Example sentences of "the [adj] and [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer is , the desire to please oneself is always expanded rather than fulfilled , which means it quickly loses appreciation of the normal and seeks the exotic . |
| 2 | In conclusion , I ask is it sensible needlessly to destroy a system which provides the best standard of living for all its citizens on the African continent and replace it with a system which will bring misery in the short-term and has little proof that it will ever attain today 's standard of living in the long term ? |
| 3 | On writing about his perfect country house , Baillie Scott is adamantly opposed to the vulgar and proposes what he considers to be the simple open plan way of life : ‘ Having arrived at the central idea of a hall or living room as the keynote of a home it follows naturally that one must group round this the various other rooms … first the ‘ ladies ’ bower'' , the ‘ ‘ drawing-room' ’ as we now call it . |
| 4 | In a way he sees the eternal and translates into human words the wonder of existence ; for him the individual soul has eternal meaning . |
| 5 | Female sexuality and reproduction were seen particularly as representative of the mortality that separates us from the eternal and binds us to temporal corruptible life . |
| 6 | The visionary places in the ordinary the elements of the eternal and raises it to a higher plane of reality . |
| 7 | It sees no antithesis between the liberal and the technical and contends for the wider acceptance of the truth that the latter will be of no lasting value to the community unless the people of this country are adequately equipped to participate actively in its government and culture . |
| 8 | This sector supplies both the poor and the rich and produces both goods and services . |
| 9 | Taken as a whole , the tax and transfer system takes money from the rich and gives to the poor . |
| 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 | The travel agent admits he 's in the wrong and says he 's trying to ensure that Norman Culliford gets at least some of his money back . |
| 12 | since 1987 , given that even double-glazing salesmen appear to have gone quiet in this recession and given that energy-efficiency investment not only helps the environment but protects the vulnerable and the old and creates hundreds of thousands of jobs , will the Government consider extending the exemption from stamp duty for all energy-efficient homes beyond August and perhaps indefinitely ? |
| 13 | Mr Harper , 63 , of Ronaldshay Drive , Richmond , is a friend to the old and has become their voice . |
| 14 | He comes up to me , nods to the burly and unlocks the cuffs . |
| 15 | The first person goes round the outside and pats on the head those sitting saying ‘ duck ’ each time . |
| 16 | There is another approach which considered intentional social behaviour with regard to the outside and makes the minimum assumption that people differentiate the local environment ( in terms of group , zone , sphere or arena ) from that which is outside . |
| 17 | We 're waiting for the lost and founds . |
| 18 | From the ergonomic and looks point of view , at any rate , the EPL 4300 is , to me , a good looking and easily manageable piece of equipment . |
| 19 | ‘ That I 'm able to offer specially designed , hand-painted tiling lifts my kitchens out of the ordinary and helps me to market them . |
| 20 | This sets him apart from the ordinary and gives him a reason for living . |
| 21 | During the process of ‘ translation ’ , the signifier inevitably intercepts the signified and draws each word into a network of other concepts . |
| 22 | At a roadside cottage at the end of the village ( a former toll bar ) , a narrow lane turns off the main road to the left and continues beyond a crossroads and the old railway track to start a long climb on the side of Casterton Fell and ultimately come to an end at Bullpot Farm . |
| 23 | After a further mile towards Chapel-le-Dale , a track turns off the road to the left and goes down to the beck in the valley bottom , arriving at a section roofed by a natural arch of considerable length . |
| 24 | The end-point of the walkable , or sometimes scramble-able section of the Gorges is at a waterfall , where the water shoots out from a hole in the rock on the left and falls sixty or seventy feet into the stream . |
| 25 | The road for the tunnel here bears off to the left and rises up along the glorious valley of Aragnouet , half pasture , half pine woods , past a road leading off to another new ski station , at Piau-Engaly . |
| 26 | Position markers of mother-of-pearl are inlaid offset in the rosewood , and their diminutive size once again departs from the traditional and scurries off in the direction of the new , though there 's garish or clumsy about them . |
| 27 | The main obstacle lies in the existing neo-liberal economic model which favours the powerful and encourages monopolies to rule in communications and other fields . |
| 28 | Section four four onwards talks about erm the affecting the environmental and makes a point that will be we as officers have been with people on this and that is quite unusual er at this stage of the process . |
| 29 | As the Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano wrote : ‘ Incapable of combating poverty , the dominant culture combats the poor and blesses the violence of power . ’ |
| 30 | As the Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano wrote : ‘ Incapable of combating poverty , the dominant culture combats the poor and blesses the violence of power . ’ |