Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bismarck , the creator of a unified Germany in the late 1800s , was known as the ‘ Iron Chancellor ’ , and Germany 's most frequent honour to valour was the Iron Cross . |
| 2 | The Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) won Lower Saxony from the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) , which had held it since the mid-1970s ( in coalition with the Free Democrats since the last state election in 1986 — see pp. 34503-04 ) ; the SPD also retained its absolute majority in North Rhine-Westphalia ( with 11,000,000 voters Germany 's most populous state ) , where it had held control for 24 years . |
| 3 | ON THE RIGHT BERNARD DURING THE SAME VISIT . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , however , Hoving 's overweening ego becomes distressingly evident : he presents a soon tiring scenario of the young , hip , rebellious David against the stuffy old WASP Goliaths , symbolised by most of the board of trustees and members of the curatorial staff . |
| 5 | But that Saturday for the first time in his life , he invited his youngest son Patsy to attend the ball-game along with himself and his other three sons . |
| 6 | Painters have responded enthusiastically , from the meticulous realism of Frith 's panoramic Paddington to the delicate impressionism of Monet 's Gare Saint-Lazare , from the distorted heat-haze imagery of Dali 's Perpignan Station to the lonely , austere beauty of Vlaminck 's station in the snow . |
| 7 | In his two-volume Mexico of the Twentieth Century ( 1907 ) Martin moved on to examine British investment and influence in that country . |
| 8 | Birbeck believed that Branson had played the joke as ‘ revenge ’ for a Music Week reporter feeding stories disparaging Branson to the satirical magazine Private Eye — and he was partly right . |
| 9 | An extreme and exceptional case is the small community outside the fort of Phasis in the province of Cappadocia , which was fortified by the governor solely to protect it from assault by invading Alans in the mid second century . |
| 10 | And if you go round , particularly the steep slopes on the margins of Ashdown Forest , not on Ashdown Forest itself but when you climb up from the very flat erm plain area of the Low Weald onto the so-called High Weald , then that area in particular is very subject to , to this type of activity . |
| 11 | May I refer you to my letter of 30 March regarding the above tape , for which you placed an order on 16 March . |
| 12 | Two weeks ago Randalstown lost to Old Alexandra in the All Ireland Cup , but that was due to fatigue as the previous weekend they had been involved in the European Indoor Club Championship . |
| 13 | Impaired glucose tolerance was defined as a fasting or achieved plasma glucose concentration more than 2 SD above the mean concentration of a non-diabetic population matched for age and weight . |
| 14 | To see what he has been up to lately visit Curt Marcus before the 31st of the month . |
| 15 | The Grundig World series , in its fifth year but now officially recognised by the International Cycling Union , will visit Strathpeffer in the Scottish Highlands for the third of 10 rounds on May 3-4 . |
| 16 | The filter settings were 0.1 to 10 Hz for the internal and 10 Hz-10 KHz for the external anal sphincter . |
| 17 | In its aftermath Mrs Thatcher apparently took greater care to consult the Cabinet more fully and was overruled by it on the proposed sale of British Leyland to the US-based General Motors . |
| 18 | For sale , two tickets for the Ted Heath concert this Friday at the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham . |
| 19 | Okay , two tickets for sale for the Ted Heath concert , this Friday at the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham , they were twelve pounds fifty each , you can have the two tickets for ten pounds each , call , . |
| 20 | The rest of the Yugo range is based on old Fiats from the 1970s , but the Sana is a completely new design . |
| 21 | Air travel grew rapidly : the first Pan Am passenger flight was on 18 January 1928 , although the first commercial passenger flights had been in German Zeppelins before the First World War , and French and British airlines had begun by the early 1920s . |
| 22 | Also , until 22 December at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum , Queen Street , Exeter ; tel. 0392 265858 . |
| 23 | Here again two conflicting conventions grew up and were in use at one and the same time in the medieval England of the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 24 | IT Division is organising the 1991 JFIT Conference at UMIST on the 9th–11th July with the primary aim of discussing objectives of the JFIT programmes and they way in which they are meeting the requirements of users . |
| 25 | The French Senator-Minister for the High Police controlled a web of espionage as efficient as that of the Hapsburgs , and if anything even more ruthless . |
| 26 | The show is on from 2 February to the 27th . |
| 27 | But this had been an attempt to land on the Spanish Main , and the Spanish felt much less concerned about the long string of small islands in the Lesser Antilles at the eastern end of the Caribbean . |
| 28 | Churchill began his campaign on 12 December before the Royal Empire Society with an onslaught on Dominion Status as ‘ a hideous act of self-mutilation astounding to every nation in the world ’ ; continued it for a more general audience by personally hiring the Free Trade Hall in Manchester ; and moved inexorably towards his Shadow Cabinet resignation at the end of January . |
| 29 | Cecilia Taylor would like all those teachers who have taken tickets for sale to let her have number sold as soon as possible and by 31st January at the latest . |
| 30 | As his next letter , dated 11 January showed , the Spender book could not have reached me before 12 January at the earliest , and I wanted to keep to the length of an article . |