Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mills arose in the remote valleys below the moors , and hamlets and villages quickly clustered around them . |
| 9 | That night , Ted and Jim met in the local pub to discuss the situation . |
| 10 | ‘ Mr Smithkins lives in the top flat with a magnificent view ; he 's a bachelor . ’ |
| 11 | The bodies of nine crewman who were killed when their Hercules crashed in the Scottish Highlands a week ago , will be flown back to RAF Lyneham tomorrow . |
| 12 | ( 1988 b ) support this interpretation by demonstrating that the VS pre-exposure treatment will produce perfectly good latent inhibition when the CS used in the conditioning phase is itself vinegar followed by sucrose , an arrangement that should ensure that the same representation of vinegar is activated on both occasions . |
| 13 | Hewlett and Mrs Lowndes moved in the same influential circles . |
| 14 | Luce surfaced in the early hours of the morning to find that she was still enfolded in Michele 's arms . |
| 15 | Germany has in the past year alone accepted some quarter of a million refugees from the former Yugoslavia . |
| 16 | OURSTORY present material from a new book on lesbian and gay Brighton lives in the 50 's and 60 's to be published by QueenSpark Books . |
| 17 | Creed rode in the third car , flanked by two of the Corporation 's top directors , with Jed at the wheel in his new top hat . |
| 18 | Originally , Claudia and John Roberts lived in the top two floors of their tall , double-fronted end-of-terrace house , a walk away from London 's Regent 's Park and Primrose Hill . |
| 19 | It is clear in any case that the growing size of the middle class must change fundamentally the image of capitalist society as one in which class antagonisms are simplified , and ‘ society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps , into two great classes directly facing each other — bourgeoisie and proletariat ’ , which Marx and Engels depicted in the Communist Manifesto and which Marxists and other socialists generally accepted without much questioning until the early years of the twentieth century . |
| 20 | The Summerchilds lived in the third one along , with the peeling woodwork and the neglected grey rendering . |
| 21 | The attempt Grumman made in the 1970s to reduce its dependence on Pentagon and NASA contracts produced an excellent delivery truck for the post office . |
| 22 | The seal on this rapprochement was set with a treaty of peace with the Picts to which Bede refers in the penultimate chapter of the Ecclesiastical History as a significant aspect of the situation in 731 ( HE V , 23 ) . |
| 23 | Indeed , the Soviet press supported a query by the Indian Foreign Minister , N. Rao , in May 1981 about whether to permit Pakistan to remain in the Non-Aligned Movement with the assertion that ‘ Islamabad 's policy of all possible military rapprochement with Washington and the huge shipments of American arms that have been promised can not help but raise legitimate doubts among many member countries of the Non-Aligned Movement as to whether Pakistan is legally entitled to remain in their ranks ’ . |
| 24 | After trudging disconsolately round a few bars , I went back to our cheap hostel , where to my relief I found Dana snoring in the double bed we were to share . |
| 25 | Morley excelled in the lighter types of madrigal and kindred forms ; the supreme masters of the English school were Weelkes , who published his first book in 1597 , and John Wilbye ( 1574–1638 ) who began the following year . |
| 26 | And what we have are as follows , one , a manual , which Dennis mentioned in the red folder . |
| 27 | But he and Eleanor moved in the same set socially . |
| 28 | Faced with the dilemma of dropping a shot or ‘ playing her as she lies ’ , after long deliberations , O'Leary waded in the 4-foot deep water and out went his chances of winning . |
| 29 | SURREY rallied in the final quarter to beat Essex Metropolitan 59–55 and retain the English Counties League title on Saturday . |
| 30 | Alternative plans to neutralise Afghanistan surfaced in the early 1980s in the West and the Third World among academics and diplomats . |