Example sentences of "the [noun] [coord] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this was too soon in my own development for me to be able to grasp the opportunity and eventually the shop closed down and Mr Farrer moved on . |
| 2 | It is the human being who will be faced with the opportunity and perhaps the temptation to be violent , and who will make the decision as to which path to follow . |
| 3 | Mark usually achieved this by thinking out an arresting beginning , nearly always of the same type , asking his congregation to imagine themselves standing gazing at the Pyramids or the Acropolis or even the New York skyline , hardly realising , until Sophia pointed it out to him , that these sights would be unfamiliar to the majority of his hearers . |
| 4 | It is now possible to study not only the direction but also the rate of shell evolution at an interspecies level over the entire history of the Earth ! |
| 5 | She urges the excellence and dignity of courage , a glittering idea which has dazzled mankind from age to age and animated sometimes the housebreaker and sometimes the conqueror . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Persons in my position customarily wed , not according to their own choosing — but in accordance with the wishes or indeed the ambitions of their elders . |
| 7 | I am entering the RAF and then the Navy because I believe I can contribute something to this country by so doing . |
| 8 | They dispose of ‘ all the nice furniture that used to be in the saloon and then the candelabra ’ . |
| 9 | Shiloh was some twenty miles from the camp , but the storyteller does not dwell on the sight of the Israelites ( and the Philistines , too ! ) twiddling their thumbs while the runner and then the ark are on their way . |
| 10 | The cheesemaker has the best control over his cheese if he is able to use the milk from his own flock or herd — he then knows exactly what he is getting and where the animals have been grazed as the type of grass and subsoil contributes much to the flavour of the milk and then the cheese . |
| 11 | Another used sweet saffron leaves , baked to dry and fed in the same way : ‘ Only you had to be some careful not to give the horse too much of the powder or else the sweat would bring it out and you could smell the herb on his coat . ’ |
| 12 | It is half past three of the afternoon and already the houses across the burn are fading into a sodden gloom . |
| 13 | I suspect that there 'll there 'd been a certain amount of alienation for a long time things that the men had to accept because the people with the money and therefore the power said that they had to you know a I think quarry men are very proud on one level great sort of craftsmen in a way and erm I 'm sure that you know th the last couple of years well I 've heard them say really tha that there 'd been things niggling them with the management but I suppose this was just like a blatant smack in the face and they realize that if they accepted this if they let the management walk all over them this was the thin end of the wedge you know that . |
| 14 | Leading dissidents in the ruling United National Party , however , organized public rallies to attack the executive presidency for running a " police state " , marginalizing the parliament and even the Cabinet , and ruling through presidential advisers with no public accountability . |
| 15 | While in Mexico , Penn had found himself wielding not just the paintbrush but also the camera , and Liberman , fascinated by the results , nurtured Penn 's developing interest and gave him his first commission — a still-life cover for Vogue , October 1943 . |
| 16 | At the same time we explained the role of one EC institution , the European Monetary Cooperation Fund , in administering the snake and then the EMS arrangements . |
| 17 | In any event , knowledge within the firm of the identity of the intermediary 's client may not identify him if the salesman or perhaps the dealer concerned did not know either that the intermediary was acting as intermediary or the identity of the client ; this is a Chinese wall-type question . |
| 18 | So what happens of course in an institution like that is the the leaders define the doctrine congregation for the doctrine of the faith , lays down the doctrine of the faith and then the believers are then obliged to believe it . |
| 19 | It had taken them ages to get back from the Lock and now the evening was drawing in . |
| 20 | In such cases unemployment is known to be impending at the outset of the contract and therefore the exclusion ‘ unemployment known to be impending at the commencement of insurance ’ will apply with a resultant repudiation of the claim . |
| 21 | He says Mr Kirk is just trying to influence the election and even the school headmaster wants nothing to do with it . |
| 22 | It must be stressed that the courts are not challenging the merits of the decision but rather the power of the body in question to reach that particular decision . |
| 23 | The next house ( 7/174 ) was owned by the Černín and later the Sterreggov family . |
| 24 | Fine town houses of the eighteenth century , some of them now embassies , give way slowly to the more compact residences of the nineteenth , then to the woods and then the seaside suburb of Scheveningen . |
| 25 | By failing to take this holistic stance and by the adoption of a narrow perspective ( the curriculum ) within a managerial approach dedicated to control , standardisation and output evaluation , the ‘ Great Debate ’ has not arrived at the promised land but has been confined to endless wanderings in the wilderness of the present or indeed the past . |
| 26 | At the end of the debate on the document , the Institute 's Council did not endorse the proposals but only the publication of the report for consultation purposes . |
| 27 | First we tension the foot and then the luff until we get a properly shaped aerofoil . |
| 28 | That used to be the kitchen and then the wall , you know where that stove was |
| 29 | at the er the ministry but maybe the ministry er will be . |
| 30 | On the plus side the harness and especially the hip belt is extremely comfortable , its extra wide shape wrapping round the hips with more than a hint of luxury . |