Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And judges Sir John Harvey-Jones and foot writer Jocelyn Dimbleby with presenter Loyd Grossman have to choose the winner who goes through to the final ‘ cook-off ’ in July . |
| 2 | The winners of the best gross trophy then decide , either by mutual agreement or by a play-off , on the player who goes on to the national championships . |
| 3 | A friend of mine was driving on the M1 when he came up behind everybody 's un-favourite motorist , the one who sits resolutely in the middle land and refuses to move left , no matter how empty the inside lane . |
| 4 | The most forceful arguments for the period being one of economic growth are those put forward by Bridbury , who points rightly to the phenomenal increases paid by certain towns in taxation between 1334 and 1524 . |
| 5 | Amanda Harris plays her as a termagant who steams about like the mad woman in the attic , her face set in a perpetual lockjawed scowl . |
| 6 | Mick Rooney is an artist who stands aside from the current vogue of somewhat conservative , civilised English painting as exemplified by Ken Howard and Bernard Dunstan . |
| 7 | Junior Bent ( Bristol City , 12.06 ) , Efan Ekoku ( Bournemouth , 12.07 ) , Adrian Littlejohn ( Sheff Utd , 12.08 ) , Iffy Onuora ( Huddersfield 12.09 ) , Keith Curle ( Man City , 12.10 ) , Rod McDonald ( Walsall , 12.18 ) , Tony Witter ( QPR , 12.19 ) and John Goodman ( Millwall , 12.40 ) , and late replacements Vance Warner ( Nottm Forest ) and Michael Brown ( Bolton ) , who stands in for the injured Stuart Storer ( 12.17 ) . |
| 8 | Perhaps the most poignant part of her latest novel is the story of Christine , oldest of the sisters , who grows up in the 1950s , and is later described by one of her sisters as ‘ a feminist before her time ’ — which is , as the sister observes , a highly lonely position . |
| 9 | Carreras will sing arias from Verdi 's La Traviata and Donizetti 's L'Elisir d'amore , and a duet from Lehar 's The Merry Widow with Yvonne Kenny , who opens tomorrow at the Royal Opera House in the title role of Handel 's Alcina . |
| 10 | I do n't mean here , this version necessarily , but you 're not the only person in the world who keeps up with the wider literature , you know . |
| 11 | ‘ Most people who use the train regularly know everyone who gets on at the first few stops . |
| 12 | We have become so used to thinking of Günter Wand as a conductor who specialises exclusively in the late 18th and 19th Century symphonic repertoire that it comes as something of a shock to find him performing a wide variety of works of more contemporary lineage . |
| 13 | This last quality — encouraged by Ashcroft Noble — he had learned to recognize in himself during the period of growth between the boy naturalist of The Childhood and the much-sought-after undergraduate writer of Lincoln College who breathes freely through the ornate pages of his own Oxford . |
| 14 | An employee who qualifies only for the lower rate of SMP is entitled to it throughout the Maternity Pay Period of up to 18 weeks . |
| 15 | Divison Three leaders Llanivaloes include spinner Michael Jones and Ian Jones , who steps up from the second team , for the home encounter with Cound . |
| 16 | As a physical presence , Lanegan is oddly compelling for a man who clings solemnly to the mic stand throughout , breaking off only occasionally to reach for a glass or perform his quaint little bop routine at the outset of ‘ Nearly Lost You ’ , another gast-flabbering newie . |
| 17 | ‘ Real people — Real problems — a human document ’ declared the poster for There Ai n't No Justice ( 1939 ) , about a boxer who walks out on the crooked world of the professional fighter . |
| 18 | Anyone who works close to the darker side of human nature can not help taking on board some of the pain . |
| 19 | Come August , when the action is beamed back from Barcelona , they might just recognise that man who works down at the local track . |
| 20 | But who knows out of the 20,000 people who visited the event this year , there may be similar people to my brother and me who enjoy music to the full and who could be in the top three next year ! |
| 21 | Perhaps the first task facing Mr Chris Patten , or whoever takes over from the current Governor , Lord Wilson , will be to break the deadlock over whether the People 's Liberation Army of China should set up shop in the glossy commercial heart of Hong Kong island . |