Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A German visitor lost his in the silence of a British Rail first-class compartment and uncoupled the coach as a gesture of solidarity with the plebs in the second class . |
| 2 | True there 'd been found in Alicia 's desk , but everyone thought that was just an accident , now they began to wonder if someone had put them there , not Alicia , Lizzie would n't do a thing like that , but somebody , it was getting near half term and new the girls were excited because some of them were expecting visits from there parents . |
| 3 | Is it , it 's like a big eye , and it was black one side and white the other side and the black side had a white pupil and the white the other side had a black one |
| 4 | The Policyholders estimated value as last advised to the Corporation shall be the maximum amount payable by the Corporation in respect of any claim for loss or damage except that if during the period of one year after the date of first registration by the Policyholder of such motor car as new the motor car is |
| 5 | In as many respects as possible the interview panel should try to follow the general interview format given in Chapter 5 ( p. 94 ) . |
| 6 | The more so this month , which by tradition brings exceptional offers for buyers who would rather save money by relieving dealers of unsold ‘ H ’ models than covert the snob value of driving the same model with a ‘ J ’ plate . |
| 7 | They would load it for Pelham Street after a day 's work in the factory , drive there and back in a night , and report for work as usual the next morning . |
| 8 | Critics with over-delicate modern sensibilities will be shocked to learn that a 17th-century observer remembered The Fairy Queen as Bottom the Weaver , a knockabout comedy with lots of music . |
| 9 | Specialising in chest and orthopaedic the hospital has been threatened with closure for more than two years now . |
| 10 | He arranged the coat on the hanger , wrenched at his wing-collar and unclipped the shirt-stud . |
| 11 | Still swearing under his breath , Dexter pulled off the cover from the bottom of the boiler and relit the pilot light . |
| 12 | This excellent system of continental escorting and fighting-off the Luftwaffe marked the beginning of the end for the Luftwaffe as we had known it up to the advent of the newly-engined Mustang . |
| 13 | At some point or other the student of local history will encounter dates expressed in a variety of different ways with which he will have to become familiar . |
| 14 | The harmony should not normally be a random end product , beautiful at one moment and ugly the next . |
| 15 | Alain Carignon , forty-four , mayor of Grenoble since 1983 , and President of the Department of Isère , is said to be very keen on the post and possible the strongest candidate . |
| 16 | Already in the hall , having slipped out while the priest was speaking , Judith Cohen had lit the gas under the tea-urn and unwrapped the sandwiches . |
| 17 | Wood-flour clad the heated planes of Bishop Hrolf 's brow and cheeks and gloved the powerful crag of his nose save , endearingly , for the double fingermark where he had blown it . |
| 18 | It was only the resolute persistence of the dealer Samuel Woodburn who purchased the collection from the artist 's executor in 1834 , together with the support of the collector and academic the Revd Dr Henry Wellesley and the generosity of Lord Eldon that enabled part of the collection to be saved for the nation and for the new University Galleries , Oxford . |
| 19 | Business as usual The election led to a few significant changes in Northern Ireland , but mostly it 's more of the same , says Robin Wilson |
| 20 | Because of a sandstorm , the pilot failed to find the landing lights and belly-flopped the Algerian Antonov-26 in the desert . |
| 21 | Being an executive one day and unemployed the next brings an added trauma . |
| 22 | No matter how tasty the gravy and flavoursome the meat and pastry , there would be no mention here were it not for the ale . |
| 23 | In conclusion , the nativistic position presented by McNeill and Chomsky may have overestimated the contribution to language learning which must be ascribed to innate knowledge and underrepresented the part played by child-environment interactions . |
| 24 | In the case of the franc-dollar and lira-dollar the speculative efficiency hypothesis was rejected both because the estimate of β was different from unity and because the errors showed signs of serial correlation ( in the case of the lira-dollar ) . |
| 25 | Dark is the night and stormy the weather , |
| 26 | Beautifully-marked when young the Scat 's colour fades with age . |
| 27 | By some means or other the natural tendencies instilled by evolution , have to be brought under control , and the child must learn at a very early age that if he is to grow up and be happy , he must behave in accordance with rules and regulations . |
| 28 | But once the Mutiny had raised the temperature of the relationship between Briton and Indian the fortified station became the norm . |
| 29 | Some of the other academic libraries ( eg the Polytechnic of North London ) have also taken the case study model , picking out a narrow topic within a large subject area and guiding the user through the maze of literature , as well as illustrating the pages of the different forms of literature which should be consulted . |
| 30 | Juliette finished her task , put the trousers on a wooden hanger , hooked it over the back of a chair and unplugged the iron . |