Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then there was the Mondays , always about to gatecrash the States with their apparently cleaned up act — and their new LP , ‘ Pills 'N Thrills And Bellyaches ! ’ is as close to the US mainstream as the Ryders can get without losing their natural pop suss . |
| 2 | Then there was the Mondays , always about to gatecrash the States with their apparently cleaned up act — and their new LP , ‘ Pills 'N Thrills And Bellyaches ! ’ is as close to the US mainstream as the Ryders can get without losing their natural pop suss . |
| 3 | Back was outstanding for the Midlands against South West two weeks ago and tore into the Barbarians like a wolf at a flock of sheep . |
| 4 | Shame , his novel of Pakistan , was short-listed for the Booker Prize and is believed by many to be his finest work . |
| 5 | In 1983 , The Illusionist , a novel by Anita Mason , offered a controversial but historically valid perspective on the coalescence of the early Church ; it was short-listed for the Booker Prize , Britain 's most prestigious literary award . |
| 6 | This work led to Helen Chadwick being short-listed for the Tate Gallery 's Turner Prize in 1987 The citation referred to her " striking use of mixed media " . |
| 7 | Danzigers had good reason to be apprehensive about the Versailles Treaty arrangements , and they were not alone . |
| 8 | Simmons suddenly recollected his duties as host , and broke off in the middle of a discussion about whether Botham 's personality was right for the England team . |
| 9 | I also like simple lines if done with feel and melody — McCartney being a prime example of that type of player — although the context is equally important and McCartney 's style was exactly right for The Beatles . ’ |
| 10 | Reiterating the ANC 's willingness to negotiate with the South African government , he said the time was not right for the ANC to abandon violence : ‘ The struggle inside South Africa and outside South Africa must continue . ’ |
| 11 | It was an immensely brave step for President Yeltsin to take , and on that basis I believe that it is right for the United Kingdom to change its policy on a rouble stabilisation fund — as an indication that we are prepared to support the reform programme that is now in place . |
| 12 | Milan : The underlying tone remained weak as the MIB edged up one point to 1,174 . |
| 13 | He must have fallen asleep during the Jane Russell film . |
| 14 | The last of them , before becoming extinct between the Permian and Triassic periods , were extremely large members of the labyrinthodont group . |
| 15 | Can he give the House any information about how it has been possible for the NHS , which is supposedly starved of funds , to find the money to buy that hospital ? |
| 16 | In a nationally televised speech , Bush said that developments in the Soviet Union had made it possible for the United States unilaterally to " take steps to make the world a less dangerous place than ever before in the nuclear age " . |
| 17 | The minister confirmed that a ban on tankers in the Minch was being considered , and that a separation scheme was possible for the Fair Isle area . |
| 18 | Will it be possible for the Lord President of the Council to ask the Department of Transport to make a statement or to initiate an early debate on the proposed review of coastguard services , a matter of serious concern to all of us who represent maritime constituencies ? |
| 19 | Such reformers usually saw themselves as making it possible for the Masai to survive as a race : getting obsessed with the Masai was not inherently a passive occupation . |
| 20 | Therefore , should cold war tension heighten , it would not be possible for the US authorities to place a moratorium upon the use of such dollar balances . |
| 21 | So it would have been possible for the GMC to try to challenge the basis of clinical ecology . |
| 22 | Gordon and Julie Wellsted , from American Heartbeat , Whessoe Road , hope to collect as many tins of dog and cat food as possible for the Eldon Hope Kennels , Shildon . |
| 23 | The end of active hostilities between Chad and Libya in September 1987 ( see pp. 35876-79 ) , and the formal declaration of Oct. 3 , 1988 , that their war was at an end ( see p. 36256 ) , made it possible for the Habre regime to pursue what it described as a policy of " national reconciliation " with the many groups and factions which had come into being during the country 's protracted civil war . |
| 24 | By 1700 stage wagons were a common sight in southern England and were usual through the Midlands by 1750 . |
| 25 | Since television is now admitted to all other public aspects of our national life it is absurd for the Commons to conceal themselves . |
| 26 | WHY is everyone so upset about the BBC 's Eldorado ? |
| 27 | ‘ He must have been pretty upset about the Wolvercote Jewel . ’ |
| 28 | Then I asked the administrator , who was called Lucy ( I was right about The Beatles ) , what the real form was on Sal 's case . |
| 29 | Renault is right about the Clio 's ride . |
| 30 | ‘ I do hope the NRA are right about the Wivenhoe barrier , but I am still concerned . ’ |