Example sentences of "the [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plasma pepsinogen levels are above the normal of 1.0 i.u. tyrosine and usually exceed 2.0 i.u. in sheep with heavy infections . |
| 2 | These cases included the waChagga on Kilimanjaro , the Ibo in eastern Nigeria , the Bamilike of western Cameroun , as well as smaller groups such as the waKara who inhabit an island on Lake Victoria and the waTengo in hill country in south-west Tanzania . |
| 3 | Since relatively few people express a preference for changing tenure from the owner-occupied to local authority sectors , when this happens there are often important employment and demographic aspects at work . |
| 4 | Two factors are mainly responsible for movement from the owner-occupied to local authority sectors — unemployment and marital breakdown . |
| 5 | Free men on the frontiers of industry , shocking the respectable of all classes , the heroes of an unofficial folklore of masculinity , they played the same sort of role as sailors and frontier miners and prospectors , though earning more than the ones , and lacking the others ' hope of making their fortune . |
| 6 | Only if productivity increases is it possible in the long-run for both groups to be successful . |
| 7 | The ‘ real ’ is a sub-set of the possible for all language users . |
| 8 | But th to go back to the the polishing , it really was it was you know , really hard work and But there was a great band of I mean the the used to Different firms that would h have a lot of work on one place and then they would move and then some would go to the shipyards . |
| 9 | Taste is then seen principally as the cause of ‘ classism ’ , which can be defined as the kind of distaste the middle and upper classes feel for the vulgar in fun fairs , cheap commodities , artificial copies , or lack of style , and the contempt working people feel for the pretentious , cold and degenerate middle and upper classes . |
| 10 | Burying her face in Luke 's chest to hide her blushes , Perdita asked him if he knew the Spanish for Super Tampax , and if they could stop for some on the way . |
| 11 | It did n't sell , and Shabba retreated to the dancehalls to work the mic for various sound systems . |
| 12 | Emotions are the eternal in human relationship ; although other things have changed , the emotions of the Greeks as written by Homer and Plutarch are perfectly understandable by us even today . |
| 13 | Reference has already been made , in the context of service of process , to the early work of the Hague Conference in the filed of civil procedure . |
| 14 | Since the entire political strategy of his Democratic Leadership Council has been to persuade white folks that the Democratic Party no longer cares for ‘ minorities ’ and will target no particular money in their direction , Clinton has been predictably low on concrete ideas , coming down from the hills after the battle to suffocate the wounded with great cushions of blather about how ‘ we ’ have ‘ refused to confront our differences ’ and ‘ for this neglect we have all paid ’ . |
| 15 | The wounded in these hospitals lived in terror of the periodical decoration parades ; because it had become a recognised custom to reward a man about to die with the Croix de Guerre . |
| 16 | Perhaps Althusser was unwilling to acknowledge this outright , because to do so would be to run the risk of departing from the fundamental Marxist doctrine asserting the primacy of the economic in social explanation . |
| 17 | But the displacement of large numbers of people from the rural to urban areas has put great pressure on the previously more privileged urban education sector . |
| 18 | Right through the postwar decades there has been a steady flow of labour from the rural to urban areas , from agricultural to non-agricultural occupations . |
| 19 | As a former Social Security Minister , my right hon. Friend will be aware of the importance attached by the retired to occupational pensions and to the great and successful expansion of those over the past 12 years . |
| 20 | Presuming guilt is not a selective means of convicting the guilty with more certainty . |
| 21 | His devotion bordered on the obsessive in some moods , as though he saw in her a woman she did n't even know herself , an ancient soul-mate . |
| 22 | The expectation that God would reward the righteous in this world ran parallel to the less attractive expectation that He would punish the unrighteous . |
| 23 | Well firstly the bill did n't have that rough a passage in the House of Lords , because there are only two basic amendments , er that we 're dealing with in the House of Commons that matter , and one of them is the one you 've just mentioned , the answer to it is this , er I 've had a lot of criticisms of giving B R the untrammelled right to bid , er right from the outset their criticisms to do with the danger that you would n't get competition for the franchises the private sector would be afraid , and incidentally this is not a sell off it 's it 's a way of getting the private sector into British Rail with all the advantages that brings , they would be afraid that they would face subsidized and unfair competition , above all , perhaps , British Rail ge=management would feel if they were bidding against their employer that would be a real discouragement to bid , and we 've a lot of evidence er that they feel that and that there are many who do wish to bid in management/employee buy outs , so what we 've done in the amendment is we 've preserved the right for British Rail to bid , but we 've dealt with those criticisms and worries which have come from a lot of quarters not least from within British Rail itself . |
| 24 | The deaf of all countries face similar educational experiences and suppression of their sign language . |
| 25 | We may be pardoned for reproducing a part of the opinion of The American Annals of the Deaf of this quarter on the subject : " The retention of the word " Dumb " — which in America has been dropped from the titles of the Convention of Instructors , The National Association , and several State Associations of the Deaf , and many schools , as well as from the United States Census — is probably due to a vote to that effect by the conference held in London last January ; but as our British friends who constitute the Association seem to favour American precedents , we trust that on further consideration they will follow our example in this respect alone , and omit the objectionable word from their title " . |
| 26 | " We have a constant succession of inexperienced teachers in the junior department , " he declared , and attributed the bad standard of education of the deaf to this factor and the prevailing negative attitude to signing , which he believed to be " a good servant , but a bad master . " |
| 27 | However , popular legend has it that Andrew Patterson , then Headmaster at the Manchester Schools for the Deaf at Old Trafford , was perturbed to counter on several occasions a group of ex-pupils gathered around a certain gas-lamp in the city — the gas-lamp being a popular meeting place of local deaf people ( this was the subject of a Victorian drama as well . ) |
| 28 | Also opened , in 1905 , was the Sir James E. Jones Industrial Training School attached to the Royal Residential Schools for the Deaf at Old Trafford which sought to teach school-leavers the bootmaking , tailoring , carpentry and bakery trades . |
| 29 | The interests of the deaf in various towns should be watched by the local agents , and grievances if fully substantiated be published in the organ of the Association . |
| 30 | I have come across deaf mutes educated by all systems , and as I have met and conversed with the deaf in various parts of Great Britain and Ireland , France , and the United States , I have not the least hesitation in saying that the combined method as advocated by Dr. E. M. Gallaudet before the recent Royal Commission certainly confers the greatest benefit upon the greatest number . |