Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [verb] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hard to imagine the average builder , unskilled in the repair of old buildings , recognising the significance of the two cat skeletons and the pile of old clothes that the Eastons found tucked behind the chimney in the old kitchen . |
| 2 | The Carters had laid on a jazz evening , featuring Sarah Vaughan and Dizzy Gillespie . |
| 3 | There 's no suggestion that any deliberate cruelty was taking place on the farm , but the RSPCA decided to call in a ministry of agriculture vet to examine the animals . |
| 4 | Trade within the EEC had expanded at a rate double that of trade with non-members , and the EEC had also become the world 's largest trading power . |
| 5 | This means that EEC law must be examined not only when the UK legislation has been passed to implement an EEC obligation but in all cases in which the EEC has legislated in the field under consideration . |
| 6 | FOR BRITAIN the argument for membership of the EEC has pivoted from the start around its perceived economic benefits to her . |
| 7 | Interested in finding out what colour scheme would the RAF have used for the vehicle , ie size , position and colour of any lettering on the bodywork , size and position of roundels would also be useful to know . |
| 8 | The Dodger and Charley Bates roared with laughter , and the Dodger began looking through the books Oliver had with him . |
| 9 | The failure of IAEA safeguards , including twice-yearly inspections in Iraq for the pasts 15 years , must lead to the conclusion that the NPT has acted like a cloak of respectability to certain nations which have signed it . |
| 10 | On the French side although the Communists failed to form a government and were thus not in a position to change French policy towards Vietnam — whether they would have wanted to do so is not quite so clear — the impasse between them and the MRP had resulted in a caretaker government under the veteran Socialist party leader , Leon Blum ; and Blum , calling for an end to equivocation and an absolutely clear definition of policy , had urged not only confidence and friendship but ‘ sincere agreement ’ on the basis of Vietnamese independence . |
| 11 | At one point I almost lost them until I realized that the Sierra had pulled into a garage for gas . |
| 12 | The court heard that PC Whitehouse had been questioning the driver of another red Ford car when the Sierra came speeding round the corner . |
| 13 | Apart from Bob Cole 's homebuilt HM293 G-AXPG which was a familiar site at PFA fly-ins in the early 70s , and believed to be still in store , no other versions of the Flea have flown in the UK since the War . |
| 14 | The baskets of fruit behind the sink and hob were specially created to match the Villeroy & Boch china that the Mills have collected over the years . |
| 15 | The government and industry of the Netherlands have agreed on a scheme which will decrease the amount of packaging from 2.7 million tonnes to 1.9 million tonnes by the turn of the century . |
| 16 | The EC guideline is 26 ppb. * Greater use of catalytic converters in the Netherlands has led to the first ever recorded drop in Nox concentrations . |
| 17 | The ownership and use of cars in the Netherlands has doubled in the past fifteen years . |
| 18 | Domestic problems do n't arise when the Rayners want to go to a game — the whole family go along for the ride . |
| 19 | The Mexico City meetings , the first to be attended by FMLN field commanders , produced agreement on a package of proposed constitutional amendments , which the FMLN had stipulated as a precondition to a ceasefire . |
| 20 | It is still open to the ECJ judges to differ from the Advocate General 's opinion and , according to consultants and actuaries Noble Lowndes , even when judgment is given it is unlikely to cover all the details so requiring national legislation or court action . |
| 21 | But the EPA wanted to wait for the results of the post-flood analysis in the hope that the floods would dilute the dioxin . |
| 22 | As to the political secrets that the KGB has gathered by the basketful over the last 40 years , few seem to have made much impact on the monolithic structure of Russia 's political machine . |
| 23 | In the absence of appropriate provision by other bodies , the WEA had grown as a social movement which sought to provide those opportunities for people , denied access to further and higher education , either through its own efforts or cooperatively , but without patronage , in partnership with the universities , LEAs , and other agencies . |
| 24 | Morris : Tell me ; when is the WEA going to die as a voluntary body ? |
| 25 | In December 1989 eight Chinese deputies belonging to the MCA threatened to resign from the Selangor assembly in protest against the new law . |
| 26 | By then the Dysarts had moved into the countryside . |
| 27 | You come back here with Rex Mundi on board , and if that is n't disaster enough , you stop off for lunch , he escapes and the Volvo gets stolen with the entire Presley hoard along with it . |
| 28 | For five years , the Nethercotts have proceeded with a cabinetmaker 's meticulousness . |
| 29 | The Kremlin have paid for the production of the catalogue which will be on sale at the exhibition . |
| 30 | In March 1916 , it was announced that the S.M.E.T. had contracted with the County of London Electricity Supply Co. for bulk supply of current , both for lighting and for that part of the tramways which they supplied . |