Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the weekend the Stall offers for sale the usual selection of Catholic newspapers and Catholic Truth Society publications , rosary beads and medals , prayer cards and candles . |
| 2 | ‘ That was the name of one of the Frenchmen who called to see about Daniel the other day . |
| 3 | This became for cognitio the standard form of execution where judgment had been given in a sum of money . |
| 4 | Allowing for inflation the total budget for L E A's this year is around seventeen point five billion pounds , nearly sixteen percent more than last year . |
| 5 | After allowing for inflation the net income of the City within this category ( which excludes interest and dividends received ) tripled between 1966 and 1977 , but then it was almost stationary until rising by a further 20 per cent in the three years preceding 1983 . |
| 6 | Slopes had become the focus for revived interest since 1950 ( Strahler , 1950b ) and had been the subject for quantitative description and analysis ( Bakker and Le Heux , 1952 ) and then for measurements which could lead to measurements in specific areas using for example the Young Pit ( Young , 1960 ) and providing many indications of rates of erosion ( A. Young , 1974 ) . |
| 7 | Now began the long-drawn-out tragedy of the Congo which , according to General H.T. Alexander , ‘ produced a fundamental change in Ghana 's position vis-à-vis the West ’ , while Basil Davidson observes ‘ experience in the Congo … seems to have formed for Nkrumah the final demonstration that policies of ‘ tact ’ , of ‘ continuity ’ , of conformity with Western wishes had nothing more to offer . ’ |
| 8 | In Ethiopia , as in India , the role of the informal producer is not distinct from the mainstream of the economy , but is in fact a key part of it , producing for instance the home-spun cloth worn by most Ethiopian women . |
| 9 | In contrast to the monasteries of the Middle Ages and the Baroque period as well as the 1930's concept originally intended for execution the new abbey is not designed as an enclosed , homogenous complex . |
| 10 | ‘ Does he think about sex the whole time ? ’ |
| 11 | Alcuin was furious with Archbishop Aethelheard for fleeing but there must be a possibility , representing Carolingian interests as he did , that Alcuin was more disturbed by Aethelheard 's refusal to accept as king the Carolingian protégé , Eadberht Praen . |
| 12 | His trunk swelled up to resemble that of a baobab tree , matching for bulk the whitewashed curvature of the charcoal oven that dominated the restaurant . |
| 13 | In 4.2 we discussed the way in which a hierarchical rank structure may be posited for various discourse types and considered as examples the internal structure of a series of books and a trial . |
| 14 | Cooped up in the house like that — stinks of babies the whole time . |
| 15 | William set sail late on 27 September 1066 , landing near Pevensey the following morning with little apparent opposition . |
| 16 | There was further disruption in the Lok Sabha on Aug. 14 as Congress ( I ) members protested against events the previous day when BJP workers were alleged to have attacked Scindia 's house in New Delhi . |
| 17 | Thenceforth Waismann acted as the spokesman for Wittgenstein 's point of view within the Vienna Circle , representing with Schlick the conservative wing in the evolution of logical positivism . |
| 18 | Employed first by Edward III , he rose under Edward the Black Prince [ q.v. ] , and became his secretary in 1375 and an executor of his will in 1376 . |
| 19 | On Sept. 24 , Gamsakhurdia declared a state of emergency — to come into force the following day — because " a military and civilian putsch is under way in the republic " . |
| 20 | He bore with dignity the malicious insults of the notorious Judge Jeffries . |
| 21 | It seems that it is being said that , with the onset of the campaigns , the Department feared a flood of ’ non-specific applications ’ and therefore withdrew the original regulations and laid new regulations , to come into force the following day . |
| 22 | On June 21 the congress formally voted into existence the Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic . |
| 23 | These contractors had won from Peter the Great the right to export tobacco from England to Russia , but many were ‘ whiggish ’ and closely connected with both the Bank of England and the soon to be established ‘ new ’ East India Company . |
| 24 | This measure provided in part the financial discipline which was lacking in the budgets of earlier years . |
| 25 | Major works by Rubens , Rembrandt and Van Dyck have come from Frederick the Great 's private gallery at Sanssouci and from the Berlin and Potsdam museums , the Washington National Gallery and the Metropolitan . |
| 26 | well I do think I have , I have those points , erm , I do n't want to stop you Mr er , and I do repeat I 'm going to , I 'm going to rule on these matters and both parties have er , erm , will have certainly have full liberty to come back and , and deal with them , I just wanted to know in outline the present parties er to the future of these proceedings |
| 27 | While William III had been occupied in Ireland the French had been active in the Channel . |
| 28 | Pretender Charles attempted to enter England in 1744 , and succeeded in landing in Scotland the following year but , after initial successes in Scotland as ‘ Bonnie Prince Charles ’ — the grandson of James II — he suffered a terrible defeat at Culloden in 1746 and that was followed by the imposition of a ruthless repression in the Highlands of Scotland by the favourite son of King George II , the Duke of Cumberland . |
| 29 | In my report on the Money Advice Liaison Group conference ( ‘ Life beyond debt — a common goal ’ , Credit Management , May 1991 ) I described in detail the standard Financial Statement launched at that conference by Anthony Sharp of the CCTA . |
| 30 | He described in detail the amazing story of strange sightings of vast armies of people seen at Midsummer 's Eve at midnight often referred to as the Ghost Troops marching on Souter Fell . |