Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | In the mornings my husband walked the endless corridors of oil power , hoping for patience to overcome impatience . |
| 4 | A woman who worked 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. said , " My husband works the same hours . |
| 5 | I swivel my head to churn the still-green shadows ; |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As my breath scratches the last scribbles , and I write |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | After we had eaten , I lay half inside my sleeping-bag refixing the broken sun-lenses with tape . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In which towns in the Tyne Tees TV region does my company have the most/fewest customers per 1000 population ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | My mother seized the dangling reins of conversation . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The question was put by a German television commentator in response to the resignation last week of one of Kohl 's top Cabinet ministers and in the face of mounting evidence that his government is falling seriously behind in its programme to stitch the two halves of the country together economically . |
| 20 | He 'd brought home some hairs from the cross on the back of a donkey when she was cutting her teeth , and Ma had made a little black silk bag to put them in so they could hang round her neck to keep the funny turns away . |
| 21 | Another initiative , by Germany 's Social Democratic Party , failed in its attempt to bring the warring parties together in a " workshop " in Bonn in late January . |
| 22 | It also welcomed these republics ' affirmation of " their readiness to respect the international commitments of the Soviet Union and to ensure single control of nuclear weapons on their territory " [ see p. 38655 ] . |
| 23 | Leonard , who plays more golf in the summer than bowls , partners Irish international senior skip and Lisnagarvey club mate Noel Graham in their bid to win the Irish pairs title for the first time since the brilliant Fisher and Ringland combination won it for the Lisburn club in 1970 . |
| 24 | On 28 September 1989 the Company received notice pursuant to Section 376 of the Companies Act 1985 from Mr Noel Falconer and other shareholders of their intention to move the following resolutions at the Company 's Annual General Meeting in 1990 . |
| 25 | As her anxiety grew the small towns and villages looked grey and inhospitable . |
| 26 | Aelin wished them goodbye , members of her household helping the injured Hearthwares to mount their steeds . |
| 27 | Birds were held in high regard because of their ability to soar between heaven and earth , among them birds of prey valued as protective spirits because of their propensity to kill the small animals that damage crops , as well as phoenixes considered to be especially effective against the scourges of drought and fire . |
| 28 | On January 21st , after three months of discussions , the managers of Continental , a German tyre maker , gave up trying to convince Pirelli , an Italian competitor , to drop its plan to merge the two firms and rejected any further talks . |
| 29 | Sensibly , but with some sensitivity , her boss made the same points to Muriel as he had made in his reference , asking her at the same time if these conflicts had ever arisen out of the office with family friends or neighbours . |
| 30 | But , more importantly , the inclusion of photography in her work introduces the formal pleasures of the outside world . |