Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | But the general satisfaction with close and successful cooperation evident through the easy , harmonious transfer of responsibility from the District to the Cambridge Board of the Bedfordshire scheme in 1930 began to evaporate when in the following year , the Cambridge Board asked the District to cede its Chapter III providing powers in rural Cambridgeshire to the Board . |
2 | Scott 's instructions to proceed with working drawings followed on 17th March with a request for a list of builders willing to tender for the work . |
3 | The probe is a 350 bp Rsa I- Cla I fragment comprising the entire deoP2 , 32 P-end-labelled at the 5'-end of the Cla I site with polynucleotide kinase and isolated from pJEL152 . |
4 | David Gear hit the ball over the defence and Spence immediately changed direction and chased ; for some unknown reason , no flag appeared , allowing Spence to slot home past the helpless Warner to the annoyance of the home players . |
5 | In parliamentary elections on March 24 , 1988 [ see p. 36040 ] , the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party ( GSLP ) won eight of the elective seats and the Gibraltar Labour Party-Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights ( GLP-AACR ) the remaining seven . |
6 | Gibraltar Labour Party-Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights ( GLP-AACR , Adolfo Canepa l . ) . |
7 | Bismarck , the creator of a unified Germany in the late 1800s , was known as the ‘ Iron Chancellor ’ , and Germany 's most frequent honour to valour was the Iron Cross . |
8 | Never the most fluent of jumpers , she put in some unnecessarily extravagant leaps before settling down on the second circuit , but then met the final open ditch all wrong and deposited the hapless Mullins on the floor . |
9 | One sticky point — the need for a reprocessing plant — has been overcome with the agreement of the Premier of Lower Saxony to the building of a plant at Dragahn near the East German border . |
10 | The Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) won Lower Saxony from the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) , which had held it since the mid-1970s ( in coalition with the Free Democrats since the last state election in 1986 — see pp. 34503-04 ) ; the SPD also retained its absolute majority in North Rhine-Westphalia ( with 11,000,000 voters Germany 's most populous state ) , where it had held control for 24 years . |
11 | BEFORE YOU PUT A USED SAAB TO THE TEST , WE DO ! |
12 | ON THE RIGHT BERNARD DURING THE SAME VISIT . |
13 | Unfortunately , however , Hoving 's overweening ego becomes distressingly evident : he presents a soon tiring scenario of the young , hip , rebellious David against the stuffy old WASP Goliaths , symbolised by most of the board of trustees and members of the curatorial staff . |
14 | Lancs look to ace Neil for a knockout boost |
15 | The ‘ eleven-plus ’ of the period after the 1944 Act was the ‘ special places examination ’ of advanced LEAs before the war , used by more authorities . |
16 | But that Saturday for the first time in his life , he invited his youngest son Patsy to attend the ball-game along with himself and his other three sons . |
17 | Painters have responded enthusiastically , from the meticulous realism of Frith 's panoramic Paddington to the delicate impressionism of Monet 's Gare Saint-Lazare , from the distorted heat-haze imagery of Dali 's Perpignan Station to the lonely , austere beauty of Vlaminck 's station in the snow . |
18 | Barney had flown to the States last Thursday , and she was driving to London later that Tuesday to the flat where he and Cara lived . |
19 | In his two-volume Mexico of the Twentieth Century ( 1907 ) Martin moved on to examine British investment and influence in that country . |
20 | Any budding Napoleon with a few hours to spare — or a few days , for some games — can choose from titles such as ‘ Butcher of Baghdad ’ , ‘ Gulf Strike ’ and ‘ Line in the Sand ’ . |
21 | Birbeck believed that Branson had played the joke as ‘ revenge ’ for a Music Week reporter feeding stories disparaging Branson to the satirical magazine Private Eye — and he was partly right . |
22 | Orality is also a feature of the fiction of Juan Rulfo , whose Pedro Páramo re-creates the world of rural Mexico through a narrative which initially appears to be a conventionally written text but turns out to be constituted orally , with one of the characters , Juan Preciado , emerging as the internal author as he recounts his own story and hears and transmits those of the other characters . |
23 | An extreme and exceptional case is the small community outside the fort of Phasis in the province of Cappadocia , which was fortified by the governor solely to protect it from assault by invading Alans in the mid second century . |
24 | Wardle Wood bordered the lane between her home and Fordbridge , to which she cycled each Friday to the meeting of the 2nd Fordbridge Brownie Guide Pack . |
25 | Council house tenants in the Marske area can now take advantage of a drop-in centre each Friday at the housing information centre in Marske Leisure Centre , where they can put their housing problems . |
26 | Most of the 20,000–30,000 Arab volunteers who came to Afghanistan and next-door Pakistan during the war worked in relief organisations or as doctors and teachers . |
27 | Now , the group has over 70 members and meets each Tuesday at the Youth Club , High Road , Byfleet . |
28 | Now , the group has over 70 members and meets each Tuesday at the Youth Club , High Road , Byfleet . |
29 | And if you go round , particularly the steep slopes on the margins of Ashdown Forest , not on Ashdown Forest itself but when you climb up from the very flat erm plain area of the Low Weald onto the so-called High Weald , then that area in particular is very subject to , to this type of activity . |
30 | Pepe 's Bar was situated on the sand , with rough wooden flooring that Shelley used to think could n't take much more of the stamping that it got each Saturday during the flamenco dancing . |