Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following year , however , the Party took what was perhaps its most momentous decision in the mountains a few miles south of the Chinese border . |
| 2 | Just when Cumberland seemed to be well placed to achieve his aim of fighting a full-scale battle against the Jacobites the government in London intervened . |
| 3 | ( 8 ) The holder of the licence for premises to which this section applies shall keep posted in some conspicuous place in the premises a notice stating that this section applies thereto and setting out the effect of its application , and if any person contravenes this subsection he shall be guilty of an offence . |
| 4 | ( 8 ) The holder of the licence for premises to which this section applies shall keep posted in some conspicuous place in the premises a notice stating that this section applies thereto and setting out the effect of its application , and if any person contravenes this subsection he shall be guilty of an offence . |
| 5 | ( 7 ) The holder of the licence for premises to which this section applies shall keep posted in some conspicuous place in the premises a notice stating that this section applies thereto and setting out the effect of its application , and if any licence-holder contravenes this subsection he shall be guilty of an offence . |
| 6 | By careful selection of the spaces the number of entities can be reduced from literally thousands to just the important few ( see Figure 3.7 ) . |
| 7 | Furthermore , whereas the House controls the ways it and committees are televised , it can exercise no editorial control over the ways the broadcasters use this material in their programmes , provided they comply with four specific guidelines . |
| 8 | We shall now expound a somewhat deeper theoretical model of the processes the teacher must go through in absorbing innovations , particularly those involving changes of teaching style , into their day-to-day teaching practice . |
| 9 | Anthropology has played a significant part in illustrating ways in which symbolic use is made of the body to make statements about the condition of society itself ( Mauss 1935 , Douglas 1973 , Blacking 1977 , etc. ) , and hair became an apposite symbolic indicator of the problems the forces of control were faced with at this time . |
| 10 | Mr Cook writing on that day states that measuring from the top of the overlying humus to the bones the depth was 173 cm and the greatest depth 190 cm , the position of the bones in the deposit was as follows : The trunk was supine north-west by south-east , the skull rested tilted forward on the ribs to north-west . |
| 11 | One early sign of the rewards the FDP could expect from its moderating role was the election of one of its leaders , Theoder Heuss , as Federal President in September 1949 . |
| 12 | ‘ There has been no contact between them since then , apart from a limited contact with the children a short time ago . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ There has been no contact between them since then , apart from a limited contact with the children a short time ago . ’ |
| 14 | He also told them that a thin palladium wire , only ¼ inch in diameter and an inch long , had reached the boiling point of water within a few minutes , that the wire produced about 26 watts of energy per cm 3 , ‘ about four and a half times what we put into it ’ and that in an early stage of the experiments the apparatus suddenly heated up to an estimated 5000 degrees , vaporising a block of palladium , destroying a fume cupboard and damaging the concrete floor . |
| 15 | The slimming product 's back-up material might include a complete nutritional breakdown of the contents the pack and some research material showing how often simmers stray from their diets . |
| 16 | A quick visit to the Roaches the day after Buxton revealed dozens of the climbers ' cars stretching along the road , and gritstone 's most sculptural crag crawling with their occupants . |
| 17 | Now they sat eagerly on the rows of brittle gilt chairs with red velvet seats , their exquisitely made-up faces carefully devoid of expression as they made brief notes on their programmes , pretending not to notice that sometimes the clicking cameras were directed not at the catwalk models , all of whom had already done a photo-call session for the photographers the previous day , but at them — the society women of America and the international circuit , the bored charity conscious wives of big businessmen , the famed actresses of stage and screen , even the occasional European princess . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's a bind ; a poor return for the hours the average county cricketer puts in . ’ |
| 19 | Samson Agonistes exemplifies a problem which has stood at the centre of current inquiry into the negotiations a text has with an historical context . |
| 20 | During the brilliant period of the Fatimids the university mosque of Al-Azhar , the oldest surviving university in the world , was built . |
| 21 | It 's become unfashionable because the media is now looking at an alternative scapegoat for the problems the Conservative Party , that 's why it 's a reason and what is arising from the Labour leadership at the moment is purely an attempt to placate the media . |
| 22 | If a hebb-type hypothesis about memory being stored in the form of altered synaptic strengths is valid , then these altered connections should be associated with changed electrical behaviour in the cells the synapses connect ; that is , the firing patterns of the neurons should change as a result of training . |
| 23 | The new proposals contained a revised list of the territories the Gruagach were prepared to cede to Reflection in exchange for her daughter but Caspar , who had managed to get a look at these , had told Floy that the Gruagach were only ceding some barren bits of wasteland surrounding the Robemaker 's workshops , the Lake of Dhairbhreach — which nobody in their right minds would want — and a mountain or two . |
| 24 | This was a formidable catalogue of sins , but many of the ideas became generally accepted and to some extent underlay Mr Wilson 's thinking in 1963 when he talked of the Conservatives ' period in power since 1951 as ‘ thirteen wasted years ’ and promised that in the first hundred days of dynamic government after a Labour victory at the polls a new atmosphere would pervade Whitehall . |
| 25 | Although there may be considerable idiosyncrasy in the actions the situation is not anarchical . |
| 26 | Apart from the crunching sound of the tyres the Lincoln 's approach had been silent and oddly sinister . |
| 27 | A short distance through the woods the Brigade Major was keeping his head down . |
| 28 | 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 … ‘ . |
| 29 | As we have already seen , they are no protection against wind erosion , which can in any case be overcome by other means , and even if there are stock grazing on the fields a movable fence is more efficient , convenient and requires less maintenance . |
| 30 | But I wished fervently that I had been able to do more , and as I passed my hand along the richly coloured coat over the ribs the vast bandaged finger stood out like a symbol of my helplessness . |