Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It featured an enclosed glazed cockpit for the pilots with sliding panels , and portholes were located along the hull sides . |
| 2 | The port of Southampton was enlarged so that ocean-going liners were attracted to its facilities and in 1933 what was then the largest dry dock in the world was opened by King George V. |
| 3 | Classes in the faculty are normally conducted in New College , a striking historic building on the Mound in central Edinburgh which includes the largest theological library in Britain . |
| 4 | The strong rural support for the Party is recognized by a call for ‘ a realistic return for the farming community , with special measures to offset the disadvantages , especially in the intensive livestock sector , resulting from our isolation from Great Britain ’ . |
| 5 | She found him behind a tall potted plant in the far corner where , she suspected , he had been deliberately steered by the proprietor in order that as few people as possible should be aware of his presence in the establishment . |
| 6 | Nonetheless , having surveyed the yeomanry at length , Smith too reached the point beyond which he possessed little specific knowledge of the people under discussion , unless he felt that there was little that could usefully be said about those who had ‘ neither voice nor authority in the commonwealth , and no account is made of them but onelie to be ruled , not to rule others ’ . |
| 7 | Although there is little specific mention of the lifeboat service the sea is never any further from the book than it is from the history of the town of Blackpool . |
| 8 | ‘ Do you have to wear that bloody garment in the house ? |
| 9 | Anyway , what had it all amounted to ? scorned Alice , triumphantly examining that too-pale , anxious , strained face , with beads of sweat on the forehead : printing fucking garbage for this or that bloody faction in the fascist bloody Labour Party , printing dish-water newspapers for bloody liberals and revisionists , sucking up to shitty politicians on the make and bourgeois trash anyway doomed to be swept into the dustbins of history ? |
| 10 | ‘ Gallagher made Luke confess in front of about twenty witnesses — that bloody rabble from the pub and the cottages . ’ |
| 11 | Quiet holding notes and fairly stationary filling-in parts constitute the main part of the duty of the horns , as any score will show , but we shall see later on that they are also very useful in doubling other instruments when it is desired to give ‘ body ’ and prominence to a broad melodic line in the tenor register . |
| 12 | It followed from this that real international peace could be attained only through far-reaching political reform within the European States and the weakening or destruction of the monarchical , aristocratic and military influences which had hitherto dominated them . |
| 13 | ‘ Naturally we at the centre are very pleased at having developed the most advanced bionic arm in the world . |
| 14 | Two million cells in 3μl were slowly injected under ether anaesthesia through the right frontal skull into the subarachnoid space using a 10μl Hamilton syringe . |
| 15 | ‘ The interior of the carriage is lined throughout with delicate blue satin , wadded and tufted , and the angles finished with broad fluted pilaster of the same elegant material . |
| 16 | I start up the engine again and move on , staying within fifty metres of the shore , which is the usual feeding range of the local otters . |
| 17 | Gen. Aoun suffered a serious setback on Feb. 17 when LF militiamen overran Adma base ( north of Jounieh ) , the sole Army-held pocket in the northern LF territories . |
| 18 | A bicycle wheel fitted into the rail slots perfectly , with disasterous results as Yanto had often discovered after the odd liquid lunch at the Sharpness Hotel . |
| 19 | It meant a person who was not paid , was probably a close relative and had a strong emotional involvement with the person receiving care . |
| 20 | He said that we had proposed setting up , through the Western European Union , a European reaction force but that a number of our partners within the member states had a strong emotional attachment to the idea of a common European defence policy associated with the European Community . |
| 21 | At first sight it is absurd to propose that Islamic socialization of the economy required the nihil obstat of everyone 's mother-in-law . |
| 22 | The SNM is a ragged band of fighters with little political ideology beyond the expulsion of President Barre 's forces from northern Somalia and the overthrow of his 20-year-old government . |
| 23 | An additional urgency was injected into the moves towards a coherent regional policy by the emergence of the debate on economic and monetary union in the 1970s . |
| 24 | There is that admittedly-dwindling sector of the population which still smokes and those who make their living from the cigarette industry . |
| 25 | The former , who had succeeded to his title in 1543 , had maintained a strong feudal authority at the service of three Tudor monarchs with divergent religious attitudes . |
| 26 | The random-walk model described in Section 6.2 is based on the assumption that each possible state of the system ( the stream flow direction in the example in Section 6.2 ) is equally probable . |
| 27 | A set of anaphor resolution rules , based closely on those of Sidner ( 1979a ) , were applied to each possible anaphor in the reading . |
| 28 | The fundamental rule described in Chapter 2 ensures that each possible path in the tree which matches the input string will be followed up . |
| 29 | The character recogniser for the handwriting analyser ( Wright , 1989 ) produces a ranked list of ( up to 6 ) character candidates for each possible node in the character lattice . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , the largest indoor oceanarium in the world , the John G Shedd in Chicago , which is keen to begin captive breeding of belugas , has applied to the American authorities for an import licence for Brightness . |