Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [prep] the [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The policies of the Fabians were described by Beatrice Webb during the 1890s as ‘ essentially collective ownership wherever practicable ; collective regulation everywhere else ; collective provision according to need for all the impotent and sufferers ; and collective taxation in proportion to wealth ’ . |
| 2 | These were Denis Baxter for his delicate etching ‘ Cannington Viaduct ’ , Miranda Ellis for the almost abstract and evocatively coloured watercolour ‘ Blue morning kitchen window ’ , Sophie Rider for the solid and amusing sculpture ‘ Horse with tulip ’ and Bonnie Brown for the de Stael-like oil painting ‘ Celia 's dream on the headland ’ . |
| 3 | The task fell to the 11th Bavarian Division , a unit that had recently distinguished itself under von Mackensen in the Serbian and Galician campaigns . |
| 4 | Born in Southampton , he was educated as a private pupil at the Brighton Institution for the Deaf and Dumb by the sign and manual system . |
| 5 | He was a President or Vice President of many deaf organisations , including the Royal School for Deaf Children , Margate ; the Charitable and Provident Society for Granting Pensions to the Aged and Infirm Deaf ; London Deaf Cricket Club ; the London branch of the B.D.D.A. He was also a committee member of the Brighton Institution for the Deaf and Dumb , and of the Winchester Deaf Diocesan Mission . |
| 6 | William Blomefield Sleight , who was born in 1849 , was the son of William Sleight , the much respected headmaster of the Brighton Institution for the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 7 | She is a voluntary visitor for the West Sussex Association for the Disabled and sits on two village committees and looks forward to serving on the Executive Committee of the Medau Society . |
| 8 | More gentle folding and faulting occurs to the north of the Variscan front where Dinantian carbonates host Pb-F-Ba mineralisation in the Northern and Southern Pennine orefields , North Wales and the Mendips . |
| 9 | Films that have departed widely from ‘ realistic ’ expectations , for example the Astaire/Rogers musicals of the 1930s and the great MGM musicals of the '50s in which people start singing and dancing in the street to the accompaniment of an invisible orchestra , have followed an alternative set of rules , drawn originally from the theatre , theatre proper does n't need realism , since it has reality . |
| 10 | Finally , for rich veteran rockers who want a late Christmas present , there is a massive six-CD boxed set of Little Richard recordings from the mid-Fifties and concerts from the mid-Sixties . |
| 11 | The shift of Richard Branson from the hazy and ill-defined politics of idealism to the politics of pragmatism had begun in earnest . |
| 12 | We were all great friends and from there developed the nucleus of the Surrey side of the 1940s and '50s . |
| 13 | David designs for the rich and famous ; his companions work in the art world . |
| 14 | Andrew Sarris accepted that , ‘ By following up the glamorous Graduate with the dreggiest drop-out imaginable , Dustin Hoffman has achieved his aim of not becoming the Andy Hardy of the sixties and seventies . ’ |
| 15 | Bob Murray , the Sunderland chairman , has made a personal plea to Football Association chief executive Graham Kelly over suggestions that there will be fewer Roker supporters at the final than at Sunday 's semi-final victory over Norwich when more than 22,000 travelled from Wearside to Hillsborough . |
| 16 | GIORGIO CHINAGLIA , Welsh-born Lazio hero of the 70s and one-time owner of the club , has no qualms about Paul Gascoigne 's future in Rome . |
| 17 | He is currently CPD Co-ordinator for the Southern and South East Regions and Director of the CPD Unit at Kingston Polytechnic School of Architecture . |
| 18 | We have two reports , the first from Ken Goodwin on the clear-up that 's now underway … |
| 19 | Stella Havard speaks to David Broome about the brilliant but ill-fated show jumper PHOENIX PARK |
| 20 | At Wiseton , in the Nottinghamshire plain between the Idle and the Trent , one landlord — Jonathan Ackham — built seven new homesteads on central sites on his estate after enclosure . |
| 21 | French Aubusson and Savonnerie carpets of the 17th and 18th centuries , for example , followed the Baroque and Rococo elegance of the time with their bright colours and floral opulence , and it was not uncommon for 18th-century carpets to echo the ceiling designs of the rooms for which they were made . |
| 22 | The chief acting honours , however , go to Jean Marsh as the tense but battle-hardened Miss Madrigal . |
| 23 | Since the work of S. S. Stevens in the 1930s and later , it has been recognized that , although the Weber-Fechner Law holds for many sorts of sensory experience , the exponent varies widely ; nevertheless , the principle of a quantitative correlation between external stimulus , neural activity and experienced sensation remains intact and now appears to be well-established . |
| 24 | Other features include a Madagascar Centre for the endangered and unique animals of that country , a World of Invertebrates , a breeding centre for endangered macaws and a walk-through aquarium and redeveloped children 's zoo . |
| 25 | Fashanu is still included in Hearts squad to face Partick Thistle tomorrow and may partner Mo Johnston for the first and last time as John Robertson is almost certainly out . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , this was short-lived and it folded in 1884 having been torn asunder by internal dissensions , but before its collapse it inaugurated two important undertakings , the Stockton-on-Tees Mission and the Ayrshire Mission to the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 27 | The Ayrshire Mission to the Deaf and Dumb was instituted in 1881 at Kilmarnock followed by the Stockton-on-Tees Mission in 1882 . |
| 28 | In 1914 they launched what was one of their crazier attacks , and on 4th June , the deaf community of Dundee was very nearly the victim when a massive bomb was placed against the doorway of Dunhope Castle , the home of Dundee School for the Deaf and the Dundee Mission to the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 29 | In 1914 they launched what was one of their crazier attacks , and on 4th June , the deaf community of Dundee was very nearly the victim when a massive bomb was placed against the doorway of Dunhope Castle , the home of Dundee School for the Deaf and the Dundee Mission to the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 30 | The Guildhall — Victorian Gothic at its best ; built by Edward Godwin in the 1860's when he was only 28 . |