Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Play another sound effect — perhaps a door opening , keys jangling , a car moving off , a bomb exploding , or a dog barking — and it becomes difficult not to link the two sounds together and make them part of the same story . |
| 2 | You have dismissed my Master of the Inner Chambers ? ’ |
| 3 | I d be interested to see who else has my ideas of the best team … |
| 4 | In the Berne elections on April 29 , 1990 , the coalition parties retained their domination of the grand council . |
| 5 | The final section will discuss her representation of the female body , especially in relation to contemporary ideals of beauty . |
| 6 | He was later promoted to depute director and within six years of his return , he found himself director of the newly-created Lothian Regional Council 's Education Department . |
| 7 | Editor , — David E Mutton and colleagues report their analysis of the national Down 's syndrome register for 1989–91 . |
| 8 | This second misfortune seemed to revive her memories of the earlier time when she had been carrying his child and had been given to understand that her husband had been simultaneously carrying on an affair with some young army chauffeuse . |
| 9 | And Turkey has its share of the modern virus . |
| 10 | Israel had announced in October that it would attend the Ottawa talks , thereby ending its boycott of the multilateral refugee negotiations [ see p. 39167 for Israeli participation in multilateral regional economic co-operation talks in Paris in late October ] . |
| 11 | The country emphasises its attainment of the modest Montreal Protocol target ( a cut in consumption of CFC 's by 50 per cent ) . |
| 12 | These were the ‘ bit more television ’ Blanche wanted to watch , since she believed they would help freshen her image of the murdered woman . |
| 13 | For the Conservative Government to maintain any level of legitimation in ideological or cultural spheres , they have had to construct a definition of common sense which reinforces their definition of the social order . |
| 14 | Yet the time may come when the unions will have expiated their follies of the sixties and seventies , partly through the rationalisation and mergers of the past decade , partly through reforms forced on them by changes in the law during the eighties , partly by a public rediscovery that trade unions are a necessary part of a free society . |
| 15 | Many years later Constance changed her view of the southern landscape . |
| 16 | But last March AMD stole a tenth of this market within months of launching its version of the 386 , and now claims almost a third . |
| 17 | To questions about tax and public services , the public responded as it did in the days of Thatcher : by denying her creed of the Rich Samaritan and countering with approval for self-sacrifice and public services . |
| 18 | A more useful , albeit theoretical , contribution is made by Challis and Ferlie ( 1987 ) when they ground their discussion of the various organizational developments in an examination of different criteria of efficiency , arguing that ‘ the attempt to disentangle the arguments for various alternative approaches to traditional generic practice into their expected contributions to different aspects of efficiency provides an agenda for valuable research ’ ( 1987 , p. 165 ) . |
| 19 | In that year , also , L'Estrange 's ineptitude cost him control of the official news-books and Muddiman regained it because of the regard he had won from both secretaries of state . |
| 20 | It enabled John Major to revive his version of the constitutional agenda . |
| 21 | We first meet Richard Faucenbois as a boy approaching his twelfth birthday in The Black Riders ; The Stormy Petrel and The House of the Paladin return to the boy at fourteen and fifteen , when he has already earned his nickname of the Stormy Petrel , and in The Betrayer he moves into his sixteenth year with agonising decisions to make ; in three later books ( Richard and the Golden Horseshoe , The Red Rose of Ruvina and The Secret of the White Peacock , he is in his mid-twenties and the chases and escapes of youth have been put aside for the role of diplomat and teacher . |
| 22 | Opponents of the party leader say his criticism of the pre-meeting comments to the press as disloyal increased the political temperature which exploded when he pointed out to three executive members that collective responsibility had worked in their favour in past occasions and any comments should be made in private . |
| 23 | It is important to note that it is on the basis of the self-evident cultural value of these texts that Bateson develops his sense of the wider relationship between culture and democracy . |
| 24 | Goebbels , as we saw , ranked his creation of the public Hitler image as his greatest propaganda triumph . |
| 25 | When Cristofori built his pianos of the 1720s , the harpsichord and the clavichord were the usual stringed keyboard instruments . |
| 26 | Adorno did not write a history of music , nor did he describe his picture of the music-historical field in any great detail . |
| 27 | I take full account of these defects in his evidence , but overall I found his experience of the likely care regimes introduced in cashes , in cases such as that of the plaintiff to be of assistance . |
| 28 | Forty-six years on , John Edelnand , now living in Luton , revisited Gwrych Castle and the neighbouring village of Abergele and found his memories of the local people still clear : |
| 29 | Matthew places his account of the wise men in a historical setting . |
| 30 | This is Mould , for the first time since his epic ‘ Workbook ’ album , recapturing his sense of The Definitive : the last word in love songs and the full stop after heartbreak . |