Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Gilligan mentions here the anonymous woman whose nonlegalistic thinking enabled Solomon to display his legendary wisdom . |
2 | Mr Pearson 's Shotover has exactly the right air of a rapt scientific experimenter trying to attain power through means of mind . |
3 | In the leading role , singer-turned-actor Dutronc has exactly the right quality of physical frailty and stooped sadness to complement Pialat 's beautiful , poignant images . |
4 | Sir : In his article ‘ Creating money to buy trouble with ’ ( 9 October ) , William Rees-Mogg puts forward the surprising view that the early 1980s constitututed a ‘ Thatcherite miracle ’ . |
5 | Maurice flicks away the stray hairs , settles the next customer into the seat ( ‘ A good bit off the top , Morrie ’ ) , and tells how it all started . |
6 | A late flourishing of Victorian Gothic designed by Sir Rowand Anderson , this red stone building at the corner of Queen Street houses both the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery , each well worth visiting . |
7 | His fellow judges disagreed with Lord Denning and his opinions probably do not reflect the law , though the emergence of such views from a source so eminent as Lord Denning demonstrates clearly the common law 's culture of uncertainty , within which repressive rules can emerge without embarrassment . |
8 | A quotation ( provided by Randall Baker , private communication ) from a recent Australian funded cattle ranching scheme in Fiji illustrates both the unquestioned assumption that development must imply modern commercial development and the disparaging attitude towards existing social and economic organisation : |
9 | The Floyd Rose does all the usual things , like letting you tie knots in the low E string , and the arm is firm with no clunky play . |
10 | And Majorca combines superbly the high-rise playgrounds of Palma , Arenal and Magaluf with the traditional charm of rugged hillsides , white-washed villages and the thousands of windmills designed to lift the underground water which keeps this island so luxuriant . |
11 | In place of his spirituality and incandescence , Solti offers only the momentary frisson . |
12 | The fact that Nadia has only the little finger on each hand has not produced one incident of teasing from the 90 pupils at the Borders preparatory school . |
13 | The front quad of New College , Oxford illustrates clearly the usual quadrangle method of Medieval layout which was retained for so long by those universities . |
14 | GOLD STRIKE : Carl Lewis leads home the American sprint relay team |
15 | Conrad remains always the European observer of the tropics , the white man 's eye contemplating the Congo and its black gods . |
16 | RNR indicates only the overall income resources of the whole household and does not assess their possibly unequal distribution within the household ( Pahl 1983 ; Brannen and Wilson 1987 ) . |
17 | Cutting down on the slush and the philosophy Mann plays almost the whole film as a breathless series of attacks , escapes , sieges , fights , battles , deaths and triumphs . |
18 | Dublin has neither the artistic inheritance nor the financial resources to better such extravagances . |
19 | Michael Clark develops further the radical primitivism … taking it to its extreme in his new work Rite Now , a collaboration with Stephen Petronio . |
20 | Bromberg gives just the right amount of scientific explanation . |