Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had driven straight into a brick lorry , and car and driver coalesced in the final spasm . |
| 2 | From these expressions it is clear that , for specific choices of initial data , the curvature singularity formed by the interacting waves degenerates to a coordinate singularity . |
| 3 | The baby had rejected milk given by the foster mother . |
| 4 | An abandoned truck , its snout rammed into the steep bank of a cut , caused me a moment 's panic . |
| 5 | ON December 14 TODAY warned of the threat posed to women by the dangerously short sentence given to the multiple rapist Dr Thomas Courtney . |
| 6 | Throughout the Johannesburg commuter system , all station platforms were divided in half , for Whites and non-Whites respectively , and the trains were similarly divided so that the appropriate part stopped at the relevant stretch of platform . |
| 7 | WOMEN factory workers fighting for equal pension rights had their case referred to the European Court of Justice yesterday . |
| 8 | Lawyers and a shorthand writer gathered in the front room of his home in Beith , Strathclyde , to take his evidence before a court-appointed Commissioner . |
| 9 | She was said to have paid £1,000 towards the £2,000 down payment given to the undercover detectives by her father and Chief Superintendent John Homer said that in dealings with Mr Smith police had found him a difficult and opinionated man . |
| 10 | Even as the ‘ external functions ’ of the Soviet Armed Forces acquire real importance , the principal means upon which the USSR relies to influence change are what Westerners are accustomed to call ‘ other means ’ : moral , political and material support furnished below the legal threshold of intervention , designed to encourage and revolutionise or at least influence and infiltrate . |
| 11 | During the plague of 1603 rumours were fathered on him and John Dee [ q.v. ] to the effect that its future course depended on the imminent fall of a planet to earth . |
| 12 | In many respects the purchasing and contracting arrangements have strengthened the power of the locality to decide , mainly because of the reliance placed on the technical judgements of the caring professions . |
| 13 | Indeed , one of the reasons for the rapid absorption of the rational expectations hypothesis into new classical circles was that the underlying model of neoclassical economics in general and new classical macroeconomics in particular was the belief that this hypothesis conformed with the distinguishing feature of neoclassical theory , that of profit and utility maximization . |
| 14 | The horror provoked by the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots of 1780 was not just a response to their ferocity . |
| 15 | This failure is due not to cussedness but to ignorance of what Parliament intended by the obscure words of the legislation . |
| 16 | Analysis of political power in terms of ‘ agenda-setting ’ , with distinctions between ‘ institutional ’ and ‘ systemic ’ agendas , derives largely from the non-decision-making approach and is the nearest neo-elitism has come to producing general models of the kind favoured by the traditional elitists . |
| 17 | The most important difference was the protection given to the embalmed body itself . |
| 18 | In its shadow , in a square of orange brickwork part hidden by the long grass , stood a circular pool . |
| 19 | Royal Aberdeen Golf Club had a more original way of observing its 200 years existence with a Royal Aberdeen Bicentenary Whisky blended for the special birthday occasion . |
| 20 | Special finishes are of course completed in the time-honoured fashion ; sunbursts and other fancy finishes are carried out by hand . |
| 21 | Would Johnny appear to hang in mid-air , suspended on some invisible support hidden from the interested gaze of Cassie 's contemporaries ? |
| 22 | The debts shown in the Accounts relating to the Business ( less the amount of any provision or reserve calculated on the same basis as that applied in the corresponding accounts for the preceding three financial years ) were good and collectable in full in the ordinary course of business and have or will realise the net amount thereof . |
| 23 | No debt of the Business which may be owing at Completion is overdue by more than eight weeks and the amount of such debts ( less the amount of any provision or reserve calculated on the same basis as that applied in the Accounts and disclosed in the Disclosure Letter ) will be recoverable in full in the ordinary course of business and in any event not later than eight weeks after Completion and none of the said debts is subject to any counter-claim or set-off except to the extent of any such provision or reserve . |
| 24 | There are , of course , problems with measuring and interpreting trade union membership since in the United States , for example , some professional bodies may not call themselves trade unions although they engage in bargaining activities and in France the only source of such statistics is from the unions themselves ( or , indirectly , via the support given to the various unions in elections for enterprise committees ) . |
| 25 | The support given to the Urban Foundation showed British recognition of the acute shortage of housing for blacks in South Africa 's urban areas , a move welcomed by Nthato Motlana , chairman of Soweto 's civic association . |
| 26 | A number of missions owe their existence to the initiative and financial support given in the first place by the Association . |
| 27 | In this period of rapid social change , involving families moving from the countryside to the town , the support given by the wider network of relatives was of great importance for individual families . |
| 28 | Only one copy of Section 1 needs to be filled in , but ideally separate copies of Sections 2 , 3 and 4 should be filled in for each course taught in the appropriate field . |
| 29 | That was fine , but I had not reckoned with the excitement the case aroused in the popular press . |
| 30 | The real fire-fight developed over the stricken Mowhawk which was hit several times and her captain R. F. Jolly , R. N. was fatally injured and a number of his crew killed . |