Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defence is solid … remember we were playing Wimbledon … the last thing they do is give the defence an easy time — I thought they coped well and limited Wimbledon to a few shot from the edge of the box — which beeney coped with admirably . |
| 2 | For example , during the daytime the internal clock as well as our life-style and environment raise body temperature and the urinary removal of water . |
| 3 | ‘ I met that young man Billy Sullivan in the park the other day , ’ Annie said casually , wanting to glean some information about him . |
| 4 | You know I took himself off to the Park the other day , the the tiny one you know ! and fortunately I was n't in charge , his father was in charge of them . |
| 5 | One evening in the park the previous summer he had made a frank gesture that was like a question , and one side of her had wanted to say ‘ Yes ’ , but she had said ‘ No , Len , ’ and he had taken his hand away , and kissed her , and quietly accepted her decision . |
| 6 | You may feel that a local course would have more relevance to the job you want or appreciate the opportunity a local course gives you to make new contacts in the district where you will be working . |
| 7 | A few hours later he was at a mega Hollywood party , the Welsh wonder from Stratford-upon-Avon , declaiming Shakespeare , drinking soundly , reciting Dylan Thomas , singing , story-telling , perhaps a little over the top , one or two thought , but to the majority a marvellous new whirlwind of talent and animal energy . |
| 8 | One way to do this is to make the separator an unusual character , say CHR$ ( 127 ) . |
| 9 | The German hotelier pointed the club-face the wrong way and swung in the wrong direction . |
| 10 | During the study period , five additional patients had endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography for putative AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis ; in two cases there were intraductal stones , and in the remainder no definite abnormality was identified . |
| 11 | The commands of these household manuals imply that the printed word was now the authority in the home , and the housewife the new model of servant obeying its dictates . |
| 12 | She entered the convent at the age of eighteen , at the wish of her Parents , and took the veil the following year . |
| 13 | A reinforced riding top hat from Christie 's costs £120 and the veil an extra £2.95 . |
| 14 | The message Chairman an and er having an idea of , of your second item of urgent business erm it , this perhaps provides the link the important er point that I wanted to emphasise was that the issue of rainfall , the defect on erm the drainage of an area and er water catchment areas and so on , drainage basins is a matter which can only be dealt with at the strategic level and it is therefore of considerable concern to me in view of local government and the questions that is raising about the future of strategic planning could actually make this coordination much more difficult in the future , unless we take steps now to protect the er strategic planning , whatever form local government takes strategic planning itself also needs a degree of |
| 15 | Webster offered the Prince a perfunctory bow , then offered him a despatch . |
| 16 | A visit to India being planned for the Prince the following year seemed the perfect opportunity . |
| 17 | At the base a broad timber seat doubles as a table and play surface , the paving at this point in the garden catching far more of the available sun . |
| 18 | Hosts : Dog , cat and fox Site : Small intestine Species : Uncinaria stenocephala Distribution : Temperate and sub-arctic areas ; the " northern hook-worm " A small worm , up to 1.0 cm long , it possesses two cutting plates on the border of the buccal capsule ( Fig. 38 ) and at the base a small pair of teeth . |
| 19 | The direction the English novel was to take in the post-war era was the subject of much discussion in the late 1950s when Christine Brooke-Rose began her career as a novelist . |
| 20 | When Deborah went across to it she saw that there was a faint footpath running in the direction the broken single arm was pointing . |
| 21 | The earlier in the legislative history of the provision the admissible statement is found obviously the greater this task becomes . |
| 22 | On the high flanks of the ridge the thick canopy of the rain forest gave way to slender pines where clear streams plunged from pool to pool over granite boulders . |
| 23 | These were two ex-marines , one of whom had led the trek the previous year and who answered endless questions . |
| 24 | However , in the specialised cells that support and nourish the fetus the immune reaction is greater against a mule fetus than against a horse fetus . |
| 25 | Other writers have complained , particularly in discrimination cases , that conciliation officers are too willing to encourage settlement at any price and fail to provide the support an unrepresented applicant may need against the relatively advantaged position of the employer ( Gregory , 1987 ) . |
| 26 | The support for these aims in Britain can be seen in the support the Labour Party is now receiving . |
| 27 | so from Audrey Wise but it was an act of parliament which had the support the Labour Party as well because the purpose of it is is to help wives to help mothers |
| 28 | This was a report commissioned by the British government as an assessment of the prospects in the Biafran War , which in fact firmly predicted the inevitable victory of the Nigerian government — a victory which was , of course , inevitable because of the support the British government was giving to it . |
| 29 | Generous sizing allows room for movement and another thermal layer underneath if desired , making the shirt a functional garment for the outdoor enthusiast . |
| 30 | He told The Scotsman the other day , ’ the only thing that can stop us is the Labour party . ’ |