Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | BGS drilled 18 boreholes west of the Outer Hebrides for the shallow drilling programme described above ( see Systematic offshore surveys ) . |
| 3 | Even so , though Hendrix has more or less possessed Randy for the past fifteen years , Hansen 's original guitar influences could n't be further removed from the blues-based , howling feedback style that was to become his shared trademark . |
| 4 | The prolific Nuremberg poetaster ( : Georg Philipp Harsdörffer published some three hundred didactic Frauenzimmer-Gesprach-Spiele for the virtuous , yet at the same time entertaining , education of young women ; for nine of these little plays Staden wrote music , mostly strophic songs , but in the one case of Seelewig the text was Gesangsweis auf Italienische Art gesetzt . |
| 5 | The younger people had abandoned rain-swept , wind-swept Mayo for the bright lights of London and Dublin . |
| 6 | Every one of the European allies by whose side she had fought against Nazi Germany for the previous two years was now defeated and occupied . |
| 7 | The idea of reproducing the unique taste , character and creamy head of Draught Guinness for the take-home market had been around for many years . |
| 8 | No one can be in any doubt now that she was pulling the strings behind the royal side show that has preoccupied Britain for the past six months . |
| 9 | The advance was a direct snub for America , which hours earlier had criticised Serbian paramilitaries and the regime in neighbouring Serbia for the escalating conflict in Bosnia . |
| 10 | Centre back Chris Whyte slipped and top goalscorer Fritz Walter expertly chipped over the advancing Lukic for the 63rd-minute opening strike . |
| 11 | The SCDC Arts in Schools Project , although spoken of by the one LEA in the sample which was a participant in terms of gratitude for the support the Project 's staff had given , was criticized by staff in the other LEAs for the limited help it had given to them . |
| 12 | The fittings provided on most cylinders are 1in male BSP for the boiler connections and 1in ( or ¾in ) female BSP for the cold inlet and hot outlet . |