Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb -s] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This picture offers us a useful parallel with the Handel portrait dating from about 1728 and has the same kind of confidential candour . |
| 2 | The more sophisticated falsificationist realizes the inadequacy of this and recognizes the importance of the role played by confirmation of speculative theories as well as the falsification of well-established ones . |
| 3 | He also seems to go further than this and sets the pattern for future elite theorists in distinguishing between maximum utility for a community and maximum utility of a community . |
| 4 | At each Hour a verse from the hymn is followed by a prayer which acknowledges this and sees the Incarnation as the means by which all men , both living and dead , can be united : The office thus daily rehearsed the historical story of the Passion of Christ and its significance in such a way that it is constantly renewed in human awareness through both the linear and cyclical experience of the passing of time . |
| 5 | The contractor responds to this and obtains the ‘ Conditions of Tender ’ , a written specification of the form in which the tender must be submitted and any special undertakings required from the contractor before he is regarded as qualified to tender . |
| 6 | A more recent image is diametrically opposed to this and emphasizes the affluence of later life . |
| 7 | This has been locked with seven locks since 1867 and contains the coronation jewels from the 14C . |
| 8 | The nationalist knee-jerk is easier and orders the world into the good and the bad . |
| 9 | The first of the six sections is mainly historical and traces the development of astronomy from megalithic observatories through to the latest electronic observational techniques . |
| 10 | It therefore represents the path of the sun around the ecliptic and indicates the connection between Mithra and the Iranian god of time , Zurvan . |
| 11 | She agrees with everything I say , she 's never horrible to me , but when you 're around she 's really horrible to me and like , even though she 's agreed with something I 've said earlier , she just sort of goes yeah right Cassie ha ha ha it 's really funny and takes the piss out of it and you sort of go along with her and I just sort of have to stand there while you two stand there laughing at me and I do n't like it . |
| 12 | Or was the Leader of the Opposition wrong and does the hon. Gentleman agree with that ? |
| 13 | The tomb is around 2,000 years old and bears the inscribed name ‘ Yusuf Bar Kaifas ’ . |
| 14 | The expression for the reduced osmotic pressure has already been derived in section 8.7 and has the form where the limiting form , valid only at infinite dilution , is |
| 15 | This change-over was completed in April 1988 and all McDonald 's foam packaging produced in the UK is now CFC free and carries the CFC FREE message , reassuring customers of this change . |
| 16 | The statute based side of the law is equally tangled and displays the sort of confusion that is the inevitable consequence of shifts in policy and the national failure to decide upon , and adhere to , an agreed housing repairs , maintenance and rehabilitation policy … |
| 17 | ‘ It 's very exciting and gets the adrenalin going , ’ says David Phillip , whose firm usually undertakes auctions in the Otley area . |
| 18 | Presentation findings is made more exciting and has the added bonus of a " perfect " final copy which becomes a resource for others to use . |
| 19 | Whilst the experiment was limited to trainee engineers and by the type of microcomputer used , the results of this investigation indicated that : 1 ) the mode of man-machine interaction which was most popular and has the fewest dissenters , was one in which the user directed the course of action , as in the modular program ; 2 ) a fast design time was most likely to be achieved by the use of an optimization technique ; 3 ) an optimum design was most likely to be achieved by a preprogrammed optimization technique , but only where the problem , design parameters and constraints were understood ; 4 ) the technique thought most likely to allow some gaining of insight was one in which the user has control of the program , as in the modular program . |
| 20 | Now graded VS , the final pitch is notoriously slipper when wet and suffers the further hazard of nesting seagulls . |
| 21 | The caveman 's body may release all waste products , this immediately makes the body feel lighter and assists the caveman to run more quickly . |
| 22 | The other system is known as record-playback and involves the skilled craft operator going through the physical motions of machining the first piece of the batch with the machine in record mode . |
| 23 | The study is longitudinal and takes the reader through the process of moving in , living as a group , getting support , and looking to the future . |
| 24 | ( The first note is usually the longest and marks the beginning . ) |
| 25 | The path is waymarked and joins the road to Cockfield around Hollymoor Farm . |
| 26 | Planning is detailed and involves the number of workers , working capital and raw materials that each firm can have . |
| 27 | The tool 's temperature controller is self-regulating and keeps the heating element at a steady 130°C . |
| 28 | A retaining wall of loose bricks or stones separate the bog garden from the pool proper and retains the peaty mixture which is placed over a layer of gravel . |
| 29 | Covenant politics has come to the forefront again with the Hillsborough agreement of 1985 and shows the extent to which the populist politics of the Democratic Unionists is rooted in protestant — loyalist tradition . |
| 30 | When each main idea has been sufficiently tested and sufficient knowledge has been gained , the chief executive goes public and announces the decision secure in the knowledge that there will be support for it , because the decision merely ‘ crystallizes ’ the views already put to him , whether he subtly induced them or not . |