Example sentences of "[noun prp] in [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also to assist Edward in capturing the great castle at Berwick-on-Tweed . |
| 2 | The threat of his withdrawing from the coalition was again sufficient to rally the support of Roh , who was forced to join Kim in disowning the planned constitutional reform [ see p. 37860 ] . |
| 3 | Dilip Vengsarkar came in looking for his fourth hundred in as many Lord 's appearances and immediately joined Shastri in exploiting the unpatrolled third-man boundary . |
| 4 | The principal objective of the Bank of England in restructuring the gilt-edged market was to minimize the cost of raising debt finance for the Government . |
| 5 | It was claimed that the Ptolemaic builders at Edfu in constructing the great girdle wall had followed a design written down by Imhotep . |
| 6 | My right hon. Friend has been successful in building on the work of our right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in bringing the constitutional parties together . |
| 7 | The ‘ Recordites ’ , as they were called , followed Haldane in affirming the verbal inspiration of the Bible , attacking liberal theology and Catholicism , maintaining a rigorous sabbatarianism , and staunchly defending the Established Church . |
| 8 | It was a sign that Ceauşescu intended to go much further than Dej in rehabilitating the Romanian past and distancing the Communist regime from the original Soviet model , at least so far as public presentation went . |
| 9 | Thatcher ) , who has succeeded in abandoning her resistance to German blandishments and has formed a common front with Chancellor Kohl in demanding the immediate and unconditional recognition of Croatia . |
| 10 | Coleridge thus moved beyond Schleiermacher in stressing the personal in God 's own being , though , like Schleiermacher , he too tended to place the theological centre of gravity in the inner experience of faith . |
| 11 | Quoting Godard — ‘ fin du cinéma , fin du monde ’ — she joins with Robert Coover in describing the modern cinema as ‘ a rat-haunted , urine-scented wreck , inhabited only by a lonely projectionist screening reels at random for his solitary pleasure ’ . |
| 12 | In 1986 , Bishop 's Castle Local History Research Group co-operated with Martin Davies of Harrogate in organising the first-ever exhibition on the history of the Bishop 's Castle Railway . |
| 13 | The Edinburgh Military Tattoo gratefully acknowledges the support of Glayva in mounting the 1992 Tattoo |
| 14 | Pound had been released from confinement in April 1958 , largely as a result of Eliot 's collaboration with Robert Frost and Archibald MacLeish in petitioning the American government , but his exhilaration at his new freedom did not last very long . |
| 15 | Salt Lake City , Utah-based Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp has signed an agreement with Namco Ltd , Japanese creator of electronic games for technical and market co-operation to explore the possibility of using Evans & Sutherland 's real time graphics products to assist Namco in creating the next generation of amusement arcade games machines . |
| 16 | The Metropolitan Opera invited me to assist Rafael Kubelík in preparing the same work . |
| 17 | No doubt many of them agreed with Beveridge in regarding the local authorities as unsuited by themselves to cope with the administration of the service . |
| 18 | Deng appears to be no more successful than Mao in solving the successful than Mao in solving the succession problem . |
| 19 | I need say no more , except to underline the naivety of those who are prepared to champion the humanism of Marx in his attack on capitalism without recognising the inhumanism of Marx in proposing the socialist solution . |
| 20 | It is no exaggeration to say that the Word is the prime tool used by the Spirit of God in advancing the Christian mission . |
| 21 | And in the era of John Major 's classlessness , it was not wise of Waldegrave in complimenting the new Speaker to speak of his ancestors having been dragged to that very chair at the time of the Black Death . |
| 22 | THE parliament of Lithuania yesterday followed eastern Europe in abandoning the political supremacy of the Communist Party in favour of a multi-party system in what conservative Russian Communists will see as a brazen act of defiance . |
| 23 | Abercrombie followed Unwin in advocating the second alternative for the two outer rings , and in fact his plan put great store on both the scenic aspect of regional open space and the detailed design which would knit the whole together into a continuous system by footpaths , riverside walks and bridleways . |
| 24 | Others , hooded and cowled , pushed forward into the city or joined Athelstan and Cranston in crossing the narrow frozen bridge to Southwark . |
| 25 | In any one place , the two species gain by resembling each other , because predators will treat them both as the same kind of prey ; but few predators move far enough for there to be any advantage to the Heliconius in looking the same in distant places . |
| 26 | The re-union of the Liberals , forced by the action of Stanley Baldwin in calling the 1923 General Election on the issue of protection , seemed to have worked briefly with a revival in the political fortunes of the Liberal Party . |
| 27 | BY ANY standards , the success of the film Hedd Wyn in becoming the first Welsh language film to be nominated for the prestigious Royal Television Society award was a significant breakthrough for the burgeoning industry . |
| 28 | The role of the 1889 conflict in London in originating the new unionism has often been exaggerated . |
| 29 | Lindsay Moody enlists the expertise of TOM GRAVENEY in advising the taller player in the art of facing short-pitched bowling , drawing on the difficulties encountered by GRAEME HICK |
| 30 | The flaws are only minor cracks in the huge achievement of Brook and his collaborator Jean-Claude Carriere in bringing the longest poem in the world to television , to explore and exploit its illusions in gripping narrative and dazzling images.H.H . |