Example sentences of "[noun] in [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nineteenth century in general , and the decorative arts in particular across the board . |
| 2 | The questions which our proposal can usefully address are : ( i ) Will it lead to any discriminating predictions about observable data which differ from what would be expected under the assumption that postnominals are simply normal attributive adjectives ? ( ii ) How might our claim relate to the characteristics of postnominal attributives discussed in Sections 3.5 to 3.7 ? ( iii ) Can it cast any light in particular on the fact that only a subset of adjectives can occur as postnominal attributives ? |
| 3 | To cleanse us from sin , what type of sins in particular in the , would he be cleansing as at ? |
| 4 | For centuries the continual struggle of ordinary country folk to harvest an income to keep them and their families above starvation level meant that they were always prepared to swallow their pride and go , cap in hand , to the gentry for a few vital coppers The same philosophy spawned the hiring fairs ( which continued until the second half of the century ) when the ‘ spare ’ children of rural ( and sometimes urban ) families , not required for work at home , were sent to stand at appointed places where prospective employers could examine and interrogate them checking their limbs for strength and making sure they were properly subservient There was n't a deal of difference , fundamentally , between hiring fairs ( as immortalized by Thomas Hardy in Far From the Madding Crowd and the weekly cattle auctions held in market towns . |
| 5 | In response to an outline of the CNAA 's difficulties the DES officers expressed the view that the difficulty lay with the Committee for Education , ‘ which appeared to take a divergent and insufficiently flexible view ’ on the question of devising course units in common between the BEd and other courses . |
| 6 | Stratimirović tried to prevent Vuk from publishing his grammar by invoking an order of Leopold II giving a monopoly to the publishing of books in Serbian to the Serbian press in Buda , which , unlike that in Vienna , was under the influence of the Church . |
| 7 | Mothers shaved the heads of their daughters and then made them undress to take cold baths in public on the Hill of Calvary . |
| 8 | Although there is little of essence in common between the two approaches , it is perhaps not hard to see how on occasion unlikely alliances between radical feminist anti-pornography campaigners and moral entrepreneurs such as Mrs Whitehouse might have been countenanced . |
| 9 | At that time , thanks in particular to the work of Morgan and his colleagues on Drosophila , we had an abstract model of how genes are arranged on chromosomes , and of how they are transmitted from generation to generation , but we did not understand the chemistry of genes , or their replication , or their role in protein synthesis . |
| 10 | His main competitors were two merchant bankers , Isidore and Maurice Ostrer , who had acquired a stake in Gaumont-British in the 1920s . |
| 11 | Yet if one accepts that a number of very accomplished poets remained firmly off the routes of mainstream development , it must be accepted that the history of women 's poetry , and of poetry in general through the eighteenth century , has been interpreted in a simplistic manner . |
| 12 | ( 2 ) If on an application under this section the applicant lodges with the board , instead of the plan mentioned in paragraph ( b ) of subsection ( 1 ) above , a plan sufficient to identify the site of the premises , together with such description of the premises as will give a general indication of their proposed size and character ( with reference in particular to the sale of alcoholic liquor ) , then ( a ) the licensing board shall deal with the application as if made under subsection 1 ) above ; but ( b ) any provisional grant of a licence made on an application under this subsection shall become ineffective unless affirmed by the licensing board on application made to the board to that effect within 12 months of the provisional grant of the licence , any such application being accompanied by a plan of the premises . |
| 13 | The lady in blue with the candles in front of her . |
| 14 | Thomas Hardy 's story of the death of poor little Fanny Robin and her new-born child in Far From the Madding Crowd is etched on the memory of all who have read it . |
| 15 | It is of enormous importance to Bourdieu , as evidenced in the considerable work involved in Homo Academicus , his recent articles on the Grandes Ecoles , and his work in general on the school system and the intellectual field . |
| 16 | So we spend a season trying to adjust — a tough job in particular for the senior players who have spent up to 20 years operating a certain way — and then find it may all change again weeks before the British Lions fly down to New Zealand . |
| 17 | In consultation there was considerable opposition to this from the developer builders as indicated in the Report of Panel on Examination in Public of the Tyne and Wear Structure Plan : |
| 18 | A further refinement is that the Secretary of State ( through a panel of inspectors ) conducts an examination in public into the proposals , rather than adjudicates on objections in an appeal system . |
| 19 | The Musselburgh Bypass and East Approach to Leith were selected for specific debate at The Examination in Public into the Region 's Structure Plan . |
| 20 | As during the examination in public into the first alteration , this E I P will demonstrate again the wide measure of agreement between county and district councils . |
| 21 | On top of that is the lead in Married To The Mob . |
| 22 | During the last 20 years well over 30 public inquiries have put the practice and decision making of social workers in particular under the microscope ( DHSS , 1982 ; Hallett , 1989 ) . |
| 23 | This does not necessarily disprove the contention that TNCs exploit women workers in particular in the Third World , though it does modify the thesis to the extent that in some developing countries TNCs do provide some good jobs for women that help them to fulfil relatively freely chosen cultural needs . |
| 24 | During the same night some dozens of activists — presumed to be Shining Path members — wounded 15 policemen in attacks with automatic weapons on police stations in various of the city 's poorer zones . |
| 25 | Easy-virtue Oscars went to Jo van Fleet in East of Eden ( 1955 ) , Dorothy Malone in Written on the Wind ( 1956 ) , Donna Reed in From Here to Eternity ( 1953 ) , Shirley Jones in Elmer Gantry ( 1960 ) , Liz Taylor in Butterfield 8 ( 1960 ) and Jane Fonda in Klute ( 1971 ) . |
| 26 | The perceived lack of a positive response from the United Kingdom and United States governments in particular to the release of hostages in April 1990 led to a statement by President Rafsanjani of Iran on May in which he said that Iran would halt all efforts to gain hostage releases if the USA failed to respond to its " goodwill gestures " . |
| 27 | MAS policy is to recover costs in full in the case of an unreasonable withdrawal ; in the event of failure to sell a small discount below our time costs may be appropriate , particularly if MAS is likely to be reappointed at a later date to have another attempt at the sale . |
| 28 | In the longer term we aim to reimburse individuals in full for the additional costs of their disability . |
| 29 | We 'll do er we 'll do the traffic and trains and planes in full after the er main news in ten minutes time we 'll check the whole lot then . |
| 30 | He tells me of the only time he has seen his mother drink ; her infant grandchild vomited on her coat , and she spouted a fine , volatile performance , screaming Christ Almighty the cross a woman has to bear , taking the Lord 's name in vain for the very first time . |