Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One the other side of the coin , there are some parents who believe that their LEAs are ignoring the new law . |
| 2 | AN astonishing number of ‘ early baths ’ failed to stop Dennis being dubbed the Dirty Den of soccer . |
| 3 | He keeps Cuba 's economy under state control while Mr Gorbachev is moving the other way . |
| 4 | Former junior doctor Chris Johnstone 's pioneering the legal approach by taking his old employer , Bloomsbury Health Authority to court , backed by the British medical Association 's Chris Finlon . |
| 5 | LITTLE Jonathan Varney is bringing the precious gift of laughter into the life of his tragic elder brother Matthew . |
| 6 | Andy is filling the single champagne glass at the apex of the pyramid with champagne ; it is overflowing , filling the three glasses beneath it ; they in turn are overflowing , filling the glasses on the level beneath them , which are also full and so spilling over to the level underneath , and so on and so on down almost to the bottom ; Andy is on his eighth magnum . |
| 7 | Suddenly , there is just the slightest hint that Mr Murdoch is losing the magic touch , and for many investment banks and financial institutions around the world that magic touch was the main reason for backing him . |
| 8 | The United States is reviewing the small amount of aid — about $55m a year — it gives its erstwhile friend . |
| 9 | Paul Shipton is doing the initial writing , and his manuscript will be looked over by Tom Hutchinson before being finalized . |
| 10 | Roger Roberts is planning the extra service by adding kennels to the side of CJ 's restaurant building , and offering dinner to the guests while he pampers the human customers . |
| 11 | If Mr Lang is trivialising the cultural heritage of France , what about the ad agencies , the movie companies , the publishing houses ? |
| 12 | OSF is doing the final integration and testing of DME reportedly because it could n't get any of its members to take the job after the tussle IBM had integrating DCE . |
| 13 | ( It is interesting that in arguing that polygamy grows out of monogamy Engels was reversing the evolutionary sequence as most anthropologists of his time saw it . ) |
| 14 | Already in 1922 , Wheatley was attacking the conventional view that internationalism held the key to ending unemployment : |
| 15 | After flirting with Modernism in his earlier fiction , John Fowles was to deride the whole idea as late as 1982 , with Mantissa , which makes elaborate fun of the tradition of Joyce and argues that fiction may find it hard even to survive the grinding tedium of the nouveau roman . |
| 16 | it is , it 's exactly ten years although I reckon like , well , the thing is , these like late bookers like Richard was saying the other day , the flight ones , you du n no where your going |
| 17 | Even while Richard was attending the crusading conference at Le Mans a rebellion broke out in Aquitaine . |
| 18 | All Western diplomats had left Kabul in the weeks leading up to the Soviet troop withdrawal in February 1989 [ see p. 36448-50 ] , when the United States was predicting the imminent collapse of the Najibullah regime . |
| 19 | As BR looked towards the 1970s and into the 1980s , it was realised that if InterCity was to survive the growing threat posed by the airlines and the rapid extension of motorways , train speeds would have to be lifted beyond the prevailing norm of 80mph start-to-stop between main business centres . |
| 20 | Quakers breathed a sigh of relief when Fashanu 's right-foot blast took a wicked deflection and floated just past the post when Prudhoe was diving the other way , but he was laughing after 39 minutes when the Darlington defence presented him with the most embarrassing gift of the season . |
| 21 | Steven was doing the front lawn |
| 22 | Helen said quietly , ‘ That 's exactly what Edward was saying the other day . |
| 23 | And Anna Freud was to write the famous book called The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence . |
| 24 | ‘ Frau Fegel was saying the other day when we were playing Bach that our technique was good but that we had to learn to put feeling into our playing . ’ |
| 25 | In another move yesterday which further highlighted the government 's problems , Sirkka Hamalainen was appointed the new president of the Bank of Finland . |
| 26 | At his subsequent trial , Charles Woolridge was to take the contradictory step of pleading not guilty , but the outcome was a foregone conclusion ; he was unanimously convicted . |
| 27 | Selected branches of travel agents Thomas Cook and AT May are using the computerised system , with the details of about 100 selected hotels . |
| 28 | And on 23 January , the Reich Press Chief , Dietrich , gave instructions to the press which spoke suddenly , and without any prior warning to the public , of ‘ the great and stirring heroic sacrifice which the troops encircled at Stalingrad are offering the German nation ’ . |
| 29 | Irreverent , anarchic , and compulsively out of tune , HB are reinventing the original punk ideals of confronting perceived agendas in music without the assumed glamour and retro posturing of many of today 's neo-punks . |
| 30 | Police at Skelmersdale are hunting the smartly-dressed man , who used the name Peter Scott while persuading people to part with their cars on the promise of a good sale . |