Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now began the long-drawn-out tragedy of the Congo which , according to General H.T. Alexander , ‘ produced a fundamental change in Ghana 's position vis-à-vis the West ’ , while Basil Davidson observes ‘ experience in the Congo … seems to have formed for Nkrumah the final demonstration that policies of ‘ tact ’ , of ‘ continuity ’ , of conformity with Western wishes had nothing more to offer . ’ |
| 2 | In contrast to the monasteries of the Middle Ages and the Baroque period as well as the 1930's concept originally intended for execution the new abbey is not designed as an enclosed , homogenous complex . |
| 3 | In 4.2 we discussed the way in which a hierarchical rank structure may be posited for various discourse types and considered as examples the internal structure of a series of books and a trial . |
| 4 | The former meaning may be loosely paraphrased as : ( 26 ) one of the feats commonly expected of acrobats The second meaning can not be paraphrased by ( 26 ) . |
| 5 | There was further disruption in the Lok Sabha on Aug. 14 as Congress ( I ) members protested against events the previous day when BJP workers were alleged to have attacked Scindia 's house in New Delhi . |
| 6 | On Sept. 24 , Gamsakhurdia declared a state of emergency — to come into force the following day — because " a military and civilian putsch is under way in the republic " . |
| 7 | On June 21 the congress formally voted into existence the Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic . |
| 8 | This was usually discouraged in case the wild ape became too dependent on hand-outs . |
| 9 | All the regular attenders were there : the Yorkes , glossy as newly-painted furniture ; the Fords , sending darting glances round the congregation to see if anyone was missing ; the Shergolds , sitting in their usual place near the door in the pew where Melissa had come upon Eleanor the previous day , Rodney with his normal air of self-importance that might or might not be hiding an inner anxiety , his wife pale and twitchy as she pulled off her gloves to turn the pages of her hymnbook . |
| 10 | They were described as designed to disadvantage the fledgling opposition parties which could expect substantial support from West German sister parties . |
| 11 | There was a man being interviewed on tele the other night he said that these people are trying to destroy the English language by their |
| 12 | As he was picked to second the Loyal Address today , I think that he can confidently look forward after the next general election to a leading position on the Opposition Front Bench . |
| 13 | The handkerchief stifled at birth the terrible thought . |
| 14 | Apparently they had come by train the previous night to the nearby station of Fidenza , from various camps in southern Italy . |
| 15 | He argued , convincingly , that noun phrases taken as a whole may quite often have a different temporal assignment from that of the verb which they accompany , as in : ( 37 ) I used to be a good friend of the police chief The underlined phrase may be understood as past relative to the time of utterance ( and hence in agreement with the time indicated by the verb ) or as present ; the two different time-values correspond to the two different continuations in : ( 38 ) … before he joined the force … until he was shot for corruption The first continuation would be compatible with an expansion of the subject phrase to the man who is the police chief , while the second would support the man who was the police chief . |
| 16 | The first full attempt at establishing a colony was Raleigh 's colony of Virginia , named for Elizabeth the virgin queen and located in what is now the Roanoke district of North Carolina . |
| 17 | Either therefore I am being non-cooperative or I intend to convey something rather different : ( 34 ) Queen Victoria was made of iron The straightforward interpretation is that since Queen Victoria in fact lacked the definitional properties of iron , she merely had some of the incidental properties like hardness , resilience , non-flexibility or durability . |
| 18 | Whatever Michael Banks had done with Lesley-Jane the previous evening — and something in their manner towards each other suggested he had done something — it had not improved his grasp of the lines . |
| 19 | The razzmatazz of a US election can be an education for anyone not fully versed in politics the American way , but just how does the rather involved system work ? |
| 20 | The Council 's Liberal bias , however , was never really in doubt : when the 1895 meeting met in Birmingham the Conservative Mayor welcomed delegates . |
| 21 | But I was one with the solitaries of the spirit , too : with St Teresa and St John of the Cross as well as with humbler dissidents like Jordi and one or two other men of the working class I had known in Spain , the young bank clerk I had met in Cordoba the previous spring , among the orange and lilac blossom of Las Tendillas , where we walked and whispered , hardly daring to look at one another , and separating at the sight of police . |
| 22 | Such aspirations were threatened in February the following year when one Elias Davidson Pierce discovered gold in the Clearwater . |
| 23 | Mozart seems to have begun to refine his style of composition , and two of them at least stand well with the very popular symphonies of the next decade — the Symphony in G Minor , K.183/173dB , written in October 1773 just after his return from Vienna , and the Symphony in A major , K.201/186a , written in April the following year ( see PLATE IV and 19 & 20 ) . |
| 24 | As exclusively revealed in Limit the 28-year-old rave whiz — who so far has sold 60,000 records — works for the Inland Revenue which bans staff from moonlighting . |
| 25 | The Smithston Poor House and Asylum was just being built in Greenock the very year that JTR rambled through . |
| 26 | The Constituent Assembly , inaugurated on June 28 , adopted in August the 1966 Constitution as the working document with which to formulate a new charter . |
| 27 | This is vintage Biffen on 19 December 1990 in a speech in which he was kind enough to comment favourably on some remarks I had made in Parliament the previous week on the same subject : |
| 28 | Analysis of variance and the Newman-Keuls procedure were applied to measure the statistical significance of means from different diagnostic categories . |
| 29 | Even if shot to pieces the commanding position of the banqueting hall would still make it defensible . |
| 30 | Now Fenna rose , higher and higher , and , holding all his power for one sharp second of perfect concentration , revealed to Maggie the crazy onrushing of the galaxy where everything spins through space so fast that the observer is locked in stillness . |