Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the austere collegial melody of science even the slightest emotional shading can have a suitably dramatic effect . |
| 2 | If they can not be protected by the law from this kind of material then the law should be tightened up . |
| 3 | In another piece of coincidence even the helium traces were explained ; they had nothing to do with hydrogen fusion.l |
| 4 | The fact that everyone was waving tiny American flags made this spectacle of labour all the more bizarre . |
| 5 | A few spurts of milk then the thing was at the teat end again , a pinkish-white object peeping through the orifice . |
| 6 | A somewhat different tone began to emerge relatively quickly , particularly in an address that Gorbachev gave to British members of parliament later the same month . |
| 7 | Two features of the present cultural climate make this element of conviction all the more necessary . |
| 8 | If the matter is taken in a more serious case by indictment then the fine is unlimited . |
| 9 | If a reasonable man would believe that there was a real likelihood of bias then the decision is overturned ; surmise or conjecture is insufficient . |
| 10 | But if the Devil has no reality or active role in the divine drama of salvation then the vision of the Great Battle is lost . |
| 11 | The fact that the Council 's Structure Plan , in which their planning policy is enshrined , has not yet been accepted by the Secretary of State makes these changes in direction all the easier . |
| 12 | Pretty comfortable ways to while away the summer |
| 13 | It was hard to stop the sudden rush of emotion just the mention of his name could provoke , but she did her best . |
| 14 | It was round that the average labour requirement was 323 hours per farm yet the actual hours claimed to be worked was 551 hours . |
| 15 | TOP rugby coach Mostyn Richards has made a plea for all clubs to back fully the Mid-Wales District representative team . |
| 16 | Drawing from his experience of Japan , Johnson ( 1984 : p. 8 ) considered that this ‘ means the initiation and co-ordination of governmental activities to leverage upward the productivity and competitiveness of the whole economy and of particular industries in it … |
| 17 | It had shaken her faith , made her afraid to form deep attachments in case somehow the pain was repeated … |
| 18 | Out of all her workmates , Kerry was possibly the least friendly , which made her current show of concern all the more special . |
| 19 | If schools were free of all restrictions on curriculum then the best schools , offering the best courses and getting the best results , would be the ones that succeeded . |
| 20 | And if self aware role modelling in medicine were to include a declared abstention from all the quiet words , phone calls , and fixings of the present highly selective mechanisms of patronage then the expectations of medical students and junior doctors , especially women and those from ethnic minorities , could be transformed , perhaps within only a generation or two . |
| 21 | If , however , fertility rates fall for the four child-bearing age-groups ( 10–19 , 20–29 , 30–39 and 40–49 ) from the estimated early 1980s figures of 0.4 , 2 , 2 and 0.4 children per woman respectively to 0.25 , 1.8 , 1.4 and 0.3 children per woman then the population structure in 2003 would be shown in Figure 6.6(c) . |
| 22 | My own experience , on the rare occasions when I have actually been asked to produce a short story with my mind totally blank , is that one can tune oneself like the strings of a wind-harp by admitting to one 's mind the desire to write a story and that in that state of receptivity even the oddest , most trivial circumstances will produce a basic idea . |
| 23 | At a higher level of intensity again the treaty may amount to the attempted bestowal of a right or the imposition of an obligation upon a third party . |
| 24 | Even if you ca n't find or afford tall elegant pieces of furniture much the same effect can be produced with a tall plant or lamp , wall-fixed shelving , mirrors and , of course , pictures . |
| 25 | In the usual form of construction both the lead and return conductors are made of copper to minimise resistive loss , the outer return is braided for flexibility and the entire space in between is filled with highly insulating material such as polythene , polythene foam or polytetrafluoroethylene . |
| 26 | If there is any predisposition to psychosis then the changes induced can be permanent . |
| 27 | But if I was to ask the same question throughout industry today the answer would be very different . |
| 28 | Since there exists a vital need for government just the same , this faith in the worth of each human being is bound to seek a balance of the two needs in some system of restraints which protects the individual , or at least minorities , against any despotic exercise of political authority . |
| 29 | Several tons of rock later the once pristine , now battle scarred and muddy groove , was led by Rick Graham and seconded by Tony and myself producing Heirloom , HVS 5a , 120′ ( the route of the crag ! ) . |
| 30 | Like many of those discussed in this book , Foucault endorses the ethico-political project of establishing forms of knowledge that do not simply turn the other into the same : as he put it in 1968 , he wishes to find another politics than that which ‘ since the beginning of the nineteenth century , stubbornly persists in seeing in the immense domain of practice only the epiphany of a triumphant reason , or in deciphering in it only the historico-transcendental destination of the West ’ . |