Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | After all , the term ‘ active citizens ’ was invented by the Abbé Sieyes in the early stages of the French Revolution . |
| 32 | The ultimate clue to Ecgfrith 's regnal chronology , however , is the documentary report of the council of Hatfield which Bede includes in the Ecclesiastical History ( IV , 17 ) and which demonstrates , by reference to Ecgfrith in his tenth year on 17 September in a year which can only be 680 ( see below , p.113 ) , that Ecgfrith certainly succeeded no earlier than 17 September 670 — which introduces an even longer interregnum if Oswiu had died in the February of that year and makes his death in February 671 more likely still . |
| 33 | Sweatless , and seemingly bloodless , Hannah Jelkes glides up the steep path through the rain forest , pushing her 97-year-old grandfather in a wheelchair . |
| 34 | Peter Walker advises on the latest court ruling on how much information the liquidators can give the police |
| 35 | Like an ordinary face that one can build a character upon with multiple disguises , Peter Sellers 's for example , Dustin draws on the blank score sheet of his voice . |
| 36 | In Scale 2 Hilton talks of his understanding of the dynamic nature of God 's love working in man : The goal of contemplative life is to see this , a seeing which is a felt understanding of love , and Hilton accounts for the curious process by which a person grows towards this state as the interaction between the being of God — unformed love in which all men participate — and the response enabled by God to this dynamic potential at the heart of their being — love formed . |
| 37 | As in the case of Bacon , the central importance of Paracelsus rests on the general impetus he gave to the reform of science and on the development of a comprehensive religious and ethical framework for scientific and medical endeavour . |
| 38 | Finally , Yavan appears in the Messianic promise of Zechariah 9.13 : " I have raised up thy sons of Zion , against thy sons of Greece . " |
| 39 | Ridley Scott compensates for the clanking concept of culture-clash cops with customary confidence . |
| 40 | A flurry of complications ensues : Richard falls for the winsome Anna , though not even love can blind him to the realisation that her poetry is ‘ absolutely bloody awful ’ . |
| 41 | Martin Brundle speaks with the disarming honesty of an F1 driver who is buying lunch in a private room at Au Jardin des Gourmets for a dozen pressmen on the day the Gulf war ended and a week before the F1 season started . |
| 42 | Good reads among the new releases include Dick Francis 's COMEBACK ( Pan , £4.99 ) , his 34th racing thriller and as pacy as ever , Danielle Steel 's NO GREATER LOVE ( Corgi , £4.99 ) about the Winfield family whose lives are changed forever the night the Titanic sinks , and Mary Stewart 's STORMY PETREL ( Coronet , £3.99 ) , an atmospheric suspense story set on a Hebridean island . |
| 43 | When my hon. and learned Friend speaks to the Israeli ambassador , in the interests of fairness , does he also discuss with him how much freedom of speech there is in universities in Syria , Iran and Saudi Arabia ? |
| 44 | In this fascinating book , Ronald Blakey tells of the 19th-century ministers preoccupation with stocking his library . |
| 45 | Chris Waddle moves from the right flank to the vacancy on the left caused by John Barnes 's withdrawal and David Rocastle takes over on the right . |
| 46 | These ideas will be discussed later in more detail , but here it is important to note the interrelationship which Freud posits between the two sets of instinctual impulses . |
| 47 | Which is where the true worth of Adorable shines through the grey indie morass . |
| 48 | THE UNUSUALLY SLENDER FIGURE OF BOBBY MURDOCH POURS OVER THE BACK PAGES |
| 49 | 9.00am Linda pops into the Savoury Delicatessen in Clapham High Street to pick up a few essential items . |
| 50 | With no full factory Yamaha YZRs in the 250 World Championship this year , Zeelenberg knows his main rivals will all be on Honda NSRs , identical to his own . |
| 51 | Such growth is documented before the reign of Charles the Bald : the polyptych of St-Victor Marseilles dates from the later years of Charlemagne 's reign , that of St-Germain ( probably ) from the earlier part of Louis the Pious 's . |
| 52 | The level flight attitude will be achieved as the Altimeter comes onto the required height , and speed onto the required figure . |
| 53 | Part of the confidence surrounding the 19 DX comes from the very fact that it is turbocharged . |
| 54 | Cumbrian-born David works in the nuclear materials accounts and safeguards office at Sellafield . |
| 55 | This holds even though much of the money for welfare programmes such as AFDC comes from the Federal exchequer ; the larger the average payment , above a Federally-prescribed minimum , the larger the proportion of it which has to be met from State revenues , so that generous State governments are taxing their own residents in order to support their generosity ( see Tresch , 1975 ) . |
| 56 | The physical and emotional violence McBurney brings to the tormented king as he rages among the toys in his young son 's nursery has the sickening impact of a kick in the solar plexus . |
| 57 | Gregory works on the technical side , liaising with the sound and lighting people and drawing up set lists . |
| 58 | Isobel Cunningham reports on the latest controversy over the use of the whip on racehorses in the wake of a new clampdown |
| 59 | The information which appears on Skymaster comes from the same computers at Heathrow which churn out the printed stuff so you can guarantee that the data is accurate and changes reach you faster than they normally would on the paper system . |
| 60 | Any decision in favour of participating in a CU depends upon the ultimate objectives of economic policy , namely what it is that countries are attempting to maximise . |