Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why cause ourselves so much anxiety , and spend so much time , money and energy on failed diet/exercise routines when the answer to all our problems is staring us right in the face . |
| 2 | For the complete recognition system however the existence of idioms ( and compounds in general ) may be exploited to further reduce the uncertainty as to the correct input as the following example shows . |
| 3 | The Child 's Game is basically a free play situation where the child chooses any series of activities for 10–15 minutes during which the parent will join in under the child 's direction . |
| 4 | The long-term guarantee of a full and desirable simulcast service from Marcopolo in MAC would give the British electronics industry both the incentive to continue developing MAC technology and the live transmissions on which development depends . |
| 5 | This is admittedly a rather crude distinction , but one which could be justified by the very uneven break — some 80 per cent of establishments were " non-users " for each category — which it produced ; For experimental purposes we also separated out " high user establishments where the number of fixed-term contract or agency workers used was the equivalent of five per cent or more of the labour force but the results thereby obtained were not more instructive than those obtained by the initial classification and so are reported upon only in a limited fashion . |
| 6 | It is no doubt true that there is a reduced need for rigorous liability rules where the shareholders are in a position to exercise a real , informed choice about the appointment and removal of directors , and are prepared to engage in active monitoring of management . |
| 7 | There was an outcry from MPs and British car workers when the 31-year-old princess took delivery of the red two-seater 500SL . |
| 8 | Whether a body like the National Federation of Self-Employed and Small Businesses Ltd had a sufficient interest to allow them to challenge the Inland Revenue Commissioners when the IRC made a deal with certain non-payers of tax remains unclear . |
| 9 | Though I do remember at one charity event the stage was invaded by all these uninvited , ageing rock stars only the older members of the audience could remember who they were ! ’ |
| 10 | It was a bright clear spring morning when the boat docked in Rosslare and I disembarked in Eire . |
| 11 | This dilemma is particularly acute in sexual abuse cases where the evidence is often inconclusive . |
| 12 | Thus , to raise the potential value of the information being processed using activities beyond Taylor 's Stage 1 ( i.e. those in his Stage 2 ( analysing processes ) , or his Stage 3 ( judgemental processes ) , or his Stage 4 ( decision processes ) ) , the people involved must know and understand the detailed decision-making situation wherein the information will eventually be used . |
| 13 | According to the author , the Princess 's lowest ebb came with the publication earlier this year of the so-called Dianagate tape allegedly the recording of an intimate telephone conversation between the Princess and her long-time friend , James Gilbey . |
| 14 | His truly phenomenal and technique and poetic incandescence prompt even the most blasé listener to feel that they are hearing familiar works for the first time . |
| 15 | England backs coach Slemen , in charge of the Northern Division , played in the most famous provincial victory in English rugby history when the North beat New Zealand 21–9 in 1979 . |
| 16 | In its flight from the French security services once the war in Europe had broken out , the Party had , if only inadvertently , operationalized its interest in the peasantry ; if only for the fact that , in leaving the towns , they were now living amongst them . |
| 17 | Many small hotels and similar establishments keep analysed cash books where the income and expenditure is analysed . |
| 18 | Liffe is also likely to steal a march on Globex , the Chicago Mercantile Exchange 's electronic trading system now the victim of the ancient rivalry with the Chicago Board of Trade . |
| 19 | Nor is the public education system historically the product of an act of nationalisation : it is the slow outcome of the fostering of voluntary , as well as the planting of state , establishments . |
| 20 | A black mantle of pre-dawn darkness still cloaked the jungle and the rubber plantation villages when the Annamese cai who assisted the French plantation director and his European staff began sounding clamorous gongs outside the barrack huts . |
| 21 | The balloon says it all : lager has less than 50 per cent of the British beer market yet the brewers spend two-thirds of their advertising money on it . |
| 22 | These results show that calculations with a calculator produce high success rates when the context is familiar , the numbers involved can be easily interpreted , and the structure of the calculation is simple . |
| 23 | It is an autumnal sign and one in which the ‘ balance ’ might be tipped one way or another , and in sexuality could hover between male and female , with one sexual scale dipping then the other rising obediently and almost passively , distantly , independently , in an alternation of identities and desires that I knew so well . |
| 24 | Juliet herself had not long arrived home , and was still changing into her chambray shirt-waister and high leather boots when the doorbell went . |
| 25 | Some of the revenue from the tax — likely to reach a total DM40 billion ( £14 billion ) annually in Germany — is earmarked to pay for German coal subsidies when the existing system expires after 1995 . |
| 26 | The juice spills off the press 's spout in a clear golden stream , into the tub , up the bilge pump , down the garden hose and into the old sherry barrels where the yeasts get to work , turning the sugars into alcohol . |
| 27 | Oh there was quite a few and then on the other side there was er , the old reading room where the erm er , building society is it now , what 's there ? |
| 28 | South of the village is an area known locally as ‘ Hills and Holes ’ — deserted and overgrown quarry pits where the coarse limestone called ‘ ragstone ’ was quarried by the Romans and widely used in medieval times . |
| 29 | The flash unit signals when the shutter has been operated |
| 30 | One possibility is that women tend to be less involved than men in formal and public speech events where the appropriate or customary style is especially explicit , where logical connections are made on the surface and where information and argument are more important than interpersonal solidarity . |