Example sentences of "the [adj] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swan had no view as to the rival merits of the narrow as opposed to the wider band of the Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 2 | There will be some extra benefits for the needy and help with the increased fuel costs for all pensioners . |
| 3 | It sees no antithesis between the liberal and the technical and contends for the wider acceptance of the truth that the latter will be of no lasting value to the community unless the people of this country are adequately equipped to participate actively in its government and culture . |
| 4 | Although it is now clear that Sutherland 's attempt to fit , indeed squash , corporate crime into his theory of differential association has not proved comfortable , and that his concentration on the economic as opposed to the physical and social effects of corporate crime made his study too one-sided , it none the less did , at the time , constitute a rich legacy to bequeath to criminology . |
| 5 | While not for one moment can the appalling state of housing in many of the major English cities be denied , there is no reason to believe that the problems of poor housing and underprivilege are any less acute among the rural as opposed to the urban poor : they are merely less obvious and less concentrated in numbers . |
| 6 | In 1921 , Parker created a pen that broke all the rules , officially called the Duofold but known as the ‘ Big Red ’ . |
| 7 | Theoretical studies in this sense might adopt an approach which utilises the findings from a variety of national contexts in order to produce generalisations that attempt ‘ to distinguish the invariant from the variant , the stable and continuing from the fluctuating and transitory ’ ( Schollhammer , 1973 , p. 24 ) . |
| 8 | The three men watched the animal snuffling among the elder and then , satisfied that he would nibble at the leaves , they left the stable and turned towards the house . |
| 9 | Donations totalling £15,000 have been set aside from the site 's charity trust fund to buy much needed equipment to help mothers and children , the elderly , the injured , the deaf and handicapped in the area . |
| 10 | Backless Hill , to the north of the loch , was the eighteenth-century lair of a Caithness ‘ Robin Hood ’ , said to have robbed the rich and given to the poor . |
| 11 | The classic response to this situation is to take from the rich and to give to the poor on the grounds that the poor spend their money much faster than the rich . |
| 12 | It is time to give serious consideration to a standing United Nations army , perhaps paid for by the rich and manned by the poor of the world . |
| 13 | Taken as a whole , the tax and transfer system takes money from the rich and gives to the poor . |
| 14 | Did he from the rich and give to the poor ? |
| 15 | How is a question asked by the foolish and answered by the trivial . ’ |
| 16 | A vicar has now joined the ranks of the unemployed and signed on the dole . |
| 17 | But anything of a bigger scale that involves attracting the public or rallying the faithful or listening to a guest speaker does need forethought and care if it is not to be a shambles . |
| 18 | They were the harmless copying the harmful and benefiting from the deception . |
| 19 | In late February the UN boundary commission was preparing a report which would reinstate the 1923 border with Kuwait , delineated by the British and accepted by the Iraqi government in an agreement with Kuwait in 1963 . |
| 20 | The second effect is the inferior performance of the CED when compared to the OALD . |
| 21 | He drew one hand to his lips and kissed it , but his fingers left her other hand to trace the wet that trickled over the blue smudges under her eyes . |
| 22 | Are we going to hide the ravages of time as cleverly as we can for a few more years , or gradually make the necessary adaptations in order to create a new image that is not a faded version of the old but corresponds in an attractive and lively way to the new stage in life which we have reached ? |
| 23 | There is still an element of polarisation , however , which proclaims ‘ belief in the old and distrust in the new ’ . |
| 24 | The fact that there is something quite new and of a different quality means that we will rapidly discard the old and move into the new , just as colour television sets were substituted for black and white , and created a very high growth rate over a period of years . |
| 25 | The Cherry and Whites ca n't wait to ring out the old and ring in the new . |
| 26 | After all , it is about the conservation of the old and founded on a suspicion of the new . |
| 27 | Some of us decided to get into the social and talk to the men . |
| 28 | Take out the joint and remove from the tin while you layer the potatoes and onions in the juices . |
| 29 | Another design that was to remain a firm favourite was the waterproof snow boot — fur-lined , with suede on the outside and fastened at the front or side with a zip . |
| 30 | The first person goes round the outside and pats on the head those sitting saying ‘ duck ’ each time . |