Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who are not may choose the more attractive route , going north to Koblenz , turning right to follow the Rhine , turning left about 8km ( 5 miles ) after Kaiserstuhl to pick up the same road through Jestetten . |
| 2 | The Act of Union stirred up the latent nationalism even of non-Jacobite Scots . |
| 3 | The Robinson twins of Coleraine battled out the 200 metre breast stroke for 14–15 years , and it was Louise who this time eclipsed Emma by five seconds . |
| 4 | The dazed figure of Tock tumbled out the front door of his battered home , rubbing his eyes and brushing the dust from his hair and pyjamas . |
| 5 | He makes the point that the arrival of these southerners ( and westerners ) has enabled the University of Ulster to push up the minimum entry grades for some courses . |
| 6 | When Suleiman Franjieh refused to accept the growing Phalangist relationship with Israel in 1977 , Pierre Gemayel 's son Bashir — destined himself to be elected president of Lebanon — sent his gunmen to the north Lebanese town of Ehden to cut down the young man in whom Franjieh had vested all his hopes . |
| 7 | Outline how observations of Venus ruled out the Ptolemaic model of the Solar System . |
| 8 | It brought onto Chinese territory Russian forces whose reluctance to withdraw from the province of Manchuria sparked off the Russo-Japanese War a few years later . |
| 9 | This now historic photograph of Leeds shows how the nineteenth-century terraced houses were fitted into the pre-existing pattern of fields . |
| 10 | Biggins is regarded as the GM Vauxhall Conference 's most gifted midfielder , and with Brighton sliding down the Second Division and £2.5 million in the red , the 29-year-old says he is determined to put on a show that will humiliate the home side . |
| 11 | Soon after they moved in to Hamilton Terrace it became apparent that association with Minton brought out the petulant , fussy side of Vaughan . |
| 12 | The double bed where she had lain with Johnny occupied much the same position as did her own . |
| 13 | The former Soviet republics of Armenia , Azerbaijan , Byelarus , Kazakhstan , Kirgizstan , Moldova , Turkmenistan , Tajikistan , Uzbekistan and Ukraine were admitted as new members on Jan. 30 , with Russia taking over the Soviet Union 's seat , bringing the total number of CSCE members to 48 . |
| 14 | One only has to compare Scotland with England to see where the real problem lay . |
| 15 | With Boro plummeting down the Premier League table , Lawrence warned : ‘ One or two will have to go , and new players will have to come in . ’ |
| 16 | Nona and Peter wandered by the river , with Peter pointing out the various features that interested him . |
| 17 | But Hannibal 's wars with Rome brought down the devastating armies of the empire , and what war had not spoiled , the mosquito finished off . |
| 18 | A union organizer has travelled from Santiago to explain how the new union , El Libertador , is co-ordinating a plan to enable seasonal workers to qualify for government-subsidized housing . |
| 19 | Peter Donaldson of Red Lion Bookshop in Colchester spelled out the indirect effects of the Dillons discounting campaign quite graphically : ‘ One person came into the shop and was uncertain about buying Michael Palin 's Pole to Pole because she thought she would be able to buy it cheaper in Dillons . |
| 20 | Bomb disposal teams from Hereford blew up the buried horde in a series of controlled explosions throughout the day . |
| 21 | Becky , of Shanklin , on the Isle of Wight , will need at least one more operation in January to cover up the remaining bald patches on her head . |
| 22 | DR GEORGE Preti of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia took on the unenviable task of ‘ harvesting ’ sweat from the acrid armpits of scores of male volunteers . |
| 23 | Nationalists in Scotland say much the same thing about being part of the UK . |
| 24 | An NVQ co-ordinator , Gill Murdoch , was appointed in May to carry forward the challenging work of developing assessment strategies for level 4 qualifications and informing and helping potential centresand candidates in implementing the new qualification system . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , despite Northgate 's Irish facade and despite the growth of local mosquito exploration companies , mining in Ireland has since the sixties always been controlled from outside the country . |
| 26 | Also Chris Protheroe was still in Lusaka carrying out the more routine , though no less important , procedures in the field to ensure that all necessary information was recorded before the team left . |
| 27 | The Masters event in Eastbourne brought together the top 24 from the circuit ( determined by how many circuit points they had accumulated ) as competition intensified and world computer points were not to be contested . |
| 28 | In what was ultimately to become Venezuela the revolutionary implications of the movement were decisive ; a Junta in Caracas swept aside the existing administration and , in the name of preserving America for Ferdinand VII , disowned the authority of the Cadiz Regency , that is of the legal government of Spain . |
| 29 | The 28-year-old from Liverpool became only the third player to simultaneously hold both the world and UK titles when he triumphed at Preston a year ago . |
| 30 | A quotation ( provided by Randall Baker , private communication ) from a recent Australian funded cattle ranching scheme in Fiji illustrates both the unquestioned assumption that development must imply modern commercial development and the disparaging attitude towards existing social and economic organisation : |