Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the general satisfaction with close and successful cooperation evident through the easy , harmonious transfer of responsibility from the District to the Cambridge Board of the Bedfordshire scheme in 1930 began to evaporate when in the following year , the Cambridge Board asked the District to cede its Chapter III providing powers in rural Cambridgeshire to the Board . |
| 2 | The probe is a 350 bp Rsa I- Cla I fragment comprising the entire deoP2 , 32 P-end-labelled at the 5'-end of the Cla I site with polynucleotide kinase and isolated from pJEL152 . |
| 3 | David Gear hit the ball over the defence and Spence immediately changed direction and chased ; for some unknown reason , no flag appeared , allowing Spence to slot home past the helpless Warner to the annoyance of the home players . |
| 4 | In parliamentary elections on March 24 , 1988 [ see p. 36040 ] , the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party ( GSLP ) won eight of the elective seats and the Gibraltar Labour Party-Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights ( GLP-AACR ) the remaining seven . |
| 5 | Gibraltar Labour Party-Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights ( GLP-AACR , Adolfo Canepa l . ) . |
| 6 | Never the most fluent of jumpers , she put in some unnecessarily extravagant leaps before settling down on the second circuit , but then met the final open ditch all wrong and deposited the hapless Mullins on the floor . |
| 7 | One sticky point — the need for a reprocessing plant — has been overcome with the agreement of the Premier of Lower Saxony to the building of a plant at Dragahn near the East German border . |
| 8 | BEFORE YOU PUT A USED SAAB TO THE TEST , WE DO ! |
| 9 | The ‘ eleven-plus ’ of the period after the 1944 Act was the ‘ special places examination ’ of advanced LEAs before the war , used by more authorities . |
| 10 | Barney had flown to the States last Thursday , and she was driving to London later that Tuesday to the flat where he and Cara lived . |
| 11 | Wardle Wood bordered the lane between her home and Fordbridge , to which she cycled each Friday to the meeting of the 2nd Fordbridge Brownie Guide Pack . |
| 12 | Council house tenants in the Marske area can now take advantage of a drop-in centre each Friday at the housing information centre in Marske Leisure Centre , where they can put their housing problems . |
| 13 | Most of the 20,000–30,000 Arab volunteers who came to Afghanistan and next-door Pakistan during the war worked in relief organisations or as doctors and teachers . |
| 14 | Now , the group has over 70 members and meets each Tuesday at the Youth Club , High Road , Byfleet . |
| 15 | Now , the group has over 70 members and meets each Tuesday at the Youth Club , High Road , Byfleet . |
| 16 | Pepe 's Bar was situated on the sand , with rough wooden flooring that Shelley used to think could n't take much more of the stamping that it got each Saturday during the flamenco dancing . |
| 17 | I 've been consulting a re-issue in paperback of John Gross ' excellent Oxford Book of Aphorisms and scrutinised some modern examples in ‘ Quote Unquote ’ , the sample of sayings of the week published each Saturday in the Independent . |
| 18 | Annabel appeared too , tugging that awful Kezia by the hand . |
| 19 | He had been fifteen years her senior when they met at the church door but he had been slimmer then , fleet as a greyhound , a veritable Hector on the battlefield and a Paris in the bedchamber . |
| 20 | From Vitebsk it was heard that a railway-wagon workshop meeting convened on 30 March with the aim of helping in the requisition of church valuables broke up because of the ‘ thunderous outcries of believers ’ . |
| 21 | I refer you to my letter of 30 March on the subject of the above tape . |
| 22 | He also throws away too many key phrases : ‘ This Triton of the minnows ’ is a magnificent epithet for Sicinius but it here gets lost and although in the great banishment-speech Mr Dance 's body-language is good ( as he hurls his coat to the ground in fine disdain ) it is significant that the directors resort to an echo-chamber effect on ‘ There is a world elsewhere . ’ |
| 23 | i ‘ … this Triton of the minnows ’ , DS 46 . |
| 24 | but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ? |
| 25 | Her favourite scene was the sequence of Susan , partially concussed , menacing Ian with the points of a long pair of scissors , threatening to stab him until she gives in and vents her rage instead on the mattress of her bed . |
| 26 | for subjects subsequently presented with the light in A , the suppression controlled by this CS at the end of conditioning in C was much attenuated . |
| 27 | To celebrate the 90th birthday of British potter Dame Lucie Rie , a major exhibition is to be opened on 30 Jan at the Crafts Council Gallery by Sir David Attenborough , a collector of her work ( 071–278 7700 ) . |
| 28 | From Neolithic Stanydale through the Iron Age with the brochs of Clickhimin and Mousa , and Ness of Burgi fort , to the Viking village at Jarlshof , into the Medieval period through Scalloway and Muness castles and closing with 18th-century Fort Charlotte , these monuments act as signposts through Shetland 's long and colourful past . |
| 29 | The priest , who is in his late 40s , took 44-year-old Mary to a hideaway cottage in the Scottish Highlands for the holiday . |
| 30 | Examples include the four-bedroom detached Windsor at the Lawtons Acre development , in Alsager , Cheshire , down from £107,950 to £102,950 . |