Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | VICTORIA State Museum and the RAAF Museum formally committed their collective resources towards the development of the National Air & Space Museum of Australia ( NASMA ) in 1991 . |
| 2 | CGI 's top three officials , including chairman Robert Mallet , who together hold 25.4% , have committed their own shares to the bid . |
| 3 | Thereafter , as many as a dozen other females will have added their own babies to the creche in the tunnel in the same way . |
| 4 | His removal to the USA was a violation of Panamanian law prohibiting the extradition of its nationals , and , as a foreigner who had committed his alleged crimes outside the USA , the US claim to jurisdiction to try Noriega was far from certain , although some legal experts suggested that sufficient precedents existed to circumvent any such defence . |
| 5 | He seemed to have resolved his sexual hang-ups for the time being and was content with his lonely existence . |
| 6 | Shildon had excused his initial omissions on the grounds that he had concealed that he was engaged in work which was not for the business section . |
| 7 | He consented to continue in office only on condition the Tsar suspended both chambers , disciplined his leading opponents in the State Council , and promulgated the bill under Article 87 . |
| 8 | Mick has slashed his own earnings from the Autocap components business to just £9,000 a year . |
| 9 | Since handling of tools and weapons requires precise manipulation of the fingers and thumb , a dextral bias in hand preference for wielding these implements might have predisposed our earliest ancestors towards the use of the right hand for gestural communication . |
| 10 | The top eight firms all had registrations with the ICAEW and the ICAI , four top 20 firms had registered their Scottish offices with the ICAS and one firm ( BDO Binder Hamlyn ) had a Channel Islands registration with the ACCA . |
| 11 | Voters who have given their highest preferences to the weakest candidates are allowed to participate , perhaps decisively , in the contest between the strongest . |
| 12 | It is arguable that while the most powerful groups in society have placed their cultural tastes at the top of a hierarchy of artistic forms , not all people will be equally devoted to these fashions and traditions . |
| 13 | Australia have named their big guns for the Hong Kong Sevens , including World Cup-winning centre combination Tim Horan and Jason Little and three of their Italian-based players , David Campese , Michael Lynagh and Tim Gavin . |
| 14 | Through its entrepreneurs middle-class society had made its first approaches to the masses . |
| 15 | Fur has seen its best days on the clothing front , although seriously rockin' on the footwear front right now is leopard skin . |
| 16 | Before Mikey had swung the bus around and brought it to a stop she had seen their pale faces in the wet night , the two umbrellas . |
| 17 | Throughout history , man has always saved his best skills for the creation and protection of works of art — the objects and artifacts that are tangible proof of the intellectual , artistic and social life of our ancestors . |
| 18 | Orwell , unlike Waugh , was never a natural master of narrative , and his uncertain career in fiction had begun , after much trial and error , with Burmese Days ( 1934 ) , where he had exploited his youthful experiences in the Burma police . |
| 19 | The Government Commission , set up by Labour in 1965 to circumvent the rest of the Civil Service , has been quietly declining under the Conservatives ; Heath has made his own arrangements to the same end , by setting up the Central Policy Review Staff , which has been housed by the Cabinet Office next door . |
| 20 | Those who have seen his splendid drawings of the birds of other countries , will rejoice that those of our colony ( many of which are exceedingly beautiful , and some of them new ) will in turn become subjects for his pencil . ’ |
| 21 | Far from it , for he has matched his chosen designs to the theme of the growth of professionalism in architecture from the formation of the Architects ' Club in 1791 to the founding of the Institute of British Architects in 1837 ; and more than this , for just as architects strove for recognition in a professional world being transformed by the Industrial Revolution and new sciences , so does Worsley show us how this new breed of architect acquired technical proficiencies : in the presentation of drawings , in methods of copying and reproduction , in colour coding , and in advanced modes of perspective . |
| 22 | ‘ What might I not have done if I 'd had my own clubs for the first two rounds ? ’ |
| 23 | I 've got my special clothes with the trademark all the way thr |
| 24 | She had cried her personal tears before the funeral and that side of her grief was then over . |
| 25 | The Prodrive team from Banbury have got their two cars into the top six of this year 's RAC Rally which will be coming to a close in Chester in about an hours time … |
| 26 | Many miners apprenticed their young sons to the trade taking them underground at 15 , 16 or 17 years of age and paying them their worth , or less . |
| 27 | As part of the rationalisation programme , and following LASMO 's stated intention to withdraw from countries that were considered unlikely to contribute significantly to the Group , the Company has sold its onshore businesses in the US and Canada and its remaining interests in Australia . |
| 28 | Well , of course Jimmy 's got his own meals for the whole of his life more |
| 29 | His first source had been Terence , who had intensified his own investigations after the humiliation at the Amsterdam . |
| 30 | This one 's called My Bonny Lies over the Ocean . |