Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , with Teesside boxing doyen Phil Thomas as president it trains in the former Palm Lounge of the DeNiros pub/disco . |
| 2 | She had seen her country overrun by both the German and the Russian armies ; she knew at first-hand the madness of war and the fear it transmits to the civilian population . |
| 3 | Where we believe the orthodox account to be seriously misleading is in the causal relationships it postulates between the different factors , and especially its explanation of prison riots . |
| 4 | The dream itself has no meaning ; the effect it has on the second person tells a great deal about that person . |
| 5 | Jardines has threatened that , unless the regulators leave it alone , it may delist the shares of companies it controls from the local stock exchange — 14% of the market 's capitalisation . |
| 6 | It 's just that he seems so caring … in the work he does with the handicapped … ’ |
| 7 | If this does indeed prove to be the case , one of the most significant outcomes of the GCSE is likely to be the limitations it imposes on the parallel development of records of achievement . |
| 8 | In rug-making it refers to the contoured areas at the four right-angles of the field adjacent to the borders , usually only found in rugs employing a central medallion . |
| 9 | What we find in Guerrillas is a narrative of unfailing fascination which delivers to the senses of the reader a country very like the countries he knows in the real world : equally , his experience of that country is very like his experience of Naipaul 's India , in being rarely subdued by an awareness of the writer 's more deliberate meanings . |
| 10 | When the Theogonist accompanies the Empire army into battle he rides on the mobile War Altar of Sigmar , a huge chariot which carries the sacred altar surmounted by a huge statue of a griffon . |
| 11 | In Leicestershire , the man who wishes to forget income-tax , hydrogen bombs and the relentless onward march of science walks the field-paths , to which special maps and guides are provided ; in Devon he takes to the deep lanes between the farms . |
| 12 | The fee charged by the agent is , naturally enough , directly proportional to the compensation he gleans from the public authority on behalf of his client . |
| 13 | I do regret the waste of his remarkable talents and wonder about the flattering noises he makes towards the Labour Party . |
| 14 | The long-horned Gascon 's calves are red , a trait it shares with the Podolian types in Italy . |
| 15 | Now the thing with the bar-tailed lark is that it just lives in the desert where nothing else does and to complicate matters it lives in the forbidden zone . |
| 16 | The key to an understanding of relief-giving is in the functions it serves for the larger economic and political order , for relief is a secondary and supportive institution . |
| 17 | From her work as a professional painter and teacher she passes on the many tips , secrets and techniques that she has learned over the years and shows how gardens , with their immense variety and colour , can provide the artist with endless ideas . |
| 18 | NATIONAL Westminster Bank is about to apply for planning permission to redevelop a 1¼-acre site it owns in the prime central core of the City within yards of the Bank of England . |
| 19 | A readable combination of informed texts by known experts in the field — Calloway , Eric Turner , Malcolm Haslam etc. — the book is most useful for the attention it devotes to the later years of the shop 's production which have received much less attention in the literature than the celebrated Art Nouveau epoch . |
| 20 | Ford has added a turbocharger to provide a better performance for the 2.5-litre diesel it offers in the spacious Granada ( as well as a 1.8 turbo diesel in the Sierra range ) . |
| 21 | These questions are all the more important in that the picture it paints of the real meaning of the New Testament , of Jesus ' message , and of the essential nature of Christianity , accurately reflects an understanding of the matter which is still very widespread among Christians in the present day , though usually in less sophisticated form . |
| 22 | Patrick Taylor has visited the 400 places he describes in the pocket-sized The Gardener 's Guide to Britain ( Pavilion , £9.99 ) . |
| 23 | There is limestone cropping out on the ridge above , and in places it breaks through the thin ground cover even among the trees below . |
| 24 | Apart from the obvious water-carrying pipes , be sure to lag the expansion pipe up to the point it bends into the cold water storage tank . |
| 25 | One of the more fascinating changes has been the introduction of word processing equipment , whereby someone who types his article can just send off something like a floppy disk to his publisher , and without much intervention it appears as the printed article . |
| 26 | One of the more fascinating changes has been the introduction of word processing equipment , whereby someone who types his article can just sent off something like a floppy disk to his publisher , and without much intervention it appears as the printed article . |
| 27 | The picture he paints of the young Arthur Wellesley is of a man who is calm , courageous and decisive in the face of the enemy , but austere , remote and somewhat harsh in his personal life and relationships with others . |
| 28 | PRINCESS Diana yesterday revealed the pangs she feels over the Royal rift … with her beloved Mercedes car . |
| 29 | The Assistant Government Agent at Matara agreed that the establishment of village tribunals had led to a decrease in the number of police court cases , but asked ‘ what good end is obtained by merely removing the scene of litigation from one set of courts to another , and doubling the amount of litigation in the process , and how it is supposed that by increasing litigation twofold the peace and harmony of the district is secured , and litigation robbed of all the rancour and bad feelings it engenders in the ordinary courts ? ’ |
| 30 | Because when I was thinking about trying to talking to you today , I thought although we 've worked quite a lot with people along this group , you might be sitting here and thinking well you do n't seem to be doing any specific work for and with old people erm , well I think your quite independent and can work out your right that , but one of the things this front line review erm it erm , it 's considering Council front line services under various headings , one of which is Retired Services that the Council provide as a group , now the leader of the Council wants to erm , get public views on how we look at these services , so , and that 's , that 's individuals and groups and one of the things that you might like to think about and I 'm that we as a local government unit who are servicing this review can help you with , is to consider how you might want to fee in for that review , erm and , and consider this , that the re-services for retired people , that the Council provides that you use and basically whether you use that , or service , we want to hear that , the Council would need to know that cos were gon na be making decisions about whether or not they should continue in this front line review erm , and erm , you know , or what things you would , what , what are your questions on about those services , what other things you would like to see provided , things like that and I thing this group could quite easily make a collective representation , a collective submission to that process then you could do it as individual 's as well , so that , that exercise it , it should be over by the eleventh of October it starts on the sixth of September . |