Example sentences of "[ex0] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the Boulevard there sits the enormous Catherine Palace , baroque and three times the size of the Alexander Palace . |
| 2 | There lies the genuine stake today , in this underhand , inescapable confrontation between the silent majority and the social imposed on them , in this hypersimulation reduplicating simulation and exterminating it according to its own logic — not in any class struggle nor in the molecular hodge-podge of desire-breaching minorities . |
| 3 | So , behind every generalisation , there lies the infinite variety and beauty of the detail ; and it is the detail that matters , that gives pleasure to the eye and to the mind , as we traverse , on foot and unhurried , the landscape of any part of England . |
| 4 | At all events , the great age of Athens , on this reading , was the age of the Persian wars in the early years of the fifth century , a time of supreme political endeavour and a time when the grandest of all tragic dramatists , Aeschylus , was there to provide the spiritual leadership of the city . |
| 5 | Beneath this programme , moreover , there beats the double anxiety about which the Queen had nothing important to say . |
| 6 | Lying amid waste land to one side of the village , there rose the jutting silhouette of a cyclopean wall . |
| 7 | All over Europe there lingers the sweet smell of excess . |
| 8 | There lives the dearest freshness deep down things ; |
| 9 | ‘ There lives the dearest freshness deep down things . ’ |
| 10 | Gedanken was about to protest that she did go to discos and parties , and it was no big deal being a girl doing physics , but before she could open her mouth , there came the first question . |
| 11 | But as the decade wore on , there came the first rumblings that something was wrong . |
| 12 | After a while there came the distant sound of rushing water . |
| 13 | But then there came the great god Telly , and for the sort story all was darkness . |
| 14 | It was not long after that evening there came the sad news that Herr Bremann had shot himself in a train between Hamburg and Berlin . |
| 15 | But there came the disquieting thought that my opinion did n't matter . |
| 16 | There came the faint scuffle of moving feet , and a dark shape moved out from the rear of the car . |
| 17 | There came the unmistakable sound of legs shooting into denim , then the zip going up . |
| 18 | But before his ‘ Flying Circus ’ could be properly established at Verdun , there came the shattering news on June 18th of the death of Immelmann . |
| 19 | , head of International 's European Yacht operations , was there to lead the official welcome and congratulations came by fax from Courtaulds chief executive Sipko Huismans . |
| 20 | As the sea cuts into the land , the cliff collapses and the collapsed material is broken down and transported away , there results the slow development of a wavecut platform . |
| 21 | In particular , there re-appears the stark contrast , which the common law rule also generated , between the position of workers , the business of whose employer is transferred by a purchase of the shares in the employing company and who are indeed sold with the business , and that of workers whose employer transfers the business itself . |
| 22 | In the same package , there arrives the all-party whip , which lists a series of meetings and events , either of importance to members and their constituents , or germane to special interests . |
| 23 | Marx writes as though the world could dispense with particularity and there betrays the real depth of his borrowings from Hegel and , more crucially , the uncritical nature of those borrowings . |
| 24 | Now there exists the real possibility to acquire these aircraft with the added benefit of an instalment purchase plan . |
| 25 | At the same time they submitted a memorial to Manners which stated their conviction ‘ that by a developement [ sic ] on the basis of the old architecture of the country there exists the best hope of our Public Buildings being effectually improved in character ’ . |
| 26 | Franz-Joseph met the Imperial couple , accompanied by his wife the Empress Elizabeth , and there followed the usual round of banquets , receptions and country excursions . |
| 27 | There followed the post-orogenic sediments of the Old Red Sandstone , extending from Canada to Asia . |
| 28 | There followed the longest silence I can ever recall at a seance . |
| 29 | This is usually a tongue-like structure and at its base on the lower side there opens the salivary duct . |
| 30 | The fisherman 's wife , however , chastised him for this simple request and returned to the shore , there to harangue the Golden Fish with her demands for jewels , wealth and status . |