Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I allowed Monday to get my eleven for the following week . |
| 2 | Er my final point sir is concern with perhaps a few emotional points being made to my right about the old and the infirm and the young not being able to afford houses . |
| 3 | I fought my hardest for the Dutch prisoners before the Privy Council this morning , but the tribunal was hopelessly divided , and the anti-Boers prevailed over the pro-Boers . |
| 4 | Except my agent had a will of sponge , so instead of telling the charity committee to go take a bath in some sulphuric acid , I 'd find myself trekking off to Bodmin to give my all for the local branch of the Cats ' Protection League . |
| 5 | FOLLOWING the article by Warren Bagust on the raw deal David Gower has been given by the England selectors ( WCM Sept ) , I have been doing some research of my own on the relative merits of David Gower and Graham Gooch as batsmen and as captains of England . |
| 6 | ft was just about the last poem I wrote on my own for the next six months or so ; it is called ‘ Believing Is Seeing ’ , and it was also about a carving , the sculpture illustrating the miracle of Christ healing the blind man : |
| 7 | I 've proved I can still hold my own with the best . ’ |
| 8 | I concluded my own column of that week as follows : ‘ After sneering at Lord Mogg , I suppose I should commit myself to a conclusion of my own from the last ten days ' dramas . |
| 9 | Is the Prime Minister aware that 500,000 cashmere jerseys are worth £75 million to textile communities such as my own in the central borders in Scotland ? |
| 10 | The figures are based on my own in the 1970s and now bear no relation to the present day , but they serve as a broad outline . |
| 11 | now I 'm up here all on my own in the higher class ! |
| 12 | Emil briefly consulted a notebook , stowed his travel bag on a rack in a small bedroom and directed me to put my big in the one next door . |
| 13 | I have done my best with the Scottish Sports Council 's questionnaires that you sent down , and enclose a copy of my covering letter for your information . |
| 14 | ‘ At the World Cup final in Gothenburg , for example , I tried to treat each day as a normal day , doing my best in the individual classes and not worrying about the final result . |
| 15 | The pope 's influence was at its greatest in the papal fiefs , where the kings became his vassals . |
| 16 | The former power was not entirely diminished , and its lingering potential threat was at its greatest in the Populist movement of the 1880s . |
| 17 | The banks write off the fraud within their accounts but our pricing has to take account of it , so ultimately its borne by the general public . |
| 18 | Heather Calzini spent thousands of pounds looking for Milliegrey , worth around £60,000 and pregnant when she was taken from her stable in the dead of night . |
| 19 | Get her interested in the male sex . |
| 20 | JULIE-ANN , 18 , needs someone to keep her sane during the long winter months . |
| 21 | Some of the same movements are repeated yet again in the final pas de deux , when the Prince raises her high above the glistening Stars before leading her away to the land where ‘ they lived happily ever after ’ , where all fairy tales should end . |
| 22 | But Jackman had the strokes and strength to respond to the challenge and her counter-offensive in the fourth game swung the balance back . |
| 23 | Moreover , it is not without point that national economic consensus was at its strongest in the late 1950s under the premiership of Harold Macmillan . |
| 24 | He foiled her easily , holding her down while his palm dealt her six of the best . |
| 25 | The cream lace of her dress rustled softly as she moved towards him , the pearl and diamond earrings he had bought her gleaming against the dark honey tone of her neck . |
| 26 | The amount of the tax rebate is at its highest during the last quarter of the tax year and it is obviously at its lowest during the first quarter . |
| 27 | On the London Fox the January contract collapsed to £636 a tonne , its lowest since the great Brazilian frost of 1975 . |
| 28 | His arrival in Egypt coincided with the great crisis of June and early July 1942 , when morale among the Middle East forces was at its lowest after the long retreat from Gazala , and the fall of Tobruk . |
| 29 | Now she can put her right arm in the right-hand hole , and her left in the left side ; then simply lift her arms up and sweep the coat over her head into place . |
| 30 | It was Barbara Castle who remarked , when Mrs Thatcher became leader of the Conservatives in 1975 , that power had made her pretty for the first time . |