Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dublin may have a healthy homegrown vibe , but it wo n't produce a hybrid post-dance noise to compare with the messed up trance of , say , Happy Mondays . |
| 2 | The new provision differs from the old in one significant way , by altering the terminology in which the Act is couched from the senior police officer 's ‘ opinion ’ that he is unable to prevent the serious public disorder to ‘ reasonably believes ’ that the imposition of conditions will not enable him to preserve order . |
| 3 | By 1824 she had lost all her American empire except for Cuba and Puerto Rico , while in metropolitan Spain the struggle waged in the thirties between constitutionalists and traditionalists was to reduce the core of the monarchy to bankruptcy and near anarchy . |
| 4 | As the chubby fallen cherub howls into the first of three solo shows with a head-down run through purely Pixies material , it 's all a bit like coming across the devil conducting a cheery pub singalong . |
| 5 | As the chubby fallen cherub howls into the first of three solo shows with a head-down run through purely Pixies material , it 's all a bit like coming across the devil conducting a cheery pub singalong . |
| 6 | The only point I felt w you know we mentioned the other day that if , if there 's a rise say on the first of April then you wan na get in a couple of months before then . |
| 7 | Burnside water , as it was aptly called , is now the headquarters building rebuilt in the 1920's as a multi storey plate glass building of some note at that time . |
| 8 | However , the inside of the cell differs from the outside in that there is a high internal concentration of potassium and a low concentration of sodium . |
| 9 | The publication of a book by a private citizen led to the breaking-off of diplomatic relations . |
| 10 | The thematic structure of the Arabic translation of this extract deviates from the original for a number of reasons . |
| 11 | His glance moved between the two of them . |
| 12 | To the north the power station was a glittering galaxy of white lights , its stark geometric bulk subsumed in the blue-black of the sky . |
| 13 | But her personal loss echoes through her researches to the end — just as the tragedy suffered by the Vietnamese during the US War informs everything and everyone she meets . |
| 14 | The caddies ' prizes for the 18 entrants were £1 , for the winner down to 2s. 0d. , and a club supplied by the Professional for the best behaved caddie . |
| 15 | Reflex : A fabric used on the outer of some sleeping bags . |
| 16 | It became one of his regular haunts , as did the Gargoyle , the club founded in the 1920s by David Tennant and run by him and Hermione Baddeley as a meeting-place for society and the arts . |
| 17 | Paul Harrison 's Inside the Inner City : Life under the Cutting Edge focused on Hackney , a London borough ranked among the worst off on any scale of urban deprivation ( Harrison , 1983 ) . |
| 18 | The light rested on the last of these for some while , then moved upward , searching the end wall . |
| 19 | LENNIE Lawrence has promised to be ruthless in his Middlesbrough team selection in a bid to live with the best in the Premier League next season . |
| 20 | Both the Express and the Mail went into the 1970s with an ageing readership , for they failed to replace their old readers with young new ones in the same numbers . |
| 21 | The convention established the International Civil Aviation Organization with its headquarters in Montreal and set up a secretariat which would become a most effective machine for ensuring that a rapidly developing civil aviation industry was not hampered by the red tape generated by the hundreds of frontiers that would have to be crossed . |
| 22 | The President fumbled at the bedtable for his glasses . |
| 23 | The two provincial elections took place against a background of public opinion polls showing PCP federal Prime Minister Brian Mulroney 's standing with the electorate dropping to the lowest for any prime minister in the history of Canadian opinion polling . |
| 24 | Sitting back on her seat , she relaxed as the engine started and the long , low open canal boat passed under the first of the very low bridges which spanned the narrow waterways , and tuned in her ear to the English commentary being given by the boat 's guide , mentally turning off when it was followed in French and German to engage in a desultory conversation with a fellow countryman who had chanced to take the place beside her , a pleasant young man attending his first seminar in Denmark . |
| 25 | A prominent example is the research conducted in the 1970s on the development of a new international division of labour . |
| 26 | This provides for the survival of causes of action vested in the deceased for the benefit of his estate . |
| 27 | The nights spent scraping away the silver backing among the best in my whole life , he wrote . |
| 28 | This means that it will in practice terminate at the earlier of ( i ) the next AGM of the company and ( ii ) the expiry of 12 months after the passing of the resolution . |
| 29 | Similarly , Shenfield , relying entirely upon Parish and Peacock for her calculations , asserted that while the number of old people rose by two-and-a-half times between 1910 and 1954 , the proportion of the national income transferred to the elderly during the same period had quadrupled ( Shenfield 1957 ) . |
| 30 | This change came with the eighth in the Val Fajr series , launched in the south on 9 February in commemoration of the period seven years earlier when the Shah left and Khomeini returned from his sojourn in France . |