Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faldo sank a worthy putt for a birdie , but Norman 's victory still looked a formality until his tiny effort , similar to that which Scott Hoch missed for Faldo to win the 1989 Masters , hit the hole and ran past . |
| 2 | The two singles wins for Berkshire left the reigning champions in an irretrievable position and the home side added a dash more salt to their opponents ' wounds as they clinched a full eight victory points from the remaining doubles victory . |
| 3 | In return for an orderly resumption of work the government agreed ( i ) a general wage increase of 43 per cent for July to offset the inflationary effects of its current economic austerity programme , with a further review in August ; ( ii ) job security for and non-victimization of strikers ; ( iii ) compensation for public-sector workers made redundant between April 26 and July 21 , but not their reappointment ; ( iv ) the suspension of a programme to privatize land nationalized since 1979 by the former Sandinista ( FSLN ) government ; and ( v ) the retention of subsidies on public transport . |
| 4 | A plus point is that the National Trust for Scotland own the 15,000 acres of Kintail so there are no access complications or restrictions . |
| 5 | In Mexico , during the Wars of Independence the Virgin of Guadalupe protected the nationalist forces while the Spaniards placed their trust in the Virgen de los Remedios . |
| 6 | Robert of Torigny described the Norman proceedings thus : |
| 7 | Shortly after the Salon des Indépendants , the Societe des Artistes Indépendants of Brussels invited the French painters to join them in their yearly show , which was to open in June . |
| 8 | The chemical firm Du Pont was the leading polluter , accounting for 343.6 million pounds , and the state of Texas absorbed the most pollutants , 799.7 million pounds . |
| 9 | It probably failed for the Mixed Fours were re-introduced as a trial in 1960 and reintroduced yet again in 1974 largely on the initiative of Valerie Wormwald the then Ladies ' Captain . |
| 10 | For the people of Pakistan to enjoy the huge benefits of heating and cooking at the press of a switch , then praise be to the Darlington firms of Head Wrightson and Whessoe . |
| 11 | Darren Mason of Bordon braved the biting winds on the exposed Maddle Farm circuit at Upper Lambourn to achieve overall inter 100cc victory in the Berkshire Club motocross there on Sunday . |
| 12 | All local agreements up and down the country which it counted to eighty odds were all scrubbed and there was what you call a national agreement established to cover the whole of Scotland which meant the man in the remotest part of Scotland got the same wages and conditions as in as the man in Edinburgh or Glasgow or any big city . |
| 13 | The Mentawai Islands off the west coast of Sumatra represent the highest parts of the outer-arc ridge of the Sunda Arc and this structure can be traced northwards as far as the Indoburman Ranges in Burma ( Fig. 3.9 ) . |
| 14 | In 1549 the citizens of Exeter believed the rebellious peasants to be intent on pillage ; Norwich merchants concealed their valuables and fled . |
| 15 | Labour 's stronghold of Strathclyde has the worst schools in Scotland . |
| 16 | The main differences between Italian Fascism and Nazi Germany seem to be in the greater degree of autonomy of industry and the failure of Mussolini to unite the middle classes and the working classes even superficially . |
| 17 | One DCSL felt that a high proportion of the schools in her division were relatively conservative and unaspiring in terms of RBL reflecting the traditional aspirations of middle-class parents and a grammar-school.type curriculum . |
| 18 | In the following year the public were lectured from the courts on the duties of parenthood when , expressing himself ‘ perfectly satisfied that these crimes can be traced to neglect of parents ’ , the Recorder of Bradford struck the familiar harmonies of discontent : ‘ Parents of this time , unfortunately , do not take sufficient care in bringing up their children . |
| 19 | Not only can we use the considerable buying power of Guinness to get the best prices , but we can use our knowledge of suppliers all over the world to ensure the highest quality product . |
| 20 | We now look at two variants of I. Consider the following assertions : |
| 21 | Photographers arrived to take pictures of the mail bags , and the Yorkshire TV still of Hannah inhabited the front pages for weeks . |
| 22 | Only today I received a letter from Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia listing the Orthodox churches that had been destroyed by Croats . |
| 23 | The subject of Orpheus entrancing the wild beasts , and the familiar association of Orpheus with wheels and the revolution of nature , seems to explain the choice of arrangement in four of the above instances ( although on numerous occasions elsewhere , e.g. Brading , lOW . |
| 24 | Potential members of Taurus include the listed companies affected by the scheme , registrars , private client brokers , retail brokers , custodian banks , institutional investors , and money brokers . |
| 25 | In 776 , when the Frankish army set out on the second invasion of Italy to quell the rebellious supporters of Prince Adelchis , the Westphalians and Engrialls revolted . |
| 26 | When the rest of Europe reaches the same standards as us , the same rules will apply . |
| 27 | The monks of Furness reclaimed the coastal marshes of Walney , with embankments incorporating beach pebbles . |
| 28 | Particularly in rocks of Eocene age the coin-like nummulites are important as rock builders . |
| 29 | The teenager from the Isle of Wight beat the visiting defenders to a centre from Paul Raynor and sent a glancing header into the top left-hand corner . |
| 30 | Geochemical results obtained as part of a collaborative study with the University of Hawaii confirm the separate identities of the terranes on either side of the suture . |