregate employment which its UK model was first designed to elucidate and which are still in certain respects important subjects of controversy at the analytic level ( although there seems to have been some convergence of short-term and even medium-term conditional predictions ) . |
| 27 | In foreign and security policy the European Council will , like the French presidency , decide as well as guide ; it will have links with the Western European Union , a defence pact of nine Community members . |
| 28 | The 258 delegates , seated in political rather than national groups , adopted by a large majority a final declaration in favour of a federally based European union , with the EC playing a key role within the UN , the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) and NATO ; relations with the Western European Union ( WEU ) would be redefined . |
| 29 | Mitterrand said that Turkish " association " with the Western European Union ( WEU ) was desirable ( in spite of problems raised by Greek-Turkish relations ) . |
| 30 | Apart from using secondary material from the area , the investigator is also working at a more specific level in two or three societies contrasted with the western developed industrial world : on the one hand , the Soviet Union and the East European socialist world and on the other , the Muslim world . |