Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomson 's latest letters to the media very , but in some he explains the decades of delay with a puzzling tale of his attempts to ‘ shield the Blumleins from the belated discovery that a person close to them had supplied me with letters … stolen from the late Mr A K Van Warrington ’ . |
| 2 | Soon Vickers at Barrow was building the Hercules for the Argentinian navy and then , under licence , helping it to build the Santisima Trinidad at Rio Santiago . |
| 3 | A vertical scale , erected at that point , can be projected through the drawing by using the VP for the vertical plane . |
| 4 | Now that , I swifty interject , is accusing The Smiths of the ultimate blandness . |
| 5 | In general , we have to thank the Orient for the early breeds and North America for the late ones . |
| 6 | That may be enough to see the RAF through the present war . |
| 7 | On July 3 Ibrahim Böhme , who briefly led the East German Social Democrats ( SPD ) in early 1990 [ see pp. 37260 ; 37302 ] , was excluded from the party in the face of " overwhelming evidence " that he had joined the Stasi in the 1970s and informed on the re-formed SPD from 1989 . |
| 8 | Windley was anxious to avoid any misunderstanding as to the purpose of the camp ; the main things , he emphasized , were to be flexible and ‘ to treat the Moran with the greatest good humour and avoid any suspicion of it being a labour camp . |
| 9 | Thus , those who led the NF in the 1970s had , in many cases , a background in the most nutty forms of postwar extremism , despite claims to have seen the democratic light after these youthful indiscretions . |
| 10 | In furtherance of these aims he represents the MMRC on the Academic Standards Committee ( ASC ) . |
| 11 | The Bruce claimant to the throne had just died , but his son and grandson were determined to assert family rights , even if it meant offering their services to Edward I for as long as it might take to drive the Comyns from the seized lands in Annandale . |
| 12 | Mallachy levelled the Webley in the general direction of the lighted cottage . |
| 13 | It had been worn the last time the Mendozas beat the O'Briens in the Open and on every occasion they had met since . |
| 14 | On 10 April it was announced that a ‘ task force ’ of 10,000 men would be assembled under the command of Rear-Admiral ‘ Sandy ’ Woodward , to sail into the South Atlantic , whatever the hazards , and recapture the Falklands for the British Commonwealth . |
| 15 | The Iraqi coup seemed to confirm all the Foreign Office 's worst fears about Nasser becoming the Hitler of the Middle East . |
| 16 | The tank blew up , hurling the Vauxhall through the closed garage doors , which caused twenty more gallons of petrol to explode , blowing the front off the house . |
| 17 | Al Pacino 's Tony Montana , one of 25,000 Cubans who entered the US in the Cuban boatlift of 1980 , is the comic caricature of the big screen gangsters who stalked The Godfather . |
| 18 | Pakistan finished at 388 for 3 , but were unable to continue until the Saturday , the second day being washed out and landing the TCCB with the second enormous refund of the series , this time estimated at anything up to £250,000 . |
| 19 | Not only that , but his great-great-uncle had been the architect who designed the Maryinsky in the first place . |
| 20 | The biggest winner was the liberal Free Democratic Party ( FDP ) , which polled 11 per cent ( its highest since 1961 ) and overtook the CSU as the second largest element in Kohl 's ruling centre-right coalition . |
| 21 | When the British evicted the Mughals from the Red Fort in 1857 , some of the court eunuchs had come to live nearby , a few minutes ' walk from the Turkman Gate . |
| 22 | She described the Hollywood of the late 1940s as ‘ an overcrowded brothel ’ but was no stranger to the casting couch herself . |
| 23 | ‘ We 've included the UK on the short list , at this stage , ’ said Klepner , ‘ because Mark says that when the task force teams come to prepare the comparative cost studies in detail they will find that the economics of manufacturing certain new products will almost certainly favour production in the UK . |
| 24 | At the seventh session of talks , on March 14 , an agreement was reached to establish the JNCC within the next week . |
| 25 | This field either contains the PSN of the last entry in this bundle assigned on that basis ( restricting the range of the search ) or contains a negative value indicating that there are no more entries of the kind in this bundle . |
| 26 | It had been reported earlier that Kim had offered to resign in order to facilitate the creation of a broad-based opposition grouping which would be capable of defeating the DLP at the 1992 presidential and legislative elections . |
| 27 | Signe stopped the VW on the far side of the road and killed the motor . |
| 28 | This pits the WRU against the major clubs , who still have n't got used to the idea of back-to-back semi-finals at the Cardiff Arms Park on a Bank Holiday Monday . |
| 29 | The right-wing National Revolutionary Party ( MNR ) won its first departmental victories in two years by taking the departments of Cochabamba , Tarija and Santa Cruz and emphatically defeated the AP in the southern Andean city of Tarija , in the northern lowland city of Trinidad and in the country 's second most populous city , Santa Cruz de la Sierra , in the eastern lowlands . |
| 30 | The UCS won the judicial capital , Sucre , and easily defeated the AP in the Andean cities of Oruro and Potosí and in total votes emerged as the country 's third political force . |