Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In sum , Waugh was conservatively anti-modern rather than right-wing , and racialism ( as he rightly saw ) was ‘ rather modern ’ — meaning Victorian , unlicensed by traditional religion and unknown to the universal Church . |
| 2 | Also owned by The Boats for the Handicapped Association and available on the Basingstoke Canal is a special twin hull single or double seat rowing skiff , and a special stable canoe . |
| 3 | Below the main array a full-width sub-panel carries the rotary fuel selector ( fuel is carried three underbelly tanks with triple fillers neatly recessed in a panel just behind the door on the left side of the fuselage and accessible from the floats ) , switches for magnetos , generator , fuel pumps and all the other electrical equipment . |
| 4 | Apart from this in-built political impartiality , the speed and low-cost of the Robletts ' unique photographic reproduction of posters allowed the two main contenders to place orders one evening and have the finished product displayed at their conferences next day . |
| 5 | ROVER today launches a new 200 series model , backed by a £400m investment and vital to the company 's attempt to maintain its resurgence as a profitable manufacturer of niche market cars . |
| 6 | The President and Vice-President are elected by the Supreme Council from among its members , and the Prime Minister and Federal Council of Ministers are appointed by the President and responsible to the Supreme Council . |
| 7 | The country is governed by a Council of Ministers , led by a Prime Minister appointed by the President and responsible to the bicameral parliament , France 's highest legislative body , comprising a 321-member Senate ( upper house ) , a third of whose seats are renewed every three years in indirect elections , and a 577-seat National Assembly ( lower house ) , elected for a five-year term by universal suffrage . |
| 8 | The humans were astounded by the grace and majesty of Elf civilisation and well-pleased with the commerce that went on there . |
| 9 | b , Stereo ribbon drawing of the ‘ decameric cyclophilin-cyclosporin sandwich ’ viewed along the crystallographic dyad and orthogonal to the ( vertical ) fivefold axis . |
| 10 | The agreement provoked an outcry in Hong Kong where both the Law Society and the local bar association condemned it as a threat to the independence of the judiciary and contrary to the 1984 Joint Declaration . |
| 11 | She ran the heated tips of her fingers over his arousal and delighted in the deep shudder of pleasure that racked through him . |
| 12 | In the first-class dining-car Cornelius Murphy spooned Brown Windsor into his mouth and leafed through The Book of Ultimate Truths . |
| 13 | Tsu Ma laughed , his body dark and powerful in the water . |
| 14 | Lee was soaked , his hair dark and flat with the rain . |
| 15 | ‘ Dark and enigmatic to the last , a skilfully paced , mesmeric performance ’ . |
| 16 | He smiled cynically and spread his fingers across the chair arms , the tan of his skin dark and vivid against the blue silk . |
| 17 | The Spirit of God breathes his life into man ; he revives the dry bones ; he infuses vitality into inert matter , but the evidence that he is involved in the work of creating the world is very slim indeed in the Old Testament and non-existent in the New . |
| 18 | Unions of journeymen commonly sought to retain the restrictive and regulative customs of the " trade " over such institutions as apprenticeship and expected of the state that it continue to guarantee " rights " against , in particular , the " infringements " of innovating masters . |
| 19 | The close proximity of this junction to that between A71 and the link to Hermiston Village and Gogar Station Road created a ‘ staggered T ’ effect and due to the relatively high speed of traffic on the re-aligned A71 compared with the original flows through Hermiston Village , a section of this new A71 was widened locally and a central reserve created to form a short stretch of dual carriageway thus providing for safer turning movements within the junctions . |
| 20 | PEG : I 'm long in the tooth and short in the breath . |
| 21 | In the roaring and raging of the conflagration , a red-hot wind , driving straight from the infernal regions , seemed to be blowing the edifice away . |
| 22 | Above the roaring and cracking of the storm , it could still hear their voices , still smell their presence . |
| 23 | And the Royal Welch did sing in the rehearsal , it was a record of course , and they sang of what you could see from the hills above Jerusalem , and it was in the minor key and sad as the devil or death , and the green light flickered , and Dylan , short , bandy , prime , obese , and famous among the bars , screamed as I have never heard , but sometimes imagined a scream , and we were all appalled , our pencils silent above the crossword puzzles , and invisible centuries-gone atavistic hair rose on our backs . |
| 24 | He can create overall rhythms and within them short phrase rhythms , but the basis of them all is that they exist in groups and by being efficient in action and appropriate to the context give pleasure to both the performer and the onlooker . ’ |
| 25 | Her legs were long and stalky under her short skirt and grimy down the backs . |
| 26 | Year after year we came home convinced that ‘ all-German ’ emotions , though officially discouraged on one side and dormant on the other , were far from dead , and that the post-war arrangements in central Europe were therefore a lot less permanent than they might seem . |
| 27 | just as condensation will appear on a window which is warm on one side and cold on the other , so it will appear in the warm cavity of a house when it is very cold outside . |
| 28 | The leaves are lanceolate , long and smooth , emerald green on the top side and purple on the underside , with short stalks . |
| 29 | I fought off the duvet and padded to the door , grabbing a towel from the bathroom to wrap around my waist and avoiding a cunning ankle-tap trip-and-throw move from Springsteen . |
| 30 | When great masses of stone and timber fell , the face with the two dints in the nose became obscured : anon struggled out of the smoke again , as if it were the face of the cruel Marquis , burning at the stake and contending with the fire . |