Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | MR JOHN BROWNE , former Conservative MP for Winchester , who was ousted by his party and is now running against the Conservative candidate , is circulating election literature describing himself as the ‘ Conservative ’ and telling unsuspecting Tories not to ‘ split the vote ’ , writes Robert Shrimsley . |
| 2 | Should they attempt to influence the bishops , Archbishop Felici warned them on the first day of the new session , they would lose their privileges , a threat that caused considerable resentment as much among the fathers as among their advisers . |
| 3 | One banking employee told me of the demise of her bank branch . |
| 4 | Farmers will be offered money to cut the use of pesticides and fertilizers , and those who choose to convert to organic methods of cultivation will receive support premiums to assist them during the lean transition period . |
| 5 | Such sarcasm ill becomes anybody on the shaky ground that Goldschmidt here treads . |
| 6 | Commentators initially understood that his proposals and the WPE central committee resolution of March 6 which adopted his report excluded a multiparty system , and required opposition groups to merge themselves into the existing single party framework under its new name . |
| 7 | When Michele had retrieved the crutch from the back seat Luce followed him into the bare concrete building and waited while he knocked at the door of one of the ground-floor flats . |
| 8 | The police were called to resolve the dispute , and although Mr Levy did not make a formal complaint he contacted Arsenal Football Club to inform them of the incident . |
| 9 | ITN has recruited American investment bank Lehman Brothers to steer it through the restructuring . |
| 10 | I am also writing to at the South Side Association to notify her of the developments . |
| 11 | Bloom et al. " s study of how to is acquired in infinitival complement constructions led them to the clear conclusion that " the children learned to with the meaning " " direction towards " " and not as a meaningless syntactic marker " ( 1984 : 391 ) . |
| 12 | Still , Will had driven from his Stockport home for the twin purposes of getting some exercise and talking about his book , and neither he nor I fancied a day in sad cafe ambience doing nothing but the latter . |
| 13 | And — funny — my tender breast of chicken filled with garlic butter and herbs sauteed in sunflower oil with savoury rice and side salad reminds me of the chicken Kiev we occasionally buy in the supermarket . |
| 14 | With that strength of support coming from far and near , the South Ronaldsay Parents Action Committee launched itself into the mammoth task it faced . |
| 15 | The neck button disappeared — but not the buttonhole — and today a wedding boutonnière reminds us of the sporting ancestry of the coat . |
| 16 | Sponsors of each of the ten identical yachts have had to come up with a £220,000 entry fee to get them to the start line in September . |
| 17 | And can he reveal whether the tendering process says anything about the level of profits being made by VSEL in the manufacturing and construction of Trident submarines ? |
| 18 | The frontier post spotted him from the photos we rushed to the western frontier . |
| 19 | ‘ What am I supposed to do ? ’ he said in an aggrieved tone but ( fortunately , Nutty thought ) a misguided girl in puce trousers hit him over the head with a handbag and he launched himself instantly at his aggressor , being no respecter of the female sex , and thereby deflected a fair amount of Jazz 's opposition on to himself , the girl 's screaming indignation making her plight quite plain . |
| 20 | Does she agree that haemophiliacs and others who are given contaminated blood transfusions receive them from the national health service ? |
| 21 | On our way home via New York , some ‘ dear ’ friends ( as in generous ) , fixed us a stretch limo to take us to the airport . |
| 22 | Post-GLC and with Third Term Thatcherism staring it in the face , Labour did , in a sense , revert to type . |
| 23 | Straw Dogs managed to attract enough blood seekers to put it into the black at the box-office , but this disturbing tale of rural atrocities can scarcely have done much for the Cornish tourist industry . |
| 24 | The heron 's special neck vertebrae provides it with the speed to spear fish and donates to the neck a broken ‘ S ’ shape which is very dynamic . |
| 25 | By the time he meets his benefactor Pip has none of the sympathy of the reader as he is snobby , condescending and harsh towards Magwitch as is shown in this quote from Pip |
| 26 | From the village , a 10-minute cable car ride delivers you to the slopes . |
| 27 | What I was trying to say was , if you 're really bored with him and he 's doing is , any form of bio-chemistry start asking him about the correct names , what are they ? |
| 28 | The same goes for diving in front of a seal pup to protect it from the sealers . |
| 29 | The movie version blows it in the first couple of minutes . |
| 30 | Four-wheel drive Jeep tours take you through the canyons , past Hopi villages , Navajo homes with their hogan shelters and trading posts , and along winding trails . |