Example sentences of "the [adj] [det] [noun pl] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the erstwhile All Blacks ' captain , Wayne Shelford , was asked on Saturday evening if the appointment of Gavin Hastings , assuming it transpired , was to be seen as a victory for the Celtic fringe , he answered simply that it would have an awful lot more to do with his having some decidedly impressive credentials . |
| 2 | The single-cell layer of the wall will lie in such a way that it is in contact with the mother 's blood supply , burrowing into the capillaries ( thread-like blood vessels ) to obtain nutrition via the mother 's blood — only the first few days ' nutrition comes from within the blastocyst itself . |
| 3 | It intends to use its contacts with architects , builders , joiners , electricians etc to provide a building and hopefully also assist in raising income for the first few years ' running costs . |
| 4 | Their collapse from top to near bottom has given grim satisfaction their army of ill-wishers in the rest of Welsh rugby , but really the seeds of the Welsh All Blacks ' failure were seen when they were becoming champions . |
| 5 | Giving out eve-of-poll leaflets at the tube station , I get the same subliminal message as from the past few nights ' TV : increasingly confident Tories , and puzzled , frustrated socialists . |