Example sentences of "the [adj] [adj] and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shtikov 's proposal was warmly welcomed by the Korean left and viewed with alarm by the right . |
| 2 | ANNABEL SCIORRA will play the Mexican activist artist Frida Kahlo in The Brush Of Anguish , set in the turbulent 1930s and directed by Latino Luis Valdez . |
| 3 | Similarly , Mr Yeltsin , like Mr Gorbachev , was born into a peasant family during the calamitous 1930s and came to political maturity during the first days of Khrushchev , when hope began to dawn after Stalin 's long night . |
| 4 | Gasping air into his lungs , he dived down , groping for the fishing-line looped and re-looped round Gomez 's legs . |
| 5 | ‘ I only played half the games yet we were never out of the top five and qualified for Europe . |
| 6 | I have now slumped from second overall and a possible £3,000 — £5,000 to outside the top ten and looking like winning nothing , I think it is fair to say through no fault of my own , but inadequate pegging . |
| 7 | These will be removed later and the outside spokeshaved and scraped to a good finish . |
| 8 | The development of what we still see as the modern corporation began with Pierre S. du Pont 's restructuring of his family company in the early twenties and continued with Alfred P. Sloan 's redesign of General Motors a few years later . |
| 9 | Other farms that were once situated in the centre of the village have been displaced by extensive house building which began in the early 1960s and continues to the present day . |
| 10 | The number of children born in a year , for example , reached a peak of about 900,000 in the early 1960s and fell to about 600,000 twenty years later . |
| 11 | Even before the 1867 premiere of his most sublime opera , Verdi made extensive cuts which were rediscovered in the early 1970s and restored by Andrew Porter , whose English translation is being used here . |
| 12 | She described again and again how they went to India in the early 1920s and returned in the Depression , his work as an electrician in the mines , poverty , living in digs with the old soldier who polished the shoes and got my brother to put the finishing kaybosh on them . |
| 13 | Teddies were first developed in Germany in the early 1900s and named in tribute to former American president Teddy Roosevelt who refused to shoot a defenceless small bear while out on a hunting trip . |
| 14 | The church was deconsecrated in the early nineteenth-century and converted into a warehouse , at which time its art treasures were moved out to the Brera where they still remain , despite the church having been reconsecrated in the twentieth-century . |
| 15 | It is now called The Cottage , but Mrs Smith remembers that her father-in-law bought it in the early thirties and referred to it as ‘ the Doctor 's House . ’ |
| 16 | He had fled to England in the early 70s and worked as a miner but later returned to the province through ill health . |
| 17 | He retired in the early 70s and emigrated to Auckland , N.Z. in 1977 . |
| 18 | This underthrusting began in the Early Miocene and contributed to the doubling of crustal thickness ( up to 80 km in places ) and the impressive subsequent uplift of the Higher Himalayas . |
| 19 | If we go back to the nineteen seventies or the early eighties and look at how we developed applications we take an old language like maybe COBOL as an example . |
| 20 | Berret and his companions repaired to the scene of the crime for the inevitable measuring and taking of statements . |
| 21 | For the Socialists , the Republic 's most important duty was to improve the lot of Spain 's rural poor : a sincere commitment greatly reinforced by a radical change , dating from the late 1920s and climaxing in 1932–3 , in the character of the UGT . |
| 22 | This was replaced in turn by the immense station built on reclaimed land in the late 1920s and opened in 1930 . |
| 23 | The Tyne and Wear Structure Plan was prepared in the late 1970s and finalized in 1980 . |
| 24 | But if you look at the sixty five and add on the twelve , it 's er seventy seven and of course if you go on to the actuarial figures actually get better as you get older in terms of actual lifespan . |
| 25 | The builder will subsequently be instructed by the architect to place an order with the firm selected and enter into a formal sub-contract agreement . |
| 26 | After the second day 's play the ball in use was locked in the Oval safe and sent to Lord 's the next morning . |
| 27 | The next important date in real property chronology is 1925 which saw the enactment of the Law of Property Act , the Settled Land Act , the Trustee Act , the Administration of Estates Act , the Land Registration Act and the Land Charges Act ( the latter amended and re-enacted in 1972 ) . |
| 28 | A section of the Iceni revolted and had to be suppressed by a dismounted cavalry regiment . |
| 29 | They appointed their own French administrators down to the lowest levels , leaving the Annamese powerless and humiliated in their own land . |
| 30 | This initially ran on a short demonstration track around the works but eight years ago developed into a plan to run month long charity specials up the former trackbed and based on the Leek and Manifold 's former Hulme End terminus . |