Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CHELSEA are banking on the second oldest swinger in town to outwit Middlesbrough 's attack tonight . |
| 2 | Fortunately , Tumbleweed are redeemed by the remaining songs : ‘ Carousel ’ which all but abandons their rockist bluster in favour of a gentler , almost poppy sound ; ‘ Stoned ’ , a brilliantly dumb dope-tribute , and ‘ Millenium ’ , which is a little too heavy on masturbatory muso-isms , but manages to retain enough hyperactive charm to make it a success . |
| 3 | THE proceeds of a vintage vehicle rally being held in Toomebridge this Saturday are going to the Cardiac Unit of the Waveney Hospital , Ballymena . |
| 4 | ‘ As everyone knows now , lads like Sean Gregan are playing in the first team and will be regulars in the future . ’ |
| 5 | Another legacy of the French period of broadcasting is the fact that for a long time few such stations broadcast in African languages : radio services in the Ivory Coast are dominated by the French language even today . |
| 6 | Ry Cooder and David Lindley are featured on the self-titled debut album from Hawaiian-based band The Pahinui Brothers ( on Private Music , through BMG ) . |
| 7 | At the same time in Nature ( vol 258 , p 548 ) John Parkinson , Leslie Morrison and Richard Stephenson were proclaiming to the scientific world ‘ The constancy of the solar diameter over the past 250 years ’ . |
| 8 | But the Total Recall video is showing Schwarzenegger being squitted by the stamping press . |
| 9 | The ideas of Marx and Engels were introduced by the first International ( 1864–76 ) , which had sections in several Latin American countries . |
| 10 | I handed back the receiver and heard Ronnie being agitated on the other end . |
| 11 | The walls of Caen were constructed in the years following Edward III 's capture of the town in 1346 ; those of Rouen were begun at the same time on the orders of Philip VI , making the city one of the few properly defended towns , or ‘ villes closes ’ of upper Normandy ; Avignon 's wall was started at the instigation of Pope Innocent VI about 1355 ; while the defences of Tours , in course of construction in 1356 , were probably sufficiently advanced to deter the Black Prince from attacking the town on his chevauchée in the summer of that year . |
| 12 | The manuscript , originally compiled by Shah Jehan 's fawning court historian Inayat Khan , told the story of the apex of Mughal power , the golden age when most of India , all of Pakistan and great chunks of Afghanistan were ruled from the Red Fort in Delhi . |
| 13 | Chris Maxwell , 21 , and 22-year-old Roderick Arkell were swamped by the rolling white wall near the Val Thorens resort , near Grenoble . |
| 14 | Henri Lefebvre , for example , formerly a bitter opponent of both Sartre and Nizan , recanted in 1959 , offering a more accommodating analysis of Nizan in particular , and Sartrean existentialism in general.43 Gradually , revolutionary aspirations that had been dashed by the Soviet intervention in Hungary were rekindled in the anti-colonial struggles of the Third World . |
| 15 | Puddephat and Melanie Gandell were mentioned in the first paragraph , but did not appear in the rest of the piece . |
| 16 | Although it later transpired that the RSSPCC were contracted by the Social Work Department to remove and question the South Ronaldsay children , at the time it was generally understood that Orkney 's own social workers were mainly involved . |
| 17 | Did Benjamin carry secret orders from his uncle that Selkirk and Ruthven were to die for the common good ? |
| 18 | Antibodies to HCV were screened with the second-generation Ortho HCV ELISA . |
| 19 | She and Cati were born into the same family , went to the same school , heard the same sermons on Sundays and feast days , and often confessed to the same priest ; but Cati liked to cover herself in guilt , a kind of protective clothing that her elder sister had once inspected , tried on for size , and then discarded . |
| 20 | Jean is played by the young and excellent Irish actor , Dan Mullane , and Kristin , in a plausible Irish accent , by Selina Griffiths , newly graduated from the Central School and very promising . |
| 21 | BELLE EPOQUE : the fin-de-siècle charm of nineteenth-century Brussels is preserved in the glittering halls and clanging lifts of the Métropole ( Lower Town , 31 Place de Brouckère , telephone 02/2172300 , cost : 6,000fr ) . |
| 22 | ‘ The iniquity of the Amorite ’ , wrote Austin Farrer , ‘ is at length full , and the progeny of Hoskyns is to return on the third decade to the Promised land . ’ |
| 23 | Cantal is entirely within the LFA and at least 80% of Powys is included within the Welsh LFA ( before its extension in February 1984 ) . |
| 24 | Andy is bridged beneath the final overhang , placing gear . |
| 25 | Thus Bowness-on-Windermere is sacrificed for the greater good of the Lake District or Matlock Bath in the cause of the Peak District . |
| 26 | Brisbane is targeted as the next location in 12–18 months but would not speculate on whether it would be another dual function site . |
| 27 | As part of his plea agreement with the government , Mr Jacobson is cooperating with the continuing investigation into defence industry corruption . |
| 28 | Interestingly , the message spelt out by the ideological right in the United States is rejected by the ideological right in Britain . |
| 29 | The United States is left as the only global superpower , in effect . |
| 30 | My home in the States is located in the beautiful Florida Keys . |