Example sentences of "[pron] the [adj] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roebuck had earlier bagged a ‘ pair ’ in Devon 's match with Dorset , for whom the former Gloucestershire seamer Julian Shackleton , now 40 , took 7 for 57 . |
| 2 | While Real are unbeaten , the relative honeymoon will continue for a man whom the late Bill Shankly , with characteristic caution , once said was destined to become ‘ the top manager in the game ’ . |
| 3 | The putative father is one Mr Piers Jackson , an artist to whom the traditionally-minded Miss Jade is , of course , not betrothed . |
| 4 | Remembering that it was Wordsworth whom the Utilitarian John Stuart Mill turned to when he found that his philosophy produced nothing but visions of a grey and empty world , and that Matthew Arnold , after Wordsworth 's death , believed that he alone could heal human nature in the ‘ iron time ’ , the little poem that follows , written in 1833 , seems a convenient summing-up of Wordsworth 's mature attitudes . |
| 5 | Whatever , there was a major gathering of old and new , among them the Canadian Brian Stemmle , Switzerland 's 1987 world champion Peter Mueller , Austria 's Armin Assinger and Italy 's Michael Mair , all returning from serious injury . |
| 6 | The frictions grew steadily worse , and in an attempt to accommodate them the 1897 Vienna Congress resolved that the party become a federation of six national parties . |
| 7 | Anglesey meanwhile , have two debutantes in their line-up one of them the first RAF Valley player to be selected for a decade . |
| 8 | I 'll give them the real Henry Farr , and he wo n't just be making witty little remarks about the London orbital motorway either . |
| 9 | Just under 40 years ago , he and two other journalistic colleagues — one of them the late Ron Roberts — had the courage to call a public meeting because they were so concerned about the way the county club was being run . |
| 10 | If he showed them the latest Washington telegram which he had seen before his departure [ KPs 66 and 85 ] , they would have been made aware that although they had to exercise the utmost restraint for the time being , a new and firmer policy might soon be adopted . |
| 11 | Three of the twelve directors strongly opposed the plan ; among them the redoubtable Mr. Hurst . |
| 12 | IN WITNESS whereof I the said MARIUS STEEN the Testator have to this my LAST WILL set my hand this fifteenth day of October One Thousand Nine Hundred and Seventy-Three . |
| 13 | The announcement was made at a seminar for coaches , organised by the SCU and the Scottish Sports Council 's Teamsport Cricket co-ordinator , Iain Kennedy , held in Dundee last weekend at which the former England team manager , Mickey Stewart , was present . |
| 14 | Here the building material is stone , and there are weavers ' cottages with their long mullioned windows on the upper floors , as well as early water-powered mills , of which the two-storey Clough Mill is characteristic . |
| 15 | This has now developed to include Henley members and has become an official club fixture , the winners rewarded with the Jayemdoubleyou Cup which the late Jack Webb presented and which cup had in fact been his father 's rowing trophy ! |
| 16 | There is an enormous literature of research on the relationship , which the late Steven Box ( 1987 ) has usefully summarized and reviewed in his very important last book , Recession , Crime and Punishment . |
| 17 | This accommodation , named " Hudson Flats " , bears witness not only to the enthusiasm with which the late Jimmy Hudson and his wife Mary worked for the provision of annual " Old Folks ' Holidays " , but also to the sum of £72,000 which they raised themselves towards the purchase of this property . |
| 18 | The first volume of her poems was published by subscription ( the proposals for which were drawn up by Mr. Garrick ) under the patronage of several persons of rank and taste , in 1748 ; as was also the second volume , of which the late Mr. Hawkins Browne was the editor in 175 … , both of them after her death , which happened prematurely by the meazles , at the age of 24 . |
| 19 | In his book " Memoirs of an Artist Naturalist " ( 1954 ) he mentions these visits , quoting from his diary for " September 24 , 1936 , hawking in the afternoon with a gyr-falcon which the late Ernest Vesey ( pen name of Ernest Lewis ) had brought back from Iceland . " |
| 20 | After which the animated Dr smith talked at length and cogently — about strokes . |
| 21 | This followed a spate of incidents in which the ubiquitous Lenin statues had been toppled , blown up or otherwise vandalized in towns across the Soviet Union . |
| 22 | The salary of the post to which the unlucky Mr Achterlonie aspired was a mere twenty pounds per annum , but Montrose did not disdain it , conscious that ‘ triffling as such a post is it may effectuallie oblidge some body who may be reddie to repay such a favor upon ane other occasion ’ . |
| 23 | * Greenpeace has announced a plan by which the 16 RBMK reactors could be shut down without the loss of net electricity capacity . |
| 24 | A proposal to require plain generic packaging for all cigarettes , which the Victorian Anti-Cancer Council 's Centre for Behavioural Research has shown makes them less attractive to adolescents , has been deferred for a year . |
| 25 | Today the sounds from the packed car park and souvenir shop must surely drown the water-music of Rorie More 's Cascade , the waterfall which the thirteenth Macleod chieftain liked to hear roaring beneath his window before he slept . |
| 26 | In the Chiswick works of London Transport , during 1947 , the very popular Regent Three ( R.T. ) double-decker bus was redesigned so as to be ‘ jig built ’ in a like manner to that which the mass-produced Halifax bombers had been during the war . |
| 27 | ‘ Butter and cheese , ’ they said , and Grainne was pleased that she understood the machinery , and even managed to churn quite an acceptable pat of butter , which the two Beastline creatures at once stamped with a wooden mould on which was carved , in reverse , the outline of a castle . |
| 28 | With the same instinct that had sent Bishop Jon , he noted , to pare his nails and perfect the glossy ring of his tonsure , he on the eve of battle came cleansed from a hot bath : the ritual laugardagr observed once a week by his fore-fathers , of which the other Bishop John in far-off Bremen would so have disapproved . |
| 29 | A senior commission official said last night : ‘ From a British point of view , Mrs Thatcher may have gained a few months before the crucial business of changing the Rome treaty gets under way but she now faces a cut-off date beyond which the other EC governments are unlikely to delay their acceptance of monetary union . ’ |
| 30 | Singer was an enthusiastic supporter of the concept of the United Synagogue ; he moved easily within the world of wealth with which the New West End was associated , enjoyed the friendship of the Rothschild family , and acquired an unrivalled reputation as a preacher of great power and eloquence . |