Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The training grounds and living quarters of the gladiators ( Caserma dei Gladiatori ) are extensive at Pompeii and adjoin the large theatre ( 148 ) . |
| 2 | A 23-year-old Glaswegian based in London , the wiry southpaw with the swarming style was voted boxer of the year last season , when he travelled to Las Vegas and beat the Mexican Javier Suazo for the IBF International championship for boxers ranked between No.10 and No.30 in the world . |
| 3 | He negotiated Malaya 's independence from the United Kingdom two years later and was the country 's first Prime Minister , overseeing the creation of the Federation of Malaysia in 1963 , and during the next two years withstanding the threat of " Confrontation " with Indonesia and taking the difficult decision that Singapore secede from the Federation . |
| 4 | All the snotty spotty little nerds who support them , who would go weak at the knees and soil themselves if they ever ever went to see MUFC and met the abovementioned evil evil types . |
| 5 | We booked into our luxury hotel before visiting Orchard Road , Little India , Empress Palace , climbing Faber Hill and touring the grim Changi Prison . |
| 6 | Suddenly he knew what he had to do : he had to go to Monument Hill and see the broken earth for himself . |
| 7 | It was here , in 1685 , that the Duke of Monmouth marched out from Bridgwater and lost the bloody Battle of Sedgemoor . |
| 8 | Francis also implies , somewhat unconvincingly , that the event was conceived in a spirit of Potlatch and accepts the Lettrist belief in the legitimate use of plagiarism . |
| 9 | India declares war , defeats Pakistan and establishes the independent state of Bangladesh . |
| 10 | Fishermen from Devon and Cornish ports arrived throughout the night at Plymouth and stopped the 8,500 ton French-owned ferry Quiberon on an overnight crossing from Roscoff from docking . |
| 11 | The Foreign Ministers condemned Serbia 's and Montenegro 's " crimes of annihilation and deportation … which contravene human values and international laws " in Bosnia-Hercegovina and urged the international community to observe UN sanctions . |
| 12 | It is fired by stirring memories of Celtic beating the mighty Juventus and thrashing the once-great Sporting Lisbon . |
| 13 | First , by borrowing the Big Ideas and process technology that come from the United States and providing the hardworking , low-paid workers , developing nations can achieve competitive advantage . |
| 14 | It is therefore unsettling to find you pushing an ‘ energy policy ’ for the United States and following the old , oft-disproven notion that we are ‘ running out of oil ’ ( January 26th ) . |
| 15 | ‘ But the following Tuesday , British Coal 's area director visited Point of Ayr and said the second phase would not go ahead during the review period , which effectively means development plans at Point of Ayr are on ice . ’ |
| 16 | For an afternoon 's work , it was hardly going to be Tosca and given the raw materials no one would have minded had they chanted ’ What a Load of Rubbish ’ . |
| 17 | Martin Crowe set the South African bowlers back on their heels by ignoring his safety-first opener John Wright and sending the pugnacious left-hander Mark Greatbatch in first with Latham . |
| 18 | The US Secretary of State James Baker met subsequently with Shevardnadze and welcomed the proposed cuts at a joint press conference , although he had earlier expressed doubts as to whether the cuts were in fact new or were made up in part by other previously announced withdrawals . |
| 19 | Must like U2 and appreciate the good things in life — poetry , literature , and the pub . |
| 20 | I think we have something like a hundred and twenty nationalities living in Kuwait and enjoying the free school , the free hospital . |
| 21 | Now the declared objective is to ‘ free ’ Kuwait and to destroy the military capacity of Iraq . |
| 22 | The stage is high , deterring those who see the stage as their personal Kuwait and giving the laser-lit silhouettes of the Inspirals real presence when they arrive to a pre-recorded keyboard and mooing groove . |
| 23 | In return Ferdinand renounced his claims to the Spanish and Burgundian lands held by the Habsburgs , but he later acquired the crowns of Bohemia and Hungary and ascended the Imperial throne on the abdication of Charles in 1558 . |
| 24 | Simultaneously with doing the evening performances — two on Saturday , at five and eight — he was recording episodes of Beyond Our Ken and making the latest ‘ Carry On ’ film — Carry On Constable- and it began to show with the way Pieces of Eight proceeded . |
| 25 | In the previous year , 1977 , a group of linguistics including , , ( of Brown University ) , , and myself met in Oslo and founded the International Computer Archive of Modern English , an organization to develop and promote the use of computer corpora such as the LOB Corpus , the Brown Corpus , and the London-Lund Corpus ( this last consisting of spoken texts of the Survey of English Usage ) . |
| 26 | Strong walkers will proceed beyond the Lochan Dubha and climb the easy ridge of Druim Hain directly facing until reaching a well-built obelisk commanding a sensational view of Loch Coruisk in a surround of wild mountains . |
| 27 | The mine-workers have always preferred lengthy day-release courses for active members , usually organised through extra-mural departments of the WEA and pre-dating the 1975 entitlements , to the more limited TUC courses ( more limited in three senses : they are shorter , they are role training , and they are only for representatives ) . |
| 28 | GEORGE BELL drove in the last of three runs in the eighth inning as the Toronto Blue Jays came from behind for a 4-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles in the SkyDome on Saturday and reached the American League championship series against the Oakland Athletics . |
| 29 | He had learned well the value of preparation and organisation from Caradryel and he came to the throne with one aim : to force the Dark Elves out of Ulthuan and reclaim the Blighted Isle from the spawn of Naggaroth . |
| 30 | Here 's a list for you — Jonathan King , MC Hammer , Simon Bates , Colin Moynihan and Edd The Jonathan-Kinging Duck . |