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 | With a double muscled trait in existence within his own Weekfield flock for many years , Mr Slade wonders why the Beltex is attracting so much interest . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Moving like the late Dick Emery in his ‘ Ooh , you are awful ’ guise , Standerline eats up the role of the camp gay explaining his troubled yet amusing life in brisk gag-heavy declarations . |
| 7 | With a built-in UK dictionary & thesaurus , and easily defined page layouts , WordPerfect allows even the beginner to produce professional letters and reports . |
| 8 | The optimised X-Winserver speeds up the performance of X-Windows : DOS and Windows emulation facilities have been built into the kernel . |
| 9 | ABOVE : Old man Roberts checks out the family album . |
| 10 | In another telling episode from The Faerie Queene , Spenser reveals how the savage in Ireland becomes equated with the uncontrolled aspects of the individual . |
| 11 | More importantly for this essay , Poovey shows how the debate happened around the prone body of the silenced , anaesthetized woman : and how the body itself , now the repository , in a way , of Desire itself , came to behave accordingly . |
| 12 | In the brief soliloquy following Clarence 's exit Richard keeps up the equivocation : ‘ I will shortly send thy soul to heaven , /If heaven will take the present at our hands ’ ( 119 — 20 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It has generally been thought a manifestation of the taste which in the immediately following period adapted many fabulous monsters from the East ; but it has no close eastern parallels , and the discovery of the Lefkandi Centaur pushes back the concept in Greece a long way . |
| 15 | Right now the others are chatting with Guy Holmes and Tamzin , discussing their love lives — in Fred and Rob 's cases matters of quite rampaging heterosexual complexity — while Richard talks down the phone to South Africa , saying ‘ success has a price … ’ |
| 16 | Meanwhile Mo smashes out the hole in the corner of the house sort of thing where they 're gon na go and they ai n't there . |
| 17 | The Government have requested that all Insurers give a generous interpretation when dealing with ASU claims where the claimant is attending an Employment Training Course . |
| 18 | GERRY HOGAN Rockabilly'N'Country Licks BETTER THE DEVIL |
| 19 | Although Mill may have been thinking of the romantic poet speaking gloomily to himself , here Leapor holds out the prospect of good gossip , and the reader is set to overhear the conversation : |
| 20 | Right now , Russia has neither the money to build new nuclear facilities , nor experience of burning plutonium in its already unreliable civil reactors . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The Sunday Times reporter Peter Gillman recounts how the Panel went to the Trading Standards Office at Bodmin but was told that there was nothing to be done because water was not covered by the Food Act . |
| 23 | The post-war history of South Korea shows how the balance of effect can change over time , driven by a coherently evolving logic for economic development , despite major changes of government and military rule . |
| 24 | THE current issue of the Fish Friers Review reveals how the fat has hit the fire , or the fan , or whatever . |
| 25 | But IBM rules out the possibility of taking a majority share or of buying the entire company . ’ |
| 26 | Llanelli 's Colin Stephens takes over the key outside half position from the injured Neil Jenkins for Wales B , while injury-hit Australia call on seven of their first choice pack . |
| 27 | The loss of McCoist opens up the possibility of Jess playing his first full international from the start , having been used as a substitute against Italy . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The NHS picks up the tab , ’ he says . |