Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Lords , because I consider that the decision of the visitor was right I concur in the order proposed by your Lordships that this appeal should be dismissed . |
| 2 | It would be possible I suppose with the commitment of people for the local party to make on the committee . |
| 3 | ‘ Eleven I have at the back there . ’ |
| 4 | And to be more explicit and to show you how tall I stand by the giant , I will put down a simile of human life as far as I now perceive it ; that is , to the point to which I say we both have arrived at . |
| 5 | Until I was eight I lived in the village of Feltwell in Norfolk where there was a joint RAF and USAF base . |
| 6 | Cos by then , they wo n't get to , they wo n't go to the crossing until about eight I suppose in the evening , it 'll be a night crossing wo n't it ? |
| 7 | After that I waited at the harbour until it was safe to go back to the beach without seeing the person I was dodging . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ When I was 12 I won the one length freestyle , backstroke and breaststroke events at the local schools gala , but after that I concentrated on the backstroke most of the time . ’ |
| 9 | I repeat that if one adds to that the £40 million from the foundation , the £20 million a year for football and the £1 million that I found for the champion coaching scheme , it is clear that our commitment to sport is greater than anyone 's . |
| 10 | Erm erm can I just say , just on the on the basis of Mr 's map erm I think that proves the point that er that I suggested at the outset of the discussion erm on this issue , that if you look at the distribution of settlements there outside the greenbelt , there 's nothing there that suggests that any of the particular sectors ought to be discounted . |
| 11 | All this I learn from the bus driver who chats to me as we wait for the traffic ahead to move . |
| 12 | When I was 12 I tunnelled into the side of the local canal and inserted a glass panel . |
| 13 | Jane 's have some I think by the look of things . |
| 14 | In 1985 I stood on the quayside , shivering in the cold drizzle , to watch Arthur Hutton plant the hedge , closely watched by his grandson Martin , who hopes one day to follow his grandfather in keeping up the custom . |
| 15 | So I did , just for a fortnight , but it was fourteen miles there in the morning , and fourteen back at night , and I 'm afraid I threw in the sponge ! |
| 16 | There is a marked concentration in the region of Sagittarius ( the Archer ) , and it was this which led to the discovery that we are having a lop-sided view of the Galaxy because we are not in the middle of it . |
| 17 | It was this which led to the appeal being re-argued before the Appellate Committee of seven which now reports to the House . |
| 18 | It is probably this which accounts for the menu price rises . |
| 19 | by the depth of the top surface Carboniferous which increases towards the N.N.E. An example is given by the Arsten Z1 borehole near Bremen where the boundary Westphalian C/D lying at a depth of 6180 m reaches the boundary between the anthracite and meta-anthracite stages with a vitrinite reflectance of 3.5% Rm ( for the top surface Carboniferous a value of 2.8% Rm was extrapolated ) . |
| 20 | A supervision order will cease to have effect if certain steps are taken or orders made under s25(1) ( a ) or ( b ) of the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 which provide for the recognition and enforcement of foreign custody orders . |
| 21 | It is 2 which amounts to the ratio decidendi of the case . |
| 22 | Half a mile or so along the valley bottom , the path converged with another which led down the hill from the village . |
| 23 | The Volkskammer passed a law on July 22 which provided for the re-establishment of the five Länder abolished by the East German government after the war : Brandenburg , Mecklenburg-West Pomerania , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt , and Thuringia . |
| 24 | After this she returned to the house hoping against hope that in the interval her daughter might have returned , but there was no sign of her . |
| 25 | Her favourite line was Bernhardt 's , and this she copied into the front of each of the eighteen notebooks , at least the five of them that I still have ; Oh well , I 'll just buy the theatre . |
| 26 | And with this she went into the scullery , Mick following her . |
| 27 | This she draped over the line , pinning it with a row of clothes pegs . |
| 28 | This she confined to the pocket in her overall . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , the party contained not a few who disapproved of the caution of the Labour leadership in retaining the electoral truce yet apparently obtaining so few significant concessions in respect of policy from the coalition government . |
| 30 | The incompetence of the king , and the arrogance and greed of the Despensers , had so alienated men from the court that none except the few who profited from the king 's favour would fight for him . |