Example sentences of "the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report points out that 70 million people live in the banana-shaped industrial complex which stretches from Britain to Italy . |
| 2 | Of the 180 Irish passengers who boarded at Queenstown , only twenty were saved . |
| 3 | In the first multiparty legislative elections since 1964 the ruling Cameroon People 's Democratic Rally ( RPDC ) on March 1 won 88 of the 180 parliamentary seats — three seats short of an absolute majority . |
| 4 | The introductory narratorial simile provides essential guidance to the reader ; its disappearance reminds us that the peoples ' limited linguistic resources do not permit comparison . |
| 5 | Copies of the introductory General Policy Statement are displayed on notice boards throughout the University . |
| 6 | The film sticks to the same ‘ kid beats dumb robbers ’ formula which made the original Home Alone the third-highest grossing movie of all time and top comedy with takings of over £330 million worldwide . |
| 7 | Are the contents shown on the inside front cover , or on the front page ? |
| 8 | Had we not spent even more money on the BAIE Awards this year by advertising on the inside front cover of the magazine , we would not have received a single name check for 15 awards during the whole evening and in all the attendant publicity . |
| 9 | Ensure that every undertaking is approved by a partner and kept in a prominent place on the file such as the inside front cover . |
| 10 | It takes a slippery road to make the Volvo wag its tail ; over-exuberance with the throttle otherwise does nothing more than make the inside rear wheel spin the power away . |
| 11 | The illustrative programme of additional expenditure from January 1993 , set out in Appendix 1 of The Future of Our Qualification , does include programmes ‘ to enhance firms ' profitability ’ and ‘ to help firms translate audit regulation into a profitable opportunity ’ , but these activities account for only £210,000 of the total additional expenditure of almost £2m . |
| 12 | There the chairs of the various committees would haggle to bring the total additional claims down to some acceptable consequent rate increase and to decide whose budget was to be trimmed most . |
| 13 | For 1990–1 , the Total Standard Spending has been set at 4.9 billion , of which the Standard Spending on education is 2.2 billion ( 45% ) . |
| 14 | The total standard spending of two thousand seven hundred and five million pounds is one hundred and five million pounds above the settlement for the current financial year . |
| 15 | Thus , Bukharin argued , if total unproductive consumption is greater than the total surplus product/value regression is set in motion . |
| 16 | In the first and third obese subjects ( MO1 and MO3 ) , however , the total urinary APGPR concentration slowly increased towards the end of the sampling period , four to six hours after the onset of the meal . |
| 17 | In the obese subjects the total urinary APGPR excretion showed no significant overall increase ( Fig 3B ) although in the second obese subject ( MO2 ) the APGPR excretion in urine was similar to that seen in normal subjects — that is , an early peak within the first two hours after the onset of the meal . |
| 18 | The total annual increment can take anything from 1 to 5 months for completion . |
| 19 | YTS/YT incurred 1 billion expenditure in 1989–90 , 40% of the total annual expenditure of the Training Agency ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Tables 6.3 and 6.5 ) . |
| 20 | However the total annual cost of the project at that time , extrapolating from the months when it was operating at capacity to produce a cost for a 12-month period , would have been £42,000 in Newham and £25,680 in Ipswich ( excluding the cost of the research ) ; see Table 6.6 . |
| 21 | " The total annual cost of alcohol misuse is £l .9 billion , including £748 million cost of sickness absence " . |
| 22 | On this basis our share of the total annual cost will be 30% of £2,995.20 , that is £898.56 per annum . |
| 23 | The total annual operating budget of the Cyclone Preparedness Programme was under US$136,000 . |
| 24 | Of the total annual income this figure should be separated from money which comes through legacies and other sources of income such as the hire of the hall and investments . |
| 25 | The final element in the total annual capital guideline is the amount the local authority is presumed to spend financed out of the money received by past or current sales of property — receipts taken into account ( RTIA ) . |
| 26 | Figures for 1987 , compared with those for 1984 , show that the total annual output has increased by 18,000 tonnes , while manufacture within specification has gone up by 36,000 tonnes . |
| 27 | However , the total annual fee is capped at 1.5 per cent |
| 28 | These latter occasions give rise to highly acidic precipitation episodes ( sometimes producing grey or black snows resulting from the presence of lignite ash ) which are the major contributors to the total annual amount of wet deposition of sulphate in Scandinavia ( Smith and Hunt , 1978 ) and which occasionally even lead to black , acidic snowfalls in Britain . |
| 29 | Since the conditions applied are almost certainly too restrictive ( the project may well have sustained somewhat more than four to five clients per week who would otherwise have been in an institution ) the total annual sum saved is almost certainly nearer £24,000 — £26,000 . |
| 30 | These served the classes that could afford to buy plots or construct a family vault , which might cost as much as the total annual salaries of the domestic staff of a Victorian household . |