Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [subord] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In general Republicans supported the measure because its likely effect would be to undermine the long-lasting Democratic domination of the state legislature . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Higher education could not rely on the taxpayer as its only source of funds , he told the annual meeting of the university 's court of governors . |
| 7 | Seattle-born Randy Hansen saw Hendrix live on stage once and only this once , but he 's by no means vaunting the experience as his single turning point , the moment when he decided to devote his playing life to Jimi 's music . |
| 8 | The shop at fault was clearly shown on the chart as its horizontal line was much shorter than the similar line above it showing the progress of earlier operations in its manufacture , and as soon as the supply reverted to normal again , the red flag was removed . |
| 9 | WOKING hero Mark Biggins has been dumped on the bread-line by the recession since their epic FA Cup run two years ago , but at Brighton todaySAT , non-League football 's most flamboyant midfielder will be back in the giant-killing business . |
| 10 | The work , being undertaken by the King 's Cross Projects Group of the British Railways Board , will safeguard the structure of the building although its future use is unknown . |
| 11 | As soon as he learned of the rebels ' withdrawal from Derby , he sent orders to Field Marshal Wade to intercept them from the west while his own army set off in pursuit from the south . |
| 12 | Quigley looked in the direction in which he had hurled the paper-stripper as his old lady repeated , ‘ O Jesus , Great News ! ’ |
| 13 | Unlike Lukács ' insignificant event from which the universal is precariously drawn out through the narrative , Sartre 's singularity works synecdochally in a conventional antinomy with the universal , the relation between the two structured according to the familiar nineteenth-century model of organic growth or process in which each singular event makes up the whole while , as he puts it , ‘ the whole is entirely present in the part as its present meaning and as its destiny ’ . |
| 14 | It 's no good blaming the chef if our own broth tastes disgusting , or is simply bland and boring — because we not only chose the recipe , but stirred in each ingredient with our own hands ! |
| 15 | But what better way of fooling the enemy when your Prime Minister was going to one place than by having a double suggest he was somewhere else altogether ? |
| 16 | The editors begin their Introduction by agreeing with Professor David Walker 's statement in the Scottish Legal System that Scottish legal history is closer to that of the Continent than its English counterpart . |
| 17 | ‘ It is also nearer the coast than our previous activities so offers different constraints of beaches , wildlife and vessel traffic . |
| 18 | Colin Calderwood has been with the club since their fourth division days , but has yet to sign a new contract for next season . |
| 19 | Ferns , club mosses and gymnosperms continued the tree-like growth of the Devonian period , when a moderate climate became warmer , and this dense foliage locked up the carbon as our present coal deposits , thus increasing even further the oxygen content of the atmosphere . |
| 20 | Islam takes the Koran as its ultimate guide , and anything not mentioned in the Koran is likely to be rejected by the faithful . |
| 21 | Shortly after he was arrested by the Stevens team , Brian Nelson made lengthy statements in the Prison outlining his three year involvement with the UDA as its chief intelligence collator and his role as a top Army agent . |
| 22 | He was seen emerging from the Foreign Office a short distance behind the Queen after his ministerial colleagues had taken up their positions beside the Cenotaph . |
| 23 | Roman weapons used the bow as their mechanical basis , but the medieval ones tended to use the sling , which made them heavier and more cumbersome . |
| 24 | Individually , the Russian nobleman continued into the eighteenth century to enjoy much less security under the law than his Western counterpart . |
| 25 | Barrel vaults were developed first and remained satisfactory in the south where their immense thrust on the walls could be borne by the use of small windows to avoid weakening the structure . |
| 26 | Similarly , if a child with bacterial diarrhoea is taken to a health clinic and prescribed a necessary course of antibiotics , the mother might be unwilling to give them to the child if her hot/cold classification of the antibiotics conflicts with her classification of the type of diarrhoea . |
| 27 | With more distance between the edge of the green and the flag , the shot does become easier with a lofted club , but even so , look to the putter as your safest route up a slope . |
| 28 | The early findings from the Leverhulme Project ( Wragg and Bennett 1990 ) show that where learning tasks are genuinely collaborative , children will use the group rather than the teacher as their main reference point , and the ratio of work to routine interactions will improve . |
| 29 | This type of work represents a hidden shift of resources into the community because its considerable costs are generally attributed to the budget for psychiatric hospitals . |
| 30 | His distribution contract did not expressly provide for him to be personally involved in the distribution although his personal involvement was appreciated . |