Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Benn was so impressed with Ceauşescu 's Romania that he found nothing odd in the following suggestion from Bruno Pittermann , the former chairman of Kreisky 's Austrian Socialist Party : ‘ Pittermann said he would like to see parliamentary links with Romania , Poland and Yugoslavia , and to study their election process and procedure .
2 She was a woman from an age quite different from Erika 's own ; separated by a gulf , a measureless chasm of experience distancing them each from the other as surely as though they were beings from two different planets .
3 Indeed on the nineteenth of January the Noble Earl Lord told me that of the three hundred and sixty letters which had been received from a wide variety of organisations representing people of totally different political opinions and that following the publication of the White Paper .
4 ‘ Excuse me , please , ’ she said politely , but there was nothing polite about the angry , scornful glitter in her grey eyes .
5 However , it will never make them rich in the same way that potentially having an independent company and taking that to the market would have .
6 Last night , on ’ Newsnight ’ , Mr. Brendan Bruce , the former director of communications for the Tories , said : ’ No-one sensible in the Tory Party actually believes the Labour Party would put up public spending by £37 billion ’ .
7 For its weight , there is really nothing wrong with the mechanical properties of wood and the weight of wooden structures is generally at least comparable to that of metal ones .
8 If you can find nothing wrong with the external pickup wiring and associated circuitry , the chances are that a wire has broken inside one of the coils and will require rewinding .
9 I only hope there 's nothing wrong with the poor fellow . ’
10 Mr Green , 55 , author of the definitive Grand National chronicle , A Race Apart , added : ‘ There 's nothing wrong with the present starting system so long as it is operated properly .
11 Mr Green , 55 , author of the Grand National chronicle , A Race Apart , said : ‘ There 's nothing wrong with the present starting system so long as it is operated properly .
12 It is being suggested , is it , that God saw nothing wrong with the past situation in which only men could be ordained ?
13 ‘ We need to get player representation involved when such changes are in the air because , frankly , I saw nothing wrong with the old laws — just the way some countries played them . ’
14 ‘ There 's nothing wrong with the old ways . ’
15 The phrases are fine-sounding , and there is certainly nothing wrong with the three Rs .
16 The kairos approach makes God both immoral ( if God saw nothing wrong with the previous sexism of the church 's stance ) and fickle .
17 There was nothing wrong with the heavy net curtains of Healy 's Hotel .
18 Unfortunately , there was absolutely nothing wrong with the older woman 's hearing .
19 There was nothing wrong with the noble creed they were taught-it was just that it played no part in the actual operation of the military dictatorship .
20 In Berlin , Bismarck let it be known that he saw nothing wrong with the proposed solution , though he backed away from too openly supporting it in the face of a general outcry from the other European courts .
21 Yeah they 're spellings are a little bit easier than ours cos they change some of them some of the awkward ones .
22 We show them some of the dirty ticks , but it 's pretty elementary because none of those boys are likely to be used in any sort of field work .
23 The Morellian method had opponents , among them some of the German scholars of whom Morelli made fun by his articles .
24 ‘ But it does teach them some of the harder words wonderfully well , ’ Miss Honey murmured .
25 RICHARD GOUGH and Trevor Steven will be examined by Rangers ' medical staff today but the injuries sustained at Fir Park last night have made them doubtful for the European tie with FC Brugge .
26 The citation does however leave unexamined one further consideration ; that there might within the range of manufacturing and service industries be some which , for whatever reason , whether of the nature or of the size of the business , make them unsuited to the industrial co-operative form of organisation .
27 I find the remark significant for the assumption which is made that there was nothing harmful about the previous view of the relation between men and women ; indeed the previous view may have accorded with the divine will and our present outlook not .
28 Am I sufficiently interested in my question or topic to keep me interested over the necessary time period ?
29 Waddle may give them this on the left , but it would surely have done no harm to start the match with Dorigo 's dash instead of the perennial , peripheral Pearce .
30 Kāli came to bring me some of the cooked meat , chewing some herself .
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