Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the war continued , and until early 1945 continued on French soil , the General 's main concerns remained to secure the authority of his state , to maximize the French military contribution in the war against Germany , and to ensure as large a role as possible for France in the formulation of the peace settlement . |
| 2 | I felt sorry for Alfred at the time — I still do . |
| 3 | Point taken , and I really feel sorry for Rocky at the moment , and hope he does n't leave , but I think with a player like Strachan at the club , who I believe is one of the best players in the Premier League at the moment , I think it would be foolish to leave him out . |
| 4 | The trio , all with realistic gold medal aspirations , were originally pre-selected for Barcelona on the strength of their international records but , at a controversial meeting of the British Canoe Union slalom committee in November , canoe club representatives rejected the principle of pre-selection in favour of first-past-the-post trials . |
| 5 | I 've always been dippy about Charity from a child . |
| 6 | You can tell there 's something different about Oscar from the moment you see him . |
| 7 | Surkov said , rising , ‘ I must be fresh for Maggie in the morning . ’ |
| 8 | Despite all the evidence against her , despite her own words , her betraying silences , had he been wrong about Isabel from the start ? |
| 9 | Kate Collingwood , writing as tutor-organiser for Essex with a Federation Executive highly committed to voluntary participation , felt that ‘ any of my organising work could be done by voluntary branch members if they had the time . |
| 10 | Blackburn are six points clear of Liverpool in the table and have beaten them to a place in the Coca-Cola Cup quarter-finals . |
| 11 | The Lancashire side recorded their 11th successive home win , and were seven points clear of Ipswich at the top , when they beat Newcastle United in February . |
| 12 | DENNIS GREENE , Wycombe 's £15,000 signing from Chelmsford in February , scored all his team 's goals in the 4–0 win at Altrincham to put them three points clear of Colchester in the race for the GM Vauxhall Conference title , writes Peter Ernest . |
| 13 | Dearden turned Tony Philliskirk 's spot kick around the post as Birmingham moved two points clear of Stoke with a game in hand . |
| 14 | Around the choir is a wooden bas-relief depicting the flight in 1620 of Frederick of the Palatinate to Warsaw after his defeat at the Battle of the White Mountain . |
| 15 | Measurements on core No. 2 of Larne-2 at a depth of 4100 ft , some 900 ft below the top of the Sherwood , averaged 23% porosity and 47 md permeability . |
| 16 | I remember discussing this with Mario on the way back from Brazil once , and I do n't think that 's the sole reason . |
| 17 | What went wrong with Germany as a nation ? |
| 18 | He 's playing at Southampton University , then flying back up on Sunday for a Sunday afternoon gig at the Aultnamain Inn , high above Tain on the mountain pass called the Struie . |
| 19 | You find the same toy as this in Indonesia in the shape of a lady bird , or at the turn of the century in London in the shape of an alligator |
| 20 | He was so different from John in every way that it was amazing to think the human race could contain them both . |
| 21 | The system was different in London from the rest of England and Wales , and differed again in Scotland and , of course , in Northern Ireland . |
| 22 | I felt totally different in Madrid from a year earlier in Athens . |
| 23 | But these were the only two films he had made in seven years , and there could have been little doubt that his particular tradition of uniformed , clenched , period Englishmen had become unfashionable in America with the coming of the new realist cinema immediately after the war . |
| 24 | How can a group be taken seriously , or be considered concerned , when it openly rejects co-operation with this two hundred and thirty million pound scheme which will very substantially increase the number of opportunities for the unemployed in Britain as a whole and in in particular . |
| 25 | Avioc from the UK has begun marketing Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcstation 10s in Russia through the Moscow Sparc centre : export licences are still required for RISC-based computer equipment but the firm says it takes only 10 to 12 weeks to get one . |
| 26 | The payroll system is now run on-line from Chessington via the Government Data Network . |
| 27 | Getting there is relatively easy — Nick 's train ticket cost £140 and he travelled direct from London on the Warsaw Express . |
| 28 | Now the fast expanding range of Yamaha software , clothing and accessories can be purchased either direct from Yamaha-Kemble at the address on the back page , or from your local Yamaha Dealer . |
| 29 | The Trunchbull started advancing slow and soft-footed upon Rupert in the manner of a tigress stalking a small deer . |
| 30 | Identification : Distinguished from Koi by the lack of barbels around the mouth ( Koi have 4 , goldfish 0 ) . |