Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ culture of contentment ’ — Galbraith might equally have used the phrase ‘ culture of complacency ’ — is the prevailing majority of electors in the US , UK and other advanced economies . |
| 2 | In this latter condition , gluten ( which is also found in oats , barley , and rye ) produces damage to the lining of the bowel , preventing normal absorption of nutrients from the diet . |
| 3 | The man had spent about thirty minutes behind the wheel of a Land Rover Discovery like this one … they 'd followed Geoff 's normal route from Banbury to the village of Mollington , onto Cropredy , then back into Banbury . |
| 4 | All of us would arise in due course like Venus from the waves — shining , lovely , renewed , with sharp neat cuts , elegant waves or subtle highlights — or so we hoped ; it was an act of faith . |
| 5 | On the Vistula delta the Mennonites bred black and white Friesian cattle just as their ancestors in Holland had done , and grew sugar-beet , tomatoes , rye , and a resilient variety of wheat on the rich alluvial soil . |
| 6 | If a ship was intended for patrolling the sea , it had to be equipped to take part in action against the enemy : the building of castles , fore and aft , and , in the fifteenth century , the possible installation of cannon on the deck ( guns were placed below decks , to fire out of ‘ ports ’ , only in the very first years of the sixteenth century ) had to be carried out . |
| 7 | LEBANON 'S Christian leader , General Michel Aoun , last night denounced a draft peace agreement produced by the country 's parliamentarians in the Saudi resort of Taif on the grounds that it did not set a timetable for the withdrawal of Syrian troops occupying the country since 1976 . |
| 8 | Marxism 's main flaw is its insistence on economics and the economic category of class as the one fundamental explanatory factor . |
| 9 | The point that my hon. Friend is about to come to is that the advertising directed at young people creates a climate of social acceptability in which children will then not complain about the awful smell of smoke from the other side of a physical barrier — |
| 10 | From the upstairs window of the grey-stone , substantial house at the top of the road there was billowing into the night slow , steady streams of smoke — not thick , or threatening in themselves , but culminating in a heavy , acrid cloud haloing the house , and sending a hideous smell of ruin down the gentle hill to the centre of the town . |
| 11 | British Bio-technology Group achieved a total income of £1.95m during the half year ended 31 October 1991 , against £2.35m in the previous year Income from Research Division was £342 000 and from Laboratory Products Division was £1.61m . |
| 12 | I do the odd bit of d-i-y round the home , which I do n't find too difficult , being an engineer by trade . |
| 13 | She said : ‘ Experience elsewhere has shown that people with head injuries need a concentrated level of service in the early stages . |
| 14 | An obvious method is to advertise but be careful that you aim the right kind Of advertising in the right direction , otherwise it is money badly spent . |
| 15 | There is usually no great profit on these transactions , despite the high rents achievable on the right kind of homes in the right areas for incoming expatriate employees of firms like his own . |
| 16 | Ralph King must be a very active 70 year old to attempt such an ambitious project , namely to cover the broad field of safety in the process industry in one volume without assistance from other experts . |
| 17 | They are advised to choose the compulsory modules for an extra field , not only to encourage breadth of study but also to serve as a foundation for a possible change of field in the future . |
| 18 | A site was sought for a garage , but before the matter could be taken further , there came news of a possible change in control of the company and things were left in abeyance for the time being . |
| 19 | The Vikings certainly did cause extensive damage to property in the short term . |
| 20 | Environmentalists stress that these are only preliminary findings , and that over the next few years , more extensive damage to wildlife in the Sound may be uncovered . |
| 21 | Then Kerry began to realise that she had found a strange kind of relief amid the disappointment that knocked her sideways when she first saw Panos . |
| 22 | In modern British society , this often takes the form of a left-right political division between fractions of the upper classes . |
| 23 | Radiographs of the chest showed enlargement of the right heart with prominence of the pulmonary outflow tract . |
| 24 | He 's the sea captain in charge of this sinking ship whose character switches from Mr Nice Guy to raging megalomaniac to hero of the day — all in less than two hours . |
| 25 | Ochirbat visited China in May 1990 [ see p. 37454 ] , and co-operation agreements in the educational and legal fields were signed on Nov. 26 and on July 4 , 1991 ; an agreement was signed on June 24 to increase to eight the border crossings between China and Mongolia from the hitherto sole crossing at Erenhot in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia . |
| 26 | The Council for National Academic Awards was to be established to validate degrees in this rich variety of institutions within the public ( that is , the Local Education Authority-controlled ) sector . |
| 27 | They doubted that this act represented any substantial change in policy and did not regard it as sufficient to confirm Pakistani non-alignment in light of the continuation of strong military links between Washington and Islamabad . |
| 28 | That there is a broad division of opinion on the subject of sole practice within different sectors of the profession is difficult to dispute from the comments made in response to the consultation . |
| 29 | A year after the death his mother had married Edmund Morgan , a widowed church organist of mind-numbing dullness , and had retired with him to Bognor Regis where they lived on his father 's insurance money in a spacious bungalow in sight of the sea , in an obsessive mutual devotion which mirrored the meticulous order and tidiness of their world . |
| 30 | In Pomerania , where in practice serfdom was to last almost a generation longer than in any other corner of Europe , the Prussians were able to prevent even a narrow coincidence of interests between the Polish nobles and peasants by inviting the nobles to leave and by inviting the peasants to become Prussians . |