Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Closer to home , BARNEY from NEW ORDER and long-time girlfriend SARAH became the proud parents of a very healthy baby boy called Dylan . |
| 2 | Eliot noted that in Australian religion Durkheim found the essential elements of all religion , and that for Durkheim communion , not worship , was the essential sentiment . |
| 3 | But another work by Lysippus , showing the hero Hercules purging the Augean Stables , was exhibited in Rome next to a statue of the triumphant Fabius Maximus on horseback . |
| 4 | The Prince and Princess of Wales came to a lonely hilltop in South Korea to honour the 900 men of the Gloucestershire Regiment who held back the Chinese Army pouring across the Imjin River in January 1951 . |
| 5 | Political progress was being made in establishing the Federation of South Arabia to give the Arab tribes around Aden enough political cohesion to resist the ambitions of the Imam of the Yemen and his Egyptian backers . |
| 6 | In the wake of the impressive list of meetings that the Secretary of State will be attending for the remainder of this year , will he encourage the Security Council to have a special meeting , after Britain 's anticipated endorsement of the Van den Stoel resolution on the destruction of human rights within Iraq at least to ensure that human rights monitors are in south Iraq to protect the unfortunate Shias ? |
| 7 | Before lunch Jones made the necessary arrangements and they both glanced at the Sunday newspapers , apparently for the first time . |
| 8 | But the moment Renaud reached the Saracen lines , he was put into irons ; the Christian defenders then watched in horror as he was dragged before the castle and tortured in front of them . |
| 9 | According to the Christian faith God gave the ten commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai and Jesus gave the Sermon on the Mount . |
| 10 | On the eve of the summit Gorbachev reaffirmed the sharp differences over this issue [ see also p. 37535 ] , but both sides indicated that they were seeking a mutually acceptable solution . |
| 11 | The skull was placed among the bones of Arak , and through the heat and the smoke Tallis watched the watching eyes , three cold people from an ancient day , remembering and honouring the dead . |
| 12 | Last week Cheapside reported the bare bones of Dorling Kindersley 's first set of interim results as a quoted company : sales up 20.2% to £38.6m and pretax profit up 20.8% to £4.2m ( after charging £208,000 of flotation costs ) . |
| 13 | Hungary 's capital Budapest symbolises the dramatic changes in the country since the communist collapse . |
| 14 | In The fire of Love Rolle emphasises the joyful aspects of his experience and his excitable , intense religiosity gives the reader the impression that he was on a perpetual — even a manic — ‘ high ’ . |
| 15 | It should be emphasised , however , that although in a sense Spinoza recommends the ethical precepts he endorses to each of us as what we will accept if we act with a view to our own best interest , these best interests are conceived in a way which is very far removed from the goals of what is commonly called egoism . |
| 16 | The variety Nottingham has the best fruits , which must be left on the tree as long as possible so that they become ‘ bletted ’ — dark brown and softly squidgy . |
| 17 | As a young child living in North London it was a special treat to be taken to Broxbourne aerodrome on a summer Sunday to watch the magnificent men operating from this lovely little grass field in the Lea valley . |
| 18 | Taking a key from inside his coat Michael opened the double doors of the building and pushed Tommy inside . |
| 19 | Part B. Use the same lists of words . |
| 20 | Again , you should check that this function Hd satisfies the five conditions of a metric . |
| 21 | In the park Curzon replaced the formal rides , canals , and ponds of the 1720s with a series of lakes and a softening of the landscape , for which Adam designed a magnificent bridge and other architectural features . |
| 22 | The proposals for the luckless Stone Bassett infuriated the surrounding villagers and tested the strength of UK planning controls to the limit . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , few of us are blessed with the bushman knowhow of Crocodile Dundee to soothe the savage beasts . |
| 24 | The philosophy presupposed , first , that the Iranian regime contained officials of reason and moderation with whom America could do business , and that these officials would intercede with the terrorist Hizbollah to release the American hostages they held in Beirut . |
| 25 | It was gripping stuff , but the drop-goal from Lance Sherrell put the new laws right into the spotlight . |
| 26 | Sending the delegation to Libya , Berri said , was an affront to the memory of the Imam , for whose disappearance Amal blamed the Libyan authorities . |
| 27 | As said , ‘ The history of science is science itself ’ and , appropriately , Fox uses the history of the study of heat in eighteenth and nineteenth century France to demonstrate the changing aspirations and preoccupations of the participating scientists . |
| 28 | This time last year Barbara faced the hard truths of her life in the White House and decided she wanted no more of it . |
| 29 | It is uncertain at what date Joyce knew the full details of his United States citizenship by birth . |
| 30 | Police in north Oxfordshire believe the same thieves may have been behind two separate raids within a few miles of each other at Steeple Aston ; both raids were part of a spate of break-ins reported to police in the Fox F M area . |