Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The increased UK branch losses were more than offset by a massive recovery in the United States , where profits at NatWest Bancorp soared to £109 million , after losses of £182 million the previous year . |
| 2 | THE EMPEROr KARL FRANZ 110 points +100 Hammer of Sigmar +75 The Silver Seal |
| 3 | There 's the screeching of brakes all the time . |
| 4 | She was no forensic scientist but she was a great scooper-up of information all the same . |
| 5 | With current concentrations of CO 2 the model provided an idealized simulation of the Northern Hemisphere winter from mid-December through to April with a relatively undisturbed circulation in January and February followed by a late stratospheric warming . |
| 6 | In order to avoid a major rebellion , Father eventually gave in and lugged my piece of wood all the way to Berwickshire . |
| 7 | List on a piece of paper all the presuppositions you think the title contains ( as we have done above , pp. 63 – 5 ) . |
| 8 | Housed at present in the Mirbach Palace , they were made in the seventeenth century at the Mortlake factory , near London , by Flemish workers , under the patronage of Charles I. The idea of a national establishment for weaving tapestries came to King James from Henry IV of France and in 1619 he sent to Flanders for the best weavers . |
| 9 | On Friday of week 12 the examinations office extract all records of students with such recommendations , divides them into three groups ( Stage 1 , continuing Stage II and graduating students ) , and these records are printed as the examination booklet which is available for collection by staff centrally involved in examinations committee business by noon on Monday of week 13 . |
| 10 | By the day before the completion of sale all the goods in her house had been gathered together in one room downstairs , some packed in wooden crates , some in black leather cases and tapestry bags , some still living free . |
| 11 | If legal recognition is granted , the reserve and its neighbouring area will together represent a stretch of rainforest half the size of Wales , home to 10,000 families of seringueiros and Indians , set aside for preservation . |
| 12 | Station Officer Ron Carr , of Middlesbrough Fire Station , said : ‘ Smoke was bellowing from the roof of number 14 the end terrace house when we arrived . |
| 13 | According to the Far Eastern Economic Review of Dec. 3 the appointments were approved at an " unannounced and enlarged " CMC meeting held shortly after the conclusion of the congress . |
| 14 | Complete results of the July 29 elections were not available as of mid-August , but according to the Far Eastern Economic Review of Aug. 16 the MPRP had received at least 60 per cent of the votes and had won over 340 of the 430 seats in the People 's Great Hural . |
| 15 | According to the Far Eastern Economic Review of April 2 the establishment of Poll Watch had driven the parties ' extensive vote-buying network underground and sometimes out of business . |
| 16 | According to the Far Eastern Economic Review of May 30 the statute had been repealed in an attempt to calm reaction amongst students and the opposition following the arrest of four pro-independence activists on May 9 . |
| 17 | According to the Far Eastern Economic Review of June 27 the turnout was " barely 50 per cent " , compared with 88 per cent in 1989 and 63 per cent in 1984 . |
| 18 | Mortgage assets at the end of 1989 stood at £2,588.0 million , compared with a figure of £2,087.8 million the previous year . |
| 19 | The Group pre-tax profit for the year was £32.2 million , against a comparable figure of £29.9 million the previous year . |
| 20 | He said problems in regional aircraft , which include the Jetstream turboprop business , at Prestwick , were largely responsible for an operating loss of £81 million in 1992 , compared with a restated figure of £215 million the previous year . |
| 21 | It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his lifeline ) . |
| 22 | But fortunately his own cast has not taken such advice and under the musical direction of Marius Constant the singers soar above the lugubrious libretto based on Maeterlinck 's play . |
| 23 | In figure 4.2 we draw the line which plots the different values of P 1 the general level of prices , against the equilibrium levels of aggregate demand which they generate , given the values of all the other variables which determine the positions of the IS and LM curves , such as the level of real government expenditure and the nominal quantity of money . |
| 24 | Three times in the latter part of September 1917 the Committee was warned by the union of the danger of delay in setting adequate and standard rates of wages for all seamen ; three times on the advice of the Liverpool Shipowners it temporised . |
| 25 | Allen was nominated as one of the 135 commissioners ( MPs and others ) to form the high court of justice to conduct the trial of Charles I. The meetings of the court started on 8 January 1649 but Allen did not attend at the Painted Chamber in Whitehall until 17 January . |
| 26 | According to the Economist of March 16 the three groups presented arms " shopping lists " to the Chinese authorities . |
| 27 | While the emphasis lies in the sphere of behaviour , it is nonetheless true that the growing child is acquiring a mass of knowledge all the time . |
| 28 | Ven was leaving his room at just the same time , and , ‘ Hello , ’ she offered in a friendly , bright way , and was stabbed at by fingers of conscience all the way down in the lift . |
| 29 | Keep interest rates low ( at r 1 ) in order , say , to keep down the costs of investment , but also reduce money supply to a level of Q 2 The trouble here is that the government can not both control the money supply and keep interest rates down without running into the problem of disequilibrium . |
| 30 | In the general election of December 1986 the NAR won 33 of the 36 seats in the lower house and ousted the incumbent PNM ( which won the remaining three seats ) , ending 30 years of continuous PNM government [ see pp. 35194-95 ] . |