Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A salvage operation was under way for the £6 million chopper . |
| 2 | It is certainly working for the BBC Junior Library Services , and there must be other areas which could benefit from a combined approach . |
| 3 | Tickets are on sale for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ivory and Brass concerts at the Town Hall ( ) . |
| 4 | George Orwell wrote for the BBC Overseas Service and made hundreds of radio broadcasts , but no recording of his voice seems to have survived anywhere . |
| 5 | ‘ Though I may say that I shall be getting twenty-five guineas next Thursday for doing nothing but sit around in a television studio for half-an-hour , instead of beating my brains out all week-end to write a script for the BBC Overseas Service and getting ten guineas for it . ’ |
| 6 | Still , I had an overseas news radio set and sometimes at dusk when I turned it on for the BBC overseas news , the light on its dial welcomed me like a beacon from home . |
| 7 | What might well have fixed it was a radio play , In Parenthesis , by David Jones , produced for the BBC Third Programme by Douglas Cleverdon in 9948 . |
| 8 | It was all too much for the FT-SE 100 index , which closed 15.3 points adrift at 2832.50 . |
| 9 | Yadav and Pope ( 1992b ) used hourly data for the FT-SE 100 index from 1986 to 1990 to examine whether there was a connection in the UK between index returns and mispricings . |
| 10 | Table 6.2 shows calculations of the basis using the data from the numerical example in Table 2.4 of Chapter 2 for the FT-SE 100 index future for the 5 and 6 September 1989 . |
| 11 | Board and Sutcliffe ( 1990 ) studied transactions data for the FT-SE 100 index for the period from May 1984 to July 1989 . |
| 12 | The ambiguity of Jacques Chirac 's attitude to the National Front helped destroy his bid for the Presidency last year , and with it the credibility of the opposition to President Mitterrand . |
| 13 | One was his failure to hold a direct election for the presidency last year . |
| 14 | I do n't think I can play for the dancing this year . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , Spurs coach Doug Livermore joined the growing army of tipsters backing Aston Villa for the Championship this season . |
| 16 | In assessing why an apparently average side like Warwickshire made such a persistent challenge for the Championship last year , one thing stood out . |
| 17 | ‘ They say he might even challenge for the championship next year . ’ |
| 18 | There is certainly the prospect of Stewart , a slow starter but a class player when set , rivalling Robert Bailey for the No. 3 batting spot in the Caribbean . |
| 19 | The boundaries for the Snowdonia National Park run round the edge of Penrhyn , which covers six square miles . |
| 20 | They Old Trafford 's senior strikers are in no mood to budge for the £1.2 million Frenchman , who showed his pedigree on Eusebio 's big night in Lisbon this week . |
| 21 | It features a graphical editor for the Shlaer-Mellor object-oriented analysis methodology and interestingly enough will offer on-screen animation for functional verification , dynamic functional verification and performance analysis . |
| 22 | But the chances are you 'll be heading for the hills next weekend , and according to the Countryside Commission for Scotland , almost 100,000 of you will be doing so in Scotland ! |
| 23 | The rationale for the initial four week course was to decrease viral replication and increase inflammatory activity before the start of the longterm course , thereby enhancing the possibility of response to therapy . |
| 24 | Neither Miss Bonham-Carter , 26 , a star of the films A Room with a View and Howard 's End , nor her parents , Elena and Raymond , were at court for the half-hour private hearing before Mr Justice Sedley . |
| 25 | The Oyster case is the ultimate setting for the Rolex Perpetual movement , first created in 1931 and the subject of many advanced innovations to produce todays movement with a self winding mechanism sensitive to the slightest movement of your wrist , which holds the mainspring at equal and constant tension producing excellent precision timekeeping . |
| 26 | The Special Advisory Board for the Army Medical Service had laid down as a basis for treatment ‘ a more or less continuous course of mercury by mouth for 1½ to 2 years ’ combined with mercurial ointment rubbed into the skin for 20 to 30 minutes daily over a six-week period . |
| 27 | House ownership figures for the Knutsford municipal area are as follows : |
| 28 | Car ownership per household figures for the Knutsford municipal area are as follows : |
| 29 | I happened to have an extra ticket for the recital last night … |
| 30 | Thomson Consumer Electronics Inc has chosen Milpitas , California-based C-Cube Microsystems Inc to supply the very-large-scale integrated circuits for the RCA Digital Satellite System that will receive the first high-power direct broadcast satellite television service in the US beginning next year . |