Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb -s] [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But Andebraham Giorgis , who heads up the educational division of the EPLF , is as interested in talking about the achievements and challenges of education as about the difficulties resulting from the war .
2 Some of the individual performances could do with more definition and detail , but there 's terrific work from David Burt , who has exactly the right mixture of romantic swagger and ruthless cynicism as Macheath , as well as a first-rate singing voice .
3 We see him only through the eyes of the bar-owner , who whiles away the steamy summer afternoons fantasising about this supposed menage a trois .
4 But rumour has it that a sevens tournament is going to be organised in Moscow in September to decide who takes over the Soviet place : Russia , Ukraine , Georgia , Latvia or Kazakhstan .
5 But Haslam points out that the competitor who takes up the new technology when the patents expire does not suffer from this halo effect .
6 Andy and William are standing on a seat ; Andy leans out over a table laden with glasses , a champagne bottle in one hand and his other arm held by William , who leans out the opposite way to balance him .
7 It is rightly said of him that he was always a pedagogue , but he is a pedagogue in the courtly nineteenth-century mode of Professor Agassiz , who sets up the controlled experiment and invites us to participate in it , not in the hectoring and charismatic mode of the star of the lecture-hall .
8 Mark has two ways of emphasising the fact that Jesus is fully and uniquely endowed with the Holy Spirit in his role as Son and Servant of Yahweh , who brings in the kingly rule of God in the end-time .
9 Who knows where the little boy is ?
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