Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rebel army of political dissidents calling itself the National Patriotic Forces of Liberia ( NPFL ) , believed by the United States State Department to be supported by Libya , and led by Charles Taylor , had staged a rebellion in December 1989 [ p. 37174 ] ; by April , however , the uprising appeared to be at least partly a reaction by local people to the behaviour of the armed forces , accused of brutality in their actions to suppress the rebellion earlier in the year . |
| 2 | The impressive hardware , the ( rather primitive ) motion-control techniques , and the startling light effects made it the biggest single breakthrough . |
| 3 | Some critics called him the new Tennyson , and he had a collection of unpublished works with him on the plane which crashed into a mountain , just eight miles from Kathmandu . |
| 4 | To quench is more than to refresh although our lying , lascivious eyes tell us the two are the same . |
| 5 | " The prosperity and technology of the developed countries give them the greater possibilities and the greater responsibility " . |
| 6 | The finding of individual coins or of coin hoards can in some rather obvious respects give us the same sort of information , since the loss of a single coin or the deposit of a hoard is proof of some sort of direct or indirect contact between the place of mint and the place of deposit . |
| 7 | This state-of-the-art shaver has three positions to give you the perfect shave and a trimmer for those with sideburns and/or moustache . |
| 8 | Sawle acknowledged this on the eve of the final Test when , asked to defend the dumping of Marsh , he made the point that it had been the bowlers — Craig McDermott ( whose 31 wickets made him the highest Australian wicket-taker in a series against India ) , Bruce Reid ( a wrecker in the second Test before breaking down again ) and Merv Hughes — who had been the key figures throughout the series . |
| 9 | The start of every cricket season causes cricketers of all standards and all ages to ask themselves the basic question , ‘ have I still got the old skills ? |
| 10 | The pose of the bald egg-shaped heads , the jointed arms stiffly flexed in a parody of benediction , the staring eyes and curved arrow-like lips gave them the hieratic look of a couple of painted deities . |
| 11 | To her relief , she was back to full fitness in time for the British Stroke-Play at Southerness where a 78 and 77 carved out of near gale-force winds gave her the half-way lead . |
| 12 | While the rest of the card world attempts to move on by using humour or Snoopy dogs to sell us the festive season , charity Christmas cards remain as old-fashioned , tedious and unimaginative as they have always been . |
| 13 | The move followed a series of attacks on white teachers by a group of pro-PAC black youths calling themselves the Revolutionary Watchdogs . |
| 14 | However , although Leese 's virulent anti-semitism and racial fascist beliefs made him the nearest equivalent in outlook to an English Hitler , his personality and attitude to leadership were very different . |
| 15 | He himself was overthrown and killed in October 1987 by a faction of the armed forces calling itself the Popular Front , which established itself as Burkina 's source of legislative and executive power . |
| 16 | He himself was overthrown and killed in October 1987 by a faction of the armed forces calling itself the Popular Front . |
| 17 | Jamie Spence 's win in the Canon European Masters made him the sixth first-time winner on this season 's Volvo Tour . |
| 18 | When asked which of all their various roles gave them the greatest satisfaction , 47% opted for being a mother , 22% simply being themselves , 15% being a partner/lover and just 10% being a working woman . |
| 19 | The British Association of Industrial Editors awarded me the 1992/93 Chairman 's Award about ten days ago , which was a real surprise and honour — in respect of voluntary input over five years , most notably efforts re Education & Professional Development . |
| 20 | What we hope to be able to do is to complete the requirement the staff target this year and set in train some industrial studies to see what the various options are and then once we enter the production investment phase then that would be the time that we would er look to doing the development work . |
| 21 | She 's arguing with the serving woman who 's lifted all the lids from the hot dishes to show her the succulent variety . |
| 22 | The band 's aggregate scores gave them the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association championship for their grade . |
| 23 | He sees the deviant group as creating its own circumstances to the extent that it makes meaningful the societal reactions to it , or better generates meaning for itself in a world whose societal reactions deny them the full status of persons . |
| 24 | The listeners tuned in to the German wavelengths because they found Joyce amusing unintentionally or for his anecdotes , or else because they wished to hear both sides of the argument , or even because they did not trust their own authorities to tell them the whole truth . |
| 25 | So his political background and other skills made him the logical candidate ’ . |
| 26 | In Luxor we hired a felucca with two crewmen to take us the 120 miles by river to Aswan . |
| 27 | Unbeknown to all , though , Harry 's bird arrived in Lisbon in 1975 , where it 's Swiss owners gave it the wrong name a nom-de-plume if you like . |
| 28 | She came out into the starlit night , and beckoned one of the battered taxis to take her the short distance to the Monte Samana complex . |
| 29 | The distant klaxons told him the whole camp was being mobilized . |
| 30 | I am hoping to meet some of the children before the Marathon and when the pain barrier hits me at around 20 miles I will only need to think of the courage and bravery of these young children to give me the extra incentive I need to finish the race . |