Example sentences of "the [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Then it was there , the blurry light of the candles and the singing Happy Birthday and the big whoosh … and the clapping , and when the curtains were open again Benny saw the thin young man that her father had been shaking hands with . |
2 | ‘ To a company , the Safe-Buy seal-of-approval means they have a start over the cowboys . ’ |
3 | Because erm even going back to those days it was the bright ones that were pushed forward and the the sort of dog take the hinder most sort of thing you know . |
4 | ‘ Early statements of the model ( e.g. , Marslen-Wilson & Welsh ( 1978 ) ) assert that candidates drop out of the pool of word-candidates when they do not fit the specifications of context , in the same way as when they do not fit the accumulating sensory input . |
5 | Like her , he tries to set local government within ‘ the context of the encompassing political economy ’ , but he also argues that Cockburn 's approach , by presenting local government as an instrument of capital makes it ‘ unproblematic and so renders any detailed study of it almost superfluous ’ ( Dearlove , 1979 , p. 217 ) . |
6 | Under the raining glad applause . |
7 | The repeat C-urea breath test at one month after completion of the triple anti- H pylori treatment showed that the infection had been eradicated in nine of 10 duodenal ulcer patients . |
8 | Of the ninety nine pupils , seventy five are boarders , the suffer varying degrees , degrees of disability , something like nine or ten of them are roughly in Paul 's category of disablement , although he is the most severely disabled . |
9 | Then she pretended to be a mute — she always invented some oddness about herself when consorting with the preening rich boys of the city . |
10 | If the person 's bleeding , not just a little tiny cut now , not like the graze this morning , this is real , this is serious bleeding okay ? |
11 | Patrician insolence has quite often appeared to express a perception of the activities of the levelling Labour governments which have come and gone since 1945 . |
12 | The meeting took place following the collapse of chairman Sir John Hall 's £13m rescue package at the fallen Second Division giants . |
13 | The Serpent throughout time has existed as a symbol of the energizing creative force of the one supreme universal Spirit . |
14 | The Serpent and the Swastika are siblings ; the Serpent as the energizing creative force of the Universe , the Swastika as that force in motion . |
15 | Two are preserved in clear liquid ; these are brains from Good clerics , used for the Dispel Greater Daemon spell . |
16 | Mill 's fears led him eventually to favour proposals to give the educated more votes than the mass of the people . |
17 | If she thought she was going to escape the bitching this time round , on the movie , she was mistaken . |
18 | The company , which made a pre-tax loss of almost £69m in 1991 , foreshadowed a ‘ steady ’ improvement in results this year from the hard-hit general insurance sector as industry capacity falls and increases in premium rates gather momentum . |
19 | On that occasion the member of parliament openly told the meeting of commissioners of supply that ‘ as he look't on the representing this shire to be hereditary in some measure in their family , soe he look't on the appointing the collector to be a consequentiall priviledge of it , and he would take ill any opposition given to him ’ . |
20 | The tower stands at the point of a great confluence of the coursing magical energies of the vortex , a fact that lends it a greater strength than any creation of mere bricks and mortar . |
21 | The relationships , as specified , are the occurrence of certain geometric arrangements within the intersection of the relating spatial domains . |
22 | Out of the honed hard grain that had nothing in it . |
23 | The deemed annual charge applies only to those holdings referable to basic life and general annuity business . |
24 | She would have given anything for a glimpse of the moon that had been shining when she was here before , but it was not there , and as the knocking gathered strength she realised she would have to go down . |
25 | Wyn shook his head , then glanced round at the circle of villagers and the wailing old woman . |
26 | In effect , Ayer has put them in a ghetto and they are happy to remain there , content to be making statements of nonsense in the assurance that what to the believer are the words of God must necessarily appear to the unbeliever mere gobbledygook . |
27 | Norman Willis , the TUC general secretary , said the UN-based International Labour Organisation had already condemned the Government 's employment laws . |
28 | Recently , the inducing chemical agents from the vegetal region have been identified and if added at very low doses to isolated animal caps , muscle will develop . |
29 | ‘ Listen , you all , ’ snapped Juron , ‘ these controls — ‘ He gestured at the slumped mind-impulse suit with its spaghetti of cables . |
30 | Now writers are trying to come up with a new story for Willis as rival studios race to cash in on the Die Hard formula . |