Example sentences of "[noun sg] [unc] [noun sg] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swinging the horse 's head to face the massed coolies again , Duclos drew a long solid wood truncheon from a leather saddle scabbard and stood up in the stirrups . |
| 2 | The war at sea was provoked by each side 's determination to deny the other the means of exporting its oil . |
| 3 | Indeed , it appears that in terms of its expected percentage vote the Right has failed to capitalise on the electorate 's wish to punish the ruling Socialists . |
| 4 | Her steps had slowed , as if in sympathy with her mind 's reluctance to confront the looming moment . |
| 5 | A lawyer 's work has the same value as that of a barber in that all men have the same right to cam a living from their labour . |
| 6 | A fundamentally important way in which the Nun 's Priest 's Tale reflects the overarching structure of the Canterbury Tales is by inviting profound reflection on the two criteria by which the tale-telling game on the pilgrimage is to be judged : " Sentence " and " solaas " — a familiar pairing of lust and loore , instruction and entertainment — are the two aspects of literature supposed by the terms of the competition to produce the best tales . |
| 7 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether Her Majesty 's Government support the United Nations-led efforts to send a Portuguese parliamentary mission to East Timor . |
| 8 | Her Majesty 's Government have the greatest respect for the International Court of Justice and we look to co-operating with it . |
| 9 | It has its origin in the academic institution 's need to justify the endless multiplication of commentaries , from undergraduate essays to doctoral dissertations and scholarly articles . |
| 10 | It is now barely 1.5 times average earnings , so Labour 's pledge to raise the top rate from 40% to ( in effect ) 59% can be made to sound threatening to millions of ordinary Britons . |
| 11 | Callaghan also found the Americans sympathetic ( in contrast to the Europeans ) to Labour 's attempt to ease the 1964 balance of payments crisis with a temporary 15 per cent import surcharge . |
| 12 | While Democrats in Congress gave support to the President 's decision to launch the biggest US military operation since the Vietnam War , Russia expressed ‘ deep concern ’ for what it dubbed gunboat diplomacy which violated the UN Charter . |
| 13 | Many blacks remained far from contented , yet two factors helped the President 's effort to quieten the racial issue . |
| 14 | By early the following year some Boards were , as Jones had foreseen , going into deficit , and this inevitably compromised the industry 's ability to meet the higher self-financing targets they had previously agreed with the Ministry . |
| 15 | The serenity , then , belongs to the poet , not to the myth : it lies precisely in the poet 's attempt to palliate the dark truths that the myth represents . |
| 16 | Traditionalists are complaining that the wedding 's publicity threatens the imperial mystique . |
| 17 | More specifically , Enkvist 's paper presents the formal organisation of texts as the outcome of a dynamic decision-making process , in which the writer assigns different values to a variety of different , and often conflicting , parameters ( such as end-weight , metre , rhyme , etc. ) , on the basis of the particular configuration of goals , situational constraints and discoursal conventions in which he or she is operating . |
| 18 | Given the carrier 's obligation to obtain the best possible price for the goods to be sold , good advice on what constitutes such a price in prevailing market conditions must surely be taken . |
| 19 | Although the loss would not have affected the landing , doubts about the Force 's navigation caused the senior naval officer to call off the raid . |
| 20 | The 18-year-old 's enthusiasm made the first and third chances for Hendrie after 51 and 66 minutes . |
| 21 | The students compete in the British Universities championships from Monday to Wednesday then Jenny will don her coach 's cap to take the British Select for a training session in preparation for the tour of Barbados . |
| 22 | By now most readers will know that I will have left Woodworker as you read this , and indeed by now the editor 's chair supports the capable frame of Zach Taylor . |
| 23 | The NGC spokesman said the council 's decision meant the public inquiry would consider the siting of the substation , a matter originally not on the agenda . |
| 24 | But this is exactly what large sections of the media , especially given Manchester City Council 's refusal to publish the full report for fear of litigation , took to be the real meaning of the report . |
| 25 | Wirral Council 's refusal to approve the original plan led to the the inquiry being ordered . |
| 26 | A fourth round of Premiers ' talks was due to be held in Pyongyang , the North Korean capital on Feb. 25-28 , 1991 , although the South 's refusal to cancel the next Team Spirit exercise ( due to begin in January ) made it unclear whether this meeting would go ahead as scheduled . |
| 27 | It was Law 's achievement to keep the extreme right within the mainstream of the political system when it might have felt the need to abandon party politics altogether . |
| 28 | The sun 's light has the greatest significance for plants , which use it to manufacture their food through photosynthesis . |
| 29 | As a particular form of Re , the Aten , initially as a hawk-headed god and then in the form of a sun disk with rays terminating in life-giving hands , returned to a more basic idea of the sun 's power to offset the growing influence of Amun and re-emphasise the political position of the king . |
| 30 | The Overseer 's House dominated the vast plain of the East European plantation . |