Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worst of all the defence totally lost concentration after about eighty five minutes gone . |
| 2 | Darlington manager Ray Hankin put on both substitutes at the start of the second half and the move almost paid dividends after 53 minutes when Toman split the defence perfectly to find John Borthwick in the area , but the substitute 's left-foot shot was well held by the keeper . |
| 3 | Hankin put on both substitutes at the start of the second half and the move almost paid dividends after 53 minutes when Toman split the defence perfectly to find John Borthwick in the area , but the substitute 's left-foot shot was well saved . |
| 4 | The park also includes Abington Manor , which houses a museum of social history ( temporarily closed for structural repairs ) and the charming church of St Peter and St Paul . |
| 5 | Companies responsible for its prospects have gone out of business seven times , discovering that while they could make money on the big promotions , the building and park were too expensive to run on a tickover basis ( nowadays the park alone costs £650,000 a year to maintain ) , and in an earlier era of six-day working weeks , the public had not much leisure time to spend there anyway . |
| 6 | The majority only attended sessions on one occasion . |
| 7 | The contingency originally had provision for some four thousand pounds for waste disposal . |
| 8 | The challenger comfortably held New York . |
| 9 | Our councils are drawn from society on the bring that into modern day life erm our councils are drawn from all sections of society the Sanhedrin purely represent representatives of the Jewish Community their elders , their leaders , their priests , their religious lay people , all were represented on this highest authority this council . |
| 10 | This was backed up by articles in magazines and newspapers showing the housewife how to preserve fruit , salt beans , make pickles , chutneys , vinegars and sauces . |
| 11 | Alarmed by the doctor 's message , the Prince immediately took passage on the George Washington and sailed for England . |
| 12 | The Prince politely shook hands with six Peggottys , two Betsy Trotwoods , eight Mr Pecksniffs , seven Mr Fezziwigs , eight Mrs Fezziwigs , two Doras , a couple of Little Dorrits , two Miss Flites , a villainous gentleman who announced he was the convict Magwitch , and numerous other Lionisers too nervous to announce their identities . |
| 13 | The change even shocked Fiona . |
| 14 | The absence of a train-shed from the Gare d'Orsay was symptomatic of the change about to overtake station-building . |
| 15 | In fact , the skirmish never took place because the enemy crossed the river further upstream and took their objective ‘ by the back-door ’ . |
| 16 | I was disgusted to see the picture on page one of The Scotsman today showing Bill Clifford , the manager of the weapons testing range at Dundrennan , Kirkcudbrightshire proudly holding the new electro-magnetic railgun . |
| 17 | YESTERDAY The Scotsman wrongly described Edinburgh plumber Lawrence Allison as the winner of a competition to find the plumber of the year . |
| 18 | The Roadmap also reinforces UI 's commitment to deploy the Sunsoft Inc-developed ONC+ distributed computing services beginning in the second quarter of this year , the Unix System Labs-developed Distributed Systems Management scheme beginning in the third quarter , and the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment beginning by the end of the year . |
| 19 | This is a phenomenon which most of us experience from time to time , particularly when performing a highly practised task like driving a car or using a keyboard , and which the clinician often feels presents in exaggerated form in certain neurological conditions . |
| 20 | The retailer also expects support and this was visibly given . |
| 21 | But in this sense , creativity of the writer also requires creativity from the reader , who must fill in the gaps of sense with an associative logic of his own . |
| 22 | The writer only has memories of a few freights and the diesel hauled York-Bournemouth in 1964 . |
| 23 | No less culpable was Artemesia 's father , ’ The trial only took place because Artemesia 's father , Aratsio , considered the rape a violation of one of his household objects which was now devalued.This was the only reason Tassi was taken to court , this and the fact that he stole some of Aratsio 's paintings . ’ |
| 24 | The trial only revealed Godoy 's political and moral isolation and convinced Napoleon that these ‘ dirty intrigues ’ made either faction an impossibly unreliable ally . |
| 25 | The chipset reportedly supports NT 's multitasking and multithreaded I/O operations . |
| 26 | The auditor also criticised prices which he said had been too low in the past and meant a marked increase last year , which could have a bad effect on demand . |
| 27 | The award also challenges China 's long-held view that Tibetans sheltering abroad are no more than terrorists bent on disrupting the ‘ unity of the motherland ’ . |
| 28 | The only councillor to speak — and vote — against the extension of licensing rules , Gary Coutts , said the board already had powers to restrict the operation of licensed premises where there was trouble . |
| 29 | In deciding to impose the restrictions set out in paragraph 4 above , the board also gave weight to the fact that according to Norwich Union 's letter to the Chief Executive of 18 October 1990 , that company had no contractual power to suspend the Winchester Group pending the conclusion of the investigation in the absence of Lautro intervening under rule 7.3 . |
| 30 | The board now seek control on only the parameters of profit , cash and broad strategic direction . |