Example sentences of "the [noun] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Southampton v Manchester C Howard Kendall watches from the stand as his new charges attempt to resist the First Division 's most prolific attack . |
| 2 | So much for the experts and their fuckin' theories , the driver thought bitterly . |
| 3 | That is the view of senior officials at Buckingham Palace and the royal author closest to Prince Charles following publication of an alleged phone call between the prince and his close friend Camilla Parker Bowles . |
| 4 | Even if Bernard Stasi may be right in describing Jack Lang 's cultural policy as a ‘ spectacular performance played behind closed doors for the amusement of the prince and his obliging friends ’ , it will be a challenge to succeed him , the longest serving Minister of Culture of the Fifth Republic . |
| 5 | The Shah would gesticulate to him to stop it , but finally the Prince and his younger sister were allowed to perform a spirited disco dance while everyone below watched and the applauded . |
| 6 | Material obtained from terminated fetuses will allow cytogenetic and molecular characterization of the relationships between the fetus and its extraembryonic tissues , contributing to an understanding of events preceding various clinically recognized conditions . |
| 7 | By a week before Christmas , I was beginning to see my way across the spare bedroom at home , or the stockroom as my other half styles it , and light at the end of the tunnel . |
| 8 | Local artists and craftspeople exhibit their work , discuss and demonstrate their skills in the Manor and its beautiful surroundings . |
| 9 | I welcome the support that my hon. Friend has always given to that company . |
| 10 | The temple at Edfu , which we reached on the morning of the third day , was dedicated to Horus , for this was the spot where he was said to have vanquished Seth , and thus to have established the ascendancy of good over evil , This is never a , convincing concept , and the reliefs display the struggle and its happy outcome with an adamancy that seems to betray doubt . |
| 11 | Women are taking part in the struggle because our vital interests , survival and the development of our nation , are the same as those of men . |
| 12 | It would work through the current pooling arrangements and would maintain basically unaltered existing relationships between the institutions and their local authorities . |
| 13 | Significant powers are being delegated to schools and colleges and there is a general belief in the need to switch the day-to-day management of educational resources from county hall to the institutions and their governing bodies to achieve better value for money and sharpen the focus for accountability . |
| 14 | Most of them include complete lists of the members of all the institutions and their senior staff , with addresses and telephone numbers . |
| 15 | The wider scope of the EEC and its larger membership might well impose strains long before the end of the interim period . |
| 16 | On the other hand , it is clear , as has already been indicated , that the establishment of the EEC and its initial development was assisted by a conjunction of favourable political and economic circumstances . |
| 17 | If Locke 's account is rejected then we are back with the admission that our visual experience does not seem to accord with the impression theory . |
| 18 | In addition , the appointments of Lee and Baker by the Board and its emerging plans for rural areas development may have prompted the District to consider developing other parts of its region . |
| 19 | The Board and its local offices are responsible for maintaining the records . |
| 20 | At last , satisfied , he went to the sink and washed his hands , then came back and threw a muslin cloth over the board and its bloodied contents . |
| 21 | Normally MAS would act for the shareholders or their appointed representatives . |
| 22 | In general Republicans supported the measure because its likely effect would be to undermine the long-lasting Democratic domination of the state legislature . |
| 23 | Once back in the ops room , I laid the boy flat on his back , so far down the mattress that his dropped foot hung over the edge at the bottom , just as I had seen the Australian nurse do when I watched her during her London visit the previous year . |
| 24 | What matters is the heart and its secret whispers before God . |
| 25 | Rostov acknowledged the salutes , and the officer of the watch and his two assistants relaxed into their couches once again . |
| 26 | The menstrual taboo , originally presented and applied with explicit reference to maintaining the purity of the Temple and its cultic participants , was in the first century AD recast in terms of family law and the purity of marriage within the domestic unit . |
| 27 | An association between two variables does not infer causality and if one feature is associated with better glycaemic control it may not be the case that its widespread introduction will improve control . |
| 28 | Is it not the case that his departmental budget is increasing less quickly than that of any other major spending Department ? |
| 29 | This would have brought Mr Bush into the case as his Vice-Presidential office was the first in Washington to be contacted from Central America when an aircraft was shot down by the Sandinistas . |
| 30 | This type of interpretation is impossible in the case of Textermination , for no critic can foresee each and every one of the possible epistemological permutations put into play by the interaction between the text and its potential readers . |