Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour fingers jabbed at the Liberal Democrats , while Tory order papers were waved in the air . |
| 2 | Mandeville sneered as his strong teeth tore at the coarse rye bread . |
| 3 | Broad shoulders shrugged beneath the white T-shirt , as he moved away from her . |
| 4 | Finally , specific short-term shortages arose in the early 1970s , the most important being the 1972 crop failures ( when grain output was down 3 per cent on the previous year , against a trend growth rate of 3 per cent a year ) . |
| 5 | The fancy taste for ornaments and trinkets displayed by these peculiar birds appealed to the Victorian dilettante . |
| 6 | Then incongruous suburban chimes jangled from the front porch . |
| 7 | " Bourgeois culture is a barrier , a luxury , a corruption of man , an instrument of warfare " , he vehemently proclaimed in 1930.12 This negative , retrospective condemnation of the cultural values encoded in the French middle-class schooling of the time should not , however , divert attention from the fact that in 1916–17 the educational system was perceived by the child Nizan as the only available route to personal salvation and success . |
| 8 | Undoubtedly much of Lewkenor 's commercial activities verged on the illegal , but few of the Sussex coastal gentry were probably uninvolved in the piracy and smuggling which flourished in the troubled international scene and which , in the guise of ‘ sea-dogs ’ , has long been acknowledged as one of the great Elizabethan attributes . |
| 9 | Dr Fisher has clearly demonstrated that the export of manufactures to Portugal was closely bound to their subsequent re-export from Lisbon to Brazil : " The business that English merchants drove to the English colonies in this period was in fact complemented by substantial indirect trades to the Iberian empires in America . " |
| 10 | Indeed , as the Daurog clambered aboard so further splits appeared in the decaying planks of the hull . |
| 11 | Her slim legs flew along the wide grass path as if her life depended on it . |
| 12 | During the night a couple of German shells crashed into the far end of the orchard near the road . |
| 13 | As Ramaphosa was beginning discussions with members of the National Peace Secretariat ( who had offered to act as intermediaries in talks with the Ciskei authorities ) , some marchers broke through the razor-wire border fencing and started moving towards Bisho . |
| 14 | Some jews went in the opposite direction by expropriating a territory in Palestine ( on the grounds of an historical occupation ) to substantiate their claim to being a nation . |
| 15 | Eye-witness accounts by British journalists told of the unprovoked and apparently indiscriminate shooting of civilians by British soldiers . |
| 16 | The lights of on-coming cars glared in the dull day . |
| 17 | On the Tuesday our proper visits began to the surrounding area . |
| 18 | And that certain lack at the heart of both desire and identification : what Carson actually finds in twenty years abroad is some oppressive sexual mores epitomized in the loveless fuck over the bonnet of a Chevy Impala . |
| 19 | A similar willingness to perform radical treatment for breast cancer in the absence of evidence from randomised trials led to the misguided mutilation of thousands of women by radical mastectomy . |
| 20 | For the most part the scribes who copied the Pentateuch were very careful , and it would seem that very few errors crept into the Hebrew text . |
| 21 | SCOTTISH fencers excelled at the British Age Group Championships , Croydon . |
| 22 | In a triumph for the centre and right , the chief victors were the CEDA ( 117 seats ) and the Radicals ( 104 ) ; some forty seats went to the extreme right of Carlists and Alfonsists . |
| 23 | From Mongolia , at last they entered China , and after a few days came to the Great Wall , another of the earth 's wonders . |
| 24 | The humans had grown their winter coats , and the high buildings trembled in the tight grip of their stress equations . |
| 25 | Some organisations knew about the different types of viral hepatitis and that there is a long incubation period . |
| 26 | Social workers went to the primary school in St Margaret 's Hope , a brand new open-plan building , and removed them from there in front of the other children . |
| 27 | In the second half of the eighteenth century , two fresh problems came into the open , particularly through the work of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ( 1729–81 ) . |
| 28 | Defying the security cordon around the diplomatic area of Tirana , some 800 Albanians swarmed into the Italian mission and more than 500 into the French embassy ; smaller groups entered the Greek , Turkish , Hungarian and Czechoslovak missions . |
| 29 | No further hostilities occurred until the late afternoon . |
| 30 | Polish and German farmers collaborated throughout the Prussian east to extract huge sums of money from the Commission through the sale and resale of the same property several times over — each time at an ‘ improved ’ price . |