Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun prp] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some say that the Avize Chardonnay has more finesse , but I find that while Avize may have more clarity of flavour , Cramant and , for that matter , le Mesnil-sur-Oger have finer qualities of bouquet . |
| 2 | It is regrettable that many of the photographs of rooms tell us little about their original appearance ; a comparison of Boucher 's wonderful ‘ La Toilette ’ with the view of the Boudoir from the Hôtel d'Hocqueville reveals this . |
| 3 | The owner of the ship wanted me to sail to the Indian Ocean to do some business for him there , but I was very unlucky . |
| 4 | Each turn in the progression is demonstrated just once and there is not time to show the beginner Annabel developing any rhythm in her skiing . |
| 5 | During the Los Angeles smogs many thousands of people experienced eye and nose irritation , and action was demanded to curb these mysterious episodes . |
| 6 | Following the election Kaifu spent several days negotiating with Takeshita and the other LDP faction leaders over the composition of the new Cabinet . |
| 7 | The music grew louder , the Chelsea Granada welcomed all who would like to come in and watch the transmission of Bootsie and Snudge . |
| 8 | The van Meers brought some wine which they said was Australian and the Keiths enjoyed the reminder it gave them of meals on the Mataura . |
| 9 | But before you jet off to soak up sun and sangria , or cruise around the Norfolk Broads give some thought to security . |
| 10 | Nationalists had also called a one-day general strike for Oct. 1 against the proposed new union treaty , but only in the West Ukraine did this attract anything more than patchy support . |
| 11 | The Mother Superior noted this at once , but was far too wise to press Topaz , and warned the other Sisters not to do so either . |
| 12 | The pictures Elizabeth took that day have become more than just snaps of a holiday that turned to horror . |
| 13 | But would the Ping Tiao take such a radical action ? |
| 14 | In the dark front of the car Molly felt another tingle of excitement , as though , in her childhood fantasies of detection she had found , at the scene of a crime , a clue which was going to unlock the whole mystery . |
| 15 | All models of the Renault Clio have all their windows etched to show each vehicle 's specific chassis number . |
| 16 | The Nez Perce absorbed much of the culture of the Plains , where the travois was used before the introduction of the horse . |
| 17 | The Nez Perce borrowed this trait , along with their nose piercing from their original neighbours among the North West Coast tribes . |
| 18 | In a widely reported speech to police chiefs at the time of the disorders Hurd made this point clear : |
| 19 | But it is likely to take until November before the Maastricht Bill passes all its stages in the Lords and Commons — leading to accusations that Britain is lagging behind . |
| 20 | The Devon Rex has all three types of body hair , but they are all reduced to the quality of down hairs . |
| 21 | And against the archbishops Bevir had this on his side . |
| 22 | A widget is a user interface component , such as a pushbutton or scroll bar , and the Widget Databook includes those commonly requested by developers when designing applications for OSF/Motif-based interfaces . |
| 23 | Thinking himself safe from the law Koresh committed more excesses . |
| 24 | The South West has some of the highest levels of household radon in the country . |
| 25 | In fact , multinational oil companies working in the North Sea had little choice but to be receptive to the attempts to maximise the spin-off for UK industry if they wanted to stay in good standing with the Government when applications were being considered for exploration licences . |
| 26 | THE MOMENT Morrissey unfurled that Union Jack I knew he was in trouble , I assumed that the ‘ Is Morrissey A Racist ? ’ debate was a discredited old chestnut , but now it 's back , bigger than ever . |
| 27 | In the mid-1980s Glaxo put all its generic and vaccine businesses into Evans , including a former A. H. Robins site at Horsham , and subsequently allowed the management to negotiate a buyout . |
| 28 | ‘ Ask the Prince Fahid to come this way , will you ? |
| 29 | On the west bank of the Beaulieu River lies this famous and attractive village which once had an important dockyard , building naval warships of New Forest oak . |
| 30 | And since , through election by the princes , the kingdom and the empire are ours from God alone , Who at the time of the passion of His Son Christ subjected the world to dominion by the two swords ( Luke 22:38 ) and since the apostle Peter taught this doctrine ‘ fear God , honour the King ’ ( Peter 2:17 ) whosoever says that we received the imperial crown as a benefice from the lord pope contradicts the divine ordinance and the doctrine of Peter and is guilty of a lie … |