Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | IBM reckons the planned 512-CPU model will do over 100 GFLOPS . |
| 32 | Liverpool Harrier Jan Staneke takes the senior 1500 metres title ahead of club-mate Paul Lamb |
| 33 | Standish examines the first two difficulties ; the third is not surprising given Neptune 's long orbital period , 165 years ( so that not even one orbit has been completed since it was discovered ) . |
| 34 | MSC shows the marginal social cost of the forgone utility by using resources in films rather than meals . |
| 35 | Imagine the scene if you please : Gillian on a bar-stool with satin skirt slashed to the hip , Stuart nonchalantly hefting his tie-knot while working out the current bodybuilder health of the yen on his wristwatch computer , a barman who knows without asking that Mr Hughes-Sir desires the 1918 late-landed Sercial in the special glass which concentrates the nose , Stuart sliding onto the next stool and casually emitting the subtle musk of his sexuality , Gillian begging a light , Stuart slipping the tortoise-shell Dunhill from the pocket of his unstructured Armani suit … |
| 36 | Fortunately , Thames Tunnel Mills adjoins the handsome early-eighteenth century church of St Mary , Rotherhithe , so that when the Department of the Environment designated the church and the surrounding buildings as an outstanding conservation area , the building became eligible for grant aid from the Historic Buildings Council and their help was crucial to the funding of the development . |
| 37 | In Dering Street , Anthony d'Offay shows the four large abstract pictures which Elsworth Kelly exhibited at this year 's Documenta ( to 20 November ) , with an exhibition of an important new group of works by Gilbert & George opening at the end of the month ( 26 November-29 January 1993 ) . |
| 38 | Canada has the eighth largest coal resources in the world and the eighth largest gas reserves . |
| 39 | The Amazon has the ultimate estuarine area but this 4,000 mile long river system pours 3½ million cubic feet per second of freshwater into the sea . |
| 40 | With 688 subsidiaries , Hitachi has the largest such family in Japan . |
| 41 | In her impressive article " How Indirect Discourse Means " Meir Sternberg challenges the traditional water-tight typology of reported speech and thought on a threefold basis : formal , semantic and perspectival . |
| 42 | Paul Merton has the first post-modern catchphrase . |
| 43 | Across Victoria Square stands the Georgian neo-Classical Town Hall , based on the Temple of Castor and Pollux in ancient Rome . |
| 44 | Peter Jackson reviews the top international marksmen |
| 45 | Translators have ‘ would you kill ? ’ here , but Dostoevsky uses the future tense for the officer , whereas the student 's ‘ I would kill ’ is genuinely in the conditional . |
| 46 | Brook sees the great Hindu myth as full of Shakespearean themes , though it 's short on Mr W S 's gutsy comedy . |
| 47 | Robert Stevenson checks the first few metres of each weaving when it is removed from the loom . |
| 48 | Any proposal which amounts to a new theory of justification may succeed in showing that in the Gettier cases the relevant true beliefs were not justified at all . |
| 49 | Mr. Cousins lists the following main points , in brief , after studying the details of non-rotational set-aside scheme : |
| 50 | ‘ Our Rebbe embodies the messianic ideal , ’ said one rabbi from Stamford Hill in north London . |
| 51 | Cleaning baths , probe systems , submersible transducers , whistle reactors and tube reactors are described and illustrated by Mason , while Goodwin discusses the first two methods with details of other larger scale equipment . |
| 52 | A recent communiqué states : ‘ The Church of Christ in Zaire urges the entire political class , and particularly the present administration , to renounce the pursuit of selfish interests and to submit to the common good expressed by the will of the people ’ . |
| 53 | There was even some downturn in Japan , though Wedgwood remains the leading imported brand and was not as badly affected as many other luxury goods businesses . |
| 54 | Robert Mitchum stalks the depression-era Deep South as a sex-obsessed soul saver with murderous intent . |
| 55 | BSC accuses the powerful Scottish lobby of interfering with market conditions . |
| 56 | William Golding has the same international recognition . |
| 57 | A measure of the scheme 's effectiveness is that the United Kingdom has the fifth highest drug prices in Europe ( about where we should expect to be ) . |
| 58 | Excluding Belgium , the United Kingdom has the second lowest life expectancy for females in the Community , but as Table 3 demonstrates , the differences are small . |
| 59 | Consistently , Owen rhymes the last two words in the fifth and seventh lines of each stanza , which is very effective . |
| 60 | The H-thymidine labelling index of the acidophilic atypical acinar cell foci in the fundectomy group was significantly lower than that in the PBD group , showing that PBD has the strongest stimulatory effect . |