Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hand in hand , the lovers roam the streets while Loutside ] the drunken and the debauched revel in all kinds of perversities . |
| 2 | This association of societies for the Blind and the Deaf continues to this day in the present building at Centenary House , North Street , Leeds . |
| 3 | The job of the elder to stand by that child and , and see to its Christian nurture thereafter . |
| 4 | And they point out that the applications being checked are a tiny percentage of the 340,000 dealt with this year . |
| 5 | I honestly think that it 's time the English got off this notion , which after all has nothing to do with the original meaning of the word ‘ amateur ’ , which means having a passion for something , erm got off this notion that the amateur , the gentleman , as Geoffrey said , is necessarily more truly engaged with the activity than somebody else . |
| 6 | The cheapest to deliver of these bonds is the bond that gives the greatest implied repo rate to the short from a cash-and-carry ( or cost-of-carry ) transaction , i.e. a strategy of buying the bond ( with borrowed funds ) in the cash market and selling it into the futures market . |
| 7 | The left-hand fingering in this position is very crucial ( refer back to example 3 for the visual ) . |
| 8 | Many of the French laughed at such antics , or felt disgusted at being allied with so ‘ primitive ’ a people . |
| 9 | Why the French insisted on this condition was obvious : supranationalism was essential in order to create strong institutions which could limit Germany 's industrial independence in future . |
| 10 | Including Irish women — six of the forty fell into this category — might be seen as contradicting this objective . |
| 11 | The opposition within the Six came from several sources . |
| 12 | So there is no doubt about the ability of the Japanese to pay for this information and knowledge , nor about their strong motivation for acquiring it . |
| 13 | The correct way for approaching the actus reus in relation to cheating was laid down in Doukas and approved in Cooke : ( a ) was there an article for use in cheating ? ( b ) did the accused deceive another ? ( c ) did the accused obtain by that deception ? ( d ) was there dishonesty ? ( e ) was " the obtaining … , wholly or partially , by virtue of the deception " ? |
| 14 | For those seeking bhavana , it is ready to be discerned in a hundred daily occurrences : it will be manifested in a small or generous action ; and there is a joy in the mere searching for this bhavana in the everyday world . |
| 15 | The second occurs in those clauses which seek to circumscribe contact with those who were , for a given period , clients of the covenantee . |
| 16 | The second accrues from less time spent on billing . |
| 17 | In the second write in those childhood events or aspects of relationships which have most significantly influenced and perhaps continue to influence your present experience . |
| 18 | The second goes beyond these models and data , to produce a sociological account of how the software designer and user is influenced by the presence and absence of standards , of how images and perceptions of standards and compatibility are formed , and how accounts about standards and compatibility circulate amongst the community of designers and users . |
| 19 | The rousing campaign for free trade in the 1840s impinged upon many abolitionists especially when proposals to equalise and reduce duties on sugar entering Britain , whether it originated in free-labour or slave-labour economies , were put forward . |
| 20 | First , mutations in the 5'TGCAA motif in cddP reduces binding of CytR ( 7 ) ( Fig. 6 ) ; and , second , the CytR-DNA backbone contacts in cytRP are arranged around the inverted repeat in this promoter as they are in deoP2 ( 8 ) . |
| 21 | Sections of the Left agree with that thesis and are of the opinion that the powers of the Prime Minister are too great . |
| 22 | So far as the privately rented sector was concerned , the government 's proposals were for the automatic decontrol of all dwellings with a rateable value over £40 in London and over £30 in the rest of England and Wales . |
| 23 | This makes it impossible for the poor to move to that neighbourhood . |
| 24 | Large numbers of the elderly suffer from some degree of disability or impairment of physical or mental function . |
| 25 | On Portrush , for example : ‘ Full of the twin evils of lager louts and litter , the latter caused in most cases by the former ’ . |
| 26 | I now noted that the latter had on each hand only three fingers and a thumb , and only four toes on each foot , in the manner of the monkeys we had come across in another existence . |
| 27 | The most coherent films to emerge from Elstree during this time were both set in the Edwardian era , Losey 's glorious The Go-Between ( 1970 ) and The Railway Children ( 1970 ) , with the latter aiming at that much-lamented but largely-departed family audience . |
| 28 | The report also suggested that a back-stage role in the process was being played by senior retired Egyptian and US officials ( the latter led by former US President Jimmy Carter 's Secretary of State Cyrus Vance , who visited Syria and Israel in January ) . |
| 29 | The latter has for many years been the preference of the majority of established practitioners : according to a recent Law Society survey , almost 75 per cent of solicitors in practice are equity partners in a firm . |
| 30 | It was reported that the dinucleotide-based roll angle value of GC step is one of the smallest found in all dinucleotides ( 1,6 ) . |