Example sentences of "the [noun prp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only can you feel smug that you bagged the Ben the hard way , you will also be handsomely rewarded by the views across Loch Linnhe as you descend . |
| 2 | Then stone me , we opened the NME the next week and it seems we 'd ‘ interviewed ’ the Happy Mondays . |
| 3 | Judging by the mood prevalent up till now in the DDR the planned freedom of travel will scarcely influence those who want to leave because their patience is at an end and their trust in the government has been destroyed . |
| 4 | Britain signs the treaty which will bring it into the EEC the following year . |
| 5 | Jointly funded by the EEC the Joint European Torus ( JET ) had then cost £175 million . |
| 6 | When we attended film shows in the RAF the National Anthem was played before the picture , accompanied by film footage of the Queen riding side saddle down Horse Guards Parade . |
| 7 | But they were all quite delightful fellows about the same age as most of the airmen pupils , and we seemed to fit in very well with each other ; although most of us had spent several years in the RAF the acting pilot officers had only spent , say , a couple of months . |
| 8 | I am sure that he lost many customers because of his habit of popping across the road to his favourite tippling place The William the Fourth . |
| 9 | Not only was the Psittacidae the first volume ever to concentrate on a single species , it was , as Lear himself maintained , ‘ the first complete volume of coloured drawings of birds on so large a scale published in England , as far as I know — unless Audubon 's were previously engraved . ’ |
| 10 | In the Annelida and the Onychophora the internal structure of each segment is very similar to that of the segment preceding or following it . |
| 11 | In the Masai the British believed they had found an audience capable of appreciating their own greatness of soul . |
| 12 | He further told The Art Newspaper that completion of a new wing in 1991 has now given the Brooks the physical space to handle the attendance ‘ WONDERS ’ has drawn . |
| 13 | At the thought of Caroline Werner , a small shadow of anxiety crossed over Alix 's party recollections : the Werners were corning to dinner with the Bowens the following week , and what should she give them to eat ? |
| 14 | Among the Odonata all the legs are adapted for seizing and retaining the prey and are hardly ever used for locomotory purposes , while in the Bombyliidae the slender legs are used for alighting rather than walking . |
| 15 | In The Netherlands the chemical group DSM is heavily involved in art research , both on a purely scientific level — researching the techniques used by master painters from centuries ago — and also using this information to help its efforts in conservation . |
| 16 | In the Netherlands the largest category of young people in residential care ( 59.9 per cent ) is aged between 14 and 17 years . |
| 17 | In the Netherlands the latter are called ‘ Boddaertcentres ’ . |
| 18 | In the Netherlands the First Chamber approved ratification of the Treaty by acclamation on Dec. 15 [ for November approval by Second Chamber see p. 39205 ] . |
| 19 | In the Netherlands the dominant breed today is the Holstein-Friesian , bred to be strong , fertile , productive , adaptable and large : the cows stand 140–150cm at the withers . |
| 20 | In the States the classic examples , which you should study , are the books of Ed McBain about the work of the detective of the " 87th Precinct " in an unnamed city . |
| 21 | In the Auvergne the main mountain areas are in the west , southwest , southeast and east of the Region ( Figure 1 ) , rising to a maximum altitude of 1,886m at Puy de Sancy . |
| 22 | Following the great unity forged in adversity in 1982 , fragmentation of the PLO the following year triggered bitter feuds on every college campus . |
| 23 | Christmas will be in the Falklands the new year in the pacific … their welcome home wo n't be until the spring of 1995 |
| 24 | During the war these derelict pits were used for various purposes ; Lee 's or Houlder pit became a bomb and ammunition store for the R.A.F. The top pit of Batchelors was used by the Home Guard as a rifle range , and for other weapon training . |
| 25 | In somewhere like the Pyrenees the nearest civilisation may be a no-horse hamlet two day 's walk away . |
| 26 | By 1990 cash spending on the NHS was two and a half times what it had been in 1979 , topping £27 billion and making the DOH the second largest spending department ( NAHAT 1990 ) . |
| 27 | The Richard the Third Society has the Duke of Gloucester as its patron , which is very pertinent because , as you know , Richard the Third held the title of Duke of Gloucester for many years before he became king . ’ |
| 28 | Such a figure is likely to be reproduced in the UK.in the near future . |
| 29 | Gravesend used a cumbersome lever operated track brake , these were not required and were removed before the cars went into service on the S.M.E.T. The fixed trolleyhead was replaced by a ‘ Wood 's ’ swivelling head as standard on the South Met. |
| 30 | Further proposals on rules of origin were tabled on Sept. 28 by Hong Kong and by the USA-in the latter case involving work in the CCC and later in GATT on a timetable which would run past the proposed end of the Uruguay Round . |