Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Benn was so impressed with Ceauşescu 's Romania that he found nothing odd in the following suggestion from Bruno Pittermann , the former chairman of Kreisky 's Austrian Socialist Party : ‘ Pittermann said he would like to see parliamentary links with Romania , Poland and Yugoslavia , and to study their election process and procedure .
2 ‘ Excuse me , please , ’ she said politely , but there was nothing polite about the angry , scornful glitter in her grey eyes .
3 However , it will never make them rich in the same way that potentially having an independent company and taking that to the market would have .
4 Last night , on ’ Newsnight ’ , Mr. Brendan Bruce , the former director of communications for the Tories , said : ’ No-one sensible in the Tory Party actually believes the Labour Party would put up public spending by £37 billion ’ .
5 For its weight , there is really nothing wrong with the mechanical properties of wood and the weight of wooden structures is generally at least comparable to that of metal ones .
6 If you can find nothing wrong with the external pickup wiring and associated circuitry , the chances are that a wire has broken inside one of the coils and will require rewinding .
7 I only hope there 's nothing wrong with the poor fellow . ’
8 Mr Green , 55 , author of the definitive Grand National chronicle , A Race Apart , added : ‘ There 's nothing wrong with the present starting system so long as it is operated properly .
9 Mr Green , 55 , author of the Grand National chronicle , A Race Apart , said : ‘ There 's nothing wrong with the present starting system so long as it is operated properly .
10 It is being suggested , is it , that God saw nothing wrong with the past situation in which only men could be ordained ?
11 ‘ We need to get player representation involved when such changes are in the air because , frankly , I saw nothing wrong with the old laws — just the way some countries played them . ’
12 ‘ There 's nothing wrong with the old ways . ’
13 The phrases are fine-sounding , and there is certainly nothing wrong with the three Rs .
14 The kairos approach makes God both immoral ( if God saw nothing wrong with the previous sexism of the church 's stance ) and fickle .
15 There was nothing wrong with the heavy net curtains of Healy 's Hotel .
16 Unfortunately , there was absolutely nothing wrong with the older woman 's hearing .
17 There was nothing wrong with the noble creed they were taught-it was just that it played no part in the actual operation of the military dictatorship .
18 In Berlin , Bismarck let it be known that he saw nothing wrong with the proposed solution , though he backed away from too openly supporting it in the face of a general outcry from the other European courts .
19 RICHARD GOUGH and Trevor Steven will be examined by Rangers ' medical staff today but the injuries sustained at Fir Park last night have made them doubtful for the European tie with FC Brugge .
20 The citation does however leave unexamined one further consideration ; that there might within the range of manufacturing and service industries be some which , for whatever reason , whether of the nature or of the size of the business , make them unsuited to the industrial co-operative form of organisation .
21 I find the remark significant for the assumption which is made that there was nothing harmful about the previous view of the relation between men and women ; indeed the previous view may have accorded with the divine will and our present outlook not .
22 Am I sufficiently interested in my question or topic to keep me interested over the necessary time period ?
23 Otherwise they 're going to have another sleepless night , and we need them fresh for the next stage . ’
24 So it 's Broadhurst 's Wager that comes to me now , comes to me at three o' clock in the morning while I harken to the cooling unit .
25 Er my final point sir is concern with perhaps a few emotional points being made to my right about the old and the infirm and the young not being able to afford houses .
26 It needs a new person to take it into the future , someone free of the old , deeply ingrained prejudices and affiliations .
27 While we pause after the first phase of our acceptance are we to rely on exams for all to prove ourselves worthy of the kindly eye of the state ?
28 Again , if there is to be a specific charge on shares in subsidiary companies ( which may be a necessary precaution ) trustees are needed in order that someone independent of the holding company shall be able to exercise the voting rights attached to the shares .
29 Emil briefly consulted a notebook , stowed his travel bag on a rack in a small bedroom and directed me to put my big in the one next door .
30 Why am I cast as the scarlet woman all the time ? ’
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