Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Betts take on the Piggotts in the other semi-final . |
| 2 | I went down the Kentucky in the High Street the other day , I had just come out , I was just standing there , when these black kids come up and start jostling me and then they nicks my chicken and chips . |
| 3 | Richie Daly had sailed down the Mersey in the same convoy as Gerry and now he was home . |
| 4 | It also has a higher actual mortality , because it looks after its patients less well , and so the SMR between the two ICUs will reveal little difference . |
| 5 | Except this is not the Italy of the Middle Ages ; this is Johannesburg , South Africa in 1991 . |
| 6 | It 's hardly the Mecca of the Irish countryside . |
| 7 | Between 1856 and 1859 he travelled to Palestine and Syria and up the Nile beyond the sixth cataract ; he believed he was only the second European to have gone so far . |
| 8 | To keep the GPRA at the table , de Gaulle was forced to agree to a series of major concessions on points that he had long proclaimed non- negotiable : to negotiate solely with the FLN ; to drop the demand for a cease-fire before negotiations could get under way ; and to give up the Sahara to the embryonic Algerian republic . |
| 9 | A particular form of abuse which was greatly resented was the levying of extra taxes to pay for imperial ceremonies — for example the assumption of power by a new sultan — and for the increasing costs of the wars which the empire was forced to fight as its power was challenged by its enemies , notably the Habsburgs during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 10 | He 'd planned this summit carefully , and now the Zen of the entire thing had gone crazy , because just as Dad opened his mouth to start talking blood had started to drip into my lap from my nose as a result of Charlie chucking me into his drum-kit . |
| 11 | It was n't even the Wimbledon of The Complete History . |
| 12 | Why there was even a Felicity at the other end of Chadlington : Felicity Chugg , who lived with her widowed sister , Deborah Hensprawn , and her two cocker spaniels . |
| 13 | ‘ Almost every Friday for the past year , and Wednesdays too , some weeks . ’ |
| 14 | Sloppy presentation returns on ‘ Great Choral Works ’ ( ) , a disc which takes us back to Canada in the company of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and — depending on whether you choose to believe the inner front cover of the disc or its back cover — either the Roy Thomson Hall Orchestra under Elmer Iseler ( with the Toronto SO under Andrew Davis contributing just one of the thirteen tracks ) or else the TSO/Davis throughout the whole disc . |
| 15 | This is why the CIA during the 50s and 60s covertly supported a multitude of initiatives whose aim was to present the new American Art across the world as a promise for the future . |
| 16 | Joxe 's position was taken by Philippe Marchand , previously a Minister-Delegate at the Interior Ministry who had been responsible for Territorial Collectivities and Civil Security . |
| 17 | It actually takes someone who has lived through the past 40 years as an adult to appreciate how extraordinarily the England of the 1970s differed from the England of the 1940s , and the France , Italy or Spain of the 1980s from those countries in the early 1950s . |