Example sentences of "the [noun] [conj] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immediately the activities and their durations are entered the Gantt bar chart and the end date are displayed . |
| 2 | Well I 've turned the one in the bedroom off for the moment cos if in the daytime if your mum 's up re resting |
| 3 | THE Premier and his Ministers will have their pay frozen from April as part of the Government 's austerity drive . |
| 4 | The judge said there would be no special tribunal hearing to investigate the dispute between the premier and his cabinet colleague , but efforts would be made at today 's session of the inquiry to clarify the facts that led to Mr Reynolds ' dishonesty allegation . |
| 5 | Clearly the nature of the defences and their effect at individual sites may be yet another indicator of different levels of complexity and status . |
| 6 | The masher 's intended victim was not quite so indecisive ; far from taking the opportunity to run off , leaving St George to fight the dragon on his own , she had taken the opportunity once her attacker 's attention had been diverted from her to remove her right shoe , and she now proceeded to attack him from the rear , pounding him first about the head and shoulders with the shoe , and then with her handbag shrieking , ‘ Take that , you cowardly bully , and that , ’ leaving him open to any attack Neil might care to make . |
| 7 | He 'd been away at the time of the murder but if , as seemed likely , he 'd been having an affair with Angy … suppose he was married and his wife had found out , and taken the opportunity while her husband was absent to do away with her rival ? |
| 8 | Its bombs almost invariably devastate towns and property where Protestants are in the majority and its shootings are directed at members of the security forces , who are mainly Protestant . |
| 9 | I would like to thank Paul Lucas , Bridget Nottingham and family , Tim and Steve Wallace , Richard Newcombe and Derek Whitefoot ( who supplied us with a stand ) for their help in erecting and dismantling the stand and their attendance during the event . |
| 10 | She made for the stand where her umbrella was kept . |
| 11 | Southampton v Manchester C Howard Kendall watches from the stand as his new charges attempt to resist the First Division 's most prolific attack . |
| 12 | Eileen knew what she had thought of the Arbuthnots and their kind , until she fell in love with Philip . |
| 13 | Hello , Dolly ! also had money in it , reputedly paying him 100,000 , and more for just the rehearsals than his total previous showbusiness earnings . |
| 14 | For many years they were regarded as colonial coelenterates , but it is now certain that they are unrelated to the jellyfish and their allies , and in fact are distant cousins to a small group of tube-dwelling organisms with little fossil record , which belong to the minor phylum Hemichordata . |
| 15 | The simplest creatures to possess these physical characteristics are the jellyfish and their relatives . |
| 16 | So much for the experts and their fuckin' theories , the driver thought bitterly . |
| 17 | The priests , as God 's representatives , were required to declare God 's acceptance or rejection of the worshipper and his offering . |
| 18 | She has all the skills as well as the attitudes that her police training gave her . |
| 19 | All the lanterns and her hair and everything , and the food and everything looked superb ! |
| 20 | He managed to convey some contempt for the TAS and its operations at the same time . |
| 21 | The monitors had responded falsely to RFI generated by walkie-talkie conversations between the labourers and their supervisors . |
| 22 | This project uses the information contained in the returns made by enumerators for the Census of England and Wales , 1881 , to investigate the origins , nationalities , ages and , to a lesser extent , the living conditions and mobility of the labourers and their families at work on railway building in the spring of 1881 . |
| 23 | The indistinguishability of the housewife and her work provides , if anything , a motivation to be satisfied — whether with cleaning specifically or with the whole complex of housework activities generally . |
| 24 | These habits become small gears churning nowhere , whose teeth snarl the fine fabric of the relationship between the housewife and her mate . |
| 25 | Neither the seamen nor their leaders , Shinwell admitted , had heard of the Queensberry rules ; " they had one common characteristic , a belief that toughness and a bellicose attitude were as good a rule of life as any and while many seamen were of a friendly disposition and hated trouble , some would attack from the rear and use a razor or a broken bottle " . |
| 26 | THE PRINCE & HIS PAVILION |
| 27 | They switched on the car 's headlights as a beacon ; but , all of a sudden , as the Prince and his companions were half-way across the water , the lights swung round and moved away as the vehicle set off down the glen . |
| 28 | With the Prince and his traditionalists in one wing , and Palumbo , Rogers and their adherents in another , Somerset House could then become the focal point of the appealingly pluralistic British architectural scene . |
| 29 | The Prince and his son wanted , it is said , a palazzo worthy of their station in life . |
| 30 | That is the view of senior officials at Buckingham Palace and the royal author closest to Prince Charles following publication of an alleged phone call between the prince and his close friend Camilla Parker Bowles . |