Example sentences of "[pers pn] the [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Donaldson was so irate at my letter in the Times , which he considered to reflect upon English architects in general , that he proposed moving the Institute to reverse the recommendation of their council to award to me the annual Royal Gold Medal of the Institute , and was only dissuaded from attempting to inflict that gratuitous dishonour upon me by strong remonstrances . |
| 2 | ‘ Any chance of anyone passing me the odd anabolic steroid , this week ? |
| 3 | As I left the peaceful sleeping village , the mist over the marshes was rising , to show me the great unknown world I was entering . |
| 4 | She was immediately recognisable , though she 'd had the scarf on as she sped past me the only other time I 'd seen her . |
| 5 | By the time we met I had almost reached The Old Castle Inn at Old Sarum and good old Dad bought me the largest ginger beer I 've ever had . |
| 6 | Several months into my secondary education , this working provided what was for me the greatest locospotting thrill of the decade . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , this seems to me the greatest short poem ever written by Wordsworth , comparable to Dr Johnson 's magnificent exposure of The Vanity of Human Wishes . |
| 8 | After a hundred yards or so I could see behind me the whole cliffed extent of the headland , and the house . |
| 9 | but just being on the bench gives me the tiniest little bit of hope … |
| 10 | Lorna Wood , a promotion activist working for the industry , gave me the full shock-horror story : ‘ People knew raisins were good for them . |
| 11 | Somehow Finnan made sense of the tangled labyrinth , and brought them through the lanes and alleys of boats until they could see looming ahead of them the solid sunwashed stone of the city wall . |
| 12 | On one of them the poor little creature sat nursing his arm and looking very sorry for himself . |
| 13 | And you just hammer them the poor old cloth workers they 've got used to me now , they had an awful fit at the time , you ca n't do that . |
| 14 | The technology has certainly come of age and whereas battery powered tools can never compete in power with mains operated ones , their increasing sales have made them the fastest developing aspect of woodworking technology today . |
| 15 | ‘ My reward will be to give them the final yellow jersey in Manchester . ’ |
| 16 | Faye whispered , her eyes misting and her throat going froggy as she showed them the tiny black-haired bundle cradled tightly in her arms . |
| 17 | The horse , trained by David Barons , was called Seagram — and gave them the ultimate worldwide publicity without the cost of ownership ! |
| 18 | They also rejected Christie 's claim of a continuing rise in market share vis à vis Sotheby 's , resulting in a 49% share this season ( the highest since the mid-1950s ) and a 54% market share in Europe , making them the largest European auction house by sales . |
| 19 | We are committed to using the resources available to the health service to treat the maximum number of patients and to offer them the highest possible quality of health care . |
| 20 | ‘ The portacabin provided us with a way to offer them the best possible service under the circumstances . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ The lean-line droopiness of Michael Crawford and Oliver Reed 's big-drum bravado make them the best double act since Laurel and Hardy , ’ wrote Alexander Walker in the London Evening Standard . |
| 22 | Inside were four small diaries , three of them the cheap cardboard-backed variety , the fourth a blue leather-bound volume that Luce recognised . |
| 23 | It eats into their profits and for many of them the only good rabbit is a dead one . |
| 24 | In them the one certain thing about man is his mortality , and this temporal restriction was the decisive factor that distinguished men from gods . |
| 25 | I saw two small spires through the spy-hole , and beyond them the intense red haze of the kiln chamber . |
| 26 | The band 's aggregate scores gave them the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association championship for their grade . |
| 27 | The first rays of the sun were gilding the grassy hillsides visible through the trees , and all around them the thick green roof of the jungle was gradually coming alive with the cries of darting , bright-hued birds . |
| 28 | Not for them the purposeless Irish custom of the kick upfield which might , with a bit of luck , blunder into touch and ‘ everything can stop for tea ’ . |
| 29 | According to them the random pontine activity stimulating the cortex during REM sleep therefore has the function of erasing memories , which , in their terms , have become " parasitic " — interpretations which , whatever their origin , have no place in our latest view of the world and are redundant but persistent . |
| 30 | To be sure , there is evident in the modern world a trend toward collectivism , but this can assume , and has assumed , very diverse forms : among them the fascist corporate state ; the Stalinist autocracy and the highly regulated society , dominated by a single party , which succeeded it ; the ‘ mixed economy ’ of the capitalist welfare states , in which some important sectors of the economy are publicly owned , a vast network of publicly financed and administered social services exists , and the national economy is regulated and partly planned by the state , which now employs a substantial and increasing proportion of the active population ; and the former Yugoslav system of self-management in an economy which was largely publicly owned . |