Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [noun prp] [vb -s] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | — CONSETT Number One Central Club 's chairman Jim Harris has headed the management team for 21 of his 26 years in the boardroom and treasurer Jimmy Hope has been treasurer for eight of the 11 years he has been on the committee . |
| 2 | Clinton 's long-time Arkansas-based aide Betsey Wright has seen the alliance work for a dozen years . |
| 3 | President de Klerk has said the city should not apply to become an apartheid-free zone before the relevant race laws are scrapped , probably next year . |
| 4 | A man who was alleged to have killed barman Brian Hawkins has had the charge against him dropped . |
| 5 | Milton Keynes mountain biker Jamie Carr has finished the Great Australian Bike Race … he 's ridden from coast to coast … one of only nine men to make it … |
| 6 | Cricket club president Brian Kneeshaw has said the club does not want to move from the Green Lane site . |
| 7 | SINN Fein president Gerry Adams has criticised the Dublin Government for supporting a new round of ‘ talks about talks ’ among the constitutional parties here . |
| 8 | PROFESSOR GEORGE Teeling-Smith has provided the nation with a grim warning , and one we should do well to heed before we are all poisoned to death . |
| 9 | FORMER journalist John Brook has hit the road to pursue his love of folk music . |
| 10 | National Federation of Anglers president Dave Bird has given the idea the thumbs-down . |
| 11 | In his influential Le Même et l'autre Vincent Descombes has described the entire history of twentieth-century philosophy in France as a succession of moves which attempt to get out of this Hegelian dialectic : the recent phenomenon of poststructuralism is part of a long philosophical story and distinguished only by what appears to be a certain success , or at least an avoidance of failure to the extent that it has at least managed to keep the game with Hegel in play . |
| 12 | Pest Control Anglia has passed the assessment and qualified and we are now evaluating the extent to which we apply for all other branches to be considered . |
| 13 | Co-ordinator Andrew Smart has set the following schedule to the end of April : |
| 14 | I shall be looking more closely at the implications of this point of view later , but here I want to suggest that in emphasising the importance of reflection Dorothy Heathcote has overstated the case . |
| 15 | TVMM marketing director Ian Platt has left the company following the firm 's merger with Scottish TV 's sales interests . |
| 16 | FILM director Woody Allen has seen the video tape his former lover Mia Farrow made of his daughter claiming he abused her . |
| 17 | DIRECTOR Steven Spielberg has received the ‘ Order of the Smile ’ from Polish children for his science fiction movie , E.T . |
| 18 | The miners leader Arthur Scargill has condemned the import of five thousands tons of cheap Russian coal being unloaded at docks in the region . |
| 19 | And in your redemption , and in my redemption Jesus Christ has satisfied the laws ' tiniest demand . |
| 20 | ACTOR Kevin Costner has landed the lead role in a £50 million movie about life after a nuclear holocaust . |
| 21 | Dublin-based director Brian Merriman has re-written the famous old show , strengthening some roles and re-shaping others to suit modern tastes . |
| 22 | COCKNEY actor Bob Hoskins has landed the starring role in BBC television 's The Changeling , Thomas Middleton 's Jacobean play about thwarted love . |
| 23 | Although director Tim Burton has recreated the futuristic urban nightmare of the first film and DeVito is a ghastly joy , this fishy business is n't so memorable . |
| 24 | The vehicle owners ' pressure group Stichting Weg has branded the plans ‘ impractical , unreasonable and inequitable ’ . |
| 25 | Social work director Paul Lee has said the offer is a matter between the family and the board . |
| 26 | Alliance Party Leader John Alderdice has condemned the murder . |
| 27 | Olympic decathlete Daley Thompson has left the world of track and field and is gearing up for a new career in motor racing . |
| 28 | TURKEY king Bernard Matthews has had the stuffing knocked out of his profits in the last six months . |
| 29 | His friend David Lodge has explored the same theme in farcical vein in Changing Places ( 1975 ) , Small World ( 1984 ) and Nice Work ( 1988 ) , where farce is sophisticated by literary allusion and softened by the hint that humane values , however easily forgotten in the contest of fashion and the struggle for careers , may yet be of intrinsic worth . |
| 30 | KOP legend Ray Kennedy has taken the heartbreaking decision to sell his prized collection of soccer memorabilia . |