Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or huge satin ballgown skirts in shocking pink or lilac satin topped with rib-hugging knits for the new dance-in-a-cold-climate look . |
| 2 | The Lancashire ‘ cotton famine ’ , due to the cessation of cotton supplies during the American civil war of 1863–66 which caused severe unemployment and poverty , demonstrated most clearly that unemployment could be due to causes over which workers had no control ; it also demonstrated the peaceful fashion in which the labouring poor could behave in such circumstances . |
| 3 | That goes for the whole Scottish team , poised between the extinction of their American dream and a famous victory . |
| 4 | Later , there followed competition wins for the Catholic Apostolic church , Edinburgh ( 1871–3 ) , Edinburgh school board schools ( 1874–7 ) , and Edinburgh University medical schools ( 1874–86 ) . |
| 5 | he has for the aforesaid common good and defence of the realm ordained that as clerks ought not to defend themselves by force of arms , the third part of the present year 's temporalities of prelates and clerks and all persons of holy church , religious and other is to be seized . |
| 6 | Not even The Smiths , it seems , could surpass the admiration the man in shorts has for the Fab Four … |
| 7 | Yes once again the Village Fete sees our Fanciful Pretender ready to join the procession as he has for the past 15 years . |
| 8 | The Angolan government , increasingly looking to free market policies to revive the economy , last month joined the International Monetary Fund in Washington , and says , as it has for the past three years , that a devaluation of the Kwanza and the lifting of controls on many goods is imminent . |
| 9 | Its leader , Slobodan Milosevic ( ‘ Slobo ’ to his friends ) , has for the past three years resisted any idea of a looser Yugoslavia . |
| 10 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans he has for the Royal Naval Reserve ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 11 | Calypso is a specifically Trinidadian musical form , but just as later Jamaican reggae stands as the archetypal Black music , so in this period does calypso . |
| 12 | As rivals in the individual stakes , though , McColgan starts as the leading British challenger and is strongly fancied to stop American Lynn Jennings claiming a third successive title . |
| 13 | For example , take Tokai 's notorious early '80s Fender copies : at long last , affordable , pro-quality guitars with classic looks for the impoverished working musician . |
| 14 | A ball is deemed to be in a lateral water hazard if it lies between the parallel red stakes marking the boundary of the lateral water hazard , whether or not the ball lies in the water or on the surrounding bank . |
| 15 | You play Indy , who takes on the Nazis as he searches for the precious power-giving material , Orichalcum . |
| 16 | Now to the house itself , one of the early observers gives us a clue when mentioning the house he writes of the fine Elizabethan chimneys still standing , these I believe are those which collapsed in 1973 after having previously been lowered owing to their dangerous condition , on the collapse of these some fine timber framing was discovered in the older parts of the house showing considerable blackening , and Mrs Lingham informed me that vestiges of a gallery were discovered , and it was suggested that this part of the building may have been of the hall type . |
| 17 | A terrace for open-air teas looks towards the award-winning British Tioxide white garden , re-created here after its success at the Gateshead Garden Festival . |
| 18 | From afar it looks like the classical volcanic cone and it is with a mounting sense of excitement that I climb the last section of loose lava gravel and sharp , welded lava rock . |
| 19 | As with most legislation , however , economics lies beneath the new Indian Arts and Crafts Law . |
| 20 | In females it generally consists of a group of stout bristles which lies beneath the extended fore Wing and engages there in a retinaculum formed from a patch of hairs near the cubitus . |
| 21 | She argues the case through a reading of a history painting ‘ Zeuxis Choosing his Models for the Painting of Helen of Troy ’ of the late 1770s in which one of the female figures stands behind the classical Greek artist and herself reaches for the chalk to start on the blank canvas beside her , and through a self portrait ‘ Angelica Kauffman Hesitating between the Arts of Music and Painting ’ ( 1794 ) . |
| 22 | Apart from the well known problem of casual interferences from non-experimental data , another important , less well known difficulty lies with the complex hierarchical structure of many social systems . |
| 23 | Responsibility for protecting the environment and for limiting damage already inflicted , lies with the entire human community . |
| 24 | If , as I suspect , Nicaragua faces serious economic problems , I would assume that part of the blame lies with the previous Nicaraguan government and that Chamorro may be faced with tough decisions needed to ensure that the ‘ empty stomachs ’ of the people are filled . |
| 25 | Money just scrapes into the Top Ten and is of particular importance to men under 24 . |
| 26 | Erm , Socrates does some contemplation er , withdraws from his empirical self , becomes intellect and then afterwards er drops into the wrong empirical er self and turns into well , some erm some ho hideous beast . |
| 27 | The double-voicedness of the novels examined in this chapter is thus itself double : not only are they illustrations of how the voice of an individual interacts with the anonymous collective voice of a discursive system , they also stage the confrontation between the language of fiction and that of the human sciences which have the same object but different methods . |
| 28 | The day starts with the great American breakfast , which , if you have n't managed to get as part of your hotel deal , should be eaten in a local coffee shop or diner and will set you back $3-$4 for eggs , bacon , toast and unlimited coffee . |
| 29 | The counselling process starts with the troubled emotional lives of individuals , whose feelings of worthlessness , inadequacy , fear or vulnerability have affected their lives in serious and possibly damaging ways , and whose relationships with other important people have become difficult , unbearable or have broken down . |
| 30 | The third axillary usually articulates with the posterior notal process and with a group of anal veins . |