Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [vb pp] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Former Yorkshire and England fast bowler Arnie Sidebottom has turned down the offer of a coaching post at Surrey . |
| 2 | FORMER Arsenal winger George Armstrong has turned down the chance to become Malcolm Crosby 's assistant at Sunderland . |
| 3 | FILM legend Liz Taylor has turned down the chance of a comeback … playing a lesbian rancher . |
| 4 | Taylor has taken up the fight and is tackling small business worries over banks charges head . |
| 5 | To compare Raskolnikov 's haymarket with Kim 's bazaar is to see that Kipling has done all the work so that you do n't have to go there to know what it 's like at the level of vivid and varied description , whereas Dostoevsky leaves his reader with an impression which hovers between smell and vapour and dream . |
| 6 | Mr Gorbachev has endorsed both the plan and the idea of soliciting western aid . |
| 7 | Quite often David has stepped up the tempo and provided tries for someone else . |
| 8 | A factory in Northamptonshire has taken up the challenge to create the fish footwear . |
| 9 | The Frankfurter Allgemeine has drummed home the case against Saddam Hussein . |
| 10 | Given such a broad international consensus , shared by the more accommodationist Israeli and Western liberals , it is hardly surprising that since 1974 the PLO has played down the refugee issue , and concentrated on the only acceptable diplomacy concerning a territorial return to the 1949 Armistice Line . |
| 11 | RICHARD Dunwoody has turned down the chance to renew his association with former Champion Kribensis in the Bula Hurdle at Cheltenham on Saturday . |
| 12 | Gloucestershire skipper Tony Wright has given up the captain 's job … the county are bottom of the championship table … have n't won a game and Wright thinks it 's time to let someone else have a go |
| 13 | Gloucestershire skipper Tony Wright has given up the captain 's job … the county are bottom of the championship table … have n't won a game and Wright thinks it 's time to let someone else have a go |
| 14 | Not surprisingly , there is a feeling that Northern Ireland has slipped down the Government 's agenda , in view of all its other financial worries . |
| 15 | Birkenhead MP Frank Field has taken up the fight of Tranmere residents who feared they were in danger of becoming a ‘ forgotten area . ’ |
| 16 | Mr Hall has pared down the bebop style and you are left with the spirit , minus the meaningless displays of technique . |
| 17 | Lionel Sawkins has shown that men did , indeed , sing soprano parts at the French court , and Lois Rosow has pointed out the appearance of male sopranos in the chorus at the Paris Opéra . |
| 18 | Beverley has set about the task of designing monoclonals that can recognise the surfactant material and therefore indicate its presence or absence in the lungs of newborn babies . |
| 19 | I have been impressed with the way Wilkinson has built up the squad over the last few years . |
| 20 | Furthermore , Robert has worked up the story very well . |
| 21 | Fr Rice has taken over the running of a detoxification centre started some years ago by a Mill Hill priest who died recently . |
| 22 | Editor , — R J Jarrett has put forward the epidemiologist 's view of gestational diabetes , pointing out the lack of a clear definition , the lack of consensus on treatment , and evidence suggesting that maternal glycaemia is not important in determining fetal size . |
| 23 | Terence Morris has described how the problem of crime : |
| 24 | Enslaved by the mindless dullness of fixed routine , Shirley has taken literally the realisation that she may as well talk to the wall . |
| 25 | THE prospect of a tour to South Africa has fired up the imagination of senior ALL BLACKS said to have been contemplating retirement after the World Cup . |
| 26 | Barbour has brought out the flyweight Durham jacket ( £90 ) which , despite the description , is harder wearing but heavier than most of the other jackets I have tested . |
| 27 | HONG KONG has stepped up the pressure on China , promising to publish democratic reform legislation soon unless Beijing agrees to come to the negotiating table . |
| 28 | Hughie said : ‘ You can say that shipbuilding in Whitby has gone down the sewer . |
| 29 | The vote on Mr Craxi has speeded up the disintegration of Italy 's scandal-tainted parties . |
| 30 | NEWLY-promoted Det Chief Inspector Mike Paddon has taken over the job and office of his retiring twin Terry at Exeter police HQ . |