Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] mark the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On arrival at a solitary farm we stopped at a simple stone monument which marked the nearby crash-sites for F/L Mackid 's Lancaster , : 7572 ‘ L ’ and F/L Poole 's Halifax , W1020 ‘ K ’ . |
| 2 | The most vital rule , the rule never to be broken , the rule which marks the true Arab and lifts him above the morass of intrigue and materiality which now dominates his world and indeed ours , is the rule of hospitality . |
| 3 | Dostoevsky set great store by this chapter which marks the acutest phase of his tribulations over The Possessed , because his editor Katkov refused to print it . |
| 4 | The bird starts by flying persistently in front of its chosen site and repeatedly dabbing the rock with its tongue , laying down a curved line of saliva which marks the lower edge of the nest-to-be . |
| 5 | She returned through the black woods , past the shrines , to the narrow defile which marked the nearer barrier to the castle . |
| 6 | The confidence which marked the early years of the reign that major liberal reforms could be introduced without endangering the social and political order was severely shaken . |
| 7 | As we saw earlier , the period which marks the emergence of Consumers ' Co-operation as virtually the sole objective of the Movement , and its rejection of authentic Producers ' Co-operation , coincides with Hobsbawm 's Age of Capital , that period which marked the phenomenal growth of a global economy of industrial capitalism and so held out the prospect of unlimited and unfailing progress — and nowhere more than in Britain which held a de facto international monopoly in trade in manufactures . |
| 8 | The single event which marked the dividing line was the company 's twenty-fifth anniversary celebration in April 1979 . |
| 9 | On top of all one sees today the lineaments of the Austrian fortress which marks the final phase of the history of Verona before the Italian Risorgimento in the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | Among the most striking works in the exhibition which marks the 25th anniversary of the MacRobert Gallery , is Cadell 's The Orange Blind , lent by Kelvingrove Gallery , Glasgow . |
| 11 | Until July 3 Light of the North An exhibition which marks the 900th anniversary of the death of Saint Margaret |
| 12 | Indeed , the reform bill which marks the full extent of government control has been heralded by the Minister , Kenneth Baker , as a parents charter , maximizing parental choice in education . |
| 13 | Thus began the pattern of alternating concession and repression which marked the Indian path to independence , the British constantly frustrated by their inability to rise permanently above the use of force , the nationalists , with the notable exception of Gandhi , seeing only the adroit employment of the carrot and the stick . |
| 14 | ‘ Meaning ’ , in short , lacks that exciting mixture of generality and precision which marks the explanatory concepts of the ‘ hard ’ sciences like physics . |
| 15 | The ignimbrites were collected in a strike-slip rift valley ( 100x15km ) related to the Cordillera Blanca fault system , an important crustal structure which marks the western boundary of the batholith ( Fig. 1 ) and is thought to extend at depth to the source region of the complex . |
| 16 | The Second Quartet , composed in 1951 , is a far more concise work in a much freer tonal idiom , mostly avoiding the elaborate texture which marks the earlier quartet : perhaps for that reason I find it the more memorable of the two . |
| 17 | On arrival at the BN beacon , the aircraft was cleared to descend to 2,500ft ( the initial altitude for the published ILS descent procedure ) and was requested to advice passing the MN beacon which marked the northern end of the racetrack holding pattern . |
| 18 | Preparatory ground for the visit which marked the steady improvement in links between the two countries after a 15-month period of strained relations [ see pp. 37009 ; 37357 ; 37531 ] , had been laid in October after a high-level Indo-Nepalese task force , meeting in Katmandu , reached " complete " agrement on the details of a trade and transit treaty . |
| 19 | And in fact what marks the two genres off from each other is not so much the nature of the devices , but the nature of the opposition which constructs them as literature . |