Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [noun] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Licio Gelli , former head of the banned P2 masonic lodge , and his assistant Umberto Ortolani received the longest sentences , of 18 years and six months and 19 years respectively . |
| 2 | The Nicholson a double in the big meeting at Ascot … first winner was For the Grain and then good old Waterloo Boy won the major race of the day … |
| 3 | That wretched old ben Issachar did the cruellest thing possible to Anya — he put her , indefinitely , on hold . |
| 4 | Householders in nearby Sandford Road fear the new development on the Springfield site , which would have space for nearly 200 new cells , will make the noise from the prison unbearable , forcing house prices down . |
| 5 | Both Thresher and the Chancellor have since said he paid the Pounds 17.47 for three bottles of wine in the chain 's nearby Connaught Street branch the previous day . |
| 6 | Cargill Agriculture 's Cambridgeshire-based Philip Simpson saw the first sample of Torrent a week ago . |
| 7 | Double–headed Class 37s Nos 37501 Teeside Steelmaster and 37502 British Steel Teeside haul the 10.47 British Steel Lackenby to Corby coil train through Cargo Fleet , Middlesborough on 15 November 1988 . |
| 8 | The Old Trafford defender collected the last of his 17 caps against Germany in September last year and is certain to play some part against Turkey because of the earlier withdrawal of QPR 's David Bardsley . |
| 9 | The BALLARD and OLD HARRY ROCKS form the northern arm of Swanage Bay . . |
| 10 | So they sat around , then , in deckchairs , waiting to scramble , telling each other bad jokes , and saying things like : ‘ Old Bill Ponsonby pranged the jolly old kite , today . ’ |
| 11 | The sumptuous Sherborne Missal represents the high point of Siferwas 's art . |
| 12 | There are 29 locks on the canal , the most interesting being here at Banavie , where the so-called Neptune Locks form the largest ‘ staircase ’ in Britain , consisting of 8 locks . |
| 13 | Churt 16-year-old John Bradshaw gave the best schoolboy expert class performance in Sunday 's Waltham Chase Club trial , which took place at Hut Hill , near Chandlers Ford . |
| 14 | ANGELIC Antoinette Armes became the first girl to win a race round the Derby track when striking on Incola at Epsom yesterday , but favourite backers did their money before the start . |
| 15 | She giggled internally at this , visualising tall and haughty Dr Neil wearing the black knickerbockers , funny jacket and cap of an English schoolboy . |
| 16 | The Anglo-Saxon cathedral burned down in 1067 , and the Norman Archbishop Lanfranc had the current cathedral built on almost exactly the same site . |
| 17 | Last month a 12-year-old Devon girl became the first in Britain to win an order allowing her to live with her grandparents . |
| 18 | A packed Bloomsbury Theatre heard the great tenor work on arias from Verdi 's Un Ballo in Maschera with singers Jillian Foster ( soprano ) , Sarian Crevelle ( mezzo soprano ) , Ya Lin Zhang ( tenor ) and Gerard Quinn ( baritone ) . |
| 19 | But Chelsea are a formidible side right now and they battled back on terms when the imposing Mick Harford got the final touch to a Wise scissor kick . |
| 20 | In early May Pascal-Trouillot reconstituted the nine-member Provisional Electoral Council ( Conseil Electoral Provisoire — CEP ) , which contained three members of the old CEP which had overseen the aborted 1987 elections , including its chairman Jean-Robert Sabalat . |
| 21 | Foreign Ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) , which was preparing contingency plans for intervention , agreed on Dec. 17 to support any future UN resolution enforcing the existing flight ban over Bosnia , on condition that such a resolution provided for continued humanitarian efforts . |
| 22 | But the eight-time Wimbledon champion lost the first set as the Czechoslovak brought her down with her huge serve and she looked a bag of nerves . |
| 23 | The Liverpool Research Group has evolved out of the ESRC-financed Liverpool Project investigating the international transmission mechanism . |
| 24 | Liverpool Trading Standards chief Peter Mawdsley says the massive gulf between injury statistics is because the DTI estimates findings from certain hospital casualty units . |
| 25 | Lotus will not reveal full details of the new Elan until Motorfair , but it is likely to have a Japanese Isuzu engine driving the front wheels . |
| 26 | On Cloggy 's Far East Buttress , a regenerated Leigh McGinley climbed the right arête of The Mostest with Tom Leppert to give Luaka , E4 6a , which features both technical and bold climbing . |
| 27 | Left : Wickes has combined its Victorian-style Oxford conservatory with its lean-to Cambridge design to create the luxurious and spacious Oxbridge conservatory . |
| 28 | By-election victor : Tory Kenneth Turner won the vacant seat on Saltburn , Marske and New Markse parish council last night beating Labour 's Philip Hewitt in the by-election by 206 votes . |
| 29 | The results obtained , outlined in Table 8 , below , show that , as was expected , the large Carlyle exhibition attracted the greatest number of visitors , while the smallest exhibition , that on Skinner , attracted substantially fewer . |
| 30 | As the presenter of Channel 4 's first youth programme Whatever You Want , the stocky Llanelli-born Allen had the ideal vehicle for his anarchic polemics , the best thing about a scrappy programme that featured The Undertones one moment and an abortion debate the next , planting the seeds for The Tube , Network 7 and their many-headed progeny . |