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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But it was the same friend who eventually led Jean to the dead man 's ‘ passion wagon ’ caravan . |
| 7 | ‘ I met Veronica at the Anglo-Catholic church in putney — St Mark 's . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He fixed Warton in the unrelenting stare of his cold green eyes . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For three decades Ali provided Leifer with the perfect subject . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It places Scott in the front rank as one of the world 's most innovative Himalayan climbers . |
| 17 | You will find most of your fellow-passengers have booked KLM on the unhesitating recommendation of both their friends and their Travel Agent . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As a Jumièges monk , some of his information may have derived from its former abbot , Robert , who became bishop of London and then in 1051 archbishop of Canterbury , but fled England during the political crisis of 1052 , subsequently returning to Jumièges , where he died . |
| 20 | She pronounced Maurice in the French way . |
| 21 | Returning Rover to the private sector had been an aim of the Conservative government for several years . |
| 22 | By the time the plane approached Istanbul in the late afternoon , Mark had put away several large measures of single malt Scotch . |
| 23 | An enthusiast from the start , she had been attending Edith Harlow 's Woodford Green Medau class for less than a year when she approached Edith with the bold question ‘ What do I do to teach this ? ’ |
| 24 | It was she who had interviewed Meg for the Old Rectory and Meg now found it difficult to connect that confident , tweeded , slightly aggressive woman with the two gentle old people she knew . |
| 25 | We visited Paleokastritsa on the western side , famed for its bays shadowed by magnificent cliffs . |
| 26 | Darkroom work for Cecil Beaton ( whom he also regularly photographed ) and for Peter Rose Pulham ( whose studio he took over in Berkeley Square when the latter went to Paris to become a painter ) provided Goodman with the visual stimulus that helped create his most imaginative work . |
| 27 | Failure of arrangements for proper payment had also failed to provide BR with the overall size , structure and quality of workforce needed . |
| 28 | Dr Neil discarded the towel , throwing it into a packing-case , checked that his patient was not needing immediate attention , and drew McAllister into the far corner of the room where their conversation could not be overheard . |
| 29 | For teaching purposes , writers in the contemplative tradition followed Richard of St Victor in allegorising the process by which the soul comes to know God through the Old Testament story ( Genesis 29 ) of Jacob 's marriage to Leah and Rachel . |
| 30 | On Oct. 20 the ANC and PAC excluded AZAPO from the convening committee of the conference , but invited it to participate in the meeting . |