Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it happens , I do not share the investments that my good friends the Labour party candidates happen to have made . |
| 2 | Fran regretted her hasty words the very moment she saw the way his mouth thinned into a cold anger . |
| 3 | ( At present , securities houses offer their private clients the best price in the market , even if they are not offering it on their screens . ) |
| 4 | I. In their lower courses the larger 5th Order rivers flow in very wide valleys across the lowland plains . |
| 5 | Before her marvelled eyes the Southern Cross lifted itself off the horizon and hung glowing , silent and fierce . |
| 6 | Despite the great differences in style between the above three ballets and despite their different libretti the three choreographers perrot ( with Saint-Georges ) , MacMillan and Ashton give valid reasons why the tragic deaths of Giselle , Romeo and Juliet , and Natalia 's lost love are the inevitable result of what has gone before . |
| 7 | Lake , who is getting out , has taken a bit of a battering and feels that her spontaneous outpourings the other day were probably misconstrued . |
| 8 | Lake , who is getting out , has taken a bit of a battering and feels that her spontaneous outpourings the other day were probably misconstrued . |
| 9 | In 1933 the Labour Party acknowledged these aims by accepting the affiliation of the Socialist League , giving its 2,000 members the same opportunities for submitting policy resolutions as the largest Trade Unions . |
| 10 | In its early years the new police force had poor relations with headmen , and there is no indication of any general decline in crime at this time . |
| 11 | He particularly missed the huge oil portraits which had dignified that impressive Whitehall staircase , intrigued always by the techniques by which artists of varying talents had coped with the challenge of dignifying the ordinary and occasionally unprepossessing features of their sitters by the visual exploitation of magnificent robes and by imposing on their pudgy faces the stern consciousness of imperial power . |
| 12 | The collection could have provided the costumes for any blood-curdling remake of The Name of the Rose , but it certainly will not be offering its bewildered clients the perfect festive frock next season . |
| 13 | Images From Within : Homages , Hallucinations and Past Encounters , local artists Mark Warner , Clare Pickles , Stephen Ellis and Paula McNamara explore in their diverse ways the photographic image generated from within themselves . |
| 14 | But as she seized it in her hand , before her horrified eyes the dried petals fell away and fluttered to the floor , scattering like confetti at her feet . |
| 15 | A Gallup Poll taken in the last three weeks of 1959 found that only one person in fourteen listed among their major worries the international situation . |
| 16 | Thus in its latter years the Soviet Union was constitutionally a mainstream presidential system . |
| 17 | In its many pamphlets the Pan-German League habitually referred to the Germans as the Herrenvolk , the master race . |
| 18 | It climbs the palm with ease and once in the crest , cuts down with its gigantic pincers the young coconuts on which it feeds . |
| 19 | A HOSPITAL is giving its terminally-ill patients the advance choice to refuse resuscitation if they prefer to die a natural death once their heart stops beating . |
| 20 | Although she and Rune had exchanged verbal descriptions of their respective relations the previous evening , words were no substitute for flesh and blood . |
| 21 | in its earliest stages the human embryo has gills , as had our distant ancestors , which were marine creatures |
| 22 | It was a designer newspaper — its nearest equivalents the trendy but established continental papers such as Libération in France . |
| 23 | In Ireland the Ulster Farmers Union has joined their Southern counterparts the Irish Association in condemning the proposals , UFU President John Mulvenna claimed that they would further depress farming in Ireland . |
| 24 | In a pot slung over that huge hearth she had cooked her family 's meals and , perhaps , at the end had heard in its roaring flames the crackling faggots of her dreadful martyrdom . |
| 25 | From their earliest days the local groups relied upon the cooperation of schools and education authorities , and to a lesser extent club workers , to supply them with the necessary information concerning pupils who were about to leave school . |
| 26 | Her first words the following morning were addressed to Brian , for she was also learning subtlety . |
| 27 | The announcement appeared a clear signal that Moscow was not prepared to extend to its 15 republics the free hand on domestic issues enjoyed by its Eastern European allies . |
| 28 | The announcement appeared a clear signal that Moscow was not prepared to extend to its 15 republics the free hand on domestic issues enjoyed by its Eastern European allies . |
| 29 | However , they often only saw through their own lenses the magnified fist of authority , threatening to smash camera and photographer . |
| 30 | Sister bodies in Europe have agreed to tell their own governments the same thing . |