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 | My little mistress went from her father 's bedroom to mine , and back again , and looked after us both with the greatest care . |
| 5 | Giving it would deprive the delivery driver of the opportunity to discover for himself some of the delightful scenery on his patch . |
| 6 | Only a handful of shows survived the First World War , during which many of the old varieties of berries became extinct . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This Appendix summarises the states through which each of the important LIFESPAN objects may be transitioned . |
| 10 | Many of them such as the American Express Gold Card and the NatWest Mastercard are charge cards , not credit cards . |
| 11 | about five of them all with the same name ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | and if people could get a copy of them all before the next meeting |
| 14 | Hold them at the same height above the ground and let go of them both at the same moment . |
| 15 | Yeah they 're spellings are a little bit easier than ours cos they change some of them some of the awkward ones . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I concluded my own column of that week as follows : ‘ After sneering at Lord Mogg , I suppose I should commit myself to a conclusion of my own from the last ten days ' dramas . |
| 18 | Although they 're among the poorest people in the community , many feel better off than they 've ever been — they 've got money , time and friends of their own for the first time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The magnificence of crinoline and the billowing hoop-skirt were certainly exciting an interest of their own in the mid-1850s , as something symptomatic of the extravagant optimism of the period . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 : . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | However , one will do well to reflect on the following remark of Bentham ( of which some of the second part of this work might be seen as an endorsement ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Questions are frequently divided into two or more parts , and this division raises difficulties of its own for the inexpert candidate . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | First , the state remains bureaucratized , though with some interesting departures of its own from the classic Weberian model of bureaucracy . |