Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | France , under-rated by many , has outgrown Germany throughout the postwar period . |
| 2 | The result was urban chaos but a richness of building styles which redeemed Brighton from the overbearing formality of its more classical contemporaries . |
| 3 | I think I played my part in helping Middlesbrough into the Premier League . ’ |
| 4 | He later urged voters to support Lissouba in the second round and , according to sources close to the two parties , on Aug. 11 UPADS entered into a formal electoral alliance with the PCT . |
| 5 | DEC and Microsoft , neither of whom could ever be accused of being the least bit friendly to Unix , look for all the world like they 're ganging up to try and kill it off once and for all , using NT-on-Alpha as the blunt instrument . |
| 6 | With this announcement the powers which had occupied and divided Germany after the Second World War effectively accepted the inevitability of early German unification , although the statement contained no indication of the four powers ' preferred timetables for unification or for the two-plus-four negotiations . |
| 7 | SNA communications house Systems Strategies Inc says it has designated UnixWare as the primary development platform for its new Express 2.0 Unix-to-IBM ( AS/400 and mainframe ) comms software . |
| 8 | But it was the same friend who eventually led Jean to the dead man 's ‘ passion wagon ’ caravan . |
| 9 | Angie Bowie : I actually met David for the first time when he was with feathers at the Roundhouse and I was with the European head of Mercury Records , a gentleman called Lou Reisner . |
| 10 | Was n't that partly the reason why she had agreed to see André in the first place ? |
| 11 | ‘ I met Veronica at the Anglo-Catholic church in putney — St Mark 's . |
| 12 | Uniform start date to be Thursdays , and matches to include Saturday as the third day . |
| 13 | In explaining the sequence of thought which led Keynes to the General Theory , Dr Clarke has taken full advantage of recently discovered sources , including students ' notes of Keynes 's lectures at Cambridge . |
| 14 | As the relentless publicity machinery of pop set about building Kylie into the perfectly-packaged star , however , the cerebral was taking a back seat to the sensational . |
| 15 | I got Toby on the second ring and explained Sally 's suggestion . |
| 16 | He fixed Warton in the unrelenting stare of his cold green eyes . |
| 17 | Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place . |
| 18 | The USA overtook Germany as the leading exporter of merchandise , with a 7.5 per cent rise in exports , and the USA was also the world 's biggest merchandise importer , with Germany second and Japan third in both categories . |
| 19 | For three decades Ali provided Leifer with the perfect subject . |
| 20 | Back in the thirteenth century , Marco Polo described Bukhara as the finest city in all Persia and Tabriz as the most splendid city in the province ( of Iraq ) , neither of which corresponds to our contemporary understanding . |
| 21 | BHUTAN : AI visited Bhutan for the first time in January at the invitation of King Jigme Wangchuck . |
| 22 | In the early months of 1332 these lords began to organize an invasion of Scotland to recover their lands and place Balliol on the Scottish throne . |
| 23 | Competing in the free market of air fares had catapulted Branson into the rarefied area of government policy and international relations , and helped to define what had hitherto been purely instinctive beliefs in a more rigid ideological context . |
| 24 | What we have been successful at and particularly important in point of view is that we have been successful in keeping Whitchurch within the rural development areas , and , and retaining the status of the available which that gives . |
| 25 | The Democratic Convention also won the mayoralties of the important cities of Brasov , Constanta , Ploiesti , Sibiu and Arad ( having won Timisoara in the first round , with 64 per cent of votes ) . |
| 26 | It places Scott in the front rank as one of the world 's most innovative Himalayan climbers . |
| 27 | ‘ But I 'll never forget his face when I collected a winners ’ medal after West Ham beat Arsenal in the 1980 Cup final ! ’ |
| 28 | You will find most of your fellow-passengers have booked KLM on the unhesitating recommendation of both their friends and their Travel Agent . |
| 29 | A year later Moore captained England for the first time , against Czechoslovakia . |
| 30 | Each time they arrive at a pose , Colas somehow steals the expected kiss or holds Lise in the proper climax as Alain strikes what he believes to be the proper pose . |