Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RUGBY LEAGUE chief executive Maurice Lindsay has defended the International Board 's decision to exclude Wales from the 1995 World Cup . |
| 2 | RUGBY LEAGUE chief executive Maurice Lindsay has defended the International Board 's decision to exclude Wales from the 1995 World Cup . |
| 3 | Based on David Stuart Leslie 's novel In My Solitude , the story cast Crawford in the clumsy ‘ two left feet ’ role for which he soon became familiar . |
| 4 | The other structures were dispersed to linger only in the imagination of designers ; in its place Conservative freedom provided London with the first of the giant company headquarters built in the style of Orwell 's Ministry of Truth — the Shell building ( 1958 ) . |
| 5 | A delegation from IT Division visited Japan for the annual DTI/MTI Talks held on 25th–26th March , which included an Expert Session on IT . |
| 6 | When his friend Calder took an autumn break , Sole skippered Scotland for the first time , in a 38-17 win against Fiji at Murrayfield . |
| 7 | In mid-November a United States congressional delegation visited China for the first time since the massacre . |
| 8 | In November a Vatican delegation visited Vietnam for the first time . |
| 9 | In the days when Romanians were still in a mood to tell jokes , they used to ask a rhetorical question : how long would it take for a Soviet expeditionary force to reach Bucharest from the Soviet border ? |
| 10 | ( According to some accounts , a journalist told Eddington in the early 1920s that he had heard there were only three people in the world who understood general relativity . |
| 11 | I can announce today , a new scheme of the Know How Fund on top of the ordinary British Council programme to help Poland on the ambitious Polish aim of achieving 20,000 new English language teachers by the year 2,000 , and as a contribution ; as a help , an immediate help to that scheme er we ; the Know How Fund will provide on top of the British Council programme £400,000 for the teacher training colleges in Poland . |
| 12 | CARDIFF coaching organiser Alex Evans will be keeping his cards close to his chest today ( Sat ) when his side meet Pontypridd in the annual Boxing Day clash at the Arms Park . |
| 13 | Engaged as consultants , Alec Issigonis and Alex Moulton half solved the problem by changing the rear suspension , but it took another outsider to put BRM on the right track . |
| 14 | It is mathematically impossible for any Democratic rival to overhaul Clinton in the primary process . |
| 15 | Now , with the board backing his ambition to put Wednesday into the top bracket , he will sign a new contract on Monday . |
| 16 | Conceived as part of the Turkish government 's determined programme to put Turkey on the artistic map the International Istanbul Biennial was launched in 1987 with the second exhibition of contemporary art in 1989 . |
| 17 | IDEALISM is a rare quality in the pragmatic world of football management , which is why it is important that Jim Jefferies should be successful in his attempt to keep Falkirk in the Premier Division by the rare route of playing attractive football . |
| 18 | The SNC also elected a delegation to represent Cambodia at the forthcoming UN General Assembly ( Hun Sen , SOC Foreign Minister Hor Nam Hong , NGC Vice-President and Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan and NGC Prime Minister and leader of the Khmer People 's National Liberation Front ( KPNLF ) , Son Sann ) . |
| 19 | An attempt has been made by the present writer to convey something of the lawless nature and the rough , tough frontierland conditions of post-Speranskii Siberia in his later chapter comparing Siberia to the American ‘ Wild West ’ and analysing the relationship between exile , vagrancy and crime in the region . |
| 20 | He prepares to do so , and only when it is clear that he will obey the divine command does God at the last moment spare his son and tell him to kill a sheep instead . |
| 21 | Sparrow Force landed at the island 's north-west port of Koebang to protect its airfield , but within a few days the Independent Company , with some Dutch troops , was sent east along the coast to occupy Dili in the Portuguese half of the island ( see map p. 77 ) where they landed on 17 December 1941 . |
| 22 | Dexter did not trust Russell one millimetre , let alone an inch , and he made up his mind to tell Blanche at the earliest opportunity . |
| 23 | Quite apart from the fact that Hopper 's movie was eventually virtually sabotaged by the studio ( or himself , depending on which side you were on ) , director Bob Rafelson had a good script which would without question consolidate Nicholson as the finest exponent of counter-culture appeal available anywhere in America in that year . |
| 24 | The child followed Aggie through the middle arch and towards a heavy , paintless oak door , then into a room dimly lit by a window that looked on to the covered way . |
| 25 | ‘ You ! ’ she barked , pointing at a small boy called Rupert in the front row . |
| 26 | They refused to sign , indeed , even though the negotiators had offered a ten-kilometre-wide , UN-controlled corridor linking Serbia to the Serb-held parts of northern Bosnia . |
| 27 | November is seldom an easy month for you and , until the Sun enters Sagittarius around the 22nd , life tends to be somewhat dreary and downbeat . |
| 28 | But one the Sun enters Gemini on the 19th and makes a decisive aspect to Jupiter on the 26th , the worst will be over . |
| 29 | The Sun enters Gemini on the 20th and highlights romance and the good things in life , but tempers could flare if you do n't settle a complex moral or financial issue . |
| 30 | A rare outing : Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum lends Sargent to the National Gallery |