Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moscow sets terms for unity debate Following are extracts from an address to members of the European Parliament given yesterday by the Soviet Foreign Minister , Mr Eduard Shevardnadze . |
| 2 | Her features were well-shaped even so early , and the jaw placed finely on the white neck with its blue flush of springing hair . |
| 3 | Tsu Ma went across and stood there , one foot resting lightly on the tiled lip of the well as he looked back across the valley towards the south . |
| 4 | However , Soviet trade with the West expanded rapidly in the first half of 1989 , showing a 9 per cent growth in volume , while imports grew by about 11 per cent . |
| 5 | However , this Government have frozen , deliberately , purchase grants even in the past three years when the Minister has had funds at his disposal . |
| 6 | A white T-shirt clung faithfully to the contoured steel of his pectoral muscles . |
| 7 | From this , a lane goes forward to the last habitation , Dorusduain , with a parking space midway . |
| 8 | Because I 've had my hair highlighted regularly for the last ten years it gets really dry . |
| 9 | The 14 night Sovereign Wildlife Safari drives far across the Kenyan plains , visiting the huge game reserves at Samburu and Maasai Mara . |
| 10 | The Mandera refugee camp sits just inside the Kenyan border with Somalia . |
| 11 | If the disk is preserved A. abyssorum differs further in the naked ventral interradial area and in the coarser scaling of the disk . |
| 12 | Dr Richard Neilman of the Nazelden Foundation in Minneapolis identifies the following eight characteristics : The sufferer thinks frequently of the next opportunity for use or may make specific resolutions not to use . |
| 13 | Coleraine started brightly with Cook and Brian Donaghy both going close in the opening three minutes , but the Crues settled quickly and were presented with a golden opportunity to go ahead in the 12th minute . |
| 14 | The win earns them the opportunity to go forward to the national championships at Hemel Hempstead in the south of England . |
| 15 | The reason for the change points again to the essential dilemma trade unionism faced . |
| 16 | Unlike other countries , Britain does not allow the money to go straight to the local authorities to which it has been allocated . |
| 17 | This is an interesting case to examine , of course , because in Problems of Social Policy Titmuss presented it as a clear example of a policy change engendered originally by the social debate on evacuation , and then given sudden new urgency by the ‘ decisive ’ influence of Dunkirk in July 1940 ; a marked change in government thinking — a new acceptance of the milk-in-schools scheme as a universalist social service rather than a relief measure tainted with Poor Law associations — took place ‘ five days after the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk ’ . |
| 18 | Between these , gold-dark , dark-gold and violent pink , lay Lady Rose Martindale , solid but not fat or for in less , indeed very woman-shaped , in pink-and-brown striped silk bathing suit , with gold hair spattered softly over the brown flesh of her shoulders and whitish sand speckled on the gleam of her thighs where she had rolled from side to side . |
| 19 | The annual Spring wage offensive fought initially by the larger unions could be said to establish the benchmark for wage increases throughout Japanese industry . |
| 20 | The decision centred mainly on the particular circumstances leading to the relationship between the bank and the debtor . |
| 21 | Lightning forked overhead , illuminating the camp like day , and thunder crashed deafeningly through the deep darkness that followed . |
| 22 | In public perceptions the gap between Conservative unity and Labour unity narrowed sharply in the first few days of the campaign and again at the end , but actually increased very slightly in the third week . |
| 23 | Indeed , I wondered whether it was possible for someone who had not shared in their experience to pass physically through the white gateposts into the avenue , and attain the domain . |
| 24 | AGAIN related to a case reported only in the Daily Mail . |
| 25 | It comprised , for each wing , a 2.5-inch wide curved aluminium strip fastened chordwise to the upper and lower wing surfaces to cover the inboard and outboard attachments for the wing fuel tank ; shaped fairings covering the three flap hinges beneath the wing lower surface ; a 2-inch wide thin aluminium sheet pop-riveted to the wing undersurface and covering the gap between the flap and the wing undersurface ; and a similar 4-inch wide sheet covering the gap between the aileron and the wing undersurface . |
| 26 | ‘ You do n't believe that , do you ? ’ asked Mrs Lomax , as the Glory moved slowly down the rutted track . |
| 27 | They were watching the camp pack away for the last time before it moved on without them . |
| 28 | Adomnan recalls in his biography of Columba , written a century after the saint 's death , that one day the monks became aware of a strange presence in one of their pastures ; this experience occurred again at the same time every evening . |
| 29 | The closest score of the week came at Harwood and Jackson where Durham University moved closer off the bottom spot somewhat easier than the 58–52 final score suggests . |
| 30 | I think of the three forms — poems , novels , short stories — and the short story stands mid-way between the other two . |