Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [coord] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What concerns me is that the vast majority are not coming to enjoy the Park but are using the roads as convenient thoroughfares . |
| 2 | She saw that the leader of the religious group had separated himself from the majority and was standing near to the sea 's edge and looking directly at the horizon . |
| 3 | The final result can also be carried back into whatever program you were running before you used the calculator and is printed at the current cursor position . |
| 4 | I travelled to the plant to collect the guitar and was treated to a comprehensive tour of what I can confirm as an impressive facility of skilled and committed people in every department . |
| 5 | Carpet of the same pattern as that in the hall was laid over only the middle part of the stairway and was held in place by little metal arms which pinned the carpet against the back of each tread . |
| 6 | In a room full of fluffy toys , she opens her scrapbook and it is pre-war Paris where she danced the can-can and was photographed in cafes with sleepy-eyed men and cigarette smoke . |
| 7 | This raises the interesting possibility that Mancini 's insistence that Edward IV wanted his brother to be protector also derives from a version of events put about by the duke after he had seized the prince and was seeking recognition as protector . |
| 8 | This raises the interesting possibility that Mancini 's insistence that Edward IV wanted his brother to be protector also derives from a version of events put about by the duke after he had seized the prince and was seeking recognition as protector . |
| 9 | ‘ When I got back to the base and was told he was dead my legs went from under me . |
| 10 | The four Counsellors had reached the top of the ridge and were standing stationary in a line , like four badly-constructed scarecrows , their robes billowing in the wind . |
| 11 | He recalled , ‘ I was under the pressure of being a family man with a daughter , and one day I accepted a job to act in a movie in the day-time and was writing another movie at night . |
| 12 | The system will ensure that candidates ' achievement is compared accurately against the level of achievement required for the award and is rewarded consistently , whenever and wherever that achievement has been demonstrated . |
| 13 | The Commission was widely believed to be the only hope of reversing the Ostflucht and was allocated vast sums of money by the Prussian government . |
| 14 | Yes and it 's it 's the the bending and being beaten into sheets and moulding . |
| 15 | A fresh election was held on Jan. 17 , 1988 , and in spite of widespread violence and evidence of corruption , Leslie Manigat was declared the winner and was inaugurated on Feb. 7 . |
| 16 | Despite widespread violence and corruption , Leslie Manigat was declared the winner and was inaugurated on Feb 7 . |
| 17 | The two gall bladder perforations were caused by an inexperienced radiologist learning the technique and were managed conservatively by percutaneously draining the gall bladder for seven to 10 days to allow the perforation to heal and performing stone extraction at a second stage . |
| 18 | Cranston had placed the wine cup and jug beside the bed , collapsed on to the mattress and was smiling beatifically at the ceiling , fast asleep . |
| 19 | Heavy drinking affects the heart and is linked to brain disorders . |
| 20 | Gladstone Murray and party , which included his newly-appointed Programme Director , Ernie Bushnell , and CBC Western representative , Horace Stovin , arrived in Moose Jaw during the afternoon and were escorted to suites of rooms in the Grant Hall Hotel . |
| 21 | William and Thomas ' names never appear in records — they would not if they were part of a company or gang , for it was the leading hand who collected the money and is mentioned in pay books . |
| 22 | Visitors to the area are encouraged to confine their living requirements to the resort and are bussed out to the various landmarks where rangers of the Uluru National Park provide guided tours and prevent entry to certain Aboriginal sites . |
| 23 | Two men , aged 26 and 27 , contested the case but were found guilty of rape and aiding and abetting each other on the sex attacks on a 21-year-old French woman , who told how the two burst into her room at a friend 's flat while she was reading the Bible . |
| 24 | He added that the council , which accepts the transactions were unlawful , was not concerned with the two years of accounts ( 1987-88 and 1988-89 ) at issue in the case but was seeking to ensure its future position . |
| 25 | Six teenagers who gang-raped two 16-year-old schoolgirls forty-five times contested the case and were found guilty . |
| 26 | Count Tolstoy lost the case and was ordered to pay £1.5m damages to be shared with another defendant . |
| 27 | A statement of law based upon facts which either were not found to exist in the case or were found not to be material to the decision . |
| 28 | Local people had approached the IFI and were turned down , but would have been funded had their businesses been located in Bangor . |
| 29 | The madrigal is nearly always ‘ through composed ’ even when , exceptionally , the text is strophic ; the music of the chanson carries the text and is moulded by its symmetry while that of the madrigal more closely reflects the details of an often much freer text . |
| 30 | Such effects owe their origin to gradients in the field and are called tidal effects . |