Example sentences of "the [noun sg] at the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year , Durham swept the board at the National Boys ' Clubs championships , winning all four team events and claiming two individual gold medals in a superb performance . |
| 2 | Whitlock had wanted to remain on duty for the banquet at the United Nations that evening but Kolchinsky had told him to call it a day . |
| 3 | He then asked my name , and on hearing it , asked if I was the padre at the convalescent homes , adding , ‘ A damned fine job . |
| 4 | Follow the path down to the tramroad at the two gates . |
| 5 | The curriculum at the medical schools does not make the study of dermato-venereology compulsory , and it is not unusual for a doctor to qualify in France having had little or no training in these subjects . |
| 6 | Not the precise pattern of plants and trees beyond the human enclave , nor the affectionate grass , nor even the strange and delightful animal life — if it was animal life which peered from the undergrowth at the human installations with delicate curiosity . |
| 7 | Parti démocratique sénégalais ( PDS — Senegalese Democratic Party , Abdoulaye Wade s. g. , the main opposition party ) ; in addition there are 15 smaller parties , none of which gained more than 1.5 per cent of the vote at the last elections . |
| 8 | The programme at the Primary Schools Centre remained by far the largest part of the Authority 's central INSET commitment during the evaluation period and an important medium for the transmission of advisory views on good practice . |
| 9 | Was the shooting at the violent times ? |
| 10 | In a separate agreement the heads of member states agreed that Russia should take the seat at the United Nations formerly occupied by the USSR , and a framework of interstate and inter-governmental consultation was established . |
| 11 | His parents Kang and Bi explained how little Sheng spent his days looking out the window at the other children playing , knowing he could n't take part . |
| 12 | She lay on the narrow white bed , staring out of the window at the gray-white clouds moving heavily across the October sky , and tried to organize her thinking . |
| 13 | He gazed out of the window at the jog-trotting crowds of peasants moving in both directions along the road . |
| 14 | The other two had evidently been in hospital longer than I had , and they were like children let out of school , peering through the unblacked-out part of the window at the bright lights in the shops and rejoicing that they would be home for Christmas . |
| 15 | He put the papers away and leaned back , gazing out of the window at the bright banks of sunlit cloud as they reached thirty thousand feet . |
| 16 | Now it 's glossy cream and pale blue and beautiful , but I find myself looking out of the window at the broken slats of the fence between our house and the next , and understanding very well why canals and tulips and windmills and clear blue Dutch skies had been important to the woman who had stood in that kitchen before me . |
| 17 | Channel 4 had no remedy at all when the judge at the Official Secrets trial of Clive Ponting issued an order banning the television station from using actors to read each evening from the day 's transcripts of this controversial trial . |
| 18 | ‘ Tell me , sir , did you go to the lecture at the Civil Engineers ' Hall that Friday ? ’ |
| 19 | If you do not have an overseas domicile , you will have to pay the tax at the same rates as if you lived in Britain . |
| 20 | The room at the top stretches from the front to the back of the house and is the domain of the Pages ' younger son , Nicholas . |
| 21 | But now a new pattern emerged as the red and brown shapes blocked together to form overlapping triangles all pointing across the room at the double doors opposite . |
| 22 | From 20% in 1980 , investment banking grew to account for two-thirds of the business at the bigger houses in the go-go days . |
| 23 | As to political issues : the Foreign Secretary had stated on 24 June 1991 that the aim at the Intergovernmental Conferences would be to conclude negotiations at Maastricht in December . |
| 24 | His heart thumped as he stood on the Yugoslav border and stared through the night at the nearby fields in Hungary . |
| 25 | She came to his side and stared along the alley at the two men who were standing unwarily outlined in the light of a held lantern . |
| 26 | Education about dangers on the roads is top of the agenda at the new TEARS Traffic Education and Road Safety centre in Malvern . |
| 27 | Wellies were the order of the day at the Three Counties Showground in Malvern . |
| 28 | And another part was still looking out of the rear window of the taxi at the green hills receding behind the tiled roofs into the morning sunshine ; still standing in the corridor of the train as the flat terrain of southern England slid past and a great weight built up steadily in my chest . |
| 29 | I hope the Committee will point the finger at the real culprits in its concluding report . |
| 30 | Commenting on the report , WWF-UK 's forest conservation officer , Jean-Paul Jenrenaud , said : " We have spent too long pointing the finger at the tropical countries for cutting down their forests , without examining what is happening in our own backyard . " |