Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frederick Herzberg ( 1968 ) put forward the two-factor approach to motivation after an extensive study of job attitudes among engineers and accountants . |
| 2 | In Chapter 8 — on motivation — we shall examine research on the civil service which draws heavily upon the two-factor analysis developed by Herzberg . |
| 3 | And as to the over-imaginative way in which papers have so often treated her , she added simply : ‘ Because I 'm only young , and have lived such a short and normal life , they run out of things to say about me . ’ |
| 4 | Just as you thought the coupe for the masses had receded into a misty-eyed memory of metallic-blue Ford Capris and diamond-white Opel Mantas , along comes the Calibra ; a practical yet sleek four-seater to set the high-mileage rep 's heart alike . |
| 5 | And Maastricht promises to make the Europe-machine turn still faster because it pre-emptively convokes the next set of constitutional talks for 1996 . |
| 6 | The cat began to stalk her through the blade-broad iris leaves with such solemnity that she laughed and paused even longer , to play with him , and was cheered . |
| 7 | It was lads from Garforth who stole the 1829 pole , but a group from Aberford managed to make off with the top half in 1907 . |
| 8 | According to the obstetrician , Isaac Barker Brown , female insanity went through eight stages , beginning with hysteria , and was largely due to ‘ failure of nervous power … produced by peripheral irritation arising in the branches of the pudic nerve , more particularly the incident nerve supplying the clitoris ’ . |
| 9 | Despite his efforts to tear into his food with Latin gusto , or the slicked-down hair above the urban American face , he simply ca n't appear to be a native of a provincial Italian town . ‘ |
| 10 | The 180 foot tower is ascended by climbing a narrow spiral staircase , which becomes narrower and narrower as one reaches the top . |
| 11 | Working on board can build up a hearty appetite and catering for the 180 crew on board Balder has been managed by P&O Catering . |
| 12 | No walker who visits Pembrokeshire can fail to be tempted by part of the 180 mile coastal path . |
| 13 | Outage Controller Bob Makin controls day-to-day site work , while Russell Walker , from Strachan & henshaw , manages the 180 contract workers . |
| 14 | Progress upwind can only be made by completing a series of zig-zags , the turns at first being executed by the 180 degree turn method and later , with more experience , by tacking — steering the board through the turn . |
| 15 | The 180 degree rule also applies to ‘ eyelines ’ when camera angles are being chosen from which to shoot scenes where people are shown in conversation . |
| 16 | Joining the 180 club last week were T Crane ( Dunsilly Inn ) and T Shanks ( Ulster Bar ) who also finished on 152 . |
| 17 | The 180 page full colour catalogue is now available £6.95 . |
| 18 | The 180 page full colour catalogue is now available £6.95 . |
| 19 | A similar processing difficulty is caused by relative and comparative clauses in which the introductory word ( who , which , than , etc ) has an embedded syntactic function ; for example in ( 8 ) : " some things about her son [ which it was better that a boy of eleven should n't catch ] " . |
| 20 | The part of the programme which had received highest priority was the introductory course in information retrieval for the engineering undergraduates . |
| 21 | It has been decided that the introductory day on future courses should include a substantial session on confidentiality . |
| 22 | In climatology the system has been adopted as providing a suitable framework and appears as the introductory foundation for Causes of Climate ( Lockwood , 1979a ) , where it is argued that the application of systems theory and mathematics has completely changed the subject of climatology . |
| 23 | After some confusion over the numbering scheme , US sources say HP is preparing to debut a low-end with a box that will best the introductory price of Sun Microsystems Inc 's new Sunergy Classic by $10 . |
| 24 | Microsoft 's director of Windows NT and networking products Dwayne Walker indicated desktop NT could appear at $500 list and hit a street price of $300 , given reseller discounts of 40% to 50% , once the introductory price expires . |
| 25 | What we said in the introductory session is a lot of this is to do with skills . |
| 26 | If the message contains the word ‘ Secure ’ , that means the words following make up the introductory identification of someone who will contact him and give him orders . |
| 27 | The exhibition is not simply a display of painted nudes ( and there are only four examples of the male nude ) ; rather , as the introductory text tells us : ‘ All were painted with the nude model directly in front of the artist ’ . |
| 28 | Alternatively , the speaker can use a summarising phrase , often repeating the introductory expression , not necessarily low in pitch , but also followed by a lengthy pause . |
| 29 | Examples taken from the introductory presentation show how these rules work . |
| 30 | With these points in mind , turn now to the Title page and the Introductory presentation and note how these are expanded by techniques presented in the Sections of the report , leading to the Conclusions and the Recommendations . |