Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [adv] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally , large European Community ( EC ) grants had been attracted to Portugal which frequently lacked the infrastructure or administrative machinery necessary to absorb them in the most productive manner . |
| 2 | It created a twelve-mile long new course for the River Cary which then allowed the reclamation of the land alongside it . |
| 3 | It took them half the time to get Kevin out to the Murphy cart than it took to get Liam sobered up again and it was Nellie who finally drove the cart away with its very full load . |
| 4 | Now when my mother flies in from Vancouver she barely recognizes the city that was her home for nearly 40 years . |
| 5 | The winners were Hilary and David Carr , Geraldine and Stephen Pinch , Liz and Peter Petherham and Diana and Edward Woolridge who also won the quiz last year . |
| 6 | You see , if a performance lacks this it becomes boring ; and with Strauss you always had the sense of the music moving forward . |
| 7 | Wilkins himself consistently uses the term notion to refer to both kinds of category he talks about , semantic and pragmatic : the term notion incorporates functions . |
| 8 | Even more interesting was the fact that over 300 cars were parked at the Park and Ride facility at Harman 's Cross which obviously reduced the level of traffic along the road to Swanage by that amount . |
| 9 | Elizabeth brings with her the experience of working through periods of change both with ILEA and London Guildhall which recently made the transition from polytechnic to university status . |
| 10 | The vigilante 's cousin is Dirty Harry , the cop hero played by Clint Eastwood who also typifies the evolution from old to new celluloid . |
| 11 | It is Sultan Ismail Petra who probably holds the key to Kelantan 's future . |
| 12 | Outright winners on points of the Four Chamber Shield was Liphook who also won the netball , mixed badminton , ladies ' table tennis and ladies ' squash individual events . |
| 13 | Last November , Collins launched its ‘ Plus 20 ’ series of contemporary British music on CD singles at £4.99 for a playing time of around 30 minutes , and this January they too entered the mid-price arena with ‘ Quest ’ , a new digital label at only £6.99 — DDD Ambisonic masters using 20 bit technology . |
| 14 | In Bury he probably designed the church of St James ( now the cathedral ) , begun in 1503 . |
| 15 | In February it publicly reprimanded the insurer for failing to be tough enough with its agents . |
| 16 | Frank Peter Zimmermann is a fine artist , a most gifted player , who delivers admirable accounts of these three different Violin Concertos. he also has the advantage of committed and clearly well-rehearsed support from a very good orchestra under a talented conductor who follows him like a cat . |
| 17 | John Cole It really takes the biscuit How much longer can we tolerate mass starvation ? |
| 18 | Nobody spoke for a while and it was Sarah who eventually broke the silence . |
| 19 | It was this Stewart who really stimulated the growth and pride of Edinburgh . |
| 20 | In this the miners are at one with the demonstrators who set up another first in Moscow yesterday — the first rival march to the parade in Red Square which officially salutes the revolution . |
| 21 | From the point of view of a Cabinet , if an election is inevitable , it is far better to hold it without a preliminary defeat in the Commons which gravely damages the prestige of the government and raises the morale of its opponents . |
| 22 | Mr Lewis apart , however , the other guests , perhaps through awe , perhaps through a sense of antagonism , kept a wary distance from M. Dupont , a fact that was conspicuous even in that generally guarded atmosphere , and which seemed to underline all the more the feeling that it was M. Dupont who somehow held the key to the outcome of the following days . |
| 23 | On 11 November he publicly dissolved the ICP . |
| 24 | In November it also became the birthplace of Rolling Stone magazine . |
| 25 | It was Martha who finally made the decision to accept Harry 's gift . |
| 26 | It was Owen who bravely opened the door to find a very wet and windblown elderly French couple on the doorstep . |
| 27 | Of all of Stamford 's curious people it is probably Stukeley who fully deserves the tide of ‘ Stamford legend ’ , and in spite of his attitude to the town , his work on Stamford has contributed significantly to its rich mythology . |
| 28 | these forces , are essential for any understanding of the historical Jesus — the Jesus who actually walked the soil of Palestine two thousand years ago — rather than the Christ of faith . |
| 29 | Grom is accompanied by his Goblin assistant Niblit who also carries the army 's battle banner . |
| 30 | When Meissner exhibited the picture at the International Fine Art Dealers ' Fair in New York this past autumn it was shown to Jayne Wrightsman who reportedly disliked the picture because it ‘ was n't pretty enough ’ . |