Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Lords , because I consider that the decision of the visitor was right I concur in the order proposed by your Lordships that this appeal should be dismissed . |
| 2 | Until I was eight I lived in the village of Feltwell in Norfolk where there was a joint RAF and USAF base . |
| 3 | Cos by then , they wo n't get to , they wo n't go to the crossing until about eight I suppose in the evening , it 'll be a night crossing wo n't it ? |
| 4 | The other half I sat in the Sheikha 's section trying to be as inconspicuous as possible . |
| 5 | So I did , just for a fortnight , but it was fourteen miles there in the morning , and fourteen back at night , and I 'm afraid I threw in the sponge ! |
| 6 | Given the Association 's fall in membership since the late 1940s , and given the views canvassed by some who worked in the field , exemplified by Bruce in The Highway , there were real fears that the WEA would lose its status as a Responsible Body . |
| 7 | This is a great part of the pleasure Matthew Spender found ; discovering craftsmen , for example , one of whom remembered who had built a palazzo in Florence , another who hid in the cellar for fear of thunderstorms , yet another who built him beehives . |
| 8 | Also , on the basis of an outline and ‘ three or four ’ chapters of a first novel , she has done a five-figure deal for two books by Juliette Mead , a woman in her early 30s who works in the cit . |
| 9 | In challenging this we believe in the unity of the working class . |
| 10 | Dempsey defended his title only six times in as many years and constantly snubbed black challenges , one interesting one appearing in the pages of the New York Times from a certain Prince Mohammed Ali Ibrahim of Egypt whose special weapon was a ‘ pyramid punch ’ ( 4 March 1924 , p. 14 ) . |
| 11 | He tells us that , ‘ with the reassessment of this one drawing in the British Museum ‘ Seated nude surrounded by drapery ’ once a Rembrandt but now a Raven the attribution to Rembrandt of a whole series of nude studies by the same hand collapsed ’ . |
| 12 | This one goes in the lead and then stops and then the other one goes in the lead and then she puts a spurt on and catches up . |
| 13 | According to yet another study , this one published in the Lancet , red wine in moderation is thought to protect against coronary disease because it contains substances known as phenolic flavonoids . |
| 14 | The creature was large-headed , absurdly so , its body half man , half something lost in the primordial past . |
| 15 | Another one running in the opposite direction . ’ |
| 16 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 17 | When the Cortes returned to liberated Madrid ( 5 January 1814 ) and the Desired One to Spain , the Persians , a group of conservative deputies , petitioned the king to denounce the constitution of 1812 ; this he did in the Manifesto of 4 May 1814 . |
| 18 | In the 1890s he participated in the reorganization of Argentina 's external debt and in the 1900s restored Argentina 's credit in London . |
| 19 | In 1801 he participated in the expedition to Egypt , and served in Hanover in 1805 and at the taking of Copenhagen two years later . |
| 20 | And sometimes Hywel goes out in the day with his gun and he shoots rabbits and pigeons and crows and foxes , and some he brings home to eat , and some he hangs in the hedges to remind the world that there is death . |
| 21 | On Sept. 22 he resurfaced in the Uruguayan resort of Punta del Este , declaring that he would not be returning to France to face charges because he had reason to fear an assassination attempt . |
| 22 | Er it is about the future provision of section eleven which appears in the main report , you will no doubt appear as part of the budget debate . |
| 23 | The sedentary farmer succeeded the migrant shepherd as the agent by whom the soil of Spain was squandered ; by the early nineteenth century cereals occupied perhaps three-quarters of the cultivable land , an imbalance between crop and animal husbandry as pernicious as that which prevailed in the heyday of wool . |
| 24 | But the real point is that , in contemporary Western society , the network of relations within the domestic household is built on an evaluation of exchange transactions which is , in certain respects , just the converse of that which operates in the capitalist world of wage relationships outside . |
| 25 | This uniformity expresses that which occurs in the progress of autumn to winter , of day to night , and of fire to ashes just as the symmetry in the rhythm show light and dark . |
| 26 | It 's silly things like that which get in the way of the actual show , so for the next series , I suggested a couch , low enough for me to put my arm over the back of it , but high enough to stop me sliding off on to the floor . |
| 27 | Speaking on sentencing policy to the Law Society of Scotland 's annual conference at Gleneagles Hotel , Lord Taylor said there were two schools of thought — that which believed in the need for , and efficacy of , punishment and that which did not . |
| 28 | First , its approach is completely different to that which pertains in the United Kingdom . |
| 29 | This implies a level of studies which is clearly beyond that which pertains in the schools or non-advanced further education . |
| 30 | In a ‘ sellers market ’ , similar to that which pertained in the United Kingdom after World War Two , there was little need for promotional activity because demand exceeded supply and whatever was produced was taken up immediately by the market . |