Example sentences of "[noun prp] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the past 60 years , I have lived on islands in the Hebrides where Gaelic was the normal means of communication in church services and in daily life . |
| 2 | On 5 May 1951 passenger services were withdrawn from Barnton although coal was still conveyed to Davidsons Mains . |
| 3 | Having passed from the Mediterranean to the Indus without attracting the attention of a single government official , Battuta , like so many subsequent travellers , crossed the Indian frontier only to find himself caught up in an impenetrable web of bureaucracy : no sooner had they set foot on the east bank of the Indus than intelligence officials ‘ wrote to Delhi informing the king of our arrival and giving him all the details concerning us . ’ |
| 4 | We take the piss out of him , because of this idea that he will be doing ‘ real police work ’ , but we all know that divisional work has higher status for a Chief Supt. than Research , and this is the cause for celebration . |
| 5 | It is anyone 's guess why Mr Mitterrand applauded , though he is said to get on better with Mrs T than Euro-legend has it . |
| 6 | Dugan suggested that the military had concluded that air power was the only way of forcing Iraq out of Kuwait if war broke out , and that a massive bombing campaign had been planned in order to " decapitate " the Iraqi leadership by targeting Saddam , his family and his senior commanders . |
| 7 | Charles Winter ( centre ) shares a joke with Cyril Littlewood while entertainer Gary Wilmot calls forward the prizewinners . |
| 8 | While it was the foetus or child en ventre sa mère who was injured , the damages sued for are the damages suffered by the plaintiff Ann since birth and which she will continue to suffer as a result of that injury . |
| 9 | Educated at King Edward 's School , Birmingham , Phil Richardson had initially shown great promise as a goalkeeper and played professionally with Aston Villa before injury forced him into premature retirement . |
| 10 | Nowadays he rewrote ‘ Sonnet ’ every night at the Pinnacle Trumont before Henna arrived and they called room service . |
| 11 | The routine of the annexe on Friday after school was disturbed by Mr Crumwallis making ineffectual invasions of it from time to time . |
| 12 | In October 1990 the USA had halted all economic and military aid to Pakistan after Congress failed to receive a presidential certification testifying that Pakistan was not developing nuclear weapons [ see p. 37764 ] . |
| 13 | Basavaiah Rachaiah replaced Sarup Singh as Governor of Kerala in December 1990 [ see p. 37915 ] . |
| 14 | Markandey Singh replaced Arjan Singh as Lt.-Governor of Delhi in December 1990 [ see p. 37915 ] . |
| 15 | Film had always played an important part in the admiral 's career ( he had founded the Royal Naval Film Corporation ) , and rather than write his autobiography , he had recorded , with John Terraine as questioner , some seven hours of reflection on his life and personal relationships , and had left instructions that none of it was to be shown publicly until after his death . |
| 16 | Way back at the beginning of the club 's history there was a Ramsbottom as hall porter , and the wags in the club shortened it to Ramsbum . |
| 17 | Here he gained experience in locomotive building and his ability sufficiently impressed Charles F. Beyer , in charge of the locomotive department , so that in 1842 he recommended Ramsbottom as locomotive superintendent of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway , which in 1846 became part of the London and North Western , of which he was then appointed district superintendent of the north-east division . |
| 18 | Berthelet did not immediately succeed Pynson as king 's printer ( the statutes of 21 Henry VIII — STC 9363.6 — when Parliament was in session between 3 November and 17 December 1529 , were printed by John Rastell ) but received his appointment early in February 1530 . |
| 19 | It is conceivable that Aethelred would have preferred Wilfrid as archbishop of Canterbury to Beorhtwald and associated Beorhtwald with that eclipse of Mercian influence in Kent which is a feature of the early 690s . |
| 20 | The news of the happy event was of special interest to all in the sales-admin office as it is where both mother and father work — Donna as Customer Service Supervisor and Craig as Financial Accounts Manager on the admin side . |
| 21 | Confirmation of Barr as Attorney General |
| 22 | On Nov. 15 the Senate judiciary committee voted to confirm William Barr as Attorney General [ see p. 38521 ] following hearings during which Democrats had characterized the Bush administration 's approach to BCCI as lethargic and piecemeal . |
| 23 | Parliament on May 4 elected Konstantinos Karamanlis as President of Greece and he was sworn in on May 5 for a five-year term . |
| 24 | As a result , 1993 and 1994 should be important years for LASMO as exploration drilling proceeds in Algeria , Libya , Yemen and Vietnam , each of which is considered to offer significant potential . |
| 25 | Without Mr Gorbachev as party boss , a rapid realignment of forces would take place , making it possible for a coalition-for-democracy to line up against the coalition-for-clampdown . |
| 26 | Election of Gorbachev as President of the USSR |
| 27 | Participants at the Oct. 5 meeting agreed that the violence did not originate in tribal conflict between Xhosa and Zulu , as had been widely reported , but was " orchestrated by certain faceless forces " ( later named by Mandela as state security organs , specifically the National Intelligence Service and the Civil Co-operation Bureau ) . |
| 28 | Encarnación Valdiva ( " the Tiger " ) reportedly replaced Morán as re-contra leader on Sept. 7 and called for fresh negotiations with the government . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , in 1918 , following the retirement of the Rev W B Sleight as President , the Rev F W Gilby M.A. agreed to occupy this position as a stop-gap until the election of a successor at the first Congress after the end of the First World War . |
| 30 | Some of the government appointments as heads of the programme companies were proven professionals — under ORTF : for example , in 1978 , the head of TFI , Jean-Louis Guillaud , had previously advised Pompidou on broadcasting and prepared the launching of the third channel ; the head of A2 , Maurice Ulrich , would later be ‘ Chef de Cabinet ’ of Chirac when premier ( 1986–8 ) ; Claude Contamine , head of FR3 , and later ( 1986–9 ) head of A2 , had been one of the first — when assistant DG of ORTF in 1964 — to commission work from independent producers , despite ORTF 's formal monopoly of production ; further proof-if it were needed — of the longevity of the connection between broadcasting and the state . |