Example sentences of "of [noun] [adj] [noun] [adv] the " in BNC.
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1 | In fantasy land if we ever have to replace our systems we can of course simple switch off the old one and switch on the new one . |
2 | This meant a full programme on the afternoon of Saturday 27th February when the competition was held at the Galleon Sports Centre in Kilmarnock . |
3 | Guy Fawkes Night will come a week early in that part of Skipton this weekend when the steam railway ignite a big bonfire and firework display . |
4 | The disgraced soldier was then dragged back into the glare of publicity last November when the Attorney General successfully challenged her sentence as ‘ unduly lenient ’ . |
5 | AN EERIE silence will descend on the steel town of Motherwell next weekend when the big Ravenscraig strip mill winds down for a long and unwelcome seasonal break . |
6 | Then came the dramatic arrest of Roderick last August when the Royal Navy frigate Argonaut intercepted his yacht 150 miles south west of Gibraltar . |
7 | THE organisers of the Harp Masters men 's hockey tournament exhaled a sigh of relief last night when the only visiting team — Glasgow Western — scraped into the quarter-final stage with a hard fought 2-1 win over section two side Collegians at Blaris . |
8 | There 's no specific area that I can lay my finger on to explain why West Indian kids underachieve … what is inevitable is that a lot of West Indian children particularly the bright ones will do fairly well up to either the beginning or the middle of the fourth year , and for some peculiar reason their progress will fall off towards the end of the fifth year . |