Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little did they know that French , together with hard-working ARFU executive Bob Fordham , had been working for over 12 hours attempting to salvage the Wallaby tour after pre-tour conditions , such as the non-playing of national anthems , were inexplicably ignored at Ellis Park the previous day when South Africa celebrated its return to international rugby against the All Blacks . |
| 2 | And for a lesson in the differential diagnosis of leprosy and ichthyosis , try Arthur Conan Doyle 's Sherlock Holmes story The Blanched Soldier ( 1927 ) . |
| 3 | On full dirt through a Marshall Valvestate combo the Mad Axe lived up to its name and any kind of rock tone proved possible . |
| 4 | It is very evident that in the early months of the Truman administration the new US president was far from settled in his views on foreign policy , not least because of the divided counsels of those around him . |
| 5 | To Welford Beaton the great weakness of the movie industry was that it had been ‘ born without reasoning faculties ’ and had failed subsequently to develop any : since birth , he suggested , the industry had ‘ allowed the box-office to do its thinking for it ’ . |
| 6 | Beyond Dean Hill the principal line is interpreted as being deflected southeastwards , continuing as the underlying cause of the Portsdown structure , crossing the Sussex coast east of the Middleton well . |
| 7 | Kelly Ann the other day wanted to know where my where was the ring you got married in Raymond ? |
| 8 | On 21 February the TVS programme The Real World devoted 30 minutes to holophony and Zuccarelli . |
| 9 | It was nice to see you , albeit briefly , at CPRE HQ the other day . |
| 10 | In the Praemium Imperiale the sinister absurdities of prize-giving reach a preposterous degree , with the spurious reputation of an invasive state the real prize and objective a worthy winner would publicly refuse his commemorative medal and give his Y15 million straight away to Greenpeace . |
| 11 | The scene depicted is not for the squeamish and was caught at RAF Finningley the other day . |
| 12 | If anybody ever says woman to me , like " You should have seen that woman , " or , " Now there was a woman for you , " I would think of Audra Favor , thinking of her as Audra , too , not as Mrs. Favor the Indian Agent 's wife . |
| 13 | The Chairman then thanked Hilda Lodge , who , although retiring as Vice-Chairman , was continuing to serve as Chairman of the Publicity Committee and introduced Joan Daniels the new Vice-Chairman ; she then went on to thank Kay Maskell and Jean Parmiter the retiring Chairmen of the Finance and Training Sub-Committees . |
| 14 | ‘ Le Château La Tour Monchauzet' the printed legend uncompromisingly informed her , with no further elaboration . |
| 15 | By Edward Greenfield The Unknown Puccini-Domingo/Rudel . |
| 16 | Furthermore , in FGF-4-treated cultures the mitotic index in mesenchyme at the exposed surface and in deeper distal mesenchyme of -AER limbs is 44% higher than in corresponding mesenchyme underlying the AER in contralateral limbs , and 145% higher than in -AER limbs cultured in the absence of FGF-4 ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 17 | That 's why everyone and their brother , DEC , HP and Sun , are all crowding into the week of November 10 for their anticipated launches , with the added expectation of getting coverage at Comdex Fall in Las Vegas the following week . |
| 18 | From 1940 , when he made his first broadcast as a quiz-master in the BBC radio series Ack , Ack , Beer , Beer , he was a constant broadcaster and in 1943 , by then stationed at the Air Ministry in London , he created and wrote with Squadron Leader Richard Murdoch the long-running radio series Much Binding in the Marsh , a take-off of a fictitious RAF station . |
| 19 | S. S. The only bit of crowd trouble we had was the Catholics on the north side of the division and the Orangemen on the south side ; when the 12th of July was approaching there used to be a bit of trouble . |
| 20 | But under President Carlos Salinas the Mexican media are changing . |
| 21 | A meeting of Leaders and Trustees was held in the Carleton Cafe the following Friday evening , 18 December — they wasted no time — and after a prolonged discussion the decision was taken to build a new church as soon as possible and certainly within the following five years . |
| 22 | While , under the IRR acceptance rule , we would accept Project C and the incremental project ( D minus C ) , the same rule rejects the sum of the two projects , Project D. The incremental project is accepted because its IRR of 14 per cent is greater than the opportunity cost of capital of 10 per cent . |
| 23 | I. J. Palliardi was the stuccoist , and Ignác Raab the Jesuit painter worked here . |
| 24 | Among those I met were the Duke of Wellington , who has his London home in part of beautiful Apsley House , which with all its treasures he presented to the nation some years ago ; Vicomte and Vicomtesse Bernard de la Giraudière , and Mr Richard Nicholson the Vice Chairman of Laurent-Perrier UK , and his charming wife ; Mr Malcolm Innes , Mrs Piffa Schroder , Mr John Grant of Rothiemurchus , the Hon. |
| 25 | Donna Tartt The Secret History ( Penguin ) |
| 26 | Botham took out his frustration on the Leicestershire bowlers the following day , recording Durham 's first County Championship century . |
| 27 | The house , nevertheless , had visitors interesting to the children ; a couple of famous Congregationalist laymen Frank Salter and Bernard Manning , both of whom were historians and riotous rompers with children ; the Reddaway children who lived next door ; the daughters of G. G. Coulton the English hammer of Popes ; and the friendship between the two sets of children caused Coulton to take an interest in Michael and carry him off to the village church at Coton to see medieval graffiti . |
| 28 | Exactly ! ’ said Penny Black the following evening , as she peeled off her jeans in the women 's changing-room at the University Sports Centre . |
| 29 | I had , after all , been summoned to meet you face to face in Downing Street the following morning and obviously any difficulties could be sorted out then . |
| 30 | She took office in May 1979 , proclaiming on the steps of Number 10 Downing Street the healing words of St Francis of Assisi — ‘ where there is discord , may we bring harmony . ’ |