Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | An agreement signed during a two-day visit by senior purchasing staff from Behr appointed the Welsh Development Agency 's source team to select Welsh companies capable of supplying air conditioning system components such as wiring harnesses , precision castings and turned parts . |
| 32 | Satisfied , Barry Silk laid the last item of his equipment lovingly down , almost as if for a kit inspection . |
| 33 | Frances experienced the red alert as agony . |
| 34 | One µg of mRNA was reverse transcribed using M-MLV RT and subjected to PCR using the following internal primer pairs : ( 1 ) AD13/AD15 , ( 2 ) AD13/8E2 ( 3 ) AD15/3200 . |
| 35 | Thorneycroft insisted , like Sandys before him over the TSR 2 , that economies should be made by the Navy and RAF using the same airframe for their future supersonic fighter , but he was equally unsuccessful : the requirements for the two environments were far too far apart . |
| 36 | For the record , Vanuatu got the highest guffaw count . |
| 37 | Ben Crawley got the only try as Saracens beat relegation favourites Rugby 14-6 . |
| 38 | Black and Scholes make the following assumptions : |
| 39 | When John Hawarde , a lawyer , was summoned from his rooms in the Temple to attend the Privy Council at Greenwich he had to pay Mr Ward , the Clerk of the Council , a royal for recording his appearance , 6s. 8d. for his entering into a bond , and 6s. 8d. for the bond itself . |
| 40 | Baker met the senior Mongolian party and government leaders : Punsalmaagiyn Ochirbat , the Chairman of the People 's Great Hural Presidium ; Sharavyn Gungaadorj , the Chairman of the Council of Ministers ; Foreign Minister Tserenpilyn Gombosuren ; and the general secretary of the MPRP , Gombojavyn Ochirbat . |
| 41 | Father Doyle became the famous Fr Willie Doyle of the trenches , where he was killed in 1917 . |
| 42 | ‘ I do n't need to be Plato to see the obvious , ’ he said coldly . |
| 43 | Lieutenant General Augustus Pitt-Rivers became the first official guardian of Britain 's heritage |
| 44 | ALAN KELLY made the crucial penalty shoot-out save that crowned Sheffield United 's FA Cup fightback against Blackburn and clinched their first semi-final for 32 years . |
| 45 | NME understands the fledgling Suede recorded a single for a Brighton-based acquaintance of bass player Mat Osman , who was keen to found a record label . |
| 46 | So it was a shock when Middlesbrough announced the former Croydon , Carshalton and Sutton United player as their manager . |
| 47 | After Simmons stabbed at a lifter from Bosch and was caught off the shoulder of the bat in the gully in the fourth over , Snell made the vital breaks , removing Haynes and , first ball after tea , Richardson . |
| 48 | Bankside represents the fullest realisation of his industrial aesthetic . |
| 49 | Back on the white(ish) stuff , John Welford made the second ascent of Simon Nadin 's 1987 testpiece Gonads giving it F8a+ , and then red-pointed Out of my Tree at Raven Tor as a warm down . |
| 50 | Has Iain Banks passed the Scottish writer 's mid-life crisis ? |
| 51 | After a summer of speculation at Old Trafford about the future of the Manchester United striker , manager Alex Ferguson insists the Welsh warrior still has what it takes to lead his side . |
| 52 | With their absorption of the vicomté of Béarn through marriage and inheritance in 1290 , the counts of Foix became the single most powerful house in the south-west . |
| 53 | The Daltons became the second husband and wife team in the Commons , but three months later he came North to bag the seat for himself . |
| 54 | Closer to home , BARNEY from NEW ORDER and long-time girlfriend SARAH became the proud parents of a very healthy baby boy called Dylan . |
| 55 | I congratulate the Government on appointing Mr. Norman Warner to conduct the national inquiry . |
| 56 | Leaders Sunderland made the short trip to Seaham and things looked close at half time as they nosed in front 19–14 . |
| 57 | Scott and a team including Chris Bonington made the first ascent in 1977 ; on the rock ridge of Shivling East Pillar ; Greg Child belayed on Lobsang Spire in the Karakoram — another first ascent for Scott in 1983 . |
| 58 | On July 1 Andorra became the first non-EC country to join the EC customs union , when a treaty signed in June 1990 [ see p. 37592 ] came into effect . |
| 59 | Sitting alone at her kitchen table , Kelly read the last words ever written by her father . |
| 60 | Shoe shop owner Nick Dando and his wife Melanie made the gruesome find while taking their daughters on a nature ramble in remote woodland . |