Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amid tight security the Presidents of the United States , Colombia , Peru and Bolivia met in the Colombian Caribbean resort of Cartagena and signed on Feb. 15 the Cartagena Declaration , pledging their governments to intensify and co-ordinate efforts to curb the consumption , production and trafficking of cocaine . |
| 2 | Petr Korda crashed into the top ten for this year with puzzled frowns asking : ‘ Petr Who ? ’ |
| 3 | Hewlett and Mrs Lowndes moved in the same influential circles . |
| 4 | [ T ] he analysis Paine made of the early American constitution was remarkably acute . |
| 5 | Originally , Claudia and John Roberts lived in the top two floors of their tall , double-fronted end-of-terrace house , a walk away from London 's Regent 's Park and Primrose Hill . |
| 6 | We calculated standardised perinatal mortality rates for the delivery units by using logistic regression to estimate relative risks adjusted for confounding factors and then standardising these rates by multiplying by a constant chosen so that the standardised rate for all Leicestershire agreed with the crude observed rate . |
| 7 | Hill reported at the first general meeting that Lord Hamilton and Sir William Birt of the GER Co. had promised to help the Alliance in ‘ every way they could ’ ( SE 14 October 1899 ) . |
| 8 | In last Friday 's HAS Election Post a letter from M D Tubman referred to the 100-year-old British electoral system . |
| 9 | Faced with the dilemma of dropping a shot or ‘ playing her as she lies ’ , after long deliberations , O'Leary waded in the 4-foot deep water and out went his chances of winning . |
| 10 | Alternative plans to neutralise Afghanistan surfaced in the early 1980s in the West and the Third World among academics and diplomats . |
| 11 | Born in Slovenia , Bratina trained with the Austrian Olympic gymnastic team before the 1914 games were cancelled by the First World War . |
| 12 | Gregory came from the same aristocratic milieu as Sidonius and his followers . |
| 13 | It is in this general perspective , aimed at demonstrating the link between the relations of production and the nature of the systems in which they were located , that Marx and Engels turned to the available anthropological information on pre-literate people . |
| 14 | Stok joined in the last three words as I said them , and then he laughed So loud that I thought he would shake some of the cracked tiles off the wall . |
| 15 | Corbett nodded at the two hard-faced Sub-prioresses and went to order Ranulf and Maltote to saddle their horses as swiftly as possible . |
| 16 | The reabsorption into landed society of those families who had suffered in the upheavals of the past decade was to be a slow process , and was to give rise to fresh disputes over lands claimed by families who had been on opposite sides , but Edward showed over the next twenty years that loyalty and service would receive their due reward . |
| 17 | For the record , Wright finished in the top ten in last year 's Dinah Shore and the US Open , while her stroke average for 1992 was a career-best 72.42 . |
| 18 | Samson scratched in the thick black hairs on his huge arms that were pitted by spark burns from the forge . |
| 19 | In the speech Shevardnadze called for the broadest possible democratisation of political and economic life , including greater autonomy for enterprises and the election of management . |
| 20 | Koch started at the top seven years ago with an 85ft cruising boat , a 65ft fishing boat and an 81ft racing maxi named Matador , after the family ranch in Kansas . |
| 21 | It might be fair to say that the paintings Picasso executed during the following eighteen or so months tend to look like all tribal art , an indication that he was ultimately interested and immersed in its spirit and its formal principles rather than in any of its individual manifestations . |
| 22 | ‘ Mani manent cum nostris semper in aeternum , Primarche ! ’ the Reclusiarch chanted in the hieratic religious tongue , which his listeners only comprehended to be a blend of sacred plainsong and occult invocation . |
| 23 | At first , Marie looked towards the open back door . |
| 24 | Corbett looked at the two well-fed , thick-set men , and , hearing a slight sound behind him , knew there were more . |
| 25 | Corbett looked at the old drunken face and knew Benstede was being sardonic . |
| 26 | Tilda stared at the brilliant golden-beaked bird , about which there was something frightening . |
| 27 | The diary Bobby kept over the next few months usefully logs many of the characters and landing stages in Minton 's frenzied circuit . |
| 28 | Corbett stared at the hard-eyed French envoy and realised that it was impossible to press the matter . |
| 29 | Two years later Eyre brought off the first British professional staging of Cavalli 's Jason at the Buxton Festival . |
| 30 | In fact , Hainer Bastian see this exhibition as completing the vision of Picasso presented at the last great retrospective in New York twelve years ago , when the focus was on his Cubist , surrealist and classical phases . |