Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An argument at Formby 's works between a boy , John Carter , and a horse driver led to what the local paper called " A brutal attack upon the boy " . |
| 2 | Another kind developed in which the elaborated worm did not attach itself to the sea floor but continued to crawl about and secreted a small conical tent of shell under which it could huddle when in danger . |
| 3 | The crystallization of enzymes , the invention of the electrical method called electrophoresis which separates molecules according to their size and their electric charge , the development of very high speed centrifuges in which the larger proteins are separated from smaller ones as they spin , and later the application of X-ray crystallography to large molecules have all contributed to progress . |
| 4 | They ensured that the infant emperor continued to study in Paris for another seven years and meantime the French Resident Superior in Hue arrogated to himself the few remaining vestiges of imperial authority . |
| 5 | I had a determined attitude , a few months ' really hard winter training under my belt and a driving ambition to put behind me the previous year 's exit in the opening round . |
| 6 | Gallaudet College conferred on him the Honorary Degree of B.D. in recognition of his work for the deaf , and he was appointed an Officer of the French Academy . |
| 7 | He never doubts that it is possible or desirable for the critic to recreate in himself the mental condition of the author ; he only recognizes that it is difficult . |
| 8 | He then ordered a car to call for him the next morning for a similar occasion and was felled by a stroke while waiting for the lift . |
| 9 | Until the lonely hour arrives in which the philosophical proof of the truth of history is produced , then history will inevitably continue as a representation and interpretation of the past — rather than Marxist truth and the false or limited interpretation of all other historians . |
| 10 | In the case of a buy-out , disclosure should be made at the first board meeting at which the proposed buy-out is considered , and should be made to the full board and not to a committee of it . |
| 11 | Then came the disgraceful ‘ leaked minutes ’ of a BBC review board meeting in which the good name of the breathtakingly beautiful Selina Scott was traduced by a cad called Peter Estall . |
| 12 | Willingness to listen to what the subordinate is really saying and trying to understand what lies behind the spoken word |
| 13 | They set off from Wyre Mill to see for themselves the finishing touches being put to the weir nearby . |
| 14 | in the Court of Appeal , ‘ in view of the historic struggle of the legislature to secure for itself the sole power to levy money upon the subject , its complete success in that struggle , the elaborate means adopted by the representative House to control the amount , the conditions and the purpose of the levy , the circumstances would be remarkable indeed which would induce the court to believe that the legislature had sacrificed all the well-known checks and precautions , and , not in express words , but merely by implication , had entrusted a Minister of the Crown with undefined and unlimited powers of imposing charges upon the subject for purposes connected with his department . ’ |
| 15 | Only marriage has for him the required social connotations , expressing the kind of personal and social commitment mentioned earlier . |
| 16 | And the Rechem case comes to Scotland as the Judge sees for himself the former factory . |
| 17 | Professor Donaldson was so irate at my letter in the Times , which he considered to reflect upon English architects in general , that he proposed moving the Institute to reverse the recommendation of their council to award to me the annual Royal Gold Medal of the Institute , and was only dissuaded from attempting to inflict that gratuitous dishonour upon me by strong remonstrances . |
| 18 | A well-made pension plan inspired in him the same emotions as an estate-bottled single-vineyard wine of a good year , and about the same amount of waffle . |
| 19 | The warming phase was interrupted by a cold snap in which the first flip from warm to cool took only three years . |
| 20 | I appeared on the Front Bench in the Committee Sitting in which the hon. Gentleman referred and received an assurance from the Minister that getting a dispensation would not be a problem . |
| 21 | As such , no one would deny the unfairness and the imbalance in the system , and the need to reintroduce to it the fundamental legal precept of justice . |
| 22 | They had no need to worry about what the National Consumer Council called ‘ manageable commitment ’ , in which the customer operated a system of precisely monitored deferred payment , only ‘ overcommitment ’ and ‘ unmanageable commitment ’ . |
| 23 | Again , originally groups of ‘ adventurers ’ were recognized in trade with various lands — one trading with Prussia secured royal recognition in 1391 , another with the Netherlands in 1407 and a third with the Scandinavian lands in 1408 , but eventually the Netherlands group secured for itself the specific name of the Merchant Adventurers ' Company ( 64 , pp. 143–50 ) . |
| 24 | However , this job revealed to me the big , wide , illegal world of the homosexual . |
| 25 | the classic spreadsheet package combining from which the vast majority of PC-based business graphics are generated . |
| 26 | On our way back to the main road , at the end of the day we persuaded the reluctant Halim to investigate with us the loud festivities issuing from an isolated group of stilt houses . |
| 27 | Lissa thrust her belongings back into her jacket , bending her head to hide from him the secretive smile that touched her lips . |
| 28 | What had the vacillating vamp said to her the last time they were together ? |
| 29 | Once we get beyond the cheap debating point , has the right hon. and learned Gentleman thought about what the minimum wage will do to unemployment ? |
| 30 | That means both that there is a dialectical meaning of the practical ensemble … and that each singular event totalizes in itself the practical ensemble in the infinite richness of its singularity ’ ( II , 26 ) . |