Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] in [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sunshine when she landed at Heathrow was a cruel reminder to Alyssia of the lazy days in France she had thought would never end . |
| 2 | I think they had a bit of juggling to do , moving people out of the odd house in rows they demolished , and into the empty spots in ones they 're keeping — like filling decaying teeth-but most of it was just rotting where it stood . |
| 3 | When Arthur Wellesley was in command of the British troops in Spain he refused to pay for their upkeep by pillage and plunder . |
| 4 | Do n't know , oh Dovedale is one of the , one , one of the prettiest Dales in England I think , and eh the Manifold . |
| 5 | As the manual tells you , by holding certain stitches in holding ( E ) position and knitting the remaining stitches in sequence you can work shoulder shaping , neck shaping , sock heels and toes and even a shaped hemline on skirts , while most attractive full skirts can be made on the same principle . |
| 6 | ‘ With a lot of the hard men in football it 's all down to their characters . |
| 7 | " It was unknown in the past , and in the larger houses in town it was unheard of , but in the country it was not unknown . |
| 8 | If I want to count how many chairs there are in my college , I have little problem about deciding which of the many objects in college I am going to include in my count . |
| 9 | ‘ Against the All Blacks in Dunedin we won a lot of ball and very nearly won the match . |
| 10 | The competition now goes into winter hibernation , but when Rangers travel to play the Belgian champions in March they will do so believing they really can reach the final . |
| 11 | Now was one of the biggest bakeries in Edinburgh you told me it was er three stories and each story had a different function . |
| 12 | Applying these notions to the particular contracts in question he decided that the solus system was both too recent and too variable for it to have become part of the " accepted machinery " . |
| 13 | This immediately caught my imagination , for in the indigenous churches in Burma we had no musical instruments and no choirs . |
| 14 | If George Bush survives the Presidential elections in November it will be because the Democrats can produce nothing better than Bill Clinton whose appalling record on capital punishment ( he likes it ) is reason enough not to want him . |
| 15 | Whether we would be correct to conclude from this that in manic-depression mania was produced by a quasi-toxic suppression of the superego I do not know , but if would certainly accord well with Freud 's suggestion that in the manic interludes in depression we witness ‘ a magnificent festival of the ego , which might then once again feel satisfied with itself ’ . |
| 16 | Certain people , perhaps because they were friendly with one doctor but held a higher opinion of the professional ability of the other , took to carrying cards in their pockets which gave the relevant instructions in case they should find themselves too far gone to claim the doctor they wanted . |
| 17 | Fran settled herself in the soft leather seat , not daring to glance at the two men in case she precipitated some sort of an adverse reaction . |
| 18 | The Bowes Museum , which is celebrating its centenary year , is one of the best museums in Britain it is known as the V and A of the North but can not house the history of its town . |
| 19 | In fact given the , what 's happened politically in what was Czechoslovakia and is now the Czech Lands and Slovakia , erm and the financial pressures in Slovakia it 's not certain to me that the whole arrangement will go forward . |
| 20 | Dot avoided the danger of the swivelling eyes in case they had the same compelling powers . |