Example sentences of "the [adj] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This accords with work of others , although the hypergastinaemic subgroup in our study was a smaller proportion of the total than previously reported ( 11% , compared with 36–40% ) . |
| 2 | In this case , the mill was saved by the much-respected and sadly missed author , David Verey , who purchased and restored the derelict mill in 1965 . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , Jodhi May , in her first American celluloid outing , makes a good stab of portraying the frail but ultimately doomed Alice Munro , one of the daughters of Fort William Henry 's Scottish commander Colonel Munro who the mighty Magua , the wronged Huron war chief , has vowed to destroy . |
| 4 | I most scrupulously carried out my promise to her , despite the dishonest if well meant advice of various people who suggested that I should deposit her letters in a great library . |
| 5 | Particular attention was given to two issues : the rural and sparsely populated character of much of Wales , and the problems caused by the prevalence in Wales of two languages . |
| 6 | Lime is extensively used for agricultural purposes , especially in the parishes of Churchstoke and Chirbury , which is brought from Llanymynech , either by the Cambrian and then carted from Montgomery Station , or else it is sent via Oswestry , Shrewsbury , and Craven Arms and carted from Bishop 's Castle . |
| 7 | The inherent and deeply charged contradictions of a culturally threadbare working-class politics having such a richly threaded , but essentially unpolitical base , is right at the heart of the problems facing strategists of class liberation ’ |
| 8 | Urbanization and tyranny are connected , and both are consequences of trade ( which spreads ideas and causes dissatisfaction among the rich but politically excluded ) . |
| 9 | The Treasury 's task was made easier by the unrealistic but much heralded target of the National Plan , produced by the Department , to achieve an annual growth rate of 4 per cent . |
| 10 | Thus self-report data indicate that serious crimes are disproportionately committed by the young uneducated males amongst whom the unemployed and ethnically oppressed are over-represented , but the contribution they make is less than the official data implies . |
| 11 | Ceauşescu was already the heir-apparent and perhaps hoped to improve his chances of taking over sooner rather than later by siding with the pro-Soviet lobby . |
| 12 | In conditions below ten knots a masthead drifter , set flying from a tack point on the extended and heavily reinforced pulpit structure , should help Q2 in what are anticipated to be her least favoured conditions . |
| 13 | For almost the whole of the period under review , the prevalent and strongly held belief was that Britain , in common with other major economies , had climbed out of the economic slough of the interwar years and was set on a broad and permanent path of rising prosperity and full employment . |
| 14 | The complex procedures were executed without a hitch : artillery positions were abandoned by the British and smoothly taken over by French units ; as British battalions moved out at night , their French replacements moved in — and all the while without any sign that the Germans recognized what they were about . |
| 15 | Incidentally , in the completed and highly recommended movie Branagh does look totally out of his skull in that scene . |
| 16 | This could even have the elusive and much desired effect of reducing the appeal of smoking as a ‘ grown up ’ activity through reconstructing it as an essentially teenage pursuit . |
| 17 | James Byam Shaw CBE , the distinguished and much loved art historian and connoisseur of drawings , died 18 March . |
| 18 | They were never very significant , few are well-documented , and many are now abandoned , but they represent , in the old and densely occupied county of Somerset , one of the few cases where an area was colonised and settled . |
| 19 | He was detected at the check-out point before he had paid for the joint and later convicted of theft contrary to section 1(1) of the Act of 1968 . |
| 20 | The Indian civil service never had more than 1,000 members to administer the vast and densely populated subcontinent — a tiny fraction ( at most 1 per cent ) of the legions of Confucian mandarins and palace eunuchs employed next door to administer a not-much-more populous China . |
| 21 | So , if you have decided that the basic form is what suits your talents best ( and , as I have said , books like this are still published ) , then you will find you need to use as your suspects what are often called cardboard characters , that is people observed almost entirely from the outside and generally endowed with just one outstanding trait . |
| 22 | Its theoretical weaknesses are implicit in the fact that it rests on the vague and easily manipulated notion of consent . |
| 23 | The more the inmates came to consist of the impotent or temporarily incapacitated , the greater became the gap between intent and reality . |
| 24 | Pound was in all seriousness embarked on an epic poem ( which he defined , following of all unlikely authorities Rudyard Kipling , as ‘ the tile of the tribe ’ ) ; he could not and did not expect understanding from readers who supposed that the epic poem had died in the seventeenth century if not before , whose expectations therefore were conditioned by their experience of the brief or else extended lyric . |
| 25 | The development of these large Cotswold settlements may be connected with the evident wealth of the area reflected by the large and richly appointed villas and the same could apply to Oxfordshire where there are at least two sizeable settlements and no apparent defences . |
| 26 | In addition the large and perfectly matched pearls outlining the margins of the mitre crown and the balas ruby of 414.3 carats mounted at its apex were enough to proclaim her ready access to the treasures of the orient . |
| 27 | In their introduction Sugden and John indicated in 1976 ( p. 1 ) that the study of glacial processes and forms had been left out in the cold and poorly understood because a gulf had arisen between those who study glaciology and those who study glacial landscape and deposits , and further that : |
| 28 | Satz ( 1979 ) has proposed a method for determining the acceptability or otherwise of models of speech representation in the left and right handed . |
| 29 | There are the well-established and highly sought after RSA preparatory courses in addition to numerous other less well-known ones . |
| 30 | Deer mandible chewed by small rodents showing the elongated and parallel sided double grooves characteristic of rodent gnawing . |