Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [adv] the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | With a built-in UK dictionary & thesaurus , and easily defined page layouts , WordPerfect allows even the beginner to produce professional letters and reports . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | GERRY HOGAN Rockabilly'N'Country Licks BETTER THE DEVIL |
| 8 | Right now , Russia has neither the money to build new nuclear facilities , nor experience of burning plutonium in its already unreliable civil reactors . |
| 9 | Er I think er if the honourable gentleman checks the record he will find that my right honourable friend said that America did not have a national statutory minimum wage but I 'm most I 'm most grateful to the honourable gentleman for reminding us of the international comparisons because he will know that the country in Europe which has embraced his policy of a statutory minimum wage is Spain and Spain has twice the level of unemployment of the European average and twice the level in this country . |
| 10 | Aw , c'm on , it was just like that in Australia not long ago : one of the wire services reports in a condescending way that under local law , the National Institute of Industrial Property of Brazil recognises only the principle of priority in brand names , so that companies like IBM Corp , Xerox Corp and Sony Corp have had to ‘ buy back ’ their names before they could do business under them in Brazil ; the US is pressing Brazil to change the law to protect internationally recognised brand names — but it is not so long ago that , legend has it , an enterprising travelling Australian spotted that car hire was becoming big business , so when he got home , he registered the names Hertz and Avis , sold the Hertz name back to the company when it wanted to set up in Australia — and then used the cash he got from Hertz to set up the Avis concession in Australia . |
| 11 | Mr Wallace believes that the failure of the three opposition parties to achieve unity after the big pro-democracy demonstration in Edinburgh last December creates exactly the kind of disillusionment found by Mr Ashdown . |
| 12 | Wordsworth replicates syntactically the synchronicity of coding time and content time . |
| 13 | We understand that even at 40MHz Pentium produces twice the heat called for in simulations and , embarrassingly for Intel , will require a heat sink and fan no matter what . |
| 14 | Nearby , Otto Bitner has just the sort of chocolate confections for which diets are readily discarded . |
| 15 | Helen does all the cooking , discussing the menus beforehand with her guests . |
| 16 | Dr. Kerrison does all the cutting up . |
| 17 | At the moment of consummation , Philip shouts aloud the word ‘ Joy ’ , which is both exclamation and apostrophe . |
| 18 | A study of the GEC bid to takeover Plessey outlines clearly the conflict that can exist between maintaining competition in the domestic market and restructuring an industry to enable it to compete with foreign competition , by allowing rationalisation to occur and encouraging the combined group to exploit economies of scale . |
| 19 | Among these writings , Professor Koester cites specifically the Gospel of Thomas . |
| 20 | One of the last poems we wrote together in Bath expresses perfectly the state of our love at that time . |
| 21 | The introduction makes a perfunctory bow to linguistics when Genette puts forward the hypothesis that narrative may be regarded as ‘ the development — monstrous , if you will — given to a verbal form , in the grammatical sense of the term : the expansion of a verb … |
| 22 | Van Laue puts forward the argument that Russia was fatally trapped in an agonising contradiction that produced the establishment of a parliamentary government or in fact any other government than the Bolsheviks . |
| 23 | John Hayward remembers well the breakthrough on the case which he eventually took over . |
| 24 | As its name suggests , the SFA regulates both the cash market and derivatives . |
| 25 | Moss says once the Object Management Group declares the results of its request for object services , then all this stuff should become a lot more standardised . |
| 26 | A further important lesson conveyed by Donaldson concerns both the necessity and difficulty of formal education for the young child . |
| 27 | Looking at City at Southampton on Saturday and thinking back to the Everton sides that twice won the championship , Kendall appears just the man to implant the discipline and experience needed around some otherwise exciting talent . |
| 28 | And the main conurbation formed by Greater Manchester and Merseyside follows roughly the line of the Irwell and Mersey valleys across the southern end of Lancashire but extending well into the Cheshire plain . |
| 29 | The new name reflects more accurately the scope of the specialty , de fines better the range of problems dealt with , and , most importantly , removes what was felt by many people to be an automatic stigma acquired by visiting the VD clinic . |
| 30 | Isabella perceives clearly the game Angelo is playing : here she is angry and frustrated — do n't try and make her too ‘ nice ’ a character . |