Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Soon Vickers at Barrow was building the Hercules for the Argentinian navy and then , under licence , helping it to build the Santisima Trinidad at Rio Santiago . |
| 62 | He looked to West Germany for support , holding two meetings with Konrad Adenauer during the second half of 1958 . |
| 63 | His two goals helped Vale beat local rivals Stoke for the first time since 1956 and for the first time ever in the FA Cup . |
| 64 | In each of the last four games there 's been speculation that Lou Macari was taking charge of Stoke for the last time . |
| 65 | In the second half Giannini again created the best moment , first intercepting a pass , then setting up Serena for the clearest chance of the match . |
| 66 | As the evening wore on , with plenty of opportunity to study Melanie as the latter flitted from group to group , Leonora grew more and more furious with Penry . |
| 67 | Pakistani officials , including Prime Minister Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif , organized meetings in Peshawar between the various mujaheddin groups and other regional powers . |
| 68 | ‘ The square on the hypotenuse , ’ said Percy Makepeace for the tenth time . |
| 69 | President Jorge Serranno Elías on Dec. 6 named Gen. José Domingo García Samayoa as the new Defence Minister replacing Gen. Luis Enrique Mendoza Garcia . |
| 70 | Seven months before , while Castile was — in his intemperate view — still dithering , he had set sail from Santa Maria for the coastal town of Acla , at what Indians told him was the narrowest and least topographically inconvenient part of the Panamanian isthmus . |
| 71 | He was arguing with Lucie about the lost tributes of Pontydd . |
| 72 | With Rudi Bryson challenging Richard Snell for the dubious honour of joining Hugh Page , Fanie de Villiers , Steve Jefferies and Corrie van Zyl among the ranks of ineffectual South African pace imports , Joey Benjamin 's recent burst of form has also been instrumental in Surrey 's surge from the Britannic basement . |
| 73 | Only a week ago , she had stood in their butcher 's shop and-completely demolished the reputation of young Carrie Davidson for the same thing : having to get married . |
| 74 | Then it was Irons who set up Aldridge for the third with a superb pass form inside his own half . |
| 75 | ‘ At my former company [ French Gold Abbott ] we were inexperienced and no one viewed FGA as the last place they were going to work . |
| 76 | He had been with Liddie through the various pre-natal classes , lying on the floor with her and learning the breathing exercises . |
| 77 | I just wan na cut the picture of Kim Basinger off the front page . |
| 78 | Hawkins collaborated with Fleischmann during the latter 's visits to Utah and they planned to extend the data samples to include rods of 8 mm up to 2 cm diameter . |
| 79 | Barney Moss stared at Doyle through the intervening glass-topped door , and Doyle felt the hostility like tiny knives . |
| 80 | Since Death in Venice is also to be performed , would it not have been better to keep Grimes for the new house and to have included a Rossini opera as a nostalgic as well as topical reminder of golden evenings ? |
| 81 | Roger McCarthy for the local authority . |
| 82 | ‘ When you went to see Mr Penver about the day-to-day running of the business , what did he tell you ? ’ |
| 83 | The English first bred turkeys in Norfolk during the 17th and 18th centuries . |
| 84 | We have no regional offices , and do not appear in any local telephone books ; publicity material like the leaflets have HQ address on them and so many people making contact with CPRW for the first time , no matter where they live , come first to us . |
| 85 | I believe that George killed Lennie as the ultimate act of friendship . |
| 86 | Director Caroline Fitzgerald has coaxed fine performances from a generally strong cast — in particular from O'Meara and Graham Arnold as the colourful butterflies that fly so distractingly around Alec 's head . |
| 87 | Phaidon has signed an agreement with Chronicle of San Francisco for the exclusive distribution of Phaidon titles in the US . |
| 88 | If he does , he will join former England man John Dean as the only person to ever win the award twice . |
| 89 | Certainly Chester , which was the successor to the Diocese of Lichfield as the ecclesiastical authority for Stockport , offered great opportunities . |
| 90 | An assizes court in Paris on June 15 , 1990 , sentenced Rolf Dobbertin , a German-born nuclear physicist who had worked for the French National Council for Scientific Research ( CNRS ) , to 12 years ' imprisonment for espionage for East Germany during the 10 years to January 1979 [ see p. 29786 for his arrest in 1979 and p. 33867 for his release in 1983 ] . |