Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jones referred to ‘ cranks — long-haired men and short-haired women ’ who formed the ( British ) Socialist Party , and explained that the title of NSP better represented the time and circumstances than SDI' because ‘ social democrat was associated with Germany and Germanic thought , and during the present war the action of most of the social democrats of Germany had made the term stink in the nostrils of most people ’ ( SE 1 June 18 ) . |
| 2 | We 'd always felt that the demands for the prisoners in Kuwait only affected the French and the Americans . |
| 3 | Sue Best joined the police force immediately after graduating in Biological Sciences from Birmingham in 1975 . |
| 4 | The delay in publication of the original book would probably have been much longer had Medvedev not given the manuscript to Andrei Sakharov to read in October 1988 . |
| 5 | At the sound of footsteps outside the tent Loc quickly folded the copy and its master and hid them inside the packing case . |
| 6 | In Nicaragua , the United States similarly regarded the Sandinista government as a threat and a radical example for other Central American states . |
| 7 | Now it has emerged that the bomb which devastated Portadown on Saturday severely damaged the town hall , venue for the province 's One Act Drama Finals this Saturday . |
| 8 | The two children retired to a nearby bench where Richard ceremoniously selected the largest and reddest strawberries for his companion . |
| 9 | But they are still there on the scoresheet every Saturday when given the chance . |
| 10 | and I 'm gon na go like and Leyton Orient just scored the goal for this , that and the other it 's a big area , and everyone 's going what commentator for I said I 'm not I 'm on the radio |
| 11 | Civil Service have conceded fewer goals than any other team in the division , and had Howell not taken the decision to stand down from the top flight , he could have been elevated to the Scottish senior international training squad this summer . |
| 12 | ‘ Or have the Ruskies finally invented the sky hook ? ’ |
| 13 | Sohail experienced the oddity of dismissal for only 1 to go with his first-innings 205 , a loose drive bringing his downfall , but Ramiz and Mujtaba soon arrested the situation , putting on 142 before Lewis had a double reward as tea approached . |
| 14 | BANGOR manager Nigel Best won the ‘ Manager of the Year ’ award last season . |
| 15 | The watchful French gunners behind Bois Bourrus soon pin-pointed the train by the tell-tale smoke from its engine , and it was forced to retire , a little ignominiously . |
| 16 | Stevens and Payne Best spent the war in prison and in camps , and almost every SIS man in place in Germany , the Low Countries and France had to return to England . |
| 17 | So there 's no doubt , that Darwin both invoked the inheritance of acquired characteristics , and was even prepared to talk about erm , Lamarck nonsense , not to do with progressivism admittedly , but to do with evolution by will . |
| 18 | It only remains to add that although I have no doubt that Hugh correctly identified the ‘ search ’ of the Canterbury monks with the process of forgery , it is quite possible , indeed probable , that at various times during the previous fifty years individual members of the community had made experiments in altering the documents to make them more effective . |
| 19 | Wisby and Hasler actually plugged the noses of their salmon , which then homed less accurately than untreated controls ( Table 4.1 ) ; in more recent experiments , the same result has been obtained by cutting the salmon 's olfactory nerves . |
| 20 | So Constantine actually placed the imperial crown , the phrygium , on the pope 's head . |
| 21 | In Davis ( Clifford ) Management v WEA Records [ 1975 ] 1 WLR 61 Lord Denning MR expressly considered the adequacy of the consideration . |
| 22 | In the winter , the Government were driven to the desperation of calling upon alchemy — ’ what Disraeli once called the alchemy of time . ’ |
| 23 | Einstein later called the cosmological term ‘ the greatest mistake of my life . ’ |
| 24 | Manet 's Olympia similarly allowed the features defining the prostitute to lose their clarity . |
| 25 | Er Mr also made the point that er urban regeneration erm no longer seems to have the emphasis that it did have . |
| 26 | Researchers at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in the United States and at the Medical Research Council Unit for Applied Psychology in Cambridge simultaneously identified the tasks sensitive to the effects of even one night 's loss of sleep as those which were not self-timed , which went on for at least ten minutes and which were not intrinsically motivating . |
| 27 | A huge gap appeared in the heart of the Forest area and Giggs simply squared the ball to McClair and invited him to score . |
| 28 | Once again the problem was a lack of suitable replacements should Woodrop go , and Graham indeed considered the bailie-substitute indispensable , for |
| 29 | In December 1967 Nato officially replaced the strategy of massive retaliation with that of flexible response , but without the enlarged conventional forces which McNamara and other American proponents of this strategy had originally envisaged . |
| 30 | The curator of the Jeffery Museum scorned Mentmore as no more than ‘ a heterogeneous accumulation of prestigious loot ’ , while Lord Vaizey scathingly described the contents of Calke as ‘ skiploads of junk ’ . |