Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [noun] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The troubled 1986 ICL start-up housing the Distributed Array Processing , DAP , technology — built on the single instruction multiple data technique of massively parallel processing — has been in the hands of the receiver , Price Waterhouse , since June 16 . |
| 2 | Licio Gelli , former head of the banned P2 masonic lodge , and his assistant Umberto Ortolani received the longest sentences , of 18 years and six months and 19 years respectively . |
| 3 | The egalitarian implications of this announcement led the Governor-General of Moscow to ask the tsar for clarification , with the result that on 30 March Alexander made the oral remarks which are usually taken to represent the beginning of the emancipation process . |
| 4 | The Nicholson a double in the big meeting at Ascot … first winner was For the Grain and then good old Waterloo Boy won the major race of the day … |
| 5 | That wretched old ben Issachar did the cruellest thing possible to Anya — he put her , indefinitely , on hold . |
| 6 | A few Durava families entered the new élite , but many continued in their traditional occupation . |
| 7 | Householders in nearby Sandford Road fear the new development on the Springfield site , which would have space for nearly 200 new cells , will make the noise from the prison unbearable , forcing house prices down . |
| 8 | Both Thresher and the Chancellor have since said he paid the Pounds 17.47 for three bottles of wine in the chain 's nearby Connaught Street branch the previous day . |
| 9 | Former Stockton scrum half Barry Corbett and fly half Glynn Armstrong replace the injured duo . |
| 10 | In 1933 Princess Victoria joined the royal Yacht from this quay . |
| 11 | Cargill Agriculture 's Cambridgeshire-based Philip Simpson saw the first sample of Torrent a week ago . |
| 12 | Double–headed Class 37s Nos 37501 Teeside Steelmaster and 37502 British Steel Teeside haul the 10.47 British Steel Lackenby to Corby coil train through Cargo Fleet , Middlesborough on 15 November 1988 . |
| 13 | The Old Trafford defender collected the last of his 17 caps against Germany in September last year and is certain to play some part against Turkey because of the earlier withdrawal of QPR 's David Bardsley . |
| 14 | The BALLARD and OLD HARRY ROCKS form the northern arm of Swanage Bay . . |
| 15 | In chapter nine of The Form Rolle uses this Jesus prayer to recapitulate the whole progress in love he has so far described — it becomes as it were the tool which shapes and conveys his understanding of redemption : The prose is orchestrated to a climax . |
| 16 | In Somerset a jury declared that only a corner of north-west Somerset ought to remain within Exmoor Forest : another Somerset jury made the startling statement that King John had afforested all England ! |
| 17 | So they sat around , then , in deckchairs , waiting to scramble , telling each other bad jokes , and saying things like : ‘ Old Bill Ponsonby pranged the jolly old kite , today . ’ |
| 18 | The sumptuous Sherborne Missal represents the high point of Siferwas 's art . |
| 19 | There are 29 locks on the canal , the most interesting being here at Banavie , where the so-called Neptune Locks form the largest ‘ staircase ’ in Britain , consisting of 8 locks . |
| 20 | Another London dealer paid the same price for Lavery 's ‘ The Veranda ’ , depicting Charles Stuart Carstairs , Chairman of the Board for Knoedler 's , at leisure with his second wife and family ( est. $50–70,000 ) . |
| 21 | And er to avoid a collision and in fact I think they did strike but I 'm not really sure , but to avoid a collision this one then goes over the other side of the road , picks up this Ford Orion coming the over way , rolls it over the bank , and it goes underneath the tractive unit of the artic . |
| 22 | Churt 16-year-old John Bradshaw gave the best schoolboy expert class performance in Sunday 's Waltham Chase Club trial , which took place at Hut Hill , near Chandlers Ford . |
| 23 | ANGELIC Antoinette Armes became the first girl to win a race round the Derby track when striking on Incola at Epsom yesterday , but favourite backers did their money before the start . |
| 24 | She giggled internally at this , visualising tall and haughty Dr Neil wearing the black knickerbockers , funny jacket and cap of an English schoolboy . |
| 25 | The Anglo-Saxon cathedral burned down in 1067 , and the Norman Archbishop Lanfranc had the current cathedral built on almost exactly the same site . |
| 26 | Last month a 12-year-old Devon girl became the first in Britain to win an order allowing her to live with her grandparents . |
| 27 | In his speech on 26 March Gorbachev reiterated the Soviet proposals for the Mediterranean which had been issued previously following discussions with Malta . |
| 28 | After my return to England I was able to continue my interest in Burma 's future , for when General Aung San and his colleagues came to London for consultations with the British Government , Mr Attlee asked me to 10 Downing Street to introduce the various members to him . |
| 29 | The triumph of Fidel Castro 's 26 July Movement took the Soviet Union completely by surprise . |
| 30 | A packed Bloomsbury Theatre heard the great tenor work on arias from Verdi 's Un Ballo in Maschera with singers Jillian Foster ( soprano ) , Sarian Crevelle ( mezzo soprano ) , Ya Lin Zhang ( tenor ) and Gerard Quinn ( baritone ) . |