Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun prp] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Poles , through Commissioner General Marian Chodacki , said that what went on to their stamps was their business , and they were genuinely mystified that Danzigers whose ancestors had risen up against the Teutonic Knights should feel offended by stamps that celebrated their victory . |
| 2 | The Israeli Mossad would have confirmed that I 'd been killed in Damascus . |
| 3 | According to Soames 's sister , Emma , the admirable Sutton would answer Soames 's car phone in the manner of a country butler , asking callers to hold the line while he saw if Sir was in . |
| 4 | He told us that he expected to be posted to the front at some time in the next few weeks but he would still be home by Christmas ; an officer had told him that the bloody Huns would have been sent packing long before then . |
| 5 | THE sounds of the Scottish Highlands will ring through Hyde Park today as thousands of pipers and drummers flood the Capital . |
| 6 | A mass demonstration being organised by the Scottish TUC will go ahead on Saturday , as planned . |
| 7 | The redoubtable Ethel must have been shocked when it was made clear she was down-graded to five , the same as Gracie Holt . |
| 8 | Which is a four hundred yards and it was an inset , the top hard seam was ninety yards lower down at the four hundred and ninety yards to the And the High Hazel used to have an inset . |
| 9 | She was only forty-six at the time , but sheer hardship and constant exposure to the worst elements the high Pennines could mete out had drained her youth away . |
| 10 | I say the choice , but since any even half-curious visitor to the High Pyrenees will want to go up both valleys , it comes down only to deciding which to visit first . |
| 11 | As he came into the light of the street-lamp Myles could see an exasperated look on his face . |
| 12 | The punctured Dunlop will attest to that . |
| 13 | Precisely what this tandem relationship and the reiterated link with the historical Jesus would lead us to expect . |
| 14 | NSA would pick up the call with their satellites ; the British GCHQ would get it ; so would the Russians … |
| 15 | I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed . |
| 16 | The old Maggie would have shrugged and gone without . |
| 17 | The old USSR would have been proud of such central control . |
| 18 | Max Streibl , prime minister of Bavaria , recently pointed out that reinstalling the parliament in the old Reichstag would put it within range of Kreuzberg ( an area of west Berlin with a reputation for left-wing street mobbery ) . |
| 19 | The prime minister 's critics say all this is happening too late ; that he should have regrouped last autumn , and that the Canadian Titanic may founder even while the ministers switch deckchairs . |
| 20 | It 's early days yet … but it seems this fishy find from the outer Hebrides could bring fresh hope and health to many thousands of people . |
| 21 | [ Houghton ] himself would pick a dozen objects and put them in a ‘ masterpiece ’ gallery so the average Joe could taste the cream and leave ’ , yet Hoving espouses precisely such ideas throughout the book . |
| 22 | The 30-year-old Palacio used to fight for coins in the streets of Medellin and was good enough to fight for the WBA super-bantamweight crown two years ago , when he claimed he was robbed . |
| 23 | July 1919 , Lenin promised , would be the ‘ last difficult July ’ ; the following July would see the ‘ victory of the international Soviet republic and that victory will be complete and final ’ . |
| 24 | The face will fill out , the limbs will unwind and the real Gemma will emerge , so that by the time she is six months old even a stranger will be able to tell her from Carla Marie . |
| 25 | The real Kung would have been killed months ago . |
| 26 | Lord Owen rejects the idea that the Bosnian Serbs can hold on to all the territories they now occupy . |
| 27 | ‘ The Bosnian Serbs will have liaison officers with the convoy and bring it as close as possible to Srebrenica . |
| 28 | The Little Avon must have provided a reasonably reliable source of power for , in an era when mill owners were beginning to install steam engines to supplement or replace water power , during the 1830s New Mills still relied solely on water . |
| 29 | Under the new system , the Little Hural would deal primarily with economic matters and " the supervision of the government " ; the Great Hural would concern itself with the fundamental issues in domestic and foreign policies . |
| 30 | But not even the penny-pinching Strange could have complained overmuch about the price that had been paid for the extraordinary information Morse had gleaned . |