Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But constitutional expert Michael Nash , who is soon to bring out a book , A Royal Divorce , about the history of the British monarchy , said last night : ‘ The best thing to happen would be for William to become the next in line to the throne . |
| 2 | It was hard for Sophie to face the kindly accusation in the two pairs of eyes gazing at her . |
| 3 | Shirtliff nodded down Wilson 's corner for Hirst to score the second and the Wednesday striker would have collected his 20th of the season but for a fine one-handed save by Marriott . |
| 4 | I was most impressed by the effective way in which my hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford destroyed the hon. Gentleman 's case during a short intervention . |
| 5 | It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely . |
| 6 | ‘ It is also an unbelievable chance for Germany to have the fifth most important tennis tournament in the world … a certainty also that tennis will continue there when Steffi Graf or I are no longer around . ’ |
| 7 | Faldo sank a worthy putt for a birdie , but Norman 's victory still looked a formality until his tiny effort , similar to that which Scott Hoch missed for Faldo to win the 1989 Masters , hit the hole and ran past . |
| 8 | The two singles wins for Berkshire left the reigning champions in an irretrievable position and the home side added a dash more salt to their opponents ' wounds as they clinched a full eight victory points from the remaining doubles victory . |
| 9 | Iago 's manipulation of the verbal sign was never more brilliant , for he has only to offer the Signifier , ‘ Lie ’ — which could mean ‘ tell an untruth ’ — for Othello to snatch the Signified , ‘ lie with ’ , which has been planted in his consciousness so remorselessly . |
| 10 | Time enough later for Lucy to know the sheer delight of making love to her . |
| 11 | ‘ I have a feeling they will react to the big occasion at Ibrox and they are bound to be on a high after Denmark winning the European title in Sweden . ’ |
| 12 | In addition , Galt is named after John Galt the 18th century author born in Irvine . |
| 13 | Peaceful demonstrations by students and intellectuals during January constituted the first significant challenge to the ruling Mongolian People 's Revolutionary Party ( MPRP ) since it took power in 1924 . |
| 14 | Fand looked her in the eyes for a long moment ; and it was difficult for Ruth to face the utter loneliness of that gaze . |
| 15 | In return for an orderly resumption of work the government agreed ( i ) a general wage increase of 43 per cent for July to offset the inflationary effects of its current economic austerity programme , with a further review in August ; ( ii ) job security for and non-victimization of strikers ; ( iii ) compensation for public-sector workers made redundant between April 26 and July 21 , but not their reappointment ; ( iv ) the suspension of a programme to privatize land nationalized since 1979 by the former Sandinista ( FSLN ) government ; and ( v ) the retention of subsidies on public transport . |
| 16 | Sadly , over the years , it has been far too easy for men such as Beck to infiltrate the sloppy system used by many local authorities and it was high time that the Government took steps to prevent further scandals . |
| 17 | Will the Secretary of State specify the exact circumstances that led the Secretary of State for Transport and the Secretary of State for Scotland to give the clear impression during the Kincardine and Deeside by-election that a review of that decision was possible ? |
| 18 | A plus point is that the National Trust for Scotland own the 15,000 acres of Kintail so there are no access complications or restrictions . |
| 19 | Through Samara passed the chief railway lines from Siberia and Central Asia , bringing in diseases of all kinds from the east . |
| 20 | Arguedas , however , was faced with the thorny problem of translating into the alien medium of Spanish the sensibility of a people which expresses itself in Quechua , and his great achievement has been to evolve a style which captures the rhythm and flavour of Quechua to convey the spiritual world of the Andean Indians . |
| 21 | Norwich had grown up where the cornlands of Norfolk meet the wood-pasture country . |
| 22 | In fact , in 1480 the chapter of Windsor secured the appropriated rectory of North Marston itself , presumably to control and maximize the market . |
| 23 | With their absorption of the vicomté of Béarn through marriage and inheritance in 1290 , the counts of Foix became the single most powerful house in the south-west . |
| 24 | Residents reported that the Tamil Tigers had taken immediate control of Jaffna following the Indian pull-out . |
| 25 | She is finally defeated by Ripley operating a mechanical lifter , a power loader a more sophisticated reprise of Sarah working the hydraulic press to ‘ terminate ’ her adversary in The Terminator ( Cameron 's self confessed love of machinery is apparent again ) . |
| 26 | The addition of Sheffield brought the total number of UDCs to eleven and the government has stated that there will be no other UDCs before 1992 . |
| 27 | Considering each member of the series of Ks connecting the human eye to no eye at all , is it plausible that every one of them worked sufficiently well that it assisted the survival and reproduction of the animals concerned ? |
| 28 | Nicolas Pereira of Venezuela won the only other match beating American Alex O'Brien in three sets by 6–7 , 6–3 , 7–6 . |
| 29 | ROUGH and ready Trafford 's Ukrainian import Oleg Sinkov struck three minutes from time to kill off any outside chances of Chelmsford winning the English League Conference B title . |
| 30 | The other side of Kelling has the same outward-slanting wings , shielding a terrace from which the garden slopes gently away to the wide Norfolk view . |