Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or huge satin ballgown skirts in shocking pink or lilac satin topped with rib-hugging knits for the new dance-in-a-cold-climate look . |
| 2 | The Lancashire ‘ cotton famine ’ , due to the cessation of cotton supplies during the American civil war of 1863–66 which caused severe unemployment and poverty , demonstrated most clearly that unemployment could be due to causes over which workers had no control ; it also demonstrated the peaceful fashion in which the labouring poor could behave in such circumstances . |
| 3 | That goes for the whole Scottish team , poised between the extinction of their American dream and a famous victory . |
| 4 | Later , there followed competition wins for the Catholic Apostolic church , Edinburgh ( 1871–3 ) , Edinburgh school board schools ( 1874–7 ) , and Edinburgh University medical schools ( 1874–86 ) . |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans he has for the Royal Naval Reserve ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 6 | Calypso is a specifically Trinidadian musical form , but just as later Jamaican reggae stands as the archetypal Black music , so in this period does calypso . |
| 7 | As rivals in the individual stakes , though , McColgan starts as the leading British challenger and is strongly fancied to stop American Lynn Jennings claiming a third successive title . |
| 8 | For example , take Tokai 's notorious early '80s Fender copies : at long last , affordable , pro-quality guitars with classic looks for the impoverished working musician . |
| 9 | A ball is deemed to be in a lateral water hazard if it lies between the parallel red stakes marking the boundary of the lateral water hazard , whether or not the ball lies in the water or on the surrounding bank . |
| 10 | You play Indy , who takes on the Nazis as he searches for the precious power-giving material , Orichalcum . |
| 11 | Now to the house itself , one of the early observers gives us a clue when mentioning the house he writes of the fine Elizabethan chimneys still standing , these I believe are those which collapsed in 1973 after having previously been lowered owing to their dangerous condition , on the collapse of these some fine timber framing was discovered in the older parts of the house showing considerable blackening , and Mrs Lingham informed me that vestiges of a gallery were discovered , and it was suggested that this part of the building may have been of the hall type . |
| 12 | A terrace for open-air teas looks towards the award-winning British Tioxide white garden , re-created here after its success at the Gateshead Garden Festival . |
| 13 | From afar it looks like the classical volcanic cone and it is with a mounting sense of excitement that I climb the last section of loose lava gravel and sharp , welded lava rock . |
| 14 | As with most legislation , however , economics lies beneath the new Indian Arts and Crafts Law . |
| 15 | In females it generally consists of a group of stout bristles which lies beneath the extended fore Wing and engages there in a retinaculum formed from a patch of hairs near the cubitus . |
| 16 | She argues the case through a reading of a history painting ‘ Zeuxis Choosing his Models for the Painting of Helen of Troy ’ of the late 1770s in which one of the female figures stands behind the classical Greek artist and herself reaches for the chalk to start on the blank canvas beside her , and through a self portrait ‘ Angelica Kauffman Hesitating between the Arts of Music and Painting ’ ( 1794 ) . |
| 17 | Apart from the well known problem of casual interferences from non-experimental data , another important , less well known difficulty lies with the complex hierarchical structure of many social systems . |
| 18 | Responsibility for protecting the environment and for limiting damage already inflicted , lies with the entire human community . |
| 19 | If , as I suspect , Nicaragua faces serious economic problems , I would assume that part of the blame lies with the previous Nicaraguan government and that Chamorro may be faced with tough decisions needed to ensure that the ‘ empty stomachs ’ of the people are filled . |
| 20 | The double-voicedness of the novels examined in this chapter is thus itself double : not only are they illustrations of how the voice of an individual interacts with the anonymous collective voice of a discursive system , they also stage the confrontation between the language of fiction and that of the human sciences which have the same object but different methods . |
| 21 | The day starts with the great American breakfast , which , if you have n't managed to get as part of your hotel deal , should be eaten in a local coffee shop or diner and will set you back $3-$4 for eggs , bacon , toast and unlimited coffee . |
| 22 | The counselling process starts with the troubled emotional lives of individuals , whose feelings of worthlessness , inadequacy , fear or vulnerability have affected their lives in serious and possibly damaging ways , and whose relationships with other important people have become difficult , unbearable or have broken down . |
| 23 | The third axillary usually articulates with the posterior notal process and with a group of anal veins . |
| 24 | The first axillary articulates with the anterior notal process and is associated with the base of the subcostal vein . |
| 25 | Most of Sussex , except the coastal plain to the south of Chichester , lies within the central southern portion of the geological unit known as the Weald . |
| 26 | The horn part continues to be written entirely as for horn in F and its true character lies within the comfortable F-horn compass . |
| 27 | Patsy Healey has argued that the crux of the political dilemma lies in the traditional Conservative support in the shire counties : |
| 28 | We feel that the main contribution of this volume to existing debate lies in the actual ethnographic presentations of peaceful societies , with the overall interpretation being explications on indigenous conceptions of human nature and categories of emotions . |
| 29 | Again , the answer lies in the firm sharp warning but take notice of the difference in the warning given before guidance starts and those warnings given before the other methods are used . |
| 30 | A further possible explanation , however , lies in the well recognised production of large amounts of mucoprotein by villous tumours of the rectum . |