Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In part this failure of the middle classes to present a unified political front arose from the very intransigence of the regime . |
| 2 | Stirling accelerated and immediately a loud screaming noise came from the front of the vehicle . |
| 3 | She nodded and her alert hazel eyes flickered around the room , taking everyone in . |
| 4 | Both expansions of the European Economic Community led to the central institutions of the Community arguing successfully that , for the enlargement to function , they must be given more powers and the Community ‘ s political union must be strengthened . |
| 5 | Continuing anti-US feeling in Iran and the associated strength of the radical Islamic political forces resulted from the US refusal to make a more comprehensive effort to compensate Iran for the shooting down of an Iranian airbus in the Gulf by the USS Vincennes warship in July 1988 [ see pp. 36169-70 ] , and from the fact that it continued to hold , according to official Iranian estimates , some $12,000 million in assets frozen since the 1979 Iranian revolution [ for agreement in November 1989 to release assets see p. 37053 ] . |
| 6 | The ceiling sloped down tightly to the floor , making dark shadowy edges which were well nigh impossible to clean , and three odd narrow passages ran to the three dormer windows , which cast odd blocks of light into the main spaces of the room . |
| 7 | Finally , specific short-term shortages arose in the early 1970s , the most important being the 1972 crop failures ( when grain output was down 3 per cent on the previous year , against a trend growth rate of 3 per cent a year ) . |
| 8 | Her rich brown hair gleamed beneath the widow 's veil ; the bone structure of her face was overlaid with a suitable pallor , but no outward sign of grief . |
| 9 | Forster 's grotesque rubber mask nodded at the inferno . |
| 10 | All the associated grave goods belonged to the fourth century , the cemetery itself overlying earlier field boundaries and enclosures . |
| 11 | A tall slim man stood in the doorway to the bathroom . |
| 12 | I endorse what the right hon. Gentleman said about the progress that has been made so far . |
| 13 | The right hon. Gentleman asked about the regions of the Community . |
| 14 | The Labour Government neglected and cut resources for law and order , and the right hon. Gentleman sat at the table agreeing to those cuts . |
| 15 | There was an ironing-board , two kitchen chairs and a couple of broken wooden boxes snaked around the front room . |
| 16 | On the morning after the result of the referendum had been announced , the British Foreign Secretary went on the BBC 's Today programme to announce , in effect , ‘ business as usual ’ and that the timetable for the passage of the Maastricht ratification legislation by the British Parliament would proceed precisely as planned . |
| 17 | British foreign policy started from the incontestable and apparently unchanging facts that the United Kingdom was an island , depended on sea-borne commerce and communications , and had large overseas possessions . |
| 18 | The male working-class vote was , from the start , divided between the existing parties , and when socialist or social democratic parties appeared on the scene they seldom attained the political dominance which the solid support of the workers would have assured for them . |
| 19 | It was a foursome in Pepe 's on Saturday , and Shelley let her hair down in more ways than one , dancing vigorously with the hunky Carlos , while Rosie and her good-looking little Francisco sat in the shadows , their heads close together . |
| 20 | Relations deteriorated further in late March as hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Kurdish refugees headed for the Iranian border . |
| 21 | The ideological significance of Antoine Bloye emerges from two different conflictual relationships encoded in the text . |
| 22 | Rows of benches with damp kneeling pads stood before the display . |
| 23 | The old colonial system stood in the way of any attempt to replace an empire based on bullion imports by a mercantilist empire à la Colbert , reserved for Spanish products and feeding the prosperity of the mother-country ; regimentation had failed when interlopers and smugglers had turned the Castilian monopoly into a fiction , when ‘ Spain kept the cow , the rest of Europe drank the milk ’ . |
| 24 | The broken whisky-bottle neck fell to the carpet and he clutched at his chest , as if in imitation of Cardiff . |
| 25 | The Old Dissenting sects consisted of the Presbyterians , Independents ( also known as Congregationalists ) , Baptists , Unitarians and Quakers . |
| 26 | The unemployed Turkish waiter stood in the doorway and peered at him ; he was muscular and squat , and he was wearing only pyjama trousers that were creased and stained . |
| 27 | One of their number has just written a book questioning this kind of control and spilling the beans of angst rather as American and British feminist writers did in the Seventies . |
| 28 | As Victor shook his head in despair at the incorrigible woman a slim black-leathered silhouette came through the door . |
| 29 | Snap crack as your thumbnail bit , then the fresh green smell gushed into the air . |
| 30 | Clear yellow sunlight shone through the window-panes , making a pattern of diamonds on the plasterwork . |