Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [det] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was an extraordinarily attractive girl , with a pale complexion , a freckled face , and ginger hair : a girl for whom most of the other GIs would willingly have given a monthly pay-packet . |
| 2 | Foreign bodies have already appeared on the Saatchi share register and despite its problems the group would clearly be a juicy prize for someone such as the fast-expanding French . |
| 3 | Is the Prime Minister aware that 500,000 cashmere jerseys are worth £75 million to textile communities such as my own in the central borders in Scotland ? |
| 4 | Giving it would deprive the delivery driver of the opportunity to discover for himself some of the delightful scenery on his patch . |
| 5 | Only a handful of shows survived the First World War , during which many of the old varieties of berries became extinct . |
| 6 | During Friday 20 May and Saturday the 21st the fierce chase continued , during which some of the French ships were scattered all over the Channel ; a few , like the Spanish Armada before them , only escaped by sailing right round the British Isles . |
| 7 | The most mouthwatering specimens tend to be found in limestones — famous sites are in the Silurian rocks of England and Mississipian rocks of the U.S.A. The group as a whole had a major crisis in the Permian , during which most of the Palaeozoic forms died out . |
| 8 | This Appendix summarises the states through which each of the important LIFESPAN objects may be transitioned . |
| 9 | Many of them such as the American Express Gold Card and the NatWest Mastercard are charge cards , not credit cards . |
| 10 | More generally , he was certainly the most effective in making his mark abroad ; he was the most sought-after of them all in the European marriage market , which was both highly profitable and rewarding to morale when this Scottish king succeeded where an English one failed and Mary of Guise became James 's second wife , rather than Henry VIII 's fourth . |
| 11 | Yeah they 're spellings are a little bit easier than ours cos they change some of them some of the awkward ones . |
| 12 | FOLLOWING the article by Warren Bagust on the raw deal David Gower has been given by the England selectors ( WCM Sept ) , I have been doing some research of my own on the relative merits of David Gower and Graham Gooch as batsmen and as captains of England . |
| 13 | Similarly a grant is paid to staff who move from a rented unfurnished house or flat to a similar property at the new base or who buy a house of their own at the new location . |
| 14 | But many Special Hospital patients could move straight into independent living in hostels or flats of their own with the right professional support from local services . |
| 15 | The sharpness of the turn led to a bitter faction fight , at the end of which most of the recent recruits had either left or been ejected on the toe of Healy 's boot . |
| 16 | The proximal tentacle pores are large armed with long rounded scales of which those on the lateral plate are the larger ; they number as follows : . |
| 17 | Everywhere the most important element was a department or more usually a series of departments divided along geographical lines , which handled correspondence with missions abroad , of which those in the major European capitals were by far the most significant . |
| 18 | In addition to the national objectives such as Health of the Nation , Patient 's Charter and Caring for People , NEHA has identified specific targets of its own for the coming year . |
| 19 | Questions are frequently divided into two or more parts , and this division raises difficulties of its own for the inexpert candidate . |
| 20 | In December , when a meeting between Mr Baker and Mr Hussein still looked possible , the European Community decided against starting talks of its own with the Iraqi leadership . |
| 21 | When the Company entered the dynastic politics of southern India by putting forward a candidate of its own in the Carnatic , the French were soon able to drive him back to Trichinopoly and beseige him there . |
| 22 | First , the state remains bureaucratized , though with some interesting departures of its own from the classic Weberian model of bureaucracy . |
| 23 | More significant , it was not until after it ended that she began to possess permanent representatives of her own in the major capitals of Europe . |
| 24 | , left , and are certainly on top of it all in the steeping area . |
| 25 | A former accountant who used to work in the music industry with Tony Visconti ( David Bowie 's producer ) , he now has a hit of his own with the quoted company The Pelican Group . |
| 26 | He gave an account of a dream of his own about the French Revolution , and the reign of terror following it . |
| 27 | He was also invited to conduct a Mass of his own before the imperial court , which , according to Leopold , went some way towards repairing the damage their enemies had done by preventing the opera . |
| 28 | A year earlier , David Damiani had married Blanche , an 18-year-old Nazareth girl , and set up a home of his own in the Arektenje district of Jaffa . |
| 29 | Still , Sisson managed a ‘ Herr Issyvoo ’ sting of his own in the Nazified Berlin of 1934 and watched ideological street-squads slanging one another in Paris the next year . |
| 30 | Michael told him about the evidence of religious experience in the Christian mystics ; both of what some of the great masters had said about it and of the slighter experience of simple Christians . |