Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between them , they have solved the problem of finding a role for an institution which a few decades ago looked to be under siege . |
| 2 | Bedford ..... 6 Wasps ...... 57 BEDFORD have now conceded 117 points in their last two matches and this latest reversal served only to illustrate the plight of a club who a few months ago were celebrating their arrival in the Courage First Division . |
| 3 | Victoria , aged 12 , made a beeline for the reconstituted orange juice and sandwiches prepared by a pair of stout volunteer ladies who arrived from Russia themselves a few years back , and two-year-old Oleg was soon roaring about wildly on a plastic fire-engine in the playroom . |
| 4 | To my left was a rough wooden handrail , below , to right and left , I could now make out the grey slopes of two of the conical pits formed by the vault of the transept beneath — the floor under the catwalk was really a negative ceiling — but , apart from a yard or two near the edge , it was completely submerged in nest , as was the catwalk itself a few steps further in . |
| 5 | ‘ A lot of the lads are lacking confidence and that means we just are n't trying things which a few weeks ago we were doing . |
| 6 | I fell victim to the thought-rather-than-action syndrome myself a few years ago and gave up a demonstrably worthwhile job as a doctor in order to write a novel called A Paper Mask . |
| 7 | The way of life sharedealers aspired to was epitomised in the lifestyle of a Sultan whom a few Tudorbury staff once had the privilege of meeting . |
| 8 | On Nov. 14 the Bundestag approved legislation on public access to the files which the former East German state security police ( or " Stasi " ) had kept on 6,000,000 East Germans ( one in three of the population ) . |
| 9 | From the 1570s onwards , even in the conservative south-west of the country , statements by testators which indicate a belief in solafidianism appeared regularly in the preambles of large numbers of wills , although the comments which the same testators made when leaving bequests to charities suggest that many still found it difficult to appreciate that good works could play absolutely no part in their salvation . |
| 10 | For instance , Realism and Idealism are not in direct competition , in so far as the former relies on a view of scientific method which the latter rejects . |
| 11 | One might make the assumption that these are the same son of people who a few years earlier had enjoyed and had been moved by the pageantry of George V 's Jubilee and by George VI 's Coronation . |
| 12 | Peter : What he 's done today is buy himself a little time , his troubles are n't over , Mrs Thatcher still casts her shadow over this conference he still has problems inside and outside the cabinet but he has bought some time . |
| 13 | Figure 9c shows the space which the same algorithm would explore if it were given the backwards version of the task . |
| 14 | That was the man who the same year had stood up in front of the full pad and launched into his celebrated five-hour denunciation of Joseph Stalin . |
| 15 | I was suspect they the same problem with France and Germany . |
| 16 | If ‘ story ’ suggests a narrative sequence towards which Double Or Nothing is gesturing , Federman it the same time questions each fictional possibility so thoroughly that the only reliable sequence becomes the narrative voice which is constantly shifting in person and tone . |
| 17 | The Citizens ' Theatre will present TAG Theatre 's adaptation of Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon , which forms the basis of A Scots Quair which the same company will present in the Assembly Hall during the Edinburgh Festival . |
| 18 | But is n't it funny how people who are now well and truly ‘ progged up ’ are willing to accept this sort of thing which a few months ago they 'd have left well alone ? |
| 19 | Charisma is that aspect of personality which a few people possess which makes others follow them . |
| 20 | You might find architects who a few years ago were working on major projects , but are now making a living from loft extensions . ’ |
| 21 | Joint third prize was won by London-based Allies and Morrison , two Edinburgh University architecture graduates who a few years earlier won the Edinburgh Mound Competition : one short-listed design from Midlothian was that by Duffy and Batt which stood the Glasgow salmon on its tail . |
| 22 | What matters is the difference between the time taken by cumulative selection , and the time which the same computer , working flat out at the same rate , would take to reach the target phrase if it were forced to use the other procedure of single-step selection : about a million million million million million years . |
| 23 | People live in the real world , their not really going to be influenced , its about as sensible as saying er a Mills and Boon novel for example tells people about love are saying M I five use from Russia with Love as a training manual its the same kind of level of |
| 24 | He that will consider that the same fire that at one distance produces in us the sensation of warmth , does at a nearer approach produce in us the far different sensation of pain , ought to bethink himself what reason he has to say , that his idea of warmth which was produced in him by the fire , is actually in the fire , and his idea of pain which the same fire produced in him the same way is not in the fire . |
| 25 | In fact what the same tabloid , in a characteristic retreat into prudery , terms ‘ the sexual act ’ was never more than a terminus ad quem for us . |