Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The standard form analysed by Professor Tetley refers to the individual carrier 's contract of carriage as follows : |
| 2 | ‘ Mr Smithkins lives in the top flat with a magnificent view ; he 's a bachelor . ’ |
| 3 | Keith Curle drops to the standby list along with Wright , Paul Parker is unavailable because of suspension , while out of form Aston Villa winger Tony Daley is dropped . |
| 4 | Kendra Sone looks at the early findings |
| 5 | Margaret Heraty looks at the key recommendations |
| 6 | Germany has in the past year alone accepted some quarter of a million refugees from the former Yugoslavia . |
| 7 | Mr Mandela belongs to the royal family of the Tembu tribe . |
| 8 | The seal on this rapprochement was set with a treaty of peace with the Picts to which Bede refers in the penultimate chapter of the Ecclesiastical History as a significant aspect of the situation in 731 ( HE V , 23 ) . |
| 9 | Long after nationalization of the pits , the end of the butty system , and the handing-over of the colliery company villages to the NCB , it seems , there was a coalfield culture in Nottinghamshire ( especially the Dukeries ) which differed substantially in its politics — Waller ( 1983 , p. 130 ) refers to ‘ the lack of conventional industrial and political organization in the new mines [ which ] provides one more example of the challenge the coalfield of the Dukeries offers to the established view of mining life and community . |
| 10 | A new mainframe version , Exceed3/H builds on the basic functions of the previous version Exceed2/H , providing improved memory support , through 31-bit addressing and re-entrancy . |
| 11 | Norris : the poor man 's Schwarzenegger goes to the rich man 's convention |
| 12 | Lido di Camaiore lies at the northern end of Viareggio , next to Marina di Pietrasanta , in the most fashionable part of the Tuscan coast . |
| 13 | Dennis presides over the walled garden , which supplies the kitchens at Highgrove and Kensington Palace and grows all the weird and wonderful varieties that the Prince acquires and delights in surprising his guests with . |
| 14 | Tonight in the first of two reports , Richard Barnett looks at the traditional family links that have sustained the regiment down the centuries , in The Glosters … |
| 15 | Just as PageMaker provides almost infinite control over each element of each page so Ventura looks after the complete document . |
| 16 | In ‘ The Tale of the Turnip ’ , Yevgeny Yevtushenko writes about the virtual annexation of Russia by capitalist influences under the guise of ‘ humanitarian aid ’ ; Andrei Voznesensky laments the bloodshed in Tbilisi in ‘ Candles and Tanks . ’ |
| 17 | Andy lies on the other pillow . |
| 18 | The notion that Freud has of the sexual instincts is not primarily about reproduction , however , but the generalized capacity of the human organism to find erotic satisfaction from any part of the body being caressed or stimulated , quite apart from the act of reproduction . |
| 19 | The tournament starts on Monday and world No 2 Graf starts as the logical favourite to win following Seles 's withdrawal . |
| 20 | An Amoeba lives in the left-hand commode , but will only attack if it is disturbed . |
| 21 | ‘ There 's a lot of method here ; it 's not as arbitrary as it seems , ’ David says of the heady mixture of pattern and texture . |
| 22 | With the murder Raskolnikov erupts into the full glare of the actual , and parts company with his predecessor . |
| 23 | This will disgorge the stored information twice a day , at alternate intervals of 10 and 14 hours , as IRAS passes over the operational control centre at Chilton in Oxfordshire . |
| 24 | Bede says of the episcopal authority of Bishop Wilfrid in the reign of Oswiu that it embraced Northumbrians and Picts as far as the power of Oswiu extended ( HE III , 3 ) , and the Life of Wilfrid that in the reign of Ecgfrith it widened still further so that Wilfrid was bishop of the Saxons ( that is , the Northumbrians ) in the south and the Britons , Scots and Picts in the north ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 21 ) . |
| 25 | The river Talabec originates in the rapid streams of the Worlds Edge Mountains between the Dwarf fortresses of Karak Kadrin and Karak Ungor . |
| 26 | After all , the term ‘ active citizens ’ was invented by the Abbé Sieyes in the early stages of the French Revolution . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Sweatless , and seemingly bloodless , Hannah Jelkes glides up the steep path through the rain forest , pushing her 97-year-old grandfather in a wheelchair . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |