Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 There goes the Volvo I the whole car park .
2 the car his the front passenger wind and sent Otis 's car flying across the road , straight into a waiting bus .
3 Even so , there are some risks which the average horse owner should not be prepared to take .
4 I think they rather wanted me to wear my old farm clothes , but we compromised with a grey check skirt which a good friend gave me , and a blue jumper .
5 The size of figure represented on the card which an individual child can discriminate is then set against the information in the conversion table which indicates the correct text size usable by the child , as well as indicating the visual aid needed when reading certain print sizes at specific distances .
6 Our concern in this chapter is , therefore , to highlight a number of considerations which a local church should bear in mind in pondering its evangelistic effectiveness and over-hauling its strategy .
7 His blueprint for evolving ‘ a genuine parliamentary democracy ’ will be discussed at a preparatory conference next spring which the European parliament will hold with the Council of Ministers and the bureaucratic Commission .
8 A further — and connected — factor contributed to this change : the expense which the individual cavalryman had to incur in order to fulfil his proper role in war .
9 As already noted , this was not always a smooth process , not least because this newcomer challenged the rather modest conception which the existing committee had already established .
10 You will remember the election at Fulham in the autumn of 1933 , when a seat which the National Government held was lost by about 7,000 votes on no issue but the pacifist …
11 This contained some very relevant names and addresses which the Pakistani owner had obviously tried to dispose of during the night , but in the confusion and darkness he had failed to realise it had not gone overboard . "
12 The test of obscenity still required proof that the matter was ‘ utterly without redeeming social value ’ , but it was not long before social value was claimed for sex , a Californian judge declaring himself unable to find such lack of social value in a film which ‘ appeals to the normal interest in sex and nudity which the average person has in such matters ’ .
13 For those youngsters legally driving their cars its a frustrating time .
14 His passion , his arousal which the mere sight of her had provoked , was so strong that he wondered that she could not feel it too ; it seemed to hang , a living thing , in the air between them .
15 six days a week … from dawn till dusk … from gallop to grandstand … fortunes may be won or lost at the betting shops or with the bookies … but for the stables … for the lads and lasses and trainers its a hard grind
16 Some of the findings are , in our opinion , misleading or incomplete given the research which the Scottish branch has undertaken . ’
17 Meantime , Clinton is obliged to release to the states billions in Medicare funds which the last regime held back on technical grounds .
18 But just as Eliot remarked that Shakespeare acquired from Plutarch more essential knowledge than most men could from the whole British Museum , so he himself seemed to have acquired from books like F. S. Oliver 's Endless Adventure an extraordinary grasp of historical movements and tendencies , for example the seventeenth century ‘ disassociation of sensibility ’ was a piece of historical perception which no pure historian would have been able to originate .
19 Any other rule used during search is rewarded by the amount of weight which the next rule loses .
20 After each such movement , the small old woman , not stiff , but poised , erect and in good rhythm with her horse , responded with minute disposition of hand , leg or body weight which the informed eye could see reflected in the horse 's performance .
21 At the wider scale , Baker and Butlin point to two important influences which the physical environment had on the developing cultural mosaic based on farming patterns : its influence on the pace and timing of settlement and colonization , and its influence on the amount of wasteland available , which acted as a safety valve and meant that no provision for grazing need be made within the settlement itself ( 1973 , pp. 630–1 ) .
22 Conventional experimental psychology disapproves of the methodological and theoretical uncertainty which the psychoanalytic concept of the unconscious involves ( Eysenck 1973 , Kline 1981 ) .
23 I travelled in and they did an interview which a fine man called Peter Canham heard on his car radio .
24 It will be seen from this passage that the question whether or not conduct can be insulting may depend upon a complex mixture of objective fact and the maker 's intention which the new Act does not entirely manage to disentangle .
25 In other words , it was not a straightforward rule which a national court , or even the European Court , could apply directly , but essentially a question of policy for the Council , the role of the Court being limited to checking whether the Council had overstepped the limits of its discretion .
26 But from the same Grammar School period Edward recalls in detail ‘ the Sunday dinner anger , which became almost a regular thing , , with the boys tittering and refusing to discuss the topic of the morning 's sermon until they received a lecture or abuse from their father , at this ‘ almost the only meal as a rule which the whole family had together ’ .
27 THREE Belgian fans were arrested after a 38-year-old German supporter was gravely injured by a signal rocket in the European Cup Winners ' Cup semi-final second leg match between Bremen and Bruges which the German side won 2–0 .
28 That is a major anomaly which the British Parliament has accepted because it has no alternative .
29 This was the kind of dilemma which the American philosopher Jerry Fodor faced up to in his important book The Language of Thought .
30 It is consequently essential in any preliminary comments on socialist realism to highlight the great hope and cause for optimism which the Soviet experiment symbolized to many Western intellectuals between 1927 and 1939 .
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