Example sentences of "the [noun] [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Gear hit the ball over the defence and Spence immediately changed direction and chased ; for some unknown reason , no flag appeared , allowing Spence to slot home past the helpless Warner to the annoyance of the home players . |
| 2 | Gary Parkinson and Nicky Mohan are recalled to the defence and Bernie Slaven is back in the attack . |
| 3 | Jason Brummell clipped a free-kick over the defence and Gary Traviss hit a superb volley just inside the far post . |
| 4 | Er I mean I , I mean have we really thought this through because er if we 're an anticipating having hundred , hundred and fifty people here which I suppose is of course about what we would hope for , the response that NUPE er as you know they would need to actually achieve the yes vote , I mean we need this sort of room full er would n't it not be more sensible to split up between co or not , would it not be normal for the tutor to expect the group to split up to address specific areas like , I do n't know , Labour Party membership , erm finance , I do n't know , whatever |
| 5 | The response that John Major got was very , very positive . |
| 6 | Arriving at a suitable pitching site , I would erect the tent and Pete would fetch water and have a brew ready by the time we piled in . |
| 7 | The woman pulled back the flap of the tent and Tallis , dying , saw a pale sun in the fields of snow . |
| 8 | Dressing quickly in shorts and T-shirts , they packed the gear away in the tent and Jack parked the bike in the trees , out of sight . |
| 9 | ‘ It was a bloody business but eventually a breach was forced in the defences and Bartholomew led us through . ’ |
| 10 | The success of these two means of communication is largely due to the nature of De Falla 's score , which is somewhat like that of Stravinsky fur The Firebird and Petrushka . |
| 11 | Fokine was the first choreographer to distinguish the need for a particular style for each ballet when he created such different ballets as Les Sylphides , Le Carnaval , Prince Igor , The Firebird and Petrushka . |
| 12 | Examples of such ballets are Fokine 's The Firebird and Petrushka , de Valois ' Job and The Rake 's Progress and Ashton 's La Fille Mal Gardée , the last of which , despite its French origin , discloses the particular quality of English theatre customs and comedy , as does Cranko 's Pineapple Poll . |
| 13 | Massine 's brilliant use of descriptive and narrative gestures in The Three-Cornered Hat was a proper development of Fokine 's mimed dance and danced mime , first seen in The Firebird and Petrushka . |
| 14 | It is this particular way of playing which makes Ashton 's La Fille Mal Gardée what can be called a National Ballet in the same sense that both The Firebird and Petrushka can be called Russian National Ballets and Rodeo and Fall River Legend American . |
| 15 | ( This is not , incidentally , so in the Lerdahl and Jackendoff analysis of music , where the three analogous kinds of prolongation are carefully defined in terms of movement within and between keys . ) |
| 16 | Nevin probed for openings on the right hand side of the park while Tommy Boyd was more of a left midfield player than a member of Scotland 's back four . |
| 17 | Thus one John Armstrong could be distinguished from another as John of the Park or Jock of the Side , the Laird 's Jock ( son of the chieftain ) , Jock Stowlugs , and so on . |
| 18 | Sydney shut-out : Martin Bayfield got the better of Wallaby John Eales this time , but discovered that there is more to winning line-out ball than being the tallest man on the park as Australia waltzed away 40–15 . |
| 19 | Delia had taken her for a walk in the park and Mrs Miniver — always an inquisitive ‘ person ’ by nature — had squeezed through railings alongside the river and promptly slid down the bank into the water . |
| 20 | Some of its humour happened to remind him of his friend Mike Nichols , who had just begun making a career directing plays on Broadway with the hit Neil Simon comedy Barefoot in the Park and Murray Schisgal 's Luv . |
| 21 | That was the opportunity that Maastricht could have given us . |
| 22 | Britain and Europe must seize the opportunity that Gorbachev has helped to create , to negotiate away the military blocs of Nato and Warsaw Pact , get rid of nuclear weapons and cut the arms budget . |
| 23 | and his wife , it was her second marriage , her first one had been to the doctor and he had actually examined paedophilia backed off , basically said well she did n't , she could n't get a conviction but it was quite clear that he had the motive and he 'd had the opportunity because Connie died from the fire which Harvey Jones had set cos he found out |
| 24 | He admitted to being surprised at the progress being made in Scotland , and expressed much admiration for the work currently being planned by the SCU and Teamsport Scotland in developing coaching at both school and club level . |
| 25 | However , a subsequent compromise reached in the Vermittlungsausschuss ( joint mediation committee consisting of an equal number of members from the Bundesrat and Bundestag ) enabled the government to apply the increased taxes on July 1 , while abandoning certain reductions in company taxation . |
| 26 | Compare this to the strenuously managed , balanced sense of self arrived at by the likes of The Eurythmics and Howard Jones . |
| 27 | He has written many books including Carrie , Misery , The Shining , The Stand and Christine . |
| 28 | Somerset 's sixth bowler , Andy Hayhurst , proved the most troublesome and he broke the stand when Kellett was denied a century by edging a cut to wicketkeeper Neil Burns . |
| 29 | The Parachute Regiment will retain one band with the merger of the Falkland and Pegasus Bands and the Army Air Corps will have its own band for the first time . |
| 30 | HAYDN-LOVERS are in for a good time this autumn : coming up are the Haydn at Esterhaza concerts at the Wigmore Hall ( part of the Magyarok Britain Salutes Hungary Festival ) ; already on display is the Haydn and England exhibition at the British Library ; and just started is the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment 's QEH Haydn series concentrating on his late choral works . |