Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johannitsa threatened the pope with accepting coronation from the patriarch of Constantinople : in 1203 Johannitsa submitted to the Holy See , the legate bestowed the pallium on the archbishop of Trnovo as primate and in November 1204 crowned Johannitsa king of the Bulgars and Wallachians . |
| 2 | If you 've got ta count the sheep count that , count that Eleanor jumping over the fucking be wardrobe . |
| 3 | Cumbrian-born David works in the nuclear materials accounts and safeguards office at Sellafield . |
| 4 | April 12 Baker meets with the Jordanian Foreign Minister Taher al-Masri in Geneva , the first high-level meeting between the two sides since the end of the Gulf war . |
| 5 | After 1620 Warner lived at the Woolstable in Charing Cross and at Cranborne Lodge , near Windsor , with Sir Thomas Aylesbury [ q.v. ] , who sponsored his continued work on optics and mathematics . |
| 6 | The tournament starts on Monday and world No 2 Graf starts as the logical favourite to win following Seles 's withdrawal . |
| 7 | In his electoral address of February 1985 Gorbachev returned to the European theme , regretting the loss of impetus that had occurred since the signature of the Helsinki Final Act ten years earlier and expressing the hope that West Europeans would not allow ‘ our common home ’ to be converted into a testing-ground for American doctrines of ‘ limited ’ nuclear war . |
| 8 | This Barth saw as the irreplaceable basis of Christian theology ; and , he insisted , once it had been recognised , there could be no possible reason for casting around in other directions , and certainly not for turning theology back into the contemplation of our own spiritual navels , or for blunting the challenge and promise of the gospel by seeking to reinterpret or ‘ improve ’ it in the terms of some alternative ( and therefore competing ) theological or philosophical frame of reference . |
| 9 | In an attempt to revive the UN plan the Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas and the French Minister-Delegate attached to the Foreign Affairs Ministry , Edwige Avice , planned to visit Hanoi , the Vietnamese capital , at the beginning of February to urge Vietnamese support for an agreement . |
| 10 | In an attempt to revive the deadlocked UN peace plan [ see p. 37712 ] , the Indonesian Foreign Minister , Ali Alatas , and the French Minister-Delegate attached to the Foreign Affairs Ministry , Edwige Avice ( co-chairs of the Paris International Conference on Cambodia — PICC ) , visited Vietnam in early February . |
| 11 | The period from 1 914 to 1933 Spalding identifies as the expansive and explosive period . |
| 12 | Instead of creating another SSR to reply to the new SPR , it is possible in this case to add the SPR to the SSR which already responds to the problem . |
| 13 | Instead of creating another SSR to reply to the new SPR , it is possible in this case to add the SPR to the SSR which already responds to the problem . |
| 14 | Some AEs cheat on the internal exam , and the author knows of one SAE working at DPR whose girlfriend , an AE there , obtained the question papers for him in advance . |
| 15 | The French Brown originates from the Swiss Brown , imported since 1827 and with its own breed society and herdbook in France since 1911 ; its appearance and qualities are described in the Alpine section , which also includes details of the Simmental group . |
| 16 | An announcement by Argentina 's President Carlos Menem rescinding a planned threefold hike in the duties on paper imported for book production was greeted with delight by hundreds of publishers and other book professionals from all over Latin America gathered for the official opening ceremony of the 19th Buenos Aires International Book Fair on 16th April . |
| 17 | personal contacts have also improved : one Soviet commentator reports that ‘ In the past , visits of Soviet and Latin American businessmen to each other for commercial talks or for an appraisal of export and import requirements were incidental ; nowadays hundreds of businessmen and experts from Latin America come to the Soviet Union each year and as many Soviet specialists visit the Latin American countries ’ ( Gladkov : 1975 , pp. 11–12 ) . |
| 18 | Despite the obstacles to personal and geographical mobility posed by the communal organization of the liberated peasants , the abolition of serfdom in 1861 nevertheless created conditions in which an even greater number than ever before of voluntary emigrants and settlers from the land-hungry provinces of central European Russia flocked towards the fertile steppe and forest-steppe lands of west and south-west Siberia , thus massively augmenting the influx of peasant settlers already observed in the previous century . |
| 19 | On Sept. 18-19 Baker delivered to the Syrian government a draft version of a " letter of assurances " reportedly confirming that the US regarded the Golan Heights as an occupied territory . |
| 20 | The summons was heard as an ordinary Friday summons in the Commercial Court and occupied about 20 minutes . |
| 21 | Parliament met at the nunnery outside the English-occupied town , and on 7 July agreed with the French commander and envoy , the seigneur d'Essé , that ‘ the ancient bond , confederation and amity standing between the realm of France and this country ’ was the best chance against ‘ the mortal wars , cruelties , depredations and intolerable injuries done by our old enemies of England ’ . |
| 22 | The NAC meeting of 7 November called on the Communist Party to give guarantees of non-interference in ILP affairs as a condition for continuing the United Front . |
| 23 | He dozed momentarily ; his legs relaxed and the plane wobbled him awake ; and there was a whole squadron of tiny Huns wheeling towards the tiny airfield . |
| 24 | The church interior was dominated by the rood-screen and rood with the visual images of the dying Christ flanked by the sorrowing and faithful Mary and John . |
| 25 | In 1106 Kálmán acceded to the Hungarian throne , and so began the long and often troubled relationship between Croatia and Hungary which lasted for over eight centuries . |
| 26 | In a move that will prop up the market for contemporary Quebecois art , and at the same time foster the province 's quest to reinforce its distinct cultural identity , the government of Quebec has guaranteed a C$5.4 million ( £2.25 million ; $4.5 million ) bank loan on behalf of the Musée d'art Contemporain de Montreal , enabling that institution to purchase en bloc 1,300 works ninety percent contemporary Quebecois amassed by the bankrupt engineering firm Lavalin Inc . |
| 27 | Perhaps people who depended as much on mammoths as the hunting bands of south Russia or central Europe did during the late Ice Age sought by such means to identify with their gigantic and awesome prey . |
| 28 | It is a matter of history that as the 1980s drew to a close , a few extra HSTs to cope with the unprecedented levels of business by now on offer would have been very welcome . |
| 29 | Only the dark Porsche squatting at the far end of the drive gives some indication that a local does not live here . |
| 30 | designed to attract a maximum profit without really thinking it through so in this way I do quite a strong Martin said in the previous two speeches . |