Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But possibly because of his broad experience of both the public and private sectors , Cuckney rode out the storm calmly . |
| 2 | The negotiations continued into 1991 [ see pp. 37658 ; 37716 ; 37861 ; 37919 ; 38195 ] , but the situation was abruptly altered when Mount Pinatubo began erupting in June , causing extensive damage to both the Clark and Subic bases [ see p. 38294 ] . |
| 3 | We feel it 's important to establish a strong Celtic festival , and Glasgow has a strong attachment to both the Irish and the Scottish Celtic traditions . |
| 4 | Manor court rolls and deeds show that families possessed small parcels of land on a variety of copyhold , leasehold and freehold tenures and that income from even the smallest holdings was often set aside to provide for dependants . |
| 5 | There was little noise from outside the windows and we appeared cut off from the city and from civilian life in general ; I lay in bed and pulled the sheets up over my nose . |
| 6 | We contested the decision vigorously , encouraged by strong support from outside the institution , but it did bring a significant and positive stage to an abrupt conclusion , leaving us to reflect on what we had learned , and were still learning , that might be relevant to widely shared concerns . |
| 7 | Rhodes considered that there had been an improved performance in services which were the sole responsibility of either the GLC or the boroughs : but of those services which were shared ‘ only the group of transportation functions seems to show any marked advantages ; over both housing and planning there hang certain question marks ’ ( Rhodes 1972:468 ) . |
| 8 | Although the royalists later alleged that the rebels had that morning received ‘ a double portion of oatmeal and whisky for incouragement ’ and that a ‘ graite many … that we took prisoners were drunk ’ , these must have been a fortunate minority , but everyone agrees that the prospect of action had had a reviving effect on even the hungriest and weariest . |
| 9 | In the dead of night Elaine , 28 , drove the sparkling H-reg car from outside the home of her husband 's lover , through a pedestrian precinct and into the town hall 's glass-fronted main entrance . |
| 10 | Increased expenditure on education was sound economic investment for both the individual and the country . |
| 11 | For instance if you want to turn an object on a lathe erm and you go from one end of a shaft to the other , no matter , supposing you do it ten times , erm the machine will take that cut in exactly the same time . |
| 12 | Insider dealing is an economic crime in much the same way as theft is a crime of property . |
| 13 | ‘ Sometimes , old boy — and I speak as one who has changed a good many nappies in his time and is not a total stranger to either the washing-up bowl or the kitchen stove — sometimes I wish we were still living in the good old bad old days . ’ |
| 14 | This case provides the clearest indication of how the popular press may trade in deciding the appropriate nickname for a new case when the Star decided to focus special attention on this rape of a 6-year-old ‘ He 's been called The Beast , The Monster , the evil sex maniac … . |
| 15 | This then produces a reasonable working drawing in both the front and side views . |
| 16 | By the end of the 1950s that argument was becoming less effective as time blurred the collective memory of the Republic and an increasingly large sector of the population had no direct experience of either the Republic or the Civil War . |
| 17 | This chapter has provided a detailed description on how the ECM operates and the reasons for its existence and growth . |
| 18 | Next day , La Clava carried the bloodthirsty story of how the king of one of the United Arab Emirates had murdered his brother for love of a gorgeous American woman named Maria Nuria Nussberg . |
| 19 | Unemployment was abolished , class struggle overcome , and the living standards and cultural level of even the most backward of the country 's peoples transformed out of all recognition . |
| 20 | Deviation from such norms and mores will not only result in a social storm around both the adult and child concerned but may interfere with the child 's normal development according to normal modes of life and upbringing — in other words may affect libidinal development as this must be expected in our culture . |
| 21 | In this case by far the most important ground of appeal was the contention that written statements made by Zaidie and Matadial to the police and not disclosed before or during the trial had been wrongly withheld from the defendant and his advisers . |
| 22 | Although there is no necessary logical inconsistency between generality and complexity , in the British case at least the results of macroeconomic policies have not been impressive . |
| 23 | In practice , however , the new republic 's distinguishing feature , in marked contrast to either the Third or the Fourth Republic , was the enormous power of the president . |
| 24 | He began by indicating that Catholics , in general , had some experience of how the O.T . |
| 25 | Each of these chapters contained at least some description of how the concepts and techniques they described could be put to practical use to build up market knowledge . |
| 26 | There is another formulation of essentially the same proposal : semantics should be concerned with meaning out of context , or non-context-dependent meaning , and pragmatics with meaning in context . |
| 27 | In the case of the News International ban it offered clear guidance on how the professional should react . |
| 28 | Assignments should be devised to test both individual abilities and abilities to work as a member of a group ; in the latter case , when group assignments are submitted for moderation as part of the course assessment , moderators will require clear indication of how the contribution of individual students will be identified in the marking of the work . |
| 29 | 1980 No. 1894 ) , has raised the question whether the long-established practice of both the Court of Appeal and this House in relation to the costs of appellate proceedings to make , in an appropriate case , a suspended order under section 18 ( or its predecessors ) to take effect after a lapse of time in the absence of objection by the Legal Aid Board ( or formerly the Law Society ) is one which runs counter to the strict requirements of those Regulations . |
| 30 | After lunch they were given a detailed demonstration of how the Direct Banking system works and were so impressed that both accepted an invitation to join the service . |