Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time he checks the mouth for any other problems that may have evolved since his previous visit and , because every month is different , he can give valuable advice to the horse owner on the shape of the mouth and type of bit most suitable for the individual horse . |
| 2 | ‘ Och , not too bad , you know , ’ he said , shaking his grey head slowly , his yellowed eyes and hair rather sickly in the electric light of the shop . |
| 3 | The new remit brings to the fore locally many of the larger issues about the UDCs that in its original form had been relatively irrelevant to the operation of MDC . |
| 4 | For C 2v molecules only one of the inertial axes is defined by symmetry . |
| 5 | On March 22nd the market reacted by falling a further 3.1% , which took the Nikkei index below 30,000 for the first time since December 1988 to close at 29,843 . |
| 6 | What fuels such defensive reactions , whether against real or imaginary threats , is a combination of international population movements with the ultra-rapid , fundamental and unprecedented socio-economic transformations so characteristic of the third quarter of our century . |
| 7 | However , if the swimming pool , sauna , etc. exist and the ‘ change of use ’ is merely to increase their use and attract outside custom to the premises , is such a change merely incidental to the present use of the hotel premises , as in the Emma Hotels case above ? |
| 8 | ONE OF the doughty pack leaders to emerge in the late 1940's from the Manchester scrum of ‘ palaeomagnetists ’ was S , Keith Runcorn — a former Cambridge engineer with an almost unhealthy liking for the rough and tumble of the rugby field , Keith Runcorn is now professor of physics , and geophysics supremo , at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne — and incidentally the president of the university 's rugby club , To honour Runcorn 's reaching the age of 60 , the university organised earlier this month a three-day conference on ‘ Magnetism , planetary rotation and convection in the Solar System ’ , Since the Second World War , geology has undergone conceptual upheavals as never before , The apparently ludicrous ideas proposed by Alfred Wegener in the 1920s , that the Earth 's continents were drifting around , have found solid ground , The evidence came from physicists inspired by wartime work on radar , by cosmic-ray research and the discovery that some rotating stars have a magnetic field , The physicists set themselves the task of measuring whether rotating bodies on Earth also produce magnetic fields , The eminent Patrick Maynard Blackett devised a highly sensitive magnetometer for this work , but finding that a spinning gold cylinder produced no magnetic field , turned his machine to measuring rock magnetism , A school of expertise concerned with ‘ fossilised magnetism ’ developed around him at Manchester and later at Imperial College , London , The fruits of such work inspired a reappraisal of continental drift and new theories to explain the mechanisms responsible for moving the continents , and later produced the foundations on which were forged the unifying concepts of plate tectonics and seafloor spreading , Runcorn applies an enormous enthusiasm to all that he takes on — as many past students and editors of various science journals can testify , His first notoriety came with his attempts to determine whether the Earth 's general magnetic field was related to the planet 's rotation , or related to some deep-seated phenomenon , To determine this he took his magnetometer down some of the deep Lancashire coal pits . |
| 9 | It is very unfortunate therefore that , in Britain especially , social anthropologists have , on the whole , displayed towards colleagues in adjacent disciplines so little of the ecumenical tolerance with which they habitually approach exotic tribesmen . |
| 10 | The current Seventies retro trend is hopefully only a half-way house on the route towards a radically fresh set of fashion values , in which the tailoring disciplines so dominant over the last ten or 15 years might at last cease to be the basis of contemporary womenswear . |
| 11 | We were in a street , the street so wide and the houses so distant across the other side that it might not have been a street at all ; and the houses lay low with gaps between them , so that the sky filled a large part of the picture . |
| 12 | The bitterness of repeated daily confrontation with left-wing majorities has given them a steeliness entirely absent from the old-fashioned candidates . |
| 13 | This is a source that is of course only available for the twentieth century . |
| 14 | Now in that story only one of the normal evangelising agencies was present , the Holy Spirit . |
| 15 | This applies , for example , where a debtor owes a single debt to two people jointly , in which case only one of the two petitioners need swear the affidavit verifying . |
| 16 | It may ensure that , beneath the new uniform , our function remains in effect little different from the former ‘ ambulance service ’ ( Golby and Gulliver 1979 ) instead of increasingly becoming that of ‘ consultants in road-safety ’ . |
| 17 | As the Navigator nudged Tormentum Malorum slowly nearer to the indicated zone , using only attitude jets , for Jaq a strange intuition of security began to percolate through the dread engendered by hulk and warp alike . |
| 18 | Confused data on peasant landownership and family size made it virtually impossible to make accurate assessments , so that for many provinces only half of the taxable land per head was in fact recorded in the tax lists . |
| 19 | The irony was that it was the British Labour Party which now responded more sympathetically towards Europe , since the social charter of the Community , drafted by its French socialist president , Jacques Delors , was in most respects highly congenial to the British left . |
| 20 | The range of student ‘ learning ’ strategies explored covers only some of the lower and intermediate stages of intellectual growth I have just outlined . |
| 21 | His Remarks touching Geography especially that of the British Isles ( 1822 ) proposed the introduction of Napoleonic departments , while his Horae Viaticae ( 1836 ) included a novel about a radical reforming pope . |
| 22 | She is one of those official curios so beloved by the British in their presentation of the living heritage — a Listed person , withstanding the erosions of the impure present . |
| 23 | Thanks so much to the thousands of you who took the time and trouble to fill out the Pet Census in the April issue . |
| 24 | And and is it is it a case of misogyny basically rife within the Labour Party ? |
| 25 | Ballyfermot is a high-rise architectural nightmare on the outskirts of Dublin , a working-class ghetto sufficiently distant from the bourgeois elegance of the city centre as to pose no threat to the burgeoning middle class , absorbed as they were then in the mild stirrings of environmentalism , as Georgian Dublin vanished up its own pastiched arsehole . |
| 26 | Is the debate about reducing waiting lists less relevant to the medical care needs of older people than the younger age groups ? |
| 27 | If he thinks recovery for emotional injury is unjust , he will have made the future less unjust in the only way that counts for him : fewer people will suffer the injustice of being made to compensate for this sort of injury , which is better than more people suffering that injustice . |
| 28 | This probe also detects additional fragments not homologous to the human probe . |
| 29 | Baku , meanwhile , remained without special security measures or curfew restrictions , and gangs of looters were said to be attacking abandoned Armenian homes largely unchallenged by the sole detachment of 1,000 Interior Ministry troops who had arrived from Moscow on Jan. 14 . |
| 30 | These segmental blocks of paraxial mesoderm form in an orderly craniocaudal sequence beginning on the 9th day , new somites being added to the pre-existing columns from the unsegmented plate of mesoderm just anterior to the primitive streak . |