Example sentences of "the [adj] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can get back 80% of the total gross SSP you have paid in the tax month . |
| 2 | He told John Colville , one of the junior private secretaries he inherited from Churchill , ‘ that in his most optimistic dreams he had reckoned that there might , with luck , be a Conservative majority of only some forty seats ’ . |
| 3 | From where he was sitting by the narrow little window he had a view of the meagre garden and beyond it , in the distance , a huge white bull in a field of white heifers . |
| 4 | Alice went up to her room , and squatted down in the corner where her bed had been , the narrow white bed she had slept in since she was ten years old . |
| 5 | In response to the prevailing economic conditions it has withdrawn from peripheral businesses and has focused on the core activities represented by its silver products . |
| 6 | Through the United Nations and the European Economic Community we shall certainly be doing all that we can to encourage the social reforms — for example , the reform of land ownership — to which the hon. Gentleman referred . |
| 7 | Thus in the European feudal societies it was not the conflict between lord and peasant which was decisive in bringing about change ( only in the twentieth century has it been possible to organize peasants in effective revolutionary movements ) , but the emergence and growth in those societies of an alien incompatible element — the bourgeoisie . |
| 8 | But on longer-term issues such as membership of the European Monetary System she remained hostile . |
| 9 | Over such key issues as the European Common Market he had followed a prudent , unadventurous course , only moving to endorse membership at the last moment when political circumstances seemed so to dictate . |
| 10 | He sought out Caratacus and stormed the strong defensive position he had chosen , but the British commander escaped , as did many of the British warriors , and attempted to win Cartimandua to his cause . |
| 11 | And if African destitution has its roots in this shameful period of depopulation , so too does what was to become a family 's main defense against the poverty enforced on those left to fend for themselves without the strong young bodies they had counted on . |
| 12 | Polly laid her palms against the strong hard face she loved so much , knowing exactly what she wanted to do with the rest of her life . |
| 13 | This is obviously too short to be considered a day 's walk so if you 're sticking to the low level route you should link straight in to Day 11 by following the road from Elterwater to Grasmere . |
| 14 | Their often very high and frequently untaxed earnings from gratuities at the large and lavish events at which they serve more than make up for the low basic rates they are paid , the absence of substantial fringe benefits and the existence of a short off-season in which they can not earn . |
| 15 | What determines which of the possible Pareto-efficient allocations it picks out ? |
| 16 | His brow cleared after the terrific mental exercise he 'd been putting in . |
| 17 | Her voice sounded a little strained , but only Portia caught the odd pitying look she gave Katherine as the girl rushed towards the salon . |
| 18 | The same secretive manner , the way he considered his own wishes to be paramount , the odd furtive way he stared at her when he thought she was not aware of it . |
| 19 | We struck out for Cambridge and although we made the odd wrong turn they were quickly rectified and with luck on our side we found the hotel . |
| 20 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 21 | It was of the gate to Marie Claire 's villa : a clear bold drawing of the tall wrought-iron gate I had watched the girl go through on the first night I saw her . |
| 22 | A 14-YEAR-old girl died yesterday after the stolen high-performance car she was driving somersaulted and crossed a dual carriageway after a police chase , police said . |
| 23 | As Auer puts it ( 1984a : 5 ) , " under close scrutiny , the details of the sequential embeddedness of language choice and language alternation permit us to formulate the coherent procedural model we are looking for " . |
| 24 | What it relates to is the specific historical reconstruction it . |
| 25 | He looked up slowly , with the strange lost gaze she remembered . |
| 26 | Soon all my master 's neighbours were talking about the strange little creature he had found in a field . |
| 27 | It 's the bloody daftest thing I 've ever bloody heard . |
| 28 | Making their way through the extensive 4th floor they were stopped when a massive explosive caused them to hit the floor . |
| 29 | This is due not their merit , but to the extensive free advertising they have benefited from which is not available to their competitors . |
| 30 | Indeed , it is the historic old houses you are likely to recall long after the memory of the well kept gardens , water sports , smart promenades and bathing pools have faded . |