Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | International organisations , though on a bread-and-butter level becoming from the 1860s rapidly more important and active , were still very much on the fringes of conventional diplomacy . |
| 2 | In the UNIP contest for the 1979 presidential nomination , when both Kapwepwe and Nkumbula challenged him , Kaunda showed that he was not prepared to tolerate any real alternative to himself , even when the bid came from the two most experienced politicians in the country . |
| 3 | This chapter deals with the two most formally complex types of lexical configuration , namely , hierarchies and proportional series . |
| 4 | Her mind stumbled over the new/old certainly that the garden-master she had loved was indeed a puppet . |
| 5 | The lower route passes through the wide quite valley of Scandale along a broad enclosed trackway leading to Scandale Pass . |
| 6 | As an inducement to the merger , the Government provided a £13.5 million grant for the development of a new computer range to compete with the then best selling System/360 computer family sold by IBM . |
| 7 | The first form of the therapy was carried out by scientists at America 's National Institutes of Health in 1990 on a four-year-old girl suffering from the same potentially fatal inherited disease . |
| 8 | erm The second half started as the first half finished , with a again a very erm entertaining game erm in the fiftieth minute , on a break , Almondsbury 's Alex Stocker was nearest to scoring for them when he floated a long ball forward which Mark Sibble was very glad to tip over the bar . |
| 9 | The thaw in US-Soviet relations and the unwillingness of both super-powers to prolong the war led to the first publicly acknowledged round of talks between Najibullah and sections of the mujaheddin alliance in November [ see p. 37855 ] . |
| 10 | I do n't know anything about Wallaces goal even though I heard the match report on the 12:00 A.M. BBC 5 sports news . |
| 11 | He is leading an English team to compete in the first ever Irish staging of the Jack Charlton Trout Cup — an event which will take place at a lake near Bantry in County Cork on March 29 and 30 . |
| 12 | Bob Geldof 's initiative resulted in the biggest ever sum of money being wrung out of the haves on behalf of the have-nots ; in itself and in isolation an admirable achievement . |
| 13 | Problems of access and transport remained until the 1750s much as they had for centuries , the roads miry and troublesome in winter , the tidal river valleys well-nigh impassable . |
| 14 | More slowly , separate institutions of a new kind were also provided for children , the emphasis shifting from the large sometimes disease-ridden ‘ barrack schools ’ in which they were accommodated in the mid-century , to the more intimate ‘ scattered homes ’ pioneered by the Sheffield Guardians in the 1890s , and ‘ cottage homes ’ on the model established by Barnardo . |
| 15 | Anger followed astonishment as the ball entered via the far upright . |
| 16 | To those like me whose education concentrated on the physical rather than the biological sciences , the Nilsson film was a revelation . |
| 17 | Emerging at the Antarctic Divergence , it replaces the water lost to the two northward flowing currents . |
| 18 | The first time your little bit of news gets on the Six o'clock News or your client is a member of a panel discussion , you will have arrived professionally . |
| 19 | The Audit Commission focused on the 20 most common operations , which account for about 30 per cent . |
| 20 | Yet the very development of television helped reduce the intended impact of the Gospel of good news delivered at the 8 o'clock ‘ mass ’ . |
| 21 | The JIT approach developed by the Japanese also reinforced their concept of total quality control . |
| 22 | It was a cavity made by the tumbling together of several large boulders , and roofed by the encroaching undergrowth . |
| 23 | This monograph deals with the practical rather than the theoretical aspects of stability tests on cosmetic products . |
| 24 | He recalled : ‘ The partner and my uncle went to the six o'clock train for London to try to head me off . |
| 25 | Tory leaders thundering against the takeover of Liverpool city council by the militant Left in the 1980s scarcely mentioned that it happened despite a majority of the city 's electorate voting against Labour . |
| 26 | Multiple passes through the camera increase the difficulty of exact placing and synchronization , which is why two or four projectors are often preferable While the projectors can be used in line , with the light of one lamp passing through two or more strips of developed and printed film , so that the first image goes through the second before hitting the unexposed film , the use of four rather than two projectors generally requires the use of a prism to bring the beam of light to the camera lens . |
| 27 | Unfavourable reaction to the Commission 's Report led to the first ever national conference in Great Britain of Adult Deaf and Dumb Missions and Associations , which at that time numbered upwards of thirty-six . |
| 28 | Having said that , the book deals with the ten roughly parallel valleys that cut deep into the range from the north , with details of no less than 115 hiking routes . |
| 29 | This was solved by setting up the first stall run by the eldest most respected woman in the village . |
| 30 | It seems that when a change is in progress , polysyllabic environments will be amongst the last to be affected : thus , the vowel observed in the polysyllable today may be the vowel that was formerly found in other environments . |