Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Solanki had told the Lok Sabha on March 30 that " I now regret that I handed over this note " but that " neither I nor my ministry instructed the Swiss authorities to stop or impede investigations into the Bofors case " . |
| 2 | They all just go past me with their baked beans and their fish fingers and washing powder and chocolate biscuits , and my fingers punch the right figures on the till and I do n't see them at all . |
| 3 | Words came into my ears and my fingers made the appropriate movements . |
| 4 | You will undoubtedly be aware that ‘ Green ’ is the marketing tool of the 90 's and that my department enforces the statutory measures which aim to protect consumers against misdescriptions and misleading claims by manufacturers . |
| 5 | In the mornings my husband walked the endless corridors of oil power , hoping for patience to overcome impatience . |
| 6 | A woman who worked 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. said , " My husband works the same hours . |
| 7 | I swivel my head to churn the still-green shadows ; |
| 8 | Since the conversation was outpacing my efforts to note the salient points , I gave up trying and used the little tape-recorder I had brought with me . |
| 9 | I 've struggled to the edge of the navigable world in my Argo to find the golden fruits of the setting sun , and now I 've found them and they 're guarded by maidens . |
| 10 | As my breath scratches the last scribbles , and I write |
| 11 | I cut the engine again and let the boat drift towards the birds while my passengers admire the curious beaks . |
| 12 | As an example close to home , it would be a sanction much more powerful than an SEC if , as head of audit of my firm , I was called in to that panel to be told that if my firm wanted the institutional shareholders to vote their proxies in favour of our being reappointed auditors to this or that company , we would have to mend our ways in some respect . |
| 13 | After we had eaten , I lay half inside my sleeping-bag refixing the broken sun-lenses with tape . |
| 14 | My shadow lapped the outside steps because the doors were open letting out the heat , wide open because I had n't bothered to bolt them , and the side door was open too , creating a through-draught that made the fire smoke and the dogs restless . |
| 15 | In which towns in the Tyne Tees TV region does my company have the most/fewest customers per 1000 population ? |
| 16 | My wing-tips finger the early stars . |
| 17 | However , Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V.-C. was dealing with a different statute , which did not concern statutory regulatory powers , and which does not in my judgment have the same considerations of urgency . |
| 18 | My mother seized the dangling reins of conversation . |
| 19 | ‘ When my mother died the only persons to whom I owed duty were my lord who had followed the cross , and Marian , my lord 's daughter . |
| 20 | I was wearing a tight black one-piece , with hands and neck coloured Egertroic green , and artful of scarlet down my front to simulate the usual bloodstains . |
| 21 | This meant that most Liberals remained resolutely opposed to the idea that the Liberal Party had to change its policies to fit the new problems facing society . |
| 22 | Motorola Inc has put Intel Corp on the spot with its decision to price the first iterations of the PowerPC chip at $280 each for the 50MHz 601 and $374 each for the 66MHz 601 in quantities of 20,000 or more , since these are about half the prices Intel had pencilled in for its Pentium chips ( CI No 2,156 ) . |
| 23 | Its woes wrecked the thriving swaps business between banks and local authorities . |
| 24 | She dropped the brush , winnowing the pale strands of her hair with her fingers to loosen the stubborn tangles . |
| 25 | More importantly , it will indicate that theorists are following the right path in their attempts to unite the disparate forces of nature within one mathematical framework . |
| 26 | Within a modernist film criticism inflected by structuralism or poststructuralism , generic production is valued as different by its inability to resolve the social contradictions which its repetitions and conventions are there to repress . |
| 27 | CND was accused of using its computer to record the political activities of its 60 000 members , to allocate them to local groups and check on their attendance at meetings . |
| 28 | Their opponents linked the negative phenomena in Chinese society with ‘ bourgeois contamination ’ , as they had done so in the ‘ spiritual pollution ’ campaign . |
| 29 | Many parents of potential boy soldiers , sailors and airmen would have been very reluctant to allow their sons to join the armed forces if homosexuality had been allowed among those who were to train them . |
| 30 | Sociolinguists who present their data using the simple graphs and frequency tables popularized by Labov in his early work have often been criticized for lack of statistical sophistication . |