Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is quite possible and not unusual for the transsexual man or woman to marry and have children . |
| 2 | The painting Competition was won by Eric Gavin and Christopher Houston for the 7–11 year olds . |
| 3 | He has received a card with drawings of gangsters on it and threats of a ‘ warm welcome ’ if he turns up for the second-round tie . |
| 4 | The in vitro transcription reactions were performed as described previously for classical pol III genes ( 19 ) and for the U6-RNA gene ( 5 ) . |
| 5 | The deadline for the three-year reorganisation ended on November 1 , 1992 . |
| 6 | But getting into RADA was quite a searching process and I remember doing four one-hour work sessions with some of the tutors there , including the Principal , before finally being accepted for the three-year course there . |
| 7 | The Wellcome Foundation Trust , a charitable arm of the Wellcome drug company set up to fund medical research , has agreed in principle to a request to pay for the three-year investigation . |
| 8 | They compared the actual returns on 60 US mutual funds for the three-year period 1982–4 with returns that would have been made if a specified strategy for investing in S&P500 futures had been followed . |
| 9 | ROBERT Brooke 's comments in May issue 's Milestones about the ‘ recall ’ of J.W. Hearne for the Oval Test match against South Africa make more sense if it is appreciated that , with the rubber already won , the England side for the Fourth Test at Manchester was an ‘ experimental team ’ . |
| 10 | One shoulder operation and a season of water-treading later , this determined , self-assured competitor is once again strutting his stuff to destructive effect ; quite why he was overlooked for the Oval Test escapes me . |
| 11 | He was not the clear favourite for the Oval Office , for there were other men whose achievements were more palpable than George Crowninshield 's , but he looked good , sounded better and no journalist had ever discovered him with his fingers in the till or his legs in the wrong bed . |
| 12 | The changes that were made for the Oval game took the number of England players used in the series to twenty-three and , as Cowdrey had to withdraw with a bruised foot , Graham Gooch was appointed the fourth captain of the series . |
| 13 | The first product offered by Phonelink was DataCare , a bureau service for the automated bulk retrieval of telephone numbers . |
| 14 | Despite the availability of hardware for the automated conversion of geographic data from paper maps to digital form ( e.g. optical scanners ) much data input to GIS is still done by hand using a digitizing table . |
| 15 | In general , hotels cater for the medium-sized business conference , as shown by the following table : |
| 16 | King Kong plunging to his death from a great height and the real death of a bird in the sky , events dramatic enough for the whirring imagination of a seven year old to cope with . |
| 17 | However , the worst may not be over for the embattled Chancellor . |
| 18 | But miners in Russia 's biggest coalfield , Kuzbass in western Siberia , declared their support for the embattled president and threatened to strike . |
| 19 | In every production there comes an awkward jerky stage when the cast abandon their books for the first time , but for The Hooded Owl it seemed to be going on longer than usual . |
| 20 | There 's nothing like a long Technical Run to dissipate any euphoria attached to a theatrical production , and that was the effect of the one held for The Hooded Owl on the evening of Sunday , 26th October , 1980 . |
| 21 | And no doubt a busy night of police questioning for The Hooded Owl company at the Variety Theatre . |
| 22 | Look for the hooded sweater in a startling colour . |
| 23 | Women who adhere to this go for the tailored suit and no-nonsense haircut routine . |
| 24 | Waiting for the inescapable shout of discovery . |
| 25 | Today , the pilgrimage still takes place , now by air or car for many and , for the 1965 pilgrimage year , the Spanish government made strenuous and successful efforts to restore and clean these famous churches ( and also provide hotels for tourists ) on this traditional route . |
| 26 | For the mobile unit , it must be well built and braced to allow for moving over uneven ground , if the birds are in at the time , then the extra weight on the floor will be 204 kg for the 100 bird house and 409 kg for the 200 bird house . |
| 27 | In 1991 Carl Lewis set a world record of 9.86 seconds for the 100 metre sprint . |
| 28 | For the 100 Senate seats , there were 47 two-member counties and three members each for Warsaw and Katowice counties . |
| 29 | There 's probably a straightforward explanation for the impossible weariness I feel . |
| 30 | Still held in the circle of his arms , Shae unconsciously squared her shoulders , preparing for the impossible challenge . |