Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was sitting here yesterday mor day before , and that bloody picture snapped the catch , the catch on it , broken it and it just dropped straight down |
| 2 | At each possible information set the strategy employed by a player is an optimal response to the opponent 's strategy . |
| 3 | The first report of that working party assessed the problems in Great Britain , whilst the second report , published in 1975 , by Warren Spring Laboratory , Department of Industry , is a comprehensive summary to best present practice in odour measurement , prevention and abatement as well as planning , design and operation of factories and installations liable to produce unpleasant odours . |
| 4 | We now have an agreement from all those concerned — the colleges , consultants , juniors and the health service — and we must find practical arrangements in each working unit to complete the task . |
| 5 | Buxton was initially in despair at Stanley 's proposals but , judging that total rejection ran the risk of abandonment of emancipation , refused to divide the House on the principles of the bill on second reading and hoped for amendment at the committee stage . |
| 6 | That puling creature has the gall to remind me that Stephen is a consecrated king and should not be treated as a felon . |
| 7 | Full employment gradually came to be thought of as a fact of life whilst percentage rates of growth of this or that economic measure became the punctuation of political rhetoric . |
| 8 | Inside each brown case waited the empty skull-face , folded flat , with a flappy rubber nose and hard cylindrical snout , though they frightened Dot less now than they used to . |
| 9 | It was the same that Gateway announced job cuts of 2,000 , that Ford announced job cuts of 2,100 ( plus a trading loss of more than £500m ) , and that British Aerospace announced the loss of 2,350 jobs . |
| 10 | It was just over a year ago that British Coal announced the closure of thirty one of Britain 's deep mines . |
| 11 | Each different form requires the mastery of its specific skills if , as is surely the object of the enterprise , the product is to be available and to communicate to all who may be interested . |
| 12 | ‘ That old woman did the business , word-perfect , she was perfect , the jury took one look at that little old lady and he was off the hook , she never made a slip . |
| 13 | From that social stratum come the brains of the Labour Party and its middle-class infrastructure . |
| 14 | That broken comb exemplifies the apparently inexhaustible strength of the novel 's flotsam , its disjunctive detail which makes nevertheless for tonal coherence . |
| 15 | On the one hand , the new art history 's commitment to the conditions in which art is produced has influenced a strong interest in women artists ' different social and economic position ; and on the other , the history of psychology , represented above all by Michael Foucault 's studies of sexuality , has fostered a keen awareness , among practitioners as well as critics , that cultural symbolism informs the language of social exchange beyond material , that it expresses sand creates shared ideas about femaleness , about sexual difference ; furthermore , these ideas are constantly in flux . |
| 16 | The year 1759 was the annus mirabilis , the year of marvels , in which British arms were triumphant throughout the world , but each fresh victory made the French more eager to strike at their enemy 's heart and homeland . |
| 17 | He will know that there is a temptation in that lesser assembly to emulate the topics and methods of procedure of the greater assembly of which he and I are Members . |
| 18 | Of course , each German state retains the right to self-determination , but it can be only exercised in the context of other norms and principles of international law . |
| 19 | That top list has the most vital names . |
| 20 | Thus far Iago Vaughan , like many another displaced labourer tramping the roads in search of casual work in these disturbed times , had followed the unwieldy cavalcade and kept his ears and eyes open . |
| 21 | This dear woman brought the clean washing in a black bag to church and left it in the vestibule . |
| 22 | In Robinson 's own words , this seven-track album represents the sum of the component parts that make up Robinson 's musical education : pop , funk , reggae , African music , jazz … and much more of the true originality besides . |
| 23 | This prolonged under-funding strikes the GP most dramatically when he tries to admit an acutely ill patient . |
| 24 | This economic power enables the North , especially the OECD nations to dominate the international economic system and monetary institutions , e.g. the World Bank . |
| 25 | The smell of meths had an unforeseen affect on the foal , and in some strange way stimulated the foal 's aggressive instinct . |
| 26 | Ghofar has a good deal in common with Last Suspect , the 50–1 shot on whom this sagacious Welshman won the 1985 Grand National . |
| 27 | ‘ It is therefore highly appropriate that we should support this innovative scheme to enhance the quality of British men 's tennis . ’ |
| 28 | The present system of allocations , in which some stately committee offers the franchise to the most persuasive ( or plausible ) claimant on the basis of pledges which may never be fulfilled , is , all agree , very near indefensible . |
| 29 | In this tranquil setting stands the distinctive form of Holme Castle , an impressive Victorian stone house built in 1820 . |
| 30 | This broad-ranging study examines the ways in which people are involved in political life and their attitudes to this involvement , whether of satisfaction or disenchantment . |