Example sentences of "' [noun sg] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found Bunny in the girls ' kitchen the next morning trying to find something to eat that was n't raw carrot , muesli or Ryvita and something to drink other than herbal tea . |
| 2 | Although the specific dictionary out-performs the general dictionary for Banking text , for the Estate Agents ' text the general dictionary out-performs the domain dictionary . |
| 3 | So far as more academic scholarship was concerned , the Nag Hammadi Scrolls appeared for the first time in English translation in 1977 , and within two years had inspired Elaine Pagels ' best-seller The Gnostic Gospels . |
| 4 | As well as being very particular about the horses ' condition the old horsemen were equally concerned about their appearance . |
| 5 | Should the shareholders of Tyne Tees accept their directors ' recommendation the combined group will become the third largest television company in the UK . |
| 6 | After three years ' work the last consignment of nuclear fuel rods has been removed . |
| 7 | Because the method depends on Stokes ' Law the dynamic viscosity of the water is important . |
| 8 | So my phone call to the Parsons ' household the next day was in the best traditions of the society in which I found myself living . |
| 9 | If successful , the 100-day trek for multiple sclerosis charities will make Fiennes ' team the first to cross Antarctica via the South Pole without dogs or ground and air support . |
| 10 | This has to be addressed to the company 's members and to state whether in the auditors ' opinion the annual accounts have been properly prepared in accordance with the Act and , in particular , whether they give a true and fair view . |
| 11 | A plan of it had appeared in the Architects ' Journal the previous Friday , and it also appeared in The Times the morning after the Prince 's speech . |
| 12 | He tells me to meet him at the magistrates ' court the following morning , tells me to keep away from the scumbags . |
| 13 | It is worthy of note that in the Magistrates ' Court the separate functions of the judge and jury are both performed by the magistrates . |
| 14 | If her answers were unsatisfactory , their report would be taken to a magistrates ' court the next morning and a petition for her " reception order " drawn up and signed by two people — preferably near relatives or representatives of the family . |
| 15 | Shortly before the dockworkers ' strike the then armed forces Chief of Staff Gen. Sunthorn had reportedly warned that privatization could damage national security . |
| 16 | These gardening activities provoked a cryptic entry in the Medical students ' magazine The Black Bag which read : ‘ There are still many trees to be felled int his dark field . ’ |
| 17 | In considering the solicitors ' application the Legal Services Committee prepared a submission based on what it considered was the inadequacy of the advocacy and training proposals . |
| 18 | Adapted from Blaise Cendrars ' Book The Severed Hand and from the poems of Guillaume Apollinaire . |
| 19 | The ‘ old , old story ’ becomes under the critics ' needle the ever-unravelling story , and the drama is lost . |
| 20 | Tivoli is calling its new programmers ' toolkit the Advanced Development Environment ( ADE ) . |
| 21 | But for Anglo-Canadians of my parents ' generation the rich immigrant culture of Toronto is more unsettling . |
| 22 | Fortunately for Thomas ' self-respect the sheer excess of grace as well as evidence made further proof unnecessary . |
| 23 | In the directors ' office the next day , the two men talked about Joseph Buquet . |
| 24 | It was also agreed to review in three years ' time the entire stock of debt to the Paris Club governments , estimated at the end of 1990 to comprise $5,700 million of the total external debt of $10,500 million . |
| 25 | In ten years ' time the English language will not be worth speaking . " |
| 26 | On the contrary , upon adjudication there vested in Mr. Dennis ' trustee the entire beneficial interest in the two properties which , on Mrs. Dennis ' death , had passed to Mr. Dennis as the surviving joint tenant . |
| 27 | Yet after Banks ' death the British government did nothing to help establish the gardens as a national centre for botanical research until a public outcry in 1839–40 led to the appointment of William Hooker ( 1785–1865 ) as the first official director of Kew . |
| 28 | Although still deeply committed to Marxism , in James ' view the nationalist movement had ‘ an autonomy and validity of its own ’ , and he therefore , on Williams ' request , gave his services to the cause . |
| 29 | In Mr Dicketts ' view the whole system is a ‘ sledgehammer to crack a nut ’ and both partners were concerned that clients would not accept fee increases despite the considerable costs of compliance incurred . |