Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sidney Poitier directed and starred in the yukkie A Warm December ; Barbra Streisand played a rebellious housewife in Up The Sandbox , a garish comedy-drama ; and Steve McQueen produced and starred in the brutish Sam Peckinpah heist movie The Getaway , which grossed more than $36 million worldwide despite mixed reviews . |
| 2 | After many years languishing in the backwaters of Xerox 's Palo Alto Research Centre the page description language has finally blossomed forth , although not , it must be said , from Xerox . |
| 3 | Mother Mother Mother the lambs |
| 4 | From the Glenmore car park the trail follows the forestry road to Badgaduish in the heart of the forest . |
| 5 | They reckoned without the band 's bloody ‘ 12 years on the barricades ’ stance , so instead of some kinda ‘ Sympathy For The Devil ’ meets T Rex cop-out the Mekes have flipped through their cultural range corner and dug up some tasty oddball goof . |
| 6 | They reckoned without the band 's bloody ‘ 12 years on the barricades ’ stance , so instead of some kinda ‘ Sympathy For The Devil ’ meets T Rex cop-out the Mekes have flipped through their cultural range corner and dug up some tasty oddball goof . |
| 7 | Perhaps if it had not been for the Shakoor Rana affair the TCCB might have handled this quietly and sensibly by issuing a non-committal statement and letting the fuss die down . |
| 8 | His best writing credits were the sentimental Shopworn Angel ( 1938 ) , the romantic comedy-drama Rachel and the Stranger ( 1948 ) , and the tongue-in-the-cheek Burt Lancaster swashbuckler The Flame and the Arrow ( 1950 ) . |
| 9 | Kasuya 's fears proved to be well founded , and he dropped a bombshell at the 1989 meeting of the IWC 's Scientific Committee , when he revealed to the Small Cetaceans Subcommittee the staggering increase in the number of Dall 's porpoise killed in the harpoon fishery based on Iwate Prefecture . |
| 10 | From lavish buffets to butties at the Friday night disco the caterers work flat out to feed the five thousand . |
| 11 | She can now be seen on general release in the Neil Jordan film The Crying Game , cast as an IRA terrorist . |
| 12 | At this week 's party for the new Neil Jordan film The Crying Game , partygoers were forced to dig deep into their leather trouser pockets if they fancied supping vino instead of the free washing up liquid which was on offer . |
| 13 | IN THEIR home and away strips , shell suits and trainers , more than 1,000 budding footballers gave Dundee District Council the red card yesterday over plans to raise the cost of hiring pitches and dressing rooms , writes James Rougvie . |
| 14 | In the true spirit of liberal compromise , the eps league combines both these measures , leaving LLoyds Abbey Life the winner even though it did not top either individual table . |
| 15 | But Laird 's trade unionists are still bitter about the council 's decision to object to the proposed Point of Ayr gas terminal the development that could offer a lifeline to the yard if it wins approval . |
| 16 | In Harrods book department the penis of a Manhattan black photographed by raking light seems to be more offensive to the general public than are close-ups of Madonna 's private parts . |
| 17 | Sting and Peter Gabriel had committed themselves to the Amnesty world tour later that year so gave the June concerts a miss , and Simple Minds had already said yes to the Nelson Mandela birthday celebration the week before . |
| 18 | Sitting today at Warwick Crown Court the judge oprdered Bopurgois to be held in a mental hoispital without limit of time . |
| 19 | Anthem The Earth is the Lord 's Choir Song Bonnie Scotland I adore thee Mr Fairbairn Song Gaelic Mr Donald McArthur Address in Gaelic Mr Hector McLean Song The Boattie Rows Choir Duet The Minute Gun at sea Messrs Glass & Fairbairn Song Comic Mr Fairbairn Service of fruit Address Tour in Egypt Mr John Ramsay Song Germany Miss Nora Campbell Song The Banks of Doon Choir Song Gaelic Mr Angus McCuaig Song Nil Desperandum Mr Fairbairn Song Comic Mr Donald Campbell Votes of thanks Anthem God Save the Queen Choir The accounts also show 5/- paid to a piper . |
| 20 | The truth is that national Parliamentarians lost their powers to control the Brussels embryo government the moment their governments signed the Treaty of Accession on joining the Community . |
| 21 | When the Occupation formally ended in 1952 following the conclusion of the San Francisco Peace Treaty the previous year , a Mutual Security Treaty between the two countries also came into force . |
| 22 | On the Data General Nova computer the group of instructions for arithmetic and logical operations ( seen in Figure 3.2(d) ) has an 8-bit sub-operation field , detailed in Figure 3.3 . |
| 23 | BEEFCAKE dance group the Chippendales are coming under even closer scrutiny than usual — by civil servants . |
| 24 | Star exhibit : the Christopher Dresser album the V&A could not afford |
| 25 | You see , captain , I want to make the Sherman Field Museum the finest of its kind in the United States , maybe even the finest in the world . |
| 26 | And with at least six vampire movies ( including Coppola 's Dracula and the Luke Perry starrer Buffy The Vampire Slayer ) and numerous bloodsucking books coming out between now and Christmas , Rice is particularly well-placed to take advantage of the coming vampire boom . |
| 27 | It stopped snowing but grew colder as the East breathed an icy wind across the city , and in the Egon Schultz school the music of Johann Sebastian Bach echoed through the corridors . |
| 28 | Exeter Cathedral Library The library was founded in the eleventh century , and the Exon Domesday and several other documents survive in situ from that date . |
| 29 | Mr Harrison said : ‘ Following the closure of the Swan Hunter yard the Government has finally agreed to talk to the EC about getting the same subsidies for all British shipyards that we 've been giving to our competitors in the EC for years . |
| 30 | Although there are some formidable technological hurdles to overcome , the concept is already being put into practice in several projects , most prominently from where Mace stands , in the IBM Corp/Apple Computer Inc/Motorola Inc effort to bring some of the functionality found in Motorola 's 680x0 and 88000 processor families onto the PowerPC RISC architecture the three are developing , as well as maintaining binary compatibility with IBM 's RS/6000 Power RISC . |