Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 2 | After 1620 Warner lived at the Woolstable in Charing Cross and at Cranborne Lodge , near Windsor , with Sir Thomas Aylesbury [ q.v. ] , who sponsored his continued work on optics and mathematics . |
| 3 | At the top of the list of reasons for developing communal ranches in Tanganyika Masailand given in the 1955 Annual Report was ‘ Closer control of the Masai ’ . |
| 4 | US troops in Panama remain on the highest state of alert . |
| 5 | While Madeleine snored in the bottom bunk Léonie fought to keep awake , to know the exact moment when , in the very centre of the Channel , precisely equidistant from both shores , the walls of water and of words met , embraced wetly and closely , became each other , composed of each other 's sounds . |
| 6 | He booked a flight for the afternoon of Friday , 24 March with Delta to San Francisco to connect with the British Airways flight for London . |
| 7 | Then the Shah persuaded the Carters to see in the New Year at the palace and the Queen sent the Crown Prince into the Library to organize a smaller party . |
| 8 | Neil Cowie goes into the second row , Billy McGinty to loose forward and skipper Dean Bell returns to centre . |
| 9 | Wigeon grazed on the far shore . |
| 10 | Pauline Kael admitted in The New Yorker that , ‘ reviewing this perfect nothing of a movie is rather degrading : it 's like giving consumer hints on the latest expensive worthless gift for the person who has everything ’ . |
| 11 | The standard form analysed by Professor Tetley refers to the individual carrier 's contract of carriage as follows : |
| 12 | When he and Adenauer met for the first time , de Gaulle records , ‘ We discussed Europe at length . |
| 13 | On the right is the entrance to Newington Crescent where Nicholson and Maule lived during the 1850s . |
| 14 | Armstrong fought in the First World War and was a war artist in the Second , sharing with other Surrealists the challenge of creating a pattern out of devastation . |
| 15 | Sophie gazed at the huge , ugly monster with his great broad head and tiny protuding eyes . |
| 16 | Did the local fourteenth-century name Upehull develop into the sixteenth-century Upsall and the nineteenth-century Upshall ? |
| 17 | Another celebrity winner was Schnorbitz , the St Bernard owned by the late Bernie Winters . |
| 18 | Mr Morse points to the ageing and unpleasant sanitary point where boat users dump their waste next to the town 's bus station . |
| 19 | In a separate case last Friday , Mr Justice Popplewell ruled in the High Court that the courts were not an appropriate place to decide a child 's educational needs . |
| 20 | Amid tight security the Presidents of the United States , Colombia , Peru and Bolivia met in the Colombian Caribbean resort of Cartagena and signed on Feb. 15 the Cartagena Declaration , pledging their governments to intensify and co-ordinate efforts to curb the consumption , production and trafficking of cocaine . |
| 21 | Mills arose in the remote valleys below the moors , and hamlets and villages quickly clustered around them . |
| 22 | Dame Frances gazed round the small kitchen of the novitiate . |
| 23 | That night , Ted and Jim met in the local pub to discuss the situation . |
| 24 | Two considered the treatment of poverty and idleness : Grevos Grones for the Poor ( 1622 ) and The Poore Orphans Court ( 1636 ) . |
| 25 | On this occasion he had , after the expenditure of many millions , built a refinery in Newfoundland , and he telephoned me to ask whether I could persuade Winston Churchill to come to the grand opening . |
| 26 | ‘ Mr Smithkins lives in the top flat with a magnificent view ; he 's a bachelor . ’ |
| 27 | So when they held dinner-parties Scarlet skimped on the smoked salmon , and Brian rebuked her for her graceless parsimony . |
| 28 | Jenjin paced off the new line , marked it , and offered his bow to Yuan . |
| 29 | Keith Curle drops to the standby list along with Wright , Paul Parker is unavailable because of suspension , while out of form Aston Villa winger Tony Daley is dropped . |
| 30 | " Walls built after the 1953 floods are getting old " , explained Peregrine . |