Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was also the undoubted increase in her personal self-confidence and stature as a result of the recapture of the Falklands and then the 1983 and 1987 election victories . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've chased Horan and Little on more than one occasion and have yet to get my hands on them , ’ said Gibbs , who figured in the 63–6 Welsh defeat in Brisbane and then the 38–3 World Cup loss . |
| 3 | The Germans , who are so widely attacked for not coughing up more for a war on which they were n't consulted , are the only Western country making real sacrifices , not only to integrate East Germany , which is costing them 150 billion Dm this year , but also to help Poland , Czechoslovakia , Hungary and even the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | But before the decision had been made Wilson was astonished to receive the speediest reply she had ever had from Ellen and quite the longest . |
| 5 | He fully accepted the interpretation of fossils which had recently been put forward by Lyell and also the general interrelation of species in a Great Chain of Being . |
| 6 | Yeah , it 's a Friday , and then another Friday but just the other ones |
| 7 | After the performance , as the second lorry arrived , they moved on to King Cross and then the final station , Halifax Piece Hall . |
| 8 | It will be held at Wallasey Town Hall next February and already the local authority has ensured several technical experts in an attempt to defeat the plan . |
| 9 | My father said Eden should have kept the troops in Suez and only the British had moral integrity . |
| 10 | Rob Wilson 's reputation as a rod builder is unequalled in Scotland and perhaps the greatest test of his skill came in 1958 . |
| 11 | From the Cairngorms through the Spey valley pinewoods round Abernethy and Rothiemurchus , out to Wester Ross and even the inner isles , so much wild country is changing hands — or at least changing status — that is has begun to look as if Scotland might at last be able to possess a tract of untroubled land , a sanctuary free of commercial pressures and of what the poet Thomas Grey called ‘ the pomp of power ’ , where native wildlife could flourish and humans meditate upon their species ' past follies and arrogance . |
| 12 | The Class 156 units ceased to be part of this operation from the 8th of July and presumably the temporary expedient of bus backup is in force if extra capacity is required . |
| 13 | Had he never existed , it is probable that the Almoravid Moors , under their fanatical leader Yusuf , would have overrun a far greater area of central Spain — and perhaps prevented the gradual blurring of the two cultures which produced the later kingdoms of Moorish Spain and thereafter the great empire of the sixteenth century . |
| 14 | Catholics were rebels who only wanted to destroy not only Northern Ireland but also the Protestant nature of the rest of the British Isles and the only thing which maintained civil liberties was adherence to the Protestant faith . |
| 15 | In a speech to the Romanian Communist Party Congress earlier this week , he attacked the Stalin-Hitler pact of 1939 that carved up Poland and the Baltic states between them , but also ceded Bessarabia — then part of Romania and now the Soviet Republic of Moldavia — to Moscow . |
| 16 | And in the creation of unity , unity there 's deep concern about the status of American churches in Romania and obviously the Hungarian church in Romania is affected by that whole process so I would urge you to read that letter to remember the work of Hugh erm and to be aware of , of what the situation is in that part of the world . |
| 17 | Someone had thoughtfully turned the page to March and now the glossy colour photograph showed the Riot Squad drawn up in full battle gear in front of their armoured personnel carriers . |
| 18 | Passing new laws was not a common occurrence , and the Commons usually left the conduct of day-to-day policy , especially in foreign affairs , to the King and his council , with complete certainty that this small body was better informed than the Commons or even the average members of the House of Lords . |
| 19 | The visitor is not greeted with the sordid ‘ home-from-home ’ bar or the multitude of signs advertising pots of tea , fish and chips , egg and bacon , smorgasbord , German beer garden etc which are found in Spain , the Canary Islands and even the Portuguese Algarve . |
| 20 | The police hastily threw a cordon across the end of Duke Street and here the first clashes occurred . |
| 21 | The means he used for getting home was the Central Line to Tottenham Court Road and then the Northern Line to Colindale , where he had left his car . |
| 22 | Hartlepool slipped back in to the lead with 3 penalties from the boot of skipper , John Stabler and then the unthinkable happened . |
| 23 | Laage-Salomon has Claudia Hart and then the urban photographs of Axel Hutte . |
| 24 | To remove his statue in such a disrespectful manner was an insult not only to Mao Zedong but also the Communist Party . |
| 25 | Most people would have keyed in their birthday as one of the few six-digit numbers — if you put a zero in front of single figures and for the months up to October and just the last two digits of the year — they can remember apart from their telephone number . |
| 26 | In 1868 , when William was thirteen , his father died in China and so the widowed Harriet Smith sold the Pennyland property and moved with her family into Thurso , accepting the offer of her brother , Alexander Fraser , to take William into his home and warehouse business in Glasgow . |
| 27 | Not only had his troops let him down , but he was expecting Austria and probably the entire German Confederation to enter the war on the allied side . |
| 28 | This is particularly true of the value of votes for the smaller parties of the centre — the Liberal Party , the SDP and now the Liberal Democrats ; and of the value of votes for Labour in the South and for the Conservatives in the North and in Scotland . |
| 29 | He began work in September 1567 in Carrickfergus , and by the autumn of 1570 he had mapped parts of Ulster and almost the whole area south of a line from Killary harbour to Strangford lough . |
| 30 | Despite its name , it is found over a very wide range of warm countries , including not only most of Africa but also the Mediterranean islands of Majorca , Corsica , Sardinia , Sicily and Crete . |