Example sentences of "the [noun pl] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all very well for countries where uniforms were fashionable — as they certainly were not in Britain and the United States — to encourage among the labourers the soldierly virtues , not the least of which was to be poorly paid . |
| 2 | Since the mid-1970s the recessionary shake-out in manufacturing has led to the externalization of various corporate services , previously provided ‘ in-house ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | With a hop , skip and neat somersault under the ropes the crew-cut American cop was in the ring , brandishing his sawn-off rifle at Berzerker , as if to say ‘ go ahead , punk , make my day … ‘ . |
| 5 | It would be useful to have a general term for elements which fall short of being constituents , but which nonetheless have a semantic function relatable to the meanings the same forms carry when they are semantic constituents . |
| 6 | Are the signs the same or different ? |
| 7 | Despite the dangers the first crew want to return … this time to help the child victims of the conflict . |
| 8 | Gerard Fusil was only too aware of the dangers the 175 racers faced between the Caribbean and the Pacific coasts of a country aptly nicknamed the Switzerland of Central America . |
| 9 | Between the cities the blue-green jungle was riven with great scars where plasma cannon and barrage bombs had been tested . |
| 10 | From the Courts The following case was dealt with by Stokesley magistrates : |
| 11 | We will give the courts the statutory power to increase sentences for those who offend while on bail . |
| 12 | At the courts the same function was performed by touts , petition-drawers and proctors . |
| 13 | For the next eighteen months Amery toured prisoner-of-war camps , seeking to recruit a Legion of St George — unromantically renamed by the Germans the British Free Corps — to fight alongside the Germans against the Russians and save Europe from Bolshevism . |
| 14 | In other words , are the Houses the sole judges of the correctness of the judges ' behaviour , or not ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This is the moment of truth for the Lions the six build-up provincial games can be forgotten . |
| 17 | The earlier that people are told the full situation and the rationale for the proposals the better . |
| 18 | As our Army moved forward to meet the Russians the dreadful truth was revealed . |
| 19 | THERE was an article in The Times the other day which said that good spelling did not necessarily make for good writing . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | THE OBITUARY APPEARED in The Times the next day , Tuesday 11th December . |
| 22 | Erm if you wanted to get time to look at the chart to colour the planets the right colour that 's up to you . |
| 23 | It found that in 20% of the cases the white man advanced further than the black . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's a bind ; a poor return for the hours the average county cricketer puts in . ’ |
| 25 | They 're they 're not living out in the in the sticks the vast majority of people , they actually live in in settlements . |
| 26 | ‘ Davey was really hauled over the coals the following Monday . ’ |
| 27 | It should be an axiom , he thought , that the fewer the rules the better . |
| 28 | One of the reasons the New Spirituality has legs is because it is experiential . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | But one of the reasons the jowl-wobbling old curmudgeon will certainly be missed at the microphone this season is that he , above all , made a decent , straightforward reporter 's fist of identifying the tourists on the field . |