Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun prp] [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's against the system in Continental Europe , it 's against the system I saw in the occupied West Bank when I went out with the police last year and what I saw in South Africa a fortnight ago when I went out w with the police there i i i into the shanty towns and so on . |
| 2 | Sheikh Mohammed 's colt ran a cracking race in the Group One Prix de L'Abbaye to finish second to the ill-fated Mr Brooks and it will be a major surprise if he fails to deliver in this Listed contest . |
| 3 | His career as a Scottish International ended after the ill-fated Argentina campaign when he vociferously criticised the SFA 's handling of the tour and complained about the standard of accommodation . |
| 4 | Peter Yeo was obviously delighted to do any service , however modest , for her and bustled her away , returning belatedly to ask McLeish if he would like a similar facility , which he accepted , obedient to the unwritten CID rule that you looked after your physical needs at any moment that opportunity offered , because you never knew when you were going to get stuck for hours without help . |
| 5 | At the reconstructed Berlin Wall where they are reconciled 34 years later , the crowd will swell to 500 . |
| 6 | The Ipswich forwards were out-scrummaged by the solid Stortford pack and it was from a push-over try after 20 minutes of the second half that Stortford scored their next points . |
| 7 | The so-called Brazzaville Conference that he convened there considered various proposals for political , social , and economic reforms in French Africa . |
| 8 | Startled squaddies received Abba tapes and videos from the would-be Santa Claus as he reassured them they were not forgotten . |
| 9 | Startled squaddies received Abba tapes and videos from the would-be Santa Claus as he reassured them they were not forgotten . |
| 10 | We experimented with a new Editor who wrote and commissioned interesting and often controversial articles , but this approach was competitive with the British Sunday press and I discovered that " controversial " can be distasteful . |
| 11 | This exception is directed at rationalizing the British Leyland case and it allows for the fact that persons who buy items of equipment may need replacement parts in time and should be able to obtain spare parts in a free market at reasonable cost . |
| 12 | Eventually Manuel Pestana returned to Madeira and bought the old Atlantic Hotel where he built the Madeira Sheraton Hotel , the only privately owned Sheraton in the group . |
| 13 | In 1988 , at a particularly lively , contentious and near-violent writers ' conference in Budapest , Angela and I listened one quiet afternoon to the omnipresent Susan Sontag as she revealed that she had devoured ( her cliche ) the great classics of English literature soon after discarding her diapers . |
| 14 | It is greatly to the credit of the squeaking John Major that he broke free from the stage-managed sets devised by his image makers . |
| 15 | I asked about discipline , wondering how it compared with that at the central Scotland school where I taught . |
| 16 | Bradman and the umpire disagreed and Cec came to play in the Central Lancashire League where he became a legend for his fiery bowling , lusty hitting and astonishing turns of phrase . |
| 17 | Murphy told The Lost Angeles Times that he had no fear of violence , but was concerned that the controversy surrounding Body Count 's ‘ Cop Killer ’ track earlier this summer could hurt ticket sales . |
| 18 | Apparently this new method had been tried out down south and it seemed ideal for the temperamental Orkney climate because you harvested when it was green and then you put it in a pit and packed it with a tractor and then you left it until it turned black and rotted and then you cut it up in chunks and fed it to the cattle . |
| 19 | But one thing Rachel was certain of was that the revival of those memories had only intensified her dislike of her sister 's ex-fiancé , and when she arrived for work the following Monday morning and he was the first person she saw she found her resolve to have as little to do with him as possible had only been strengthened . |
| 20 | I doubt that she is much like the real Gertrude Lawrence but she is decidedly a class act . |
| 21 | Among them was the pretty Lady Monmouth and her much older husband . |
| 22 | This character moving at a snail 's pace on a table is Helix Aspersa Maxima … the Large Grey Algerian.And if you 're partial to munching the odd mollusc … he 's quite the tastiest morsel there is.Here at the L'Escargot Anglais snail farm in Herefordshire , Tony Vaughan produces four tons of snails a year … that 's around half a million individuals.He set the business up three and a half years ago after leaving the army.And now he 's supplying restaurants and supermarkets , as well as exporting to Eastern Europe : |
| 23 | Even in winter there had been no " feel " to the soft London air and I half closed my eyes as I followed the tingle all the way down to my lungs . |
| 24 | It seemed to be from a small freshly lit fire and it went unwaveringly into the still April air until it dissolved in the far blue . |
| 25 | ( Looking at her , I was often reminded of the famous Lina Cavalieri as I had seen her in photographs . |
| 26 | Defending champions Puma Welwyn will be obviously doing all in their power to retain the coveted Vauxhall Trophy when they begin their defence in earnest against Hallamshire . |
| 27 | We can immediately rule out the adiabatic HDM model as it predicts insufficient structure on small scales , even taking into account nonlinear evolution . |
| 28 | Clinton has vowed to assist the beleaguered Boris Yeltsin as he struggles to pull Russia out of the mire caused by decades of hardline Communist rule . |
| 29 | One had been an Egyptian , who had tried to keep alive the Egyptian Aten religion when it looked like disappearing in Egypt itself from about the year 1315 B.C. He had chosen the Jews in Egypt as a people to whom he would teach this religion . |
| 30 | I saw some of the places that were to play an important part in the later dramas of my life : the great Clerecia church where I was to be sitting one momentous morning , and beside it the lovely Casa de las Conchas , its walls decorated with rows of carved scallop shells — seven rows adorn the upper storeys . |