Example sentences of "the [adj] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The armed forces were to receive 36.9 per cent of the total government budget of 285,000 million meticais , although this represented a smaller proportion of the total than in 1989 , when defence spending accounted for 42 per cent of the final budget figure of 225,000 million meticais . |
| 2 | DG said that while it was n't satisfied with its overall results , it was encouraged by the continued success of its AViiON family of Unix computers , which showed significant growth over the year-ago quarter , and it remains cautious for the short-term because of the weak worldwide economy and because it sees no evidence that industry-wide pricing pressures will abate in the near future . |
| 3 | Commenting on its reduced second quarter loss ( figures , page seven ) , Data General Corp said that while it was n't satisfied with its overall results , it was encouraged by the continued success of its AViiON family of Unix computers , which showed significant growth over the year-ago quarter , and it remains cautious for the short-term because of the weak worldwide economy and because it sees no evidence that industry-wide pricing pressures will abate in the near future ; the Westboro company is able to shrug off the small but steady and grinding losses because it still had $196.2m in cash and marketable securities at the end of the quarter . |
| 4 | Well it was a wee bit under because I was only an office clerk , I , I was n't the junior but by then had come there and there were other , other clerks , some girls who 'd come into the office and I 'd got a little bit of step up you see and took over a little bit more important work , erm , I did just before I went in the Army have a dabble at erm running times , that was preparing the schedules for buses . |
| 5 | Some are working with the displaced or in the controlled zones , carrying out literacy campaigns and press or political work . |
| 6 | The communities continue to carry out humanitarian work with the displaced and in the hospitals . |
| 7 | On the night of the 17th and into the next day , the Germans mounted a massive bombardment ; shells are said to have fallen at the rate of 400 a minute . |
| 8 | In other words , in our model we accept the view that the inflation-unemployment trade-off is less favourable in the long-run than in the short-run , but we do not adopt the more extreme view that the trade-off disappears completely in the long-run . |
| 9 | The understandable concentration of research on the needy and on the failures of community support meant that little attention was paid to the positive contribution to the community made by many older people in the form of services to family and community . |
| 10 | Christian conscience and enlightened self-interest would often combine to enable relief to be given to the poor and the needy and for more ostentatious acts of generosity to be accorded to the village as a whole . |
| 11 | Admissions matters are the largest but by no means only aspect of his responsibilities . |
| 12 | At the beginning of his term as General Secretary , Brezhnev had been seen as a leader pursuing the art of the possible but by the end of his life , his leadership was seen , more pointedly , as the avoidance of the necessary . |
| 13 | Pleasure should have an important place in Marxist aesthetics , Lovell concluded , but theoretical work on pleasure should be connected with the political and with analysis of popular culture as a prime site of ideological contestation : |
| 14 | These arguments were originally intended to exclude women from autonomy and leadership , both in the political and in the ecclesiastical realms . |
| 15 | According to MacWeek magazine , Apple has a project under way under the code name Star Trek which involves a rewrite of System 7.1 to provide users of machines built around the 80486 and above an alternative to Microsoft Corp 's Windows . |
| 16 | According to MacWeek magazine , Apple has a project under way under the code name Star Trek which involves a rewrite of System 7.1 to provide users of machines built around the 80486 and above an alternative to Microsoft Corp 's Windows . |
| 17 | That means that the product has not been optimised for the 80486 or for Pentium , and wo n't take account of new Pentium features such as the dual pipeline , or work around some of the clock cycle quirks that emerged in the behaviour of the 80486 post technical documentation . |
| 18 | Are they , for example , based on our concern for the truth , respect for the absolute value of life , our solidarity with the poor and the marginalised and with the realisation that communication is a fundamental human right ? |
| 19 | There are many who argue that the key to hegemonic control in any societal system lies not in the economic nor in the political sphere , but in the realm of culture and ideology . |
| 20 | Move from the general to the specific and from the simple to the complex . |
| 21 | The flowing blood was the symbol and proof that life had been taken in payment for the sins of the guilty and as a substitute for his own guilt-stained life . |
| 22 | Whether in the SenFed or in the Freeworlds that have n't joined , there is simply no such thing as one hundred percent security . |
| 23 | This had been a great success in both countries not only for the deaf but for their hearing fellow citizens , who made " learning sign language " the second most popular study after English in adult education . |
| 24 | Initially they had a duty to promote only the welfare of the blind but from 1951 they had power to promote the welfare of the deaf and of the general classes of the physically handicapped . |
| 25 | These were ( 1 ) ‘ Association for the Oral Institution of the Deaf and Dumb ’ based at Fitzroy Square , London , founded in 1872 ( 2 ) ‘ Society for Training Teachers of the Deaf and for the Diffusion of the German System ’ , based at the training college at Ealing , founded in 1877 ( 3 ) ‘ College of Teachers of the Deaf and Dumb ’ , founded in 1885 . |
| 26 | In the meantime , other members of the cast were involved with projects for the deaf and for prisoners . |
| 27 | The Board of Trustees of Gallaudet College expressed its sentiments by passing a special resolution acknowledging Hayhurst 's international activities and , in particular , his service as a member of the Bureau of the World Federation of the Deaf and as Vice-Chairman of its Commission on communication . |
| 28 | In the 1920s , generally all state schools — whether for the deaf or for those with normal hearing — had conditions which were grim . |
| 29 | The downtown antique shops which clustered in the streets off the Marktplatz sold the bric-a-brac , not of the nineteenth but of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries . |
| 30 | Movement , in Western music , even as early as the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , has always been in a direction away from the diatonic and through dissonance . |