Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only other remnant of our glorious past is the name of Porteneil 's hot-spot , a grubby old pub called the Cauldhame Arms where I go sometimes now , though still under age of course , and watch some of the local youths trying to be punk bands . |
| 2 | The right hon. Gentleman identified the way in which some home help services have been moving towards home care services . |
| 3 | Mr. Greenway : Has my right Hon. Friend seen the figures showing that at least one third of our churches and cathedrals have been vandalised by fire or in other ways in the past year ? |
| 4 | Has my right hon. Friend seen the good producer price figures issued today ? |
| 5 | Has my right hon. Friend seen the opinion poll in The Guardian this morning which shows very strong support for his stand on Europe , with the vast majority of people having confidence in the benefits for business purposes of a single market , but showing understandable scepticism about the implications of a single currency ? |
| 6 | Has my right hon. Friend seen the excellent report of Lancaster health authority , a copy of which I sent him , showing the immense progress that it has made during the past year — all within its budget ? |
| 7 | Has my right hon. Friend seen the reports from the German chambers of commerce which show that German industry has invested £7.8 billion in this country in recent years ? |
| 8 | Has my right hon. Friend seen the excellent proposals tabled by Sir David Williamson for the reform of the bureaucracy running the European Community ? |
| 9 | Has my right hon. Friend seen the view of the chief constable of west Yorkshire , Mr. Peter Nobes , that the upsurge in the taking of motor vehicles has probably occurred since the change in the Criminal Justice Act 1988 , which reduced the unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle to a summary offence triable only at a magistrates court ? |
| 10 | On the following day a leading member of Milosevic 's Serbian Socialist Party labelled the Croatian authorities as fascists , while Croatia 's President Franjo Tudjman accused the Serbian leadership of inciting terrorism . |
| 11 | If you have a confirmed mudlark , or a horse that does n't like parting with his winter coat , try a cactus cloth or a nifty little gadget called the Unigroom . |
| 12 | A crust of brown corrugated paper required the knife again . |
| 13 | And in fact it was an old woollen mill called the . |
| 14 | From Thaxted we went to a lovely old thatched pub called the Ashtree at Burton End . |
| 15 | Kuwaiti electoral law restricted the franchise to men aged 21 or over whose families had been in the Emirate since before 1921 , limiting the number of voters to 81,400 of the country 's 606,000 nationals . |
| 16 | The British 2nd Corps encountered the enemy on 10 October west of La Bassee , but , in face of heavy fighting , the German thrust petered out 10 days later with the British still about 1.6km/1ml west of the town . |
| 17 | Wordsworth lived in Dove Cottage , a white-washed former inn called The Dove and Olive , during his most creative period from 1799 until 1808 . |
| 18 | On 28 June 1914 , as the Archduke and his wife drove through Sarajevo , a student with nationalistic sympathies , Gavrilo Princip , encouraged by a Serbian secret society called the ‘ Black Hand ’ , shot both of them dead . |
| 19 | The Protestant Prayer Books of 1552 and 1559 divested the parish clergy of their sacramental powers ; the new communion service bore no resemblance to the central , sacramental miracle of the mass , and the reformed baptismal ceremony omitted the exorcism and the anointing with chrism . |
| 20 | Even if the government did not wish to take this opportunity for a full reform to a fair voting system , the extra six seats offered the chance of creating a more proportional system by creating a so called additional member top up to ensure under represented views gained their rightful place in Europe . |
| 21 | Since one main aim of the interventions was to delay the onset of smoking , never smoking was considered an appropriate primary indicator given the age of the pupils at baseline ( relatively few were current smokers or had previously experimented with smoking ) . |
| 22 | The crux lay in crossing a high and dangerous glaciated pass called the Saser La . |
| 23 | On the other hand the British government declined to share information on its civil nuclear programme given the high ( though misplaced ) hopes which were then placed in its commercial potential . |
| 24 | The myriad of tiny far stars regarded the scene unflinchingly . |
| 25 | Three-quarters of a mile south of the church , down a bumpy farm track which was once a well used road , is the greatest beauty of all , a silvery oak-timbered house called The Ley . |
| 26 | Nearby at 2/165 is a charming Renaissance house with typical Bohemian gables called the House of the Golden Swan . |
| 27 | Here Barth applied , in contrast to what Roman Catholic theology called the analogia entis , ‘ analogy of being ’ between God and man , what he described , following Calvin , as the analogia fidei , the ‘ analogy of faith ’ . |
| 28 | A further refinement of chick mimicry is demonstrated by a tropical Asian cuckoo called the koel , which parasitises crows . |
| 29 | In all this he found time to address meetings for these and many other bodies , hold weekly classes for teaching the youth of his synagogue post-biblical history and related subjects , write articles for the Jewish press ( he founded an Anglo Jewish Journal called The Jewish Times later to be absorbed into the Canadian Jewish Chronicle ) . |
| 30 | New samples were carried and added to the display , labels were checked and ironed and the large Triple Tombola given the ‘ Super Dazzle ’ treatment . |