Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh pn] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1.2 It is tempting at this point to plunge straight into an account of the adjectival system and how it produces such results as those above ; and in fact we should state clearly at this point that readers who prefer to build up the picture piece by piece , assessing the validity of the connexion between data and theory by starting from the evidential end , may pass immediately to Chapter 2 without any disadvantage . |
| 2 | In true spy fashion , there is also a mysterious third man , Brian Litman , a Hollywood-based producer and agent who has signed up the Foreign Intelligence Veterans Association , a fraternal association in Moscow of 500 old spies made up of retirees from the former Soviet secret service . |
| 3 | So Adam slipped out of Castell Coch at dusk , and himself carried the word to Owen in his camp in the woods overlooking Cegidfa ; and a beggar who had hung about the gates for some days and been fed from the kitchens went after him every step of the way . |
| 4 | He would go to see Joseph Fouché personally , and explain the position to him : that he had uncovered a massive international conspiracy of Jews who planned to take over the whole of Europe . |
| 5 | For the purpose of saving her , Ransom ( veteran of the journey to Malecandra in Out of the Silent Planet ) is actually made a Ransom for her , a sort of Christ figure sent to wrestle with the wicked scientist Weston who tries to bring about the Fall on the newly inhabited planet Venus . |
| 6 | He says that they need protection against baiters who try to dig up the sets . |
| 7 | If the hon. Gentleman is seriously concerned about unemployment — — he ought to have a word with his hon. Friends on the Select Committee who tried to cover up the consequences of his policy . |
| 8 | Any boy who dared to venture down the Mucky Beck alone was deserving of great respect , even if he had fallen into the water and almost drowned . |
| 9 | It was the old Therese , the happy , extrovert Therese , the golden girl who had lit up the stage of the Volksoper . |
| 10 | Again , the frequency of masturbation is perhaps highest among older males recently defeated by a newcomer male who has taken over the sexual role in his harem . |
| 11 | Mugica was reputed to be a Marxist Leninist who had taken over the ETA leadership after the killing of his less hardline predecessor , Eduardo Moreno Bergaretxe , in 1976 [ see p. 28087 ] . |
| 12 | Legal authorities who have taken over the case have imposed a blackout on information and until their investigations are complete and the case is ready to go to trial , probably in two to three months time , no-one can say how many fakes were involved , what their real value was , nor indeed how many people worked in the ring . |
| 13 | The rest of the group , all students , turned on Mr Allan who tried to fend off the blows . |
| 14 | This season of exhibitions promises a unique and long awaited opportunity to address , at first hand , the current concerns and practices of the women artists who have picked up the gauntlet of the conventional ‘ feminism versus modernism ’ polarisation . |
| 15 | As the older generations who had kept up the tradition passed away , there were not so many young people in the village to carry it on and they had left to find employment and housing in the towns . |
| 16 | The detective-constable who had brought in the exhibits had said that the girl had been to a dance . |
| 17 | How common is it to find Christians who have thought through the problem of doubt as a whole , rather than thinking through doubt piecemeal ? |
| 18 | It had been Kurt who had set up the dozens of licensing deals for menswear and toiletries , bedlinen and beachwear , soft furnishings and costume jewellery , all bearing the name of Hugo Varna , which had not only saved him from bankruptcy but also made him his first million . |
| 19 | The 26 Tory rebels who tried to bring down the government |
| 20 | Those members of the catholic population who sought to advance up the class structure had to adjust to more marginal roles among the professional classes . |
| 21 | The call for a probe follows a letter sent to Sunday Life last week by inmates in the powderkeg jail who have set up the Concerned Prisoners For Justice Committee . |
| 22 | The explosions were now occurring in the area they had just evacuated , probably inflicting casualties on the British troops who had taken over the German trenches . |
| 23 | ‘ This declaration is not a blind bit of good to the workers who have to take over the jobs of those who have emigrated , ’ and ‘ Why do we have to wait till the next central committee meeting ? ’ were other grumbles . |
| 24 | A CRACKDOWN has been launched on Liverpool council tenants who refuse to cough up the rent in a bid to reduce £18.7m arrears . |
| 25 | But to me as I struggled with his detoxifying diet , he was a disembodied , stern sounding voice , a god who had handed down the law . |
| 26 | However , the two cardinals who did take over the musical reforms the Pope 's young nephew Carlo Borromeo and Vitellozzo Vitellozzi were men of intelligence and culture . |
| 27 | By the time I arrived in Canberra the person who had set up the passive avoidance work there , Marie Gibbs , had moved to La Trobe , a campus in Melbourne , several hundred kilometres distant . |
| 28 | This policy was associated with the radical Arab nationalism of the middle-ranking military officers who had carried out the June 1989 coup . |
| 29 | They did not have time to destroy the ship 's logbook and this , combined with the testimony of the survivors , was evidence enough for Eck and those of the crew who had carried out the shooting to be arrested and tried by court-martial . |
| 30 | The executives who try to wring out the risk from forecasts , reworking and re-working the numbers in the equations until they produce a profit , at best plan for mediocrity . |