Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before he left Larnaca airport on a US Navy helicopter for the hop over to the American Embassy in East Beirut , his briefcase was rigged with a microchip Gigaherz transmitter no bigger than a butter biscuit . |
| 2 | They rap , they rock ( rack ? rop ? ) , they 're tighter than a miner 's shopping budget , they scare the shit out of the entire convention with a brutality that could put Rollins to shame and they are so flabbergastingly right for 1992 they ca n't possibly fail to sell , ooooh , millions . |
| 3 | Burton pulled the struggle out into the open and made this ‘ thing ’ that was himself stand up to as many trials as he could imagine . |
| 4 | The galley pulled away , its oars dipping as it made its way down , following the tide out into the open sea . |
| 5 | Carrick 's other winner was Alistair Murphy who tore the heart out of the Old Bleach four skipped by George Adair . |
| 6 | Class leader Lynn Lawrence , 46 , of Hawthorne Close , Bury , has handed the money over to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund . |
| 7 | If a grant is made and there is money or other assets in the estate of the person who has died , this will have to be used to pay the money back to the Social Fund . |
| 8 | You take some of the money out of the living assurance plan . |
| 9 | Hari took the money out of the old cracked teapot she kept on the shelf , she had just enough for the rent and she smiled in relief . |
| 10 | The girl who worked the front of house had already gone home and Rose had to take the money out of the safe and open up the box office to give the patrons their money back . |
| 11 | Andrus just pops in to see Sesostris and they have a bit of a chat , not a long one , they do n't even have a cup of coffee , mean bastards , both of them , and then Andrus goes on to the Cashier presumably with Sesostris 's authorization and the Cashier takes the money out of the safe and gives it to him . |
| 12 | To the extent that policies are widely publicized and are regarded as credible by agents , the grafting on of the rational expectations hypothesis simply speeds up the process of adjustment to a lower rate of inflation . |
| 13 | The journalists challenging the High Court ruling at yesterday 's hearing said they would pursue the case through to the European Court . |
| 14 | ‘ The files record each stage of the case up to the final decision by the Commander-in-Chief . |
| 15 | That was the main , but not the only cause of the subsequent riot , when the bonnie lieges , not a few ‘ in drink ’ as they used to say at the magistrate 's court , toppled the case over with the luckless , as well as legless leprechaun still inside . |
| 16 | From evidence such as this we can build up a picture of a society in which child mortality was common ; in which many of the children who survived their first year none the less died before they were twenty , as was still the case down to the early nineteenth century ; in which a serious famine or an outbreak of disease might rapidly depopulate a whole region — and yet in which the expectation of life of those who passed twenty was probably not sensationally lower than it is today . |
| 17 | The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on July 12 upheld the August 1990 conviction of former DC mayor Marion Barry for cocaine possession , but referred the case back to the original trial judge for resentencing , on the grounds that the judge had not given sufficient explanation for his decision in October to impose a sentence of six months ' imprisonment . |
| 18 | I had a flashback on Saturday listening to the build up to the Newcastle-scum game when the commentator described the third goal ( I think ) of the scum 's against Sheff . |
| 19 | The 19 district health authorities and 11 family health service authorities in the North Western Regional Health Authority , and the 11 SSDs in Greater Manchester and Lancashire , have achieved more than just the doling out of the joint finance budget . |
| 20 | I would be grateful if you could send the cheque along with the attached application form to : |
| 21 | Barney gave in to her pleas , and agreed to transport the canoe down to the Little Avon river on the roof-rack of the Armstrong after lunch . |
| 22 | Again she ignored him , doing amazingly well at steering the canoe out into the still waters of the lake . |
| 23 | A dull thud of hooves resounded through the valley as the horses checked pace and descended from the pasture on to the tree-shadowed bridleway that slants down the hillside to the ford at its base . |
| 24 | Thus , while inter-sectoral divisions were indeed dominant in the wave up to the inter-war depression , the latest phase of Fordist restructuring has involved the establishment of ‘ a new intra -sectoral spatial division between regions specializing in different sub-sectors within the same industry , such as research and development , component manufacture and final assembly ’ ( ibid. , p. 228 ) . |
| 25 | Waves formed by these northeast winds are responsible for the marked angle at the far point and for the building up of the recurved end so that it faces north-east . |
| 26 | She smoothed the hair back from the dead face . |
| 27 | Michelle has been paralysed from the chest down for the past 11 years — the result , she claims , of a routine jaw operation she underwent at Poole General Hospital in November 1982 . |
| 28 | Relieved to be out in the open again , I looked for the route up onto the giant hump of Rhossili Down above the village . |
| 29 | Presumably this was important to him ( it always was to me and I can fully understand this ) for he wrote the route up in the new routes books asking how others would feel if he subsequently went back and placed a single bolt runner to protect the route . |
| 30 | Venables takes the fight back to the High Court in October , when he will attempt to buy Sugar 's 48 per cent controlling interest in Spurs . |