Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Few questions ask the rich to struggle through the problems of the poor . |
| 32 | The rich fumed about the council tax , the poor about Norman Lamont 's decision to raise VAT on fuel . |
| 33 | The ego reaches down to it in its ‘ lower ’ portions , and the repressed merges with the id . |
| 34 | The donation was similar to unemployment benefit and from November 1918 was available for periods up to a maximum of thirteen weeks to all the unemployed covered by the 1911 insurance scheme , to ex-servicemen , civilians , insured and non-insured alike . |
| 35 | The proportion of the unemployed identified by the survey who were not registered in the period 1978–81 is shown in Table 3.4 . |
| 36 | I 'd opened all the windows in the flat , drenching the atmosphere in car fumes and the uproar of the unemployed arguing in the street . |
| 37 | Remember to keep these screws well back , to be hidden by the frame , because although the Faithful kneeling at the altar are meant to have their minds on other things , this is professional woodwork and we do n't want them peering up the legs of our fixings . |
| 38 | In Carthage an inveterate schism ( Donatism ) originated when a devout and wealthy lady who treasured the relic of a martyr was rebuked for lavishing kisses on it at the commemoration of the faithful departed at the eucharist ; ‘ she went off in a huff |
| 39 | The Iraqi leaned to the left and I peered through the crack in the sandbags at the Fattal building , a yellow-painted office block whose window frames had been chewed down to an inch or two by thousands of bullets ; the Christian Phalangist front line . |
| 40 | One reason why some of the most energetic of antislavery activists in the 1830s resorted to the mass public meeting , the public lecture , the organisation of vast petitions and the delegate convention was that they lacked the easy personal access to ministers and administrators which an earlier generation of antislavery leaders possessed . |
| 41 | To meet the immediate problems , the vital priorities were the proper progressing of the manufacture of designs for nearly 6000MW of plant planned or under construction by the former undertakings , and the acceleration of work in progress on sites . |
| 42 | Walsingham wrote that the English broke off the siege of Quimperlê and returned home sadly and slowly , and rumours of treachery and corruption soon began to circulate . |
| 43 | This sort of pressure , combined with fear of the Spaniards , made it easier for the English to work with the French who were settling in the same region of islands than earlier or later generations would have thought possible . |
| 44 | Within the total for universities , seven were providing no Chapter III courses and of the five which did , most of the twenty-one listed in the table were arranged by Birmingham where this type of course had been offered in the industrial areas prior to the introduction of the 1932 Adult Education Regulations and which had continued under an established precedent . |
| 45 | But the aim is to discover not merely whether there is more radioactivity in the brains of the trained compared with the control chicks , but just where in the brain it is located . |
| 46 | One region , with the dog-latin anatomical name Intermediate Medial Hyperstriatum Ventrale ( henceforward , IMHV ) , and another , the Lobus Parolfactorius ( henceforth LPO ) , ‘ lit up ’ in the trained compared with the control animals ( Fig 10.2 ) . |
| 47 | CHESTER-based Paul Affleck and South African Ian Palmer both joined Ian Woosnam on the 67 mark in the first round of the Honda Open in Hamburg yesterday . |
| 48 | The 422S comes in the familiar CIC Sigma slim tower . |
| 49 | ‘ The contractors had done a lot of the work , but we had to go over some of it again , including painting the wooden treads on the stairs just to make sure it was right , ’ he explained . |
| 50 | He found him , stout and pink , in a brown suit , knee-breeches , and blue-grey stockings , sitting in the farm kitchen on the wooden settle by the fire , smoking a long clay pipe . |
| 51 | Probably the same as the British felt towards the Germans . |
| 52 | It followed , too , from the assumptions that the British made about the Masai 's conservatism , it appearing self-evident to them that because the Masai were so conspicuously uninterested in Western civilization they were in all respects content with the status quo ; so closely were Westernization and agitation linked in the administrative mind . |
| 53 | But , the heavens opened as it seems they only can when the British take to the outdoors in mid-summer . |
| 54 | The February and October revolutions seem to have had the same effect on the Russian colonists as the expulsion of the British had on the American colonists in the eighteenth century — a removal of all restraint on the ambitions to despoil native lands and assets . |
| 55 | The British realized during the war years that they could never reap the benefits of the expected postwar boom in international civil aviation without a coherent national programme that would enable Britain to compete on equal terms with the United States . |
| 56 | Its mood of self-confident chauvinism galvanized the nation , however little the British knew of the culture , economy , history , or even postage stamps of the distant Falklands and its population of just 1,200 sheep-farmers and their dependants . |
| 57 | Following the failure of militarisation and a sequence of abortive attempts at political reform , the British reverted in the mid-1970s to a policy based the ‘ primacy of the police ’ . |
| 58 | The Non-Proliferation Treaty , however , was the last occasion when the British sat at the top table to discuss nuclear questions with the superpowers . |
| 59 | The New Zealand government looks after the Cook Islands , Niue and Tokelau ; the Americans have Samoa , and the British look after the four islands of the Pitcairn group , selling stamps for the islanders to help them keep up their revenues . |
| 60 | Most of the 800 named by the commission were wanted by Yugoslavia , and the FO secretly acknowledged that it had an excellent case . |