Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [adj] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time I got up the next morning , I had determined to sell the baker 's shop to the highest bidder unless Charlie Trumper were willing to take on the responsibility himself . |
| 2 | The purchase of MTM is likely to wipe out the second-half profits of TVS this year . |
| 3 | Later when he had to leave , Richard was sorry to break up the party . |
| 4 | Using what they had discovered from their visit to Bourbourg and official sources , Helen and Brian Attwell were able to piece together the last moments of Beaufort I L4508 . |
| 5 | But £3 million-plus rated Keane is unlikely to see out the full term of his new deal because of contract stipulations . |
| 6 | However , doubt arose over whether Kazakhstan was prepared to give up the nuclear weapons on its territory , as it had earlier stated and as Yeltsin was assuring it would . |
| 7 | As always , Greta was prepared to take up the challenge ( ‘ We might put pressure on the War Office at this end ’ ) , but was forestalled by an offer from another direction . |
| 8 | FIFA were anxious to cut out the long-range back pass which marred the 1990 World Cup final in Italy . |
| 9 | Los Angeles trucker and sometime pugilist Philo Beddoe is ready to give up the fight game — until gambling mobster James Beekman ( Harry Guardino ) , who is looking for a match for his champion Jack Wilson , persuades him to change his mind . |
| 10 | Wilkinson is desperate to sort out the problem and has the cash . |
| 11 | During the inquiry , Lord Romsey promised he would spend £9m on urgent restoration work on his estate , but that the income from visitors to Broadlands was insufficient to carry out the renovations . |
| 12 | Our comrades from South Africa are eager to join once the moving gets going . |
| 13 | Owen was able to pick out the speaker . |
| 14 | But it is uncertain how far Mr Rafsanjani is willing to roll back the Islamic revolution . |
| 15 | Welcoming Darlington Tory candidate Michael Fallon to Prodescon 's new offices , director Malcolm Palmer was keen to point out the blue carpeting and wallpaper gracing the new building as proof positive of the his own , if not the company 's , political leanings . |
| 16 | He became concerned when he could not locate him on the premises , because Mr Jowett was due to take over the lambing . |
| 17 | Moore was unable to see where the rat had gone . |
| 18 | Tripoli was reported quiet yesterday , seemingly proving that Col Gaddafi is able to bring out the crowds and send them home at will . |
| 19 | Daniel Patrick Moynihan , the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and one of the administration 's key allies on the Hill , has made it clear that Mr Clinton is willing to scale back the tax , exempting whole industries and offering generous rebates to exporters . |
| 20 | Healey was able to pay back the first instalment of £2 billion to the IMF with some ease , and indeed the full IMF loan proved to be unnecessary , while income-tax allowances were raised and a bonus for Christmas could be afforded for old-age pensions . |
| 21 | An exasperated Galileo was able to show up the inadequacy of his rival 's position in a characteristically witty way . |
| 22 | But these were a minority , and when the question of a postwar American loan to Britain arose later in 1945 US Congressmen were quick to ask why the United States should subsidize " too much Socialism at home and too much damned imperialism abroad " . |
| 23 | The rout of German self-opinion meant that while Britain , France , Holland and Belgium were busy shaking off the last vestiges of feudal restraint in order to industrialise , the Prussian reaction to defeat was to define their contribution to the world as Kultur — a commodity that was best seen as the absence of change . |
| 24 | In the 1830s and early 1840s Palmerston was able to handle both the Belgian question and the Near Eastern crises of 1832 – 33 and 1839 – 41 with little interference from parliament , so that in 1839 an acute observer of British politics could say with much justification that " foreign affairs are never discussed except at the House of Lords " . |
| 25 | So important was this and so adept the participants that the farmers-general and the Van Necks were able to persuade both the French and British governments to permit the continued shipment of British tobacco to France during the wars of 1744–8 and 1756–63 . |
| 26 | However , a decisive full moon in your opposite sign of Libra on 10 April is likely to bring about the greatest changes in your life and even mark the end of one long-standing involvement . |
| 27 | Sharp was unable to name specifically the brands which had most successfully taken this approach , but confirmed the list was dominated by the large US multinationals such as Ford and Coca-Cola . |
| 28 | Ian was quick to shake off the dust , however , and went on to become one of Glasgow 's heroes . |
| 29 | Armstrong was first to take up the cudgels at the end of last season , and a little piece of bantering brought in Harrison . |
| 30 | Ward was due to take over the driving and at the end of it I slumped into the seat beside him in a happy daze which insulated me from all sense of reality . |