Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Antwerp offers both the Renaissance architecture of a Bruges or a Ghent and the café culture of a Paris or a Barcelona . |
| 2 | BBC entertainment chief Jim Moir announced yesterday the programme will run until at least April 1994 . |
| 3 | All the variety and wit , also the musical sense , I found wanting in Nucci ( Decca ) is displayed here , placing Bruson almost in the class of Tibbett ( Panizza/Music and Arts ) and Valdengo ( Toscanini/RCA ) in the two historic sets recently issued on CD , and — like those baritones — Bruson has precisely the weight the role calls for . |
| 4 | Luce caught only the tail-end of Rosa 's murmur as the housekeeper slipped out , closing the door quietly behind her . |
| 5 | Nutty found both the running and swimming hard , but had no option but to keep up with the boys . |
| 6 | Altman strips away the pretence and mythology to expose the film industry as precisely that ; a business like any other , dedicated to the pursuit of profit . |
| 7 | The WEA shared both the relief and the reservations : duly expressed as a gathering of District Secretaries in September , at the National Conference in October and at meetings of the WEA Central Executive Committee which had the responsibility for formulating an official response . |
| 8 | Branson found just the man he was looking for in James Kingsley , Professor of English Studies at Nottingham University . |
| 9 | Covering this huge variety of requirements , Olympus has probably the world 's largest range of instruments and by necessity draws on the knowledge and expertise of companies and individuals in the various fields . |
| 10 | It is very difficult in the circumstances of either Mozambique or Nicaragua to evaluate conclusively the effectiveness of policies which promote education as a means of transforming society , although in the case of Nicaragua , despite the problems , government-sponsored initiatives clearly scored successes , both in educational terms and in terms of social change . |
| 11 | With a built-in UK dictionary & thesaurus , and easily defined page layouts , WordPerfect allows even the beginner to produce professional letters and reports . |
| 12 | When Delia Sutherland arrived punctually the morning after he had telephoned her , Rosen was standing by the door to his office talking to a junior partner . |
| 13 | Consider , in this light , the contrasts in ( 17 ) and ( 18 ) , each presenting two sets of data ; the first set includes an adverbal adjective ; the second contains a predicate qualifying adjective , as indicated by the identity of the appropriate questions : ( 17 ) Ellen shook loose the keys what did Ellen do to the keys ? how did Ellen shake the keys ? the thief produced unharmed the goat what did the thief do to the goat ? how did the thief produce the goat ? ( 18 ) the raiders shot dead two vigilantes what did the raiders do to the vigilantes ? how did the raiders shoot the vigilantes *Andrew wants milky his coffee what does Andrew do to his coffee ? how does Andrew want his coffee ? |
| 14 | To his surprise , Molly threw away the dregs of tea in her beaker and held it out for him to fill with the frothing liquor . |
| 15 | erm Again , Proust emphasised repeatedly the shifting , elusive nature of personal identity . |
| 16 | Penrose brushed aside the suggestion with an emphatic movement of his hand . |
| 17 | The second half saw Richard take apart the Brussels defence yet again to score . |
| 18 | The acceptance of such reasoning required Lord Hailsham to address anew the question of the mental element required for lack of consent in rape , since the nineteenth century judges upon whom he relied had never had the matter presented to them in these terms . |
| 19 | WHAT WAS JONAH doing inside the whale in the first place ? |
| 20 | The RJWG formed however the basis of the first post-World War Two Act of 1962 ( Jugendwohlfahrtsgesetz , JWG ) which expanded and amended it but left its basic philosophy intact . |
| 21 | With Hungary went also the crown of Croatia . |
| 22 | This is not to say that Hewison denies outright the possibility of a career — his concentration throughout the book on the films of Derek Jarman speaks otherwise — it is more that the pessimism of his viewpoint stops him from looking for them . |
| 23 | But Branson felt quite the reverse . |
| 24 | Once Becky felt sure the ink was dry she closed the books and put them back in her satchel while Charlie prepared to lock up the baker 's shop . |
| 25 | Although Sherek saw only the drafts of the first two acts , he agreed at once to do so . |
| 26 | Centre director Anthony Roberts learned yesterday the bid had been successful . |
| 27 | And she 'd , she 'd even get her girlfriend 's mother to ring up to say she was staying there the night , the mothers used to s ring up Joan tell them that it was al alright for er for er Andrea to stay there the night and she was never , she was camping out in the fields with a crowd of them oh |
| 28 | Giving the opening address on June 19 , Gorbachev put forward the proposal that the conference should become the Russian Federation CP 's founding congress . |
| 29 | The fact that Bunn had both the guarantee and the charge drawn up and executed both by the husband and himself on Friday , 23 July , and his evidence that the wife 's attendance on the Monday was , so far as he was concerned , a mere formality , shows that all that remained was to get the wife 's signature in accordance with bank policy . |
| 30 | The Old Testament savagery of a vengeful and jealous God gives way to the teachings of Christ , and David becomes often the Christ he prefigures , and becomes very much Smart . |