Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the relevant movement does not span the change in reference date of January 1987 , the indexation factor is calculated in the usual way using : where RD equals the retail price index for the month on which the disposal occurs ; and RI equals the retail price index for March 1982 or the month on which expenditure was incurred , whichever is the later . |
| 2 | In the meantime Mr James will be asking accountants Coopers & Lybrand to provide the necessary support in this area . |
| 3 | Or Strauss congratulating the two of them on ‘ this piece of poetry which is quite exceptionally suited to music ’ ? |
| 4 | The waiting room at the Moscow station where Newby caught the Trans-Siberian was like waiting-rooms in all communist countries , the ‘ preserve of the lumpen proletariat , the hoi polloi ’ , with not a member of the administrative or managerial class to be seen . |
| 5 | In Johnson 's report , the education offered by the city takes precedence over any popular descriptions or concerns , beginning with an interest in the fact that Hector Boece or Boethius became the first President of the King 's College , in 1494 , at the instigation of Bishop William Elphinstone , effectively the founder of Aberdeen University — whose tomb may still be seen . |
| 6 | This is not — not yet — a crisis but it is a significant problem , reflected in the depressed state of northern club rugby , where Orrell carry the standard alone in the English First Division . |
| 7 | They had gone all over the place ; peeking into the Oval Office ( but the little rope was across , Hakim said ) ; stopping on the stairs to look at a picture called The Canine Cabinet , in which North pointed out a drowsing member and said it was Casey ; and into the Roosevelt Room , where North showed the young Iranian the Nobel Prize won by Theodore Roosevelt for negotiating peace between the Russians and the Japanese . |
| 8 | However , the most notable feature of these accounts is not so much their dating , as the apparent belief in St Augustine 's , where Goscelin spent the last years of his life , that Cnut visited them both on the way to and from Rome . |
| 9 | Leaving Howard to try and persuade Colonel Mortimer to take his men to the cemetery that night — reasoning that one American to another would get a better result Ace , Benny and Petion returned to the TARDIS , where Ace indicated the remaining pilfered weapons in her shopping trolley . |
| 10 | But it 's the establishment front runner in the US , where Dell pioneered the direct marketing of PCs , which now accounts for almost a third of the total market . |
| 11 | He did not hear Lamprey read the minutes , or Lessing make the financial report . |
| 12 | The MPs for Mansfield and Brecon & Radnor had the smallest majorities in the 1987 general election . |
| 13 | Deal & Kennedy suggest the following in situations where the culture may go against successful implementation : |
| 14 | Was this where Jesus fed the 5000 ? |
| 15 | Of course , Roman emperors deified themselves , made their horses consuls and existed in a state of terrifying paranoia which eventually provoked genuine plots and assassinations , but in retrospect the gross crimes of a Caligula or Nero lacked the all-pervading hypocrisy of the modern tyrants . |
| 16 | Summer heat : rappers respond to the LA riots COOL DUDES Brad Pitt and Antonio Banderas DUMB DUDES Bill & Ted , Wayne & Garth KETAMINE The new Ecstasy ? |
| 17 | In April 1990 , three partners and a manager from the newly-merged Big Six firm Ernst & Young took the unusual step of leaving to set up their own practice . |
| 18 | Ernst & Young became the new auditors . |
| 19 | A further change occurred in 1804–5 when the firm 's style was altered to Rundell , Bridge & Rundell following the senior partner 's nephew , Edmond Waller Rundell ( 1768 ? –1857 ) , son of Maria Eliza Rundell [ q.v. ] , being admitted into the business . |
| 20 | Bristol & West have the other current top earning postal account . |
| 21 | LOOSE ENDS : ‘ Magic Touch ’ Gang Starr , PM Dawn , Frankie Knuckles and Sly & Robbie remix the revered British black soul group 's greatest hits , in celebration of their tenth anniversary |
| 22 | Of course , it was most important that no one should see Colin , Mary , or Dickon entering the secret garden . |
| 23 | There was the most horrible letter in England or Britain joining the Common Market . |
| 24 | Without stores or adequate sails they suffered great hardships , but eventually arrived in south-west Newfoundland , where Clerke knew the French Basques had fishing stations . |
| 25 | where PIVERB.DEF contains the following commands : |
| 26 | Will the Minister consider establishing a passport office in the north-east , because at present people must travel to Liverpool or Glasgow to find the nearest office ? |
| 27 | In P2/LP1 we branch on x 2 to create ( down ) node 3 with and ( up ) node 4 with , where AVk denotes the assigned value at node k . |
| 28 | Whether Parisian or Reims produced the great mounds of town refuse which one can see piled up on the roadside are a dusty grey colour interspersed with flecks of pale blue ; the stench they give out , far outweighing that of the spent piles of marc , can not be missed . |
| 29 | Not A and B but A or B. Eliminate the soggy , he wrote . |
| 30 | Here we have a maritime application of the same principle which , by land , determined Corinth 's attitude to Athens and Megara ; Corinth 's policy was to strengthen whichever of Athens or Aigina looked the weaker , so as to prevent the stronger from controlling the Saronic Gulf . |