Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first half of my drawing book the views had a fairly traditional format . |
| 2 | I had n't eaten since my snackette supper the night before and I was so hungry that I would have eaten almost anything , even a plate of my grandmother 's famously awful creamed ham and carrots , the only dish I know to have been inspired by vomit . |
| 3 | When I saw the monster from the marsh , one night , I was , I was , I was frightened , I , I , I , I was he looked liked a when I saw him I ran back to camp and I felt frightened , I hid under my sleeping bag the end |
| 4 | It was a new me who demanded locks on my bedroom door the next day . |
| 5 | I collected my clothing parcel the next morning and there were the razor blades and the tooth paste just as I had expected . |
| 6 | They remained as they were ; in some fashion they were communing , and I could sense from my vantage point the necessity that linked them . |
| 7 | They then pass the manuscripts to me , and I or my wife type the journal to a computer file . |
| 8 | Forcing back the tears , I reverse into my bolt hole the narrow gap between the cooker and the washboiler . |
| 9 | He chews up my glasses , and had my alarm clock the other night . |
| 10 | Before turning to these matters , however , I shall use as my starting point the rather more advan-tageous conditions for executive leadership that exist in the United Kingdom . |
| 11 | Many transracially adopted children are aware that the darker their skin colour the more undesirable they are to white society ; and many feel it is better to be white than black . |
| 12 | First of all , Climber & Hill Walker readers must be wondering what he was so annoyed about , because the review did not actually appear in this magazine but its sister publication The Great Outdoors . |
| 13 | It was announced on Jan. 18 , 1990 , that the Iowa , together with its sister ship the New Jersey , was to be withdrawn from service after repairs had been completed [ see also p. 37178 ] . |
| 14 | The Daily Post , its sister paper the Liverpool Echo , the University of Liverpool and Whitbread have joined forces to stage ‘ The Question of Merseyside 's Future ’ , a TV-style forum chaired by BBC Question Time presenter Peter Sissons . |
| 15 | The Fellowship , by most standards , was generous : my wife and I travelled to the U.S.A. ( with our baby son ) on the liner The Queen Elizabeth , and travelled home to England on her sister ship The Queen Mary . |
| 16 | So too does Micky Steele-Bodger , who played for the England rugby team at flank forward in the 1947-48 season , and has since contributed enormously as an adminstrator , particularly in raising a team each season for the past 42 years to play Cambridge in their preparation fo the University match . |
| 17 | Our trainees always found their cooking day the biggest ordeal , and we had to put up with some unorthodox meals at times . |
| 18 | He also announced that in its referendum campaign the CP would be working with the neo-fascist Afrikaner Resistance Movement ( AWB ) which had reversed its plans for a boycott of the vote . |
| 19 | In its election manifesto the Janata Dal-led National Front had accused Congress ( I ) of eroding and devaluing institutions such as the governorship for party advantage . |
| 20 | In its majority opinion the Court found that " the mere existence of a generalized political " motive to the coercion was inadequate to qualify someone for protection under the 1980 Act , and that the law required the persecution to be motivated by the opinions of the victim rather than by those of the persecutor . |
| 21 | A year before their re-election victory the Conservatives lagged behind Labour in the opinion polls . |
| 22 | Our model predicts that such an object disrupts so close to the surface that its fragments crater the surface as if from a coherent object , consistent with the appearance of Meteor Crater . |
| 23 | Consequently , not all sociolinguistic studies of syntactic variation are quantitative , and not all take as their data base the corpora of naturally occurring speech preferred for phonological work ; elicitation techniques of various kinds are sometimes used . |
| 24 | Er , in addition if you were to walk into the headquarters there today , in their trophy case the largest and most prestigious trophy is the Moller trophy . |
| 25 | However , British Airways has acknowledged via its CADDIS programme the worth of investment in AI to engineering efficiency , cost reduction , departure safety and punctuality . |
| 26 | At her cafe table the two men can sit as they would at home at their kitchen tables . |
| 27 | The value of the Norfolk Federation and its WEA magazine The Democrat was also noted . |
| 28 | One of the direct results of this westwards orientation ( or , more precisely , ‘ occidentation ’ ) has been the relative neglect by historians of the huge , seemingly limitless tracts of territory stretching eastwards beyond the Urals towards the Pacific coast , and encompassing on its north-south axis the frozen wastes of the Polar North and the deserts and mountains on the edges of Central Asia , Mongolia and China . |
| 29 | With its core product the eponymous black stout , Guinness has the flexibility to explore new markets and opportunities through partnerships with other brewers in joint ventures , and licensed or contract brewing agreements . |
| 30 | ( Harness racing , it said in brackets , would hold the first meeting of its winter season the following Sunday . ) |