Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun prp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By way of preparation for this Friday the 13th escapade somebody handed over A Dictionary of Superstitions , which is not the sort of inspiration one needs . |
| 2 | with a s as we were picking up from last week , a c a c in , in a sense that land reform is , is already taking place , there is this sort of groundswell from the masses that to move beyond the , the moderate policy and that is then formalized in the May the fourth directive which marks like the return to land reform going back to and then y y y y you 've got the implementation of that May the fourth directive and then out of a very difficult position in nineteen forty seven when they , they are under attack from the Kuomintang and i in the spring of nineteen forty seven is actually taken by Kuomintang . |
| 3 | During the night of 10 February the eight Whitleys at Luqa took off to drop their paratroops over Italy for the ‘ Colossus ’ venture . |
| 4 | The English established themselves in a strong defensive position and on the evening of 26 August the French approached . |
| 5 | In the social history of twentieth-century Britain the Second World War stands out as a watershed ; the sheer scale and magnitude of the events that took place during those crucial six years seems to lend indisputable credibility to the view that modern wars are a major force behind progressive social change . |
| 6 | Fereby was the trustee empowered to administer the estate supporting both the School and the chapel at Woodhead ; the properties were listed in full in his will of 28th July 1506 , and transferred to the Company by a deed of 6th August the same year . |
| 7 | But while all eyes are on the hot-spots of Eastern Europe the real action is taking place in clubland . |
| 8 | Five days later the snow melted , and on the morning of 11 February the second massive flood in seven months overtook them ; it was all very well for the town directory to speak in glowing terms of the River Frome teeming with trout , eels , and all manner of fine fish — but to the inhabitants of Pig Street that wretched river too often spelt disaster and despoliation . |
| 9 | The simple guilloche decoration of mosaic 7 appears slightly cruder than that of mosaics B or C. The more complicated three-strand guilloche of the former , however , is not significantly inferior to the four-strand guilloche of mosaic C. The former appears to be " stretched " , but then the latter seems to be cramped ( although " loose " ) . |
| 10 | The day following the hearing of 15 May the local authority social worker concerned with the children wrote to the father a letter which referred to periodic reviews taking place and concluded : |
| 11 | On the evening of 20 November the Prime Minister 's swift decision to fight on plunged the Conservatives into almost total disarray . |
| 12 | Throughout much of urban Spain the lower-middle class , whilst larger than is sometimes suggested , was engaged in relatively small-scale economic activities involving little in the way of enterprise : family-based manufacturing , localized commerce , a primitive service sector , and not least important the buying , selling and leasing of land — a major middle-class preoccupation since the disentailment of the Church 's landed property in the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 13 | Michelle has n't done it frequently but i you know I would never even talk to me like that Sarah the little erm madam that she is , just like Kerry , which they are ! |
| 14 | It looks like one Henry the Eighth might have discarded for reasons of vanity . |
| 15 | This was a development which also disseminated throughout northern England the idiosyncratic customs of the clergy of the Celtic regions of the British Isles which the Church of Rome , as it comprehended them over time , came increasingly to view as schismatic — not simply a different , more archaic method of calculating the date of Easter ( which Iona retained long after other Irish communities had abandoned it ) , but a whole range of differences in ritual practice and , in the absence of an established ecclesiastical hierarchy of bishops and archbishops , a barely recognizable ecclesiastical order . |
| 16 | During late May the Chinese media also gave prominent coverage to country-wide mass executions of criminals , while in Beijing a heavy security operation was launched in early June , especially around Tiananmen Square and the University . |
| 17 | It is worth saying that in all recent discussions about eastern Europe the former Soviet Union — viewed at one time as a Great Red Hope for ELT — is barely mentioned . |
| 18 | Paragraph 6 of the council 's statement of claim asserts that in the issue of ‘ The Sunday Times ’ for 17 September the third and fourth defendants wrote , and the first and second defendants published : |
| 19 | As with all Saabs the 900S is aircraft inspired . |
| 20 | It is clear , for example , that the council was planning an immediate coronation , with 4 May the chosen date . |
| 21 | It is clear , for example , that the council was planning an immediate coronation , with 4 May the chosen date . |
| 22 | An overall poverty of colour , and the use of slightly larger ( but still well-cut ) tesserae in mosaic 7 , produce many of the contrasts of this mosaic with mosaic C. The latter , therefore , remains a more accomplished design , but it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that some of the same craftsmen and some identical plans or ideas were employed at Verulamium . |
| 23 | In feudal Russia the petty princes had sworn allegiance to the crown and had to engage in military service , whilst retaining autonomy in their internal affairs , as the Teleuts did . |
| 24 | Erm now given , what less than five months er before this May the fourth directive , Mao is still saying that , this marks quite an important shift in policy . |
| 25 | Its political system is antiquated , compared with its neighbours , and it enjoys in free Europe the melancholy distinction of boasting no government since the war to represent the majority will . |
| 26 | In early April the French commercial satellite firm Spot Image provided apparent photographic proof that the controversial chemical plant at Rabta , 80 km south-west of the capital , Tripoli had not been destroyed by fire on Mar. 15 as claimed by the Libyan and United States governments [ see p. 37333 ] . |
| 27 | In February 1989 six non-OPEC ( NOPEC ) countries agreed to limit exports with a view to helping stabilize oil markets ( see p. 36478 ) , while in early March the Soviet Union also indicated that it would reduce exports by 5 per cent in the first half of 1989 . |
| 28 | In early March the Foreign Minister , Jiri Dienstbier , had also declared that his country would eventually want to join the European Communities . |
| 29 | In early May the new chairman of the MPR following Mobutu 's resignation from that post was named as N'Singa Udjuu Ongwakebei , a former Minister of the Interior and president of the Judicial Council . |
| 30 | In early July the new cruzado was again devalued from $1.00=1.512 cruzados to $1.00=1.693 cruzados following protests against low prices due to the overvalued currency by soyabean farmers which had spread through the states of Mato Grosso and Paraná . |