Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of the audience cranes its collective neck to spot the guilty party . |
| 2 | She saw feet sinking into the thick pile of the new rugs whose abstract patterns evoked the work of contemporary artists . |
| 3 | After singing Come , Come Come to the Manger , and interviews with some of the volunteer railwaymen whose unpaid efforts keep the trains running , the songs of Praise special arrives at Britain 's smallest standard-gauge railway station , Damems . |
| 4 | Dog lover Sean Read , of Nottingham , designs his famous sculptures to capture the humour of what he terms the ‘ good northern life ’ . |
| 5 | Evidence has already been quoted above of an educational management course which required participants to articulate the curriculum base from which management decisions should stem . |
| 6 | Note on a plan which internal walls take the structural load . |
| 7 | Also , the performance of Ivor Novello as the impoverished hero whose charming vulnerability wins the hearts of all the girls , as well as that of a bored woman surrounded by too much luxury , and Cutts 's mobile camerawork , put it in another class . |
| 8 | In 1549 , two years after the close of the first session of the Council of Trent — the Council whose stupendous achievements encompassed the comprehensive definition of Catholic doctrine and the unchallengeable assertion of papal power , and which has been described as the creator of the modern Catholic church — John Hamilton , archbishop of St Andrews since 1547 , held the first of his own reforming councils . |
| 9 | She patted the Labrador 's head , and at her tone of approbation his heavy tail thumped the floor . |
| 10 | Those jellies whose natural frequency matches the frequency of the shakes will oscillate with the greatest amplitude — the two frequencies are said to be ‘ in resonance ’ . |
| 11 | Ireland is presented as a place whose feminine nature makes the country require a more powerful masculine presence to keep it from the savagery of the giant who is unmistakably a Roman Catholic monster . |
| 12 | And imagine all the tender modulations that are possible , the subtleties that can be constructed from kissing knuckles , matching palms and playful fingertips whose whorled pads bear the proof of our individuality . |
| 13 | However anti-elitist and however defensive of a culturally democratic popular , within a modernist film criticism growing out of romanticism a canon emerges in which difference was ( and is ) identified with the author whose individual signature separates the text and the oeuvre from the cynical indifference of mass production . |
| 14 | It is perfectly placed in relation to the canal whose placid waters reflect the boldly modelled figure . |
| 15 | I detest the Sevillian architect Roberto Luna whose armour-plated chamber shields the obscene dance that is ‘ Guernica ’ . |
| 16 | Bottom-up ( data-driven ) parsers work from rules whose left-hand side matches the grammatical categories of the input . |
| 17 | AN Australian morals campaigner whose small party holds the balance of power in the New South Wales Parliament today threatened to block all legislation unless the state government abandoned planned gay rights laws . |
| 18 | But Lucy was a white-sailed trim-rigged yacht whose clean lines cut the waves straight to Jay 's heart . |
| 19 | The birds whose selective predation put the finishing touches to their evolution must , at least collectively , have had excellently good vision . |
| 20 | Bright stockings , and long hair , and trousers in untrouserlike colours like pink and lemon yellow , velvet jackets , loud voices and laughter , warned the staider citizens of Shorehaven that actors had arrived in their midst , an exotic flock of migrant birds whose fine plumage mocked the grey and tan and black that they had adopted as camouflage for the winter months . |
| 21 | Outside in the courtyard lay brothers were moving baggage from the carts to sumpter ponies whose iron-shod hooves scraped the cobbles , their hot breath hanging like clouds as they whinnied in protest at being taken from their warm stables . |
| 22 | Two of the things we do know about communication and representation within the brain are , first , that they are brought about by nerve cells , and , second , that the neocortex is the most interesting bit of the brain to consider since it is the part whose great expansion distinguishes the primates from other mammals , and makes humankind pre-eminent among primates . |
| 23 | As a consequence , government has been able to expand the sphere of its operations at the expense of the peasant farmers whose primary produce formed the bulk of exports . |
| 24 | The Presbyterians drifted into Unitarianism whose rational approach attracted the ministers and the merchants but had little appeal to the poor ; there was no ‘ enthusiasm ’ about it . |
| 25 | Prospero 's Books ( April 25 ) is the new one from Greenaway whose previous movies include The Draughtsman 's Contract and Drowning by Numbers . |
| 26 | On the ground their scudding shadows dappled the hills , hills that tumbled down to the ragged but level line , where the uplands ended and the deep gorge-like valleys began . |
| 27 | Today we approached from the most picturesque direction , through a stile set in the wall of the narrow stone bridge whose elegant arches span the burn 's deep-cut ravine . |
| 28 | Kiefer Sutherland stars as Kevin Richter , an uncontrollable teenager whose hidden past holds the key to changing his life . |
| 29 | The hero , Beowulf , does battle with Grendel and Grendel 's mother , two enormous monsters which haunt the swamps — ‘ moras ’ in Anglo-Saxon — from which they emerge to wreak havoc before returning to a mere in the very heart of the fen : ‘ The lake which they inhabit lies not many miles from here , overhung with groves of rime-crusted trees whose thick roots darken the water . ’ |
| 30 | But it was Mary whose bold appearance drew the breath and the admiration of all of them . |