Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the Gaijin rear Jotan 's five hundred were a solid mass cutting off the line of retreat . |
| 2 | " It was a political decision made by the government and not by the Federation , " Bland said . |
| 3 | Functionally the political decision shown in the drawing may seem very similar to the refusal to make a decision . |
| 4 | He defied suspension under a gagging contract imposed by the counties on their cricketers — but which , I feel , the players should have refused to sign . |
| 5 | The embroidery , a pattern of golden lily-flowers dotted here and there , each one at a fair distance from the other , would be confined to the shoulder band and to a broad sash fastening at the back in as large a bow as Miss Dallam would tolerate , its ends falling to the hem of her skirt . |
| 6 | An interpretation of a child 's language will be derived from some comparison between the child 's actual language and a descriptive framework incorporated within the assessment procedure . |
| 7 | Notice the narrow snout extending beyond the mouth which helps it to seek out small rodents , reptiles and invertebrates . |
| 8 | Within the coterminous Borough and Parliamentary Constituency of Blyth Valley , the old Labour hegemony based on the coal field has been seriously threatened by the emergence of an Alliance challenge . |
| 9 | But Aoun seems sure that , if he just hangs on regardless , some other miracle will in due course come to the rescue . |
| 10 | The fragmented appearance of their work , especially its Lettrist phase , their repudiation of conventional skills and scholarly manners ( evidenced in their use of personal insults ) have been absorbed by subcultural milieux and in due course adapted by the culture industries . |
| 11 | The species studied does not have to be chiral : the differential absorption comes from the effect of the magnetic field on degeneracy . |
| 12 | Now he found himself playing Kaa , the deaf snake known for the power of his hug . |
| 13 | However it is clear that the three divisions prioritize different spheres of social relations and will have different effects … we suggest that each division exists within the context of the others … |
| 14 | It is wisest to treat each variety according to the details and information that will be contained in the better kind of catalogue — the sort of information which will also influence your decision where to order . |
| 15 | The Chinese government in May 1990 rescinded the martial law order in Lhasa ( imposed in March 1989 following outbreaks of secessionist unrest ) , although a heavy armed presence remained in the city [ see p. 37454 ] . |
| 16 | In the centre of the town , where the Prussian royal palace used to stand , looms a huge and still unfinished building known as the House of the Soviets . |
| 17 | She ran through the last few streets and saw with relief the familiar tall building rising against the night sky . |
| 18 | where do all that money go for the fee ? |
| 19 | Accordingly I consider that Glidewell and Butler-Sloss L.JJ. were right to conclude that money paid to the revenue pursuant to a demand which was ultra vires can be recovered as money had and received . |
| 20 | It was claimed that money spent on the NHS between 1979 and 1987 had increased in real terms by a third , that more patients were receiving treatment than ever before and that the numbers of doctors , dentists and nurses had increased substantially . |
| 21 | Neither provision featured in the draft text prepared before the Eleventh Session of the Hague Conference . |
| 22 | They interpreted this finding as showing that associability lost by the stimulus during the first stage of training could outweigh the transfer deriving from the fact that both stage of the study involved inhibitory learning . |
| 23 | A FORMER spokesman for the EC Commission today blamed the British Government for the lack of European funding coming to the province . |
| 24 | One sees here a complementary tendency to the influence of free sculpture on relief apparent in the evolution of high relief : a free-standing statue influenced by the conventions of narrative art . |
| 25 | How far these findings apply to short-term contract working in the manufacturing sector is the subject of the following section . |
| 26 | No upside down you got it , that bit goes underneath the lip . |
| 27 | Daphne studied the menu a new one , a friendly dinosaur snaked down the side holding the printed menu between its paws . |
| 28 | Difficulties of a more acute kind began with the arrival of Charles Lloyd on 22 February . |
| 29 | That decision called for the establishment of joint working parties , for each of the subject areas , with responsibility for devising guidelines for the new syllabuses and specifying the detailed criteria relating to their assessment . |
| 30 | By virtue of section 65(2) , that decision imposed on the council a duty to secure that accommodation became available for the occupation of the plaintiff and his family . |