Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun prp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the floor of the tomb there were five tiny , inch-high ivory heads , including one in the image of the one-eyed Philip and another of Alexander the Great . |
| 2 | These concepts are relevant both locally and internationally ; a more traditional conception of art is , however , still more prevalent in England the continuous success of the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition seems to be an indication of that . |
| 3 | Still , Sisson managed a ‘ Herr Issyvoo ’ sting of his own in the Nazified Berlin of 1934 and watched ideological street-squads slanging one another in Paris the next year . |
| 4 | The Prince of Wales kissed his wife in public in February the first time in four years as she presented prizes to players in his polo match on their Indian tour . |
| 5 | But you see , I 'm finishing my dance group , this year it 's doing its final perfor performance at Clarendon College if any of you are interested on May the fourth and fifteenth er er er there . |
| 6 | It takes place at the Brighton Community Association on August the fourteenth to August the twenty fifth . |
| 7 | The earliest story in history of the successful use of psychology to manage a horse , is that of Alexander the Great ( 356–323 BC ) and Bucephalus . |
| 8 | The figure whose character achieved clearest focus was that of Fulk the Good , Geoffrey Grisegonelle 's father . |
| 9 | A fairly long , extremely active and relatively well-documented royal life like that of Charles the Bald can serve modern students as a thread through the maze of complex power-relations , and at the same time it leads back to the heart of events . |
| 10 | But as Nithard went on to observe , the policy had originally , back in 823 , been that of Louis the Pious himself . |
| 11 | Indeed on the nineteenth of January the Noble Earl Lord told me that of the three hundred and sixty letters which had been received from a wide variety of organisations representing people of totally different political opinions and that following the publication of the White Paper . |
| 12 | Sabatini 's six plays were not as successful as his novels , the most notable being those based on his novels , such as Bardelys the Magnificent ( 1926 ) and Scaramouche . |
| 13 | The November itinerary includes stretching subjects such as Catherine the Great 's gluttony for collecting , and the buying power and tastes of superstars and millionaires . |
| 14 | In the industrial counties such as Lancashire the new towns called for entirely new turnpike roads between them , and the old road pattern was more drastically altered . |
| 15 | The fate of the DEA was symbolic of Wilson the supreme Whitehall technician — failure at every level , from the Cabinet command post to the interdepartmental bush , where drive , energy and strategy can disappear without trace . |
| 16 | A symmetric relation , on the other hand , holds simultaneously in both directions ; ‘ is similar to — ’ is a symmetric relation , so if A is similar to B , then it necessarily follows that B is similar to A. The second indispensable property for the relation of dominance of a hierarchy is the capacity , in principle at least , to form indefinitely long chains of elements . |
| 17 | When she said as much to Carole the other woman gave a hoot of wry laughter . |
| 18 | His companions were both in their forties , one of them greying at the temples , a squat , powerfully built man ; the other was a tall gangling individual with deep set eyes which remained fixed on Hitch the whole time . |
| 19 | But er I went from there er I er I was thirteen on August the twenty fifth , nineteen fifteen . |
| 20 | It sounds pretty good and it would be around about May the twenty first twenty second , so it would be after the football season has finished er so we 'd have a tour of Old Trafford , the Manchester United football ground behind the scenes , go to the special museum there , see all of their trophies , do something similar at Anfield the following morning and in the afternoon on the Saturday go to Granada T V studios and er on the Sunday we 'll be going er around Liverpool and their various er little places of nostalgia around the er the Beatles . |
| 21 | The Wimbledon and United States Open champion , who will also miss next week 's grand prix tournament in Sydney and is unlikely to be fit for Tokyo the following week , has now lost any chance of overhauling Ivan Lendl as world No. 1 before the end of the year . |
| 22 | probably getting tight for Monday the seventh anyway . |
| 23 | Suzi had been conscious of Georg the whole evening , even when she could n't see him . |
| 24 | Although Lee Crooks , the Great Britain forward , was taken off Leeds 's transfer list recently , a move still seems likely with Castleford the likeliest destination . |
| 25 | In the face of excellent bowling , wickets fell steadily , and with 31 from Richards the top score they were all out for 139 , giving England a 47-run victory . |
| 26 | It should be noted , however , that in Lawrence there was an appropriation when the accused obtained goods by deception ; that under Lawrence the accused may appropriate when the parties are in a contractual relationship ; and that Lawrence shows that the same facts can amount to theft and obtaining property by deception . |
| 27 | Also HMS Reading was due into Liverpool the last week in May . |
| 28 | Example 4:3 Index-linked rent : upwards only YIELDING AND PAYING the annual sum of £ … ( " the basic rent " ) payable quarterly in advance on the 25th of March the 24th of June the 29th of September and the 25th of December in each year and in addition such sum payable on each of the above dates in advance ( " the index-linked rent " ) as bears the same proportion to one quarter of the basic rent as is borne by the figure shown in the General Index of Retail Prices ( " the index " ) for the month immediately preceding the months in which payment of any particular instalment of rent is due to the figure ( which is the figure shown in that index for the month of … ) minus one quarter of the basic rent PROVIDED THAT ( 1 ) if after the date of this lease the index is calculated by reference to a different base date or base figure then the index-linked rent shall be calculated as if that change had not taken place ( 2 ) if the index ceases to be published or if for any reason it becomes impossible or impracticable to calculate the index-linked rent then either the landlord or the tenant may by notice require the rent to be thenceforth reviewed at such times and in such manner as may be agreed between them or in default of agreement be determined by a single arbitrator to be appointed by the President for the time being of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors who shall have regard to market practice prevailing at the time of such notice in relation to new lettings of property of the same type as the demised property ( 3 ) in no circumstances shall the total rent payable under this lease be less than the basic rent |
| 29 | Unadjusted unemployment rose by 122,000 in January the 22nd consecutive monthly increase to give a total of 2,673,864 or 9.4pc of the workforce . |
| 30 | Prior to Sandys the orthodox military priesthood had seen nuclear weapons as being in support of conventional forces . |