Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the [noun pl] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perched above the main route which runs alongside the River Garry through the mountains separating southern Scotland from Inverness , it commanded the link between the Highlands and the Lowlands , giving a vast strategic advantage to whomever held it . |
| 2 | It is true that Germany between the wars spawned industrial giants like IG Farben ( founded in 1925 ) , which had interests in metals , chemicals , coal , explosives , film , pharmaceuticals , armaments and synthetic fibres , and which with 120,000 workers , 50 subsidiaries and more than 100 factories was the world 's fourth largest industrial combine . |
| 3 | G-LOC in the arcades broke new ground in flashy game cabinets . |
| 4 | The survey found that Wadworths , Youngs , Fullers , Marstons and Adnams among the regionals had all done particularly well from the provision , accounting together for nearly 30 per cent . |
| 5 | The deepening losses were blamed by Mr Ball on the uncertainties following Black Wednesday , together with the reintroduction of stamp duty in August . |
| 6 | Stepping up to bat in the eighth inning of game five on Sunday with the scores tied 1-1 , the Giants first baseman had trouble controlling the adrenalin , ‘ but I took a deep breath and tried to focus on the point of release of the ball ’ . |
| 7 | The county of Shropshire in the Marches has some beautiful and varied scenery . |
| 8 | Mori for the Times put Labour one point ahead on 39 per cent , with 38 for the Tories and 20 for the Liberal Democrats . |
| 9 | We shall start by examining discrete changes , in which the coefficients of the objective function or the RHSs of the constraints assume new values , or constraints are added or removed . |
| 10 | Mori in the Times gave Labour a one-point lead . |
| 11 | Masked by the apparently careless tumble of examples ( ‘ etc. , etc. ’ ) is a calculated insistence on the sore spot , on what Shatov in the notebooks calls social unsteadiness , a small but virulent secular profanity standing over against the noble , perhaps the noblest sequence in The Possessed , where Marie Shatov returns to her husband to give birth to another man 's child . |
| 12 | The opening up of North America by the railways made American wheat available to Europe . |
| 13 | That is how the seniors stand , but that position could be reversed in junior circles tomorrow ( 3 p.m. ) when the youngsters take on Lancashire in the Drakes Pride Junior Inter County Championships . |
| 14 | The fact that other works of art not belonging to Capricorn were also on the premises did not affect that conclusion : nor did the absence of any outward sign of Capricorn on the premises have any significance , since it would be uncharacteristic for art dealers in objects of such high quality to place conspicuous nameplates on their premises . |