Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the [noun prp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's becoming fashionable to buy in rather than build specialised servers — IBM Corp and Digital Equipment Corp are both doing it , and now ICL Plc has gone to Burlington , Massachusetts-based Xylogics Inc for the Annex Three and Micro Annex XL communications servers under an OEM agreement that will see the UK company marketing them as the DRS local network terminal server line with its DRS 6000 range of Sparc-based and DRS 3000 iAPX-86-based Unix systems . |
| 2 | But whatever their position is by Wednesday , supporters hope to see them put their disappointments behind them for the Aldershot Senior Cup final . |
| 3 | You like yams ? ’ he asks as he hurries me through the West Indian greengrocer 's and out the back . |
| 4 | ‘ In the same way , I feel sorry for John Lukic , who will be reminded about that punch of his in the Rangers-Leeds European Cup tie until he 's blue in the face . |
| 5 | Pleased , that is , until I discovered that I had forgotten to bring the tea bags — the subsequent ‘ Well , why did n't you bring them then 's , ‘ Why is it always my fault 's reminded me of the Quentin Crisp line that marriage was impossible for him because he could not have tolerated an endless succession of mornings when the first words he heard were , ‘ And another thing ’ — and that there were no birds . |
| 6 | Its the , its for the Oxford English Dictionary , its erm , what they 're doing is they 're making up a Dictionary for just using everyday collocation and they |
| 7 | He had been elected floor leader in 1986 , a post which in the Netherlands political system was comparable to that of party leader . |
| 8 | Perhaps somebody in the EMI top management will rattle a few cages in their American office and get them to take note of Mr Lewis 's efforts for the British market . |
| 9 | We 've got somebody from the Oxford English er dictionary compilation er arena , with us today and I , I , I 'm almost tempted to ask Clare what wh what , what the definition of the word quality is actually . |
| 10 | With his whining , nasal , urban voice , there are moments when he is the weedy boy at the summer camp or Woody Allen finding himself in the South American jungles in Bananas . |
| 11 | Afterwards Leconte , who only resumed training a week ago after injuring himself in the Paris Open , admitted he was surprised at the way Ferreira had fallen to pieces . |
| 12 | The best concise history of the singer was penned by Morrissey himself in the December 24 issue of Sounds . |
| 13 | Sir Henry agreed to help in this way , and to go by himself to the Stapletons that evening . |
| 14 | IMAX , the large screen format used by THE ROLLING STONES for their At the Max live concert film will open a 500 seater venue on London 's South Bank in two years ' time . |
| 15 | He said none of the South African bombs had been tested . |
| 16 | The Library was also involved in another collaborative venture , associating itself with the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society to mark the latter 's centenary by publishing The Best and Fynest Lawers and Other raire Bookes . |
| 17 | The government lost credibility and became increasingly unpopular as it became evident that it had failed to meet the targets which it had set itself in the March 1990 radical economic austerity plan [ see pp. 37312-13 ; 37371 ] . |
| 18 | Use the coupon below to order advance tickets for the Ideal Home Exhibition , which will also admit you to the BBC Good Food Show . |
| 19 | Deputies to the session elected a 14-person presidium , including Col. Viktor Alksnis , Gen. Albert Makashov and historian Roy Medvedev , and led by Sazhi Umalatova , who at the December 1990 Congress had called for a vote of no confidence in Gorbachev [ see p. 37903 ] . |
| 20 | We look forward to meeting you at the BBC Good Food Show , which will be held at the Ideal Home Exhibition on March 21–24 . |
| 21 | It was good to see you at the DoE Green College Sustainability Seminar the other day . |
| 22 | Some guidance was provided to teachers completing the questionnaire in order to familiarise them with the HMI eight areas of experience and to agree meanings of terms such as ‘ concept ’ and ‘ skill ’ . |
| 23 | Bland argues : " There are two rules which apply — one for the South African sportsman , the other for the South African businessman . |
| 24 | Everything about the Foxton Inclined Plane is a bit strange . |
| 25 | The Texas Department of Corrections ( TDC ) has continued to build big , and presumably Howard could not even have begun to imagine something like the Ellis I Unit , of over 2,000 beds . |
| 26 | The orchestral one with the Israel Philharmonic and Zubin Mehta features what might be loosely called ‘ display ’ pieces . |
| 27 | With the spread of trolleybus conversions across West and North London all the older ex-L.C.C. and ex-Metropolitan types of car were scrapped and everything from the London UniteD Tramways was scrapped except the Feltham type modern cars . |
| 28 | Robert Turton discarded these theories and propounded a new one in the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal ( 1908–9 ) . |
| 29 | Now we in the Harrogate Civic Society would like to see the rest of the district allocation reduced at least to fifty hectares which has something to do with the forecast requirement on the grounds of past take-up , and I believe it is nearer the original figure for the rest of the district floated by the county in the initial consultations before amendment was made to the allocation between Greater York and the rest of the district . |
| 30 | Besides the parochial school there was one supported by the Society for Propagation of Christian Knowledge , one by the Edinburgh Gaelic School Society and six " taught by persons on their own adventure . " |