Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no room for Haydn or Hume in the eighteenth century , for Verdi or even Dostoevsky in the nineteenth . |
| 2 | The constellation has a distinctive shape , and there are lines of stars extending from Castor and Pollux in the general direction of Betelgeux . |
| 3 | Fighting around Monrovia intensified between the NPFL and ECOMOG in the ensuing 48 hours . |
| 4 | For instance , Jauch and Glueck in the 1985 edition of their widely used text on Strategic management and business policy , include eight pages of finely typed text entitled ‘ Business Facts : Where to Find Them ’ [ Jauch & Glueck ( 1985 ) , pp 143–150 ] . |
| 5 | The last task of the day for the humanitarian branch is to visit the village of Mammari and speak to the local farmers . |
| 6 | The Duchess of Gloucester , as Patron , visits the offices of Counsel and Care for the Elderly , at 16 Bonny Street , London NW1 . |
| 7 | 11 October : The Duchess of Gloucester , Patron of Counsel and Care for the Elderly , today visited the Counsel 's new offices at 16 Bonny Street , London NW1 . |
| 8 | Details of provision can be obtained from social services and from organisations such as Counsel and Care for the Elderly and GRACE . |
| 9 | Natasha Lebedeva and Nastya Kharina live in Russia and go to the English Language School in Perm . |
| 10 | But hit-man Fashanu used his 30th birthday party to dismiss Shearer and call for the international return of Arsenal 's Ian Wright . |
| 11 | Note this second QDM and turn onto the same heading . |
| 12 | By convention , ACS gives a result in the top 2 quadrants ( 0 to PI-0 to 180 degrees ) and ASN and ATN in the right-hand 2 quadrants ( -PI/2 to +PI/2 — -90 to +90 degrees ) . |
| 13 | I thought I could read Wordsworth and forget about the damned queue . " |
| 14 | The strategic equivalent of the Constitution are the ‘ Three Pillars ’ of British strategy that cohave evolved since Crécy and Agincourt in the Hundred Years War of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries . |
| 15 | ’ ‘ Mon and look at the nice show in the League of Nations place , or thae big battleships and bombers painted on the walls over there . |
| 16 | The charts given here are a little misleading , because Deneb has to be drawn on one section and Vega and Altair on the other , but the overall aspect is obvious enough . |
| 17 | Among those who generously gave up their evening to help the NCH and perform on the tiny temporary stage were : Nerys Hughes , Angela Rippon , Susan Rees accompanied by May Parry ; Penelope Keith , Robert Powell , Tamsin Little , accompanied by Vanessa Latarche : Wayne Sleep who gave a perfect performance on a tiny stage ; he was accompanied by Mark Latimer ; young Xan Blacker , also accompanied by Vanessa Latarche , Cor Meibion Gwalia , and Shirley Anne Field . |
| 18 | When the British were attacked for their role in the Boer War , Hyndman and Quelch for the British Social Democratic Federation prepared a dossier on the crimes of other imperial powers as the basis for condemning all — and so exonerating the British as no worse than the rest . |
| 19 | But these days not even a king 's ransom would tempt ‘ Arry to ditch Yorkshire and return to the bright lights of London . |
| 20 | In February , the first , the Almirante Brown , was handed over by Blohm and Voss to the Argentinian navy in a quiet ceremony on deck . |
| 21 | In March 1915 Beatrice decided to leave Montparnasse and move to the Right Bank , to Montmartre . |
| 22 | One possibility was " to write off the Shah and proceed on the unpalatable consumption that Mosadeq is the indisputable ruler of Persia and the only bulwark against Communism " In the end , however , the prime minister advisers decided that it was almost prudent for Britain to follow the American line . |
| 23 | Gesting Associates of Bingley , W. Yorks are the sole UK distributors of two media , CeraFoam and BioKern from the German company BioPlast . |
| 24 | , William Marcus Joseph ( 1798–1883 ) , member of Parliament , was born in Ireland 17 April 1797 or possibly in 1798 , after the death of his father , the youngest in the family of two sons and two daughters of Marcus Beresford , MP ( grandson of Sir Marcus Beresford , first Earl of Tyrone and counsel to the Irish revenue commissioners ) , and his wife Frances Arabella , daughter of Joseph Leeson , first Earl of Milltown . |
| 25 | They took-off from Croydon on July 30 , 1936 , flying via Vienna , Athens , Aleppo , Bushire and Jask on the Persian coast , towards Karachi . |
| 26 | It is a much more complex conception and much more pictorial ; indeed it resembles the Apollo and Muse on the little cup ( fig. 112 ) , though that is simpler . |
| 27 | And this difference between them and such initially sympathetic Englishmen as Hewlett and Newbolt went very deep ; for ultimately it meant that , when the question arose whether the artist 's first responsibility was to his art ( his trade ) or to his society , Pound and Lewis and Ford would opt for the first alternative , Hewlett and Newbolt for the second — as indeed we soon see them doing when both of them answer the call of First World War patriotism by writing moralebuilding poems and stories . |
| 28 | Studies of the countships of Paris and Autun in the eighth and ninth centuries show that if a count had no son ( or no adult son ) , a brother or nephew or cousin would often succeed . |
| 29 | In 1972 he telephoned Vlitos , having read a scientific paper by Khan and Hough about the chlorinated sugars . |
| 30 | Teague helped form what must have been the quietest back row in the history of the game when he joined up Dean Richards and Winterbottom in the 1991 Grand Slam side . |