Example sentences of "[subord] the [adj] [noun] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | So the very fact that she observes her price to be higher than the average price level she was originally expecting may make her adjust upwards her expected average price level . |
2 | He also ordered a meal of succulent roast capon cooked in rich sauces and freshly baked loaves of pure wheat rather than the coarse rye bread I had eaten the previous months . |
3 | If your statute is later than the last Continuation Volume it will probably be in the Current Statutes Service , composing loose-leaf binders containing the latest statutes , annotations and index . |
4 | ‘ Possibly because the new ventilation system I 've recently supervised being installed in a factory in one of the Arab Emirates has proved so successful that I have orders for two more , or possibly because I 've just spent four weeks at full stretch in a very hot country with very little relaxation and deserve a holiday — but more probably because I own a majority stockholding in the company I bought cheap and built up to its present eminence , which gives me the position of chairman and managing director and full autonomy in deciding what I do , where I do it and with whom . ’ |
5 | On August 14 , John Allison , considering the short hangar time he had on the aircraft , flew the Corsair in a beautiful aerobatic routine , and the following day he flew across to Coventry Airshow , Warks , to display the aircraft at the RAFA Airshow there . |
6 | Since the Second Vatican Council she had even been removed from the Universal Canon , by ignorant prelates who — full of their scientific and rationalist approach to the institutions of sanctity — insisted she had never existed . |
7 | Since the Second World War it has all been downhill . |
8 | Not much has been made of this migration , some ethnic tension apart , and even less of the fact that in the years since the second world war it has been essential for western European economic life . |
9 | It 's only since the Second World War I think that a few nations , especially the , the , the highly socialist ones with a strong erm directed policy of sports , in sports and education , have begun to put an amount of effort into sports training which the less socialistic and less state concentrated countries like our own have found a , a bit offensive . |
10 | Since the 1980 Competition Act it is also possible for the Director General of Fair Trading to refer a particular practice of an individual firm to the Commission , where complaints have been received from supposedly injured parties , or the practice is suspected of limiting competition . |
11 | Since the 1979 Banking Act it has done this by licensing institutions to take deposits and requiring regular statistical returns from such institutions . |
12 | Neither he nor Charlotte had intended to stay there long , But they continued renting the house for fourteen years , and after the First World War they bought it — after which it became known as Shaw 's Corner . |
13 | After the First World War she added ice-cream to her stock-in-trade , and soon she was able to buy the shop outright . |
14 | After the First World War he joined a ‘ change-nightly ’ repertory company , appeared regularly at the Grand Theatre , Southampton , and later formed his own touring company before specialising in one-man shows drawn from the works of Charles Dickens . |
15 | As for the barbecue , even the guides can handle it in an emergency , but after the strenuous river trip I prefer them to be able to relax . |
16 | After the second escape attempt they were beaten again and flung into the blackness of stone-floored isolation cells in the nearby fort at An Dap . |
17 | After the Second World War they began to support African nationalism . |
18 | After the Second World War it broadened to include all boys ' schools . |
19 | It was then a University magazine but after the Second World War it became , as Nonesuch News , the student newspaper . |
20 | After the second world war it had to adjust to the loss of an empire . |
21 | During his time as Head Gardener he planted several M. soulangeana and after the Second World War he also planted M. kobus , M. mollicomata , M. sinensis , M. stellata and M. acuminata . |
22 | After the 1970 election victory they introduced a reform of local government structure which retained a two-tier system throughout the country with duties divided between county and district councils . |
23 | He started driving cars in 1959 and after the 1960 motorcycle season he devoted his energies to cars full time , originally in his own Formula Two car . |
24 | It has been completely eradicated from Greece since 1973 , where before the Second World War it caused an estimated one to two million cases annually . |
25 | Before the Second World War it was still decreed by the Women 's Cricket Association that women cricketers should wear white stockings — a rule which it has to be said was not always adhered to by the players . |
26 | Before the Second World War it boasted a church , two chapels , a school , three shops , a post office , two joiners , two tailors , a ladies dressmaker ( specialising in high quality garments ! ) , a cobbler , a slaughter-house and butcher , a fish and chip shop and two public houses . |
27 | Before the Second World War he was a junior assistant engineer with the North Metropolitan Power Company at Bishops Stortford . |
28 | We have already encountered Baden-Powell in his romantic — progressive mode of address , but before the First World War he was more usually to be found singing a different tune : Here he is again , sounding off to the Royal United Services Institute in 1911 , in a typical Edwardian Tory response to the Liberal government 's programme of welfare reforms : |
29 | However , before the First World War it was not at all clear how far the social democratic movements had been subverted . |
30 | His first game for Arsenal was a nightmare , and before the 1930 Cup final he told Chapman how anxious he was Arsenal should win , so he would justify his record fee . |