Example sentences of "[conj] the [adv] [verb] [noun prp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomas , whom she met once every week or two , for dinner , or a trip to the theatre , or , if it was the weekend , a forage round the Upper East Side galleries or a visit to the Whitney or the newly opened Guggenheim Museum . |
| 2 | Three major divisions can be recognized ( Fig. 3.11 ) ( 1 ) the Southern ( Patagonian ) Andes , extending from Tierra del Fuego northwards to the Gulf of Penas at latitude 47°S where the actively spreading Chile Ridge extends westwards into the Pacific ; ( 2 ) the Central ( Chilean-Peruvian ) Andes reaching from the Gulf of Penas northwards to the Amotape cross structure at the Peru-Ecuador border where the northwestern trend of the mountain belt changes to a northeasterly orientation ; and ( 3 ) the northern ( Colombian-Venezuelan ) Andes , extending from the Amotape cross structure northwards and then eastwards to eventually link with the Caribbean Arc . |
| 3 | The UN 's slow reaction was highlighted in the journal , Africa Confidential , which reported in August that the newly appointed UN Development Programme Emergency Representative ( who was responsible for leading emergency co-ordination ) was delayed in Kenya for three months by bureaucratic problems . |
| 4 | Irish League secretary Harry Wallace today announced that the much delayed Ulster Cup finals will be staged on September 22 . |
| 5 | Indeed many advertisers , fearful of too close a relationship with Oz and It , dismissive — or completely ignorant — of Time Out , but wishing for a way into a market that the then flagging Melody Maker and NME were failing to tap , seemed optimistic about the prospects for a new alternative British music paper . |
| 6 | The balance are from Turkish naval and military museums , the Turkish and Islamic Museums of Istanbul and Bursa , the Sadberk Hanim Museum in Istanbul ( the first private museum in Turkey ) , and the privately owned Kuyas Collection , a major lender of Iznik pottery . |
| 7 | The exhibition ‘ Santiago Calatrava ’ in both the Gallery and the newly refurbished Florence Hall attracted huge crowds during the Autumn and received a great deal of publicity . |
| 8 | The urban districts of Exeter and Plymouth and the partly urbanized Tiverton District have far higher proportions of council-rented accommodation than the rural districts . |
| 9 | With but two new cars on show — the mighty Mercedes 500E and the technologically overdosed Mitsubishi Sigma — Paris seemed set to play a soft second fiddle to Birmingham 's show . |
| 10 | ABBA MAY HAVE HAD TO WAIT YEARS , but the Right Said Fred tribute industry is starting up early . |
| 11 | William Gray , junior , the older son , had a nursery garden in Fulham , at Parson 's Lane , later Peterborough Road , but the better known Fulham garden of the period was the one established before 1700 by the elder William Gray and later taken over by Christopher . |
| 12 | Apart from a cameo role in the ill-fated and so far unreleased Bloodhounds of Broadway , she has not taken a film role since the poorly conceived Shanghai Express and Who 's That Girl . |
| 13 | The request by the National History Museum for the loan of the skeleton in 1902 was turned down , but it was eventually presented to that museum when the heavily criticised RCVS museum was closed in 1921 . |
| 14 | He is bushy-tailed and defiantly optimistic for the new decade — which in his case starts early when the still battered England cricket team leave for the West Indies in less than three weeks . |