Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is difficult to miss the phallic connotations of the weapons the miller seems to make such a show of having about his person : — the diminution in scale to the " " joly poppere " " may already hint at the bawdy belittling the miller is to suffer . |
| 32 | She said an assault at the St Chad 's Drive pub on the Friday night was followed by a confrontation with the bouncers the following night when a gun was produced . |
| 33 | She said an assault at the St Chad 's Drive pub on the Friday night was followed by a confrontation with the bouncers the following night when a gun was produced . |
| 34 | Having chosen confrontation with the unions the Heath government went down to important defeats : the resolution of the miners ' strike by the Wilberforce Report in 1972 ; the official solicitor 's intervention to free the ‘ Pentonville Five ’ in the context of demands for a general strike , after which the Industrial Relations Act was virtually a dead letter . |
| 35 | With the beginning of the closure programme in the pits the situation changed dramatically . |
| 36 | proof that you are insured to drive your car in the countries the card is for |
| 37 | proof that you are insured to drive your car in the countries the card is for |
| 38 | proof that you are insured to drive your car in the countries the card is for |
| 39 | proof that you are insured to drive your car in the countries the card is for |
| 40 | As Allen turned to clamber down he spotted through a gap in the leaves a thin spiral of smoke not far off to the east . |
| 41 | You were there for four years and the they , they did n't just , if you were n't in by ten and you did n't get your proper night 's sleep then you would n't be any good on the wards the next morning . |
| 42 | SHAPED BY A VARIETY of influences over the years the magnificence and legacy of Harewood remain unspoilt . |
| 43 | Li Shai Tung woke , drenched in sweat , the dream of his first wife , Lin Yua and that dreadful night so clear that , for a moment , he thought the banging on the doors a part of it . |
| 44 | In Education for Self-Reliance , Nyerere has written : ‘ We should not determine the type of things children are taught in primary schools by the things a doctor , engineer , teacher , economist or administrator needs to l–now . |
| 45 | To simplify preparation of the accounts the parties may agree it appropriate for the completion date to be at the end of a month . |
| 46 | Exercise 9–1 Calculate the formula corresponding to ( 9–11 ) when endowments are correlated , and examine for likely values of the parameters the effect of the redistributive tax . |
| 47 | It may be hard to reconcile the ideals of chivalry at Edward 's court with the burning , looting and killing which were so much a part of the campaigns the nobles fought in France , and difficult to argue that the idea of chivalry had any substantially mitigating effect on the horrors of war . |
| 48 | She turned the slate this way and that , trying to understand the curious markings scratched on its black-green surface , wondering idly which part of the walls the slate had fallen from . |
| 49 | The University of Walkato , Hamilton , New Zealand reached its 25th Anniversary in 1989 and as part of the celebrations a Graduates ' Association was formed . |
| 50 | Those who benefited from improved earnings , however , were not the rural poor , but the farmers who were able to take advantage of the opportunities the Green Revolution had to offer . |
| 51 | Upon our arrival at the foot of the stairs the dog made it plain that stairs were an innovation he 'd not encountered before , by staging the first of many sit-down strikes . |
| 52 | Was/were the originator(s) of the ideas the moving force(s) behind the implementation of the change(s) ? |
| 53 | Then to the horror of the students the professor dipped his finger into the samples one by one and they saw him put it to his lips . |
| 54 | It seems to me therefore that the free-thinker and the non-Christian can accept , without offence to his convictions , the fact that Christian morals are the basis of the criminal law and that he can recognize , also without taking offence , that without the support of the Churches the moral order , which has its origin in and takes its strength from , Christian beliefs , would collapse . |
| 55 | The findings were that for a majority of the firms the variance of anticipations exceeded the variance of the realizations , which is inconsistent with the rational expectations hypothesis . |
| 56 | It may be appropriate to establish in the course of the discussions the information on the potential acquiror which may be conveyed back to the client . |
| 57 | The Bosnian Serbs may be persuaded to give back a little more land elsewhere , if President Milosevic of Serbia judges that this will speed the removal of the sanctions the world has imposed on his country . |
| 58 | Recipes disseminated by such bodies — one does appreciate that in the case of the Trappists a spokesman is essential — are bound to be suspect , but not all the public relations cookery experts are as cruelly antihumanitarian as the lady who publicized the traditional Welsh trifle for St David 's Day to be made with one tin of fruit salad and one packet of Birds Pineapple Instant Whip , a leek confected from angelica , piped cream , cocoa powder and desiccated coconut adding the finishing festive touches . |
| 59 | Now they sat eagerly on the rows of brittle gilt chairs with red velvet seats , their exquisitely made-up faces carefully devoid of expression as they made brief notes on their programmes , pretending not to notice that sometimes the clicking cameras were directed not at the catwalk models , all of whom had already done a photo-call session for the photographers the previous day , but at them — the society women of America and the international circuit , the bored charity conscious wives of big businessmen , the famed actresses of stage and screen , even the occasional European princess . |
| 60 | ‘ It 's a bind ; a poor return for the hours the average county cricketer puts in . ’ |