Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Minister made it clear a little more than a year ago that he was changing his attitude towards the Government of Syria , he said that he was able to do so because there was no known connection with terrorist organisations , such as that involving the appalling man , Jibril . |
| 2 | He told a Labour Co-ordinating Committee rally that it was not enough for Labour to win the next election . |
| 3 | In particular , will your erstwhile political columnist , R W Johnson , apologise for the appalling piece of sexism that appeared in NSS ( under a previous editor ) on 7 December 1990 , when he suggested that the only way for Labour to win the next election would be for Glenys Kinnock to ‘ have a word ’ with Neil and persuade him to stand down ? |
| 4 | Often it takes meetings such as this to reveal the pervasive nature of culturally determined behaviour . |
| 5 | For this to take the appropriate forms in the particular cases of longitudinal and lateral correlations , |
| 6 | After that come the Notorious Bits . |
| 7 | After that comes the divine response , but this time not before the people reject Joshua 's and Caleb 's assurances , and threaten to stone them . |
| 8 | After that comes the fun part — designing your extension or moving the furniture . |
| 9 | After that comes the initial coding . |
| 10 | One owner after another makes the amused discovery that these simple objects will keep the playful cat or kitten occupied much longer than any fancy toy . |
| 11 | Direct experience of " the real thing " must after all remain the primary purpose of any site visit . |
| 12 | If one works back from the sixteenth-century evidence , one is left with a strong impression that the years after 1450 saw the greatest pressure of enclosures . |
| 13 | These latter writers were trying to re-enter the lost world of childhood after first discarding the traditional concept of the afterlife . |
| 14 | Charles 's failure to call Parliament after 1681 removed the Whig challenge in the Commons , and a series of purges of local corporations , livery companies , and lieutenancies effectively destroyed the local bases of Whig power , both in London and in the provincial towns . |
| 15 | Even so , it took ‘ Ramshackle Mac ’ ( a sobriquet bestowed by his friend Lady Londonderry ) a few years after 1931 to achieve the full splendour of his hopelessness . |
| 16 | However , a resurgence of working-class agitation during 1833–4 alarmed the Whig government and the propertied classes in general . |
| 17 | The budget for 1991 allocates the first tranche of the ¥455 trillion ( $3.4 trillion ) that the government has agreed to spend on roads , railways , airports , housing , drains and other public works over the coming decade . |
| 18 | The bank estimated that Sri Lanka would require a total of $2,400 million during 1990-92 to finance the current-account deficit , to repay short-term loans contracted during the suspension of the SAF and to restore foreign exchange reserves to an acceptable level . |
| 19 | Yet it is precisely the persisting contrast between the male/female ratio at partnership level and below that concerns the English Law Society . |
| 20 | Ted Broughton joined the Palace in the summer of 1948 to occupy the outside-right position , which had never been satisfactorily filled since the war . |
| 21 | From that date , certain tram and trolleybus depôts and bus garages were renamed , in cases where there had been one of each bearing the same name . |
| 22 | There are technical terms for each of the six parts , the first letter of each forming the mnemonic CATWOE . |
| 23 | This unlikely pair of companions had left Miss Wharton 's flat in Crowhurst Gardens just before half past eight to walk the half-mile stretch of the Grand Union Canal to St Matthew 's church . |
| 24 | Well , well I was just maybe wondering whether you might use a part of that to support the new cabinet |
| 25 | The fifth paragraph of that has the proposed council tax bands the county council services but these have been amended by a letter you 've been sent dated the twenty- first of January , as a result of information from council regarding their tax base . |
| 26 | Nickell ( 1985 ) demonstrates that such behaviour can give rise to an error-correction specification ; it is also shown that the number of lagged values of that enter the estimated model is directly dependent upon the nature of the process generating s* |
| 27 | ‘ When I look back I wish that had n't happened , because out of that comes the written situation and something develops that has nothing to do with the game at all . ’ |
| 28 | The German biologist Ernst Haeckel 's Generelle Morphologie of 1866 pioneered the new approach . |
| 29 | On appeal by the defendants , the Court of Appeal allowed the appeal and discharged the injunction , holding that as a matter of domestic law there was no justification for extending to local authorities bringing proceedings under section 222 of the Act of 1972 to enforce the criminal law the privilege enjoyed by the Crown alone of being granted an interlocutory injunction without giving a cross-undertaking as to damages ; and that since it had not been established that the defendants had no defence under article 30 of the E.E.C . |
| 30 | A score of 11–12 suggests the relevant parts only need be revised . |