Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun sg] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discontented gentry unlocked the door which legal reformers had been unable to unlock for themselves . |
| 2 | All that the Government have decided so far is to cancel the scheme which British Rail spent hundreds of millions of pounds of our money developing . |
| 3 | As our plans only allowed for one day on Mykines , we made the hølmur our main target , and after leaving our things in the empty house in which we had arranged to spend the night , we set off to follow the steep cliff path which leads to the bridge . |
| 4 | It was the following weekend and Rachel was helping her father , who had just given the lawn its last cut before winter , to dispose of the grass cuttings on the compost heap at the bottom of the garden . |
| 5 | District and county councils have given the scheme their full support and hope the programme will meet with the same success as Darlington 's pioneering Railside Revival scheme . |
| 6 | District and county councils throughout the region have given the scheme their full support . |
| 7 | In 1980 , Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark , a DinDisc act , had given the company their biggest selling album of an otherwise disastrous year . |
| 8 | The National Assembly had given the bill its first reading in November 1990 [ see p. 37968 ] . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've just given the barman his own show on the telly , ’ he explained , handing them around . |
| 10 | Since then two related developments have given the group its unusual character . |
| 11 | Lili had given the outfit her qualified approval . |
| 12 | Penury , moral as well as physical , is signified in the Barton household when money is wanting to purchase the soap and brushes , black-lead and pipe-clay which had given the houseplace its cheerful look in more prosperous days . |
| 13 | Busacher , after careful thought , had decided he would conduct the orchestra himself this evening . |
| 14 | CHEERS star Kirstie Alley yesterday revealed the happiness her adopted baby has brought her and Baywatch husband Parker Stevenson . |
| 15 | New issues crowd in to join them : environmental management , repairing the damage which socialist concentration on heavy industry has inflicted on Eastern Europe , technological competition in a world where the struggle for economic supremacy is replacing the struggle for military security , migration and refugee flows on an vast scale . |
| 16 | " Just want to see the set-up my little girlie 's embarked on , " he had said down the telephone . |
| 17 | The strike call was originally made by the human rights activist , Dr Andrei Sakharov , and two other leaders of the radical Inter-Regional Group , who want the Congress of People 's Deputies , which meets tomorrow , to discuss the amendment of Article 6 of the constitution , which guarantees the party its dominant position . |
| 18 | Racal Electronics Plc 's problematic data communications equipment business won a big fillip yesterday when British Telecommunications Plc announced that it would make the company its preferred supplier of new data communications equipment in the UK and internationally . |
| 19 | The Grammar School in Stockport , however , avoided the extinction which other schools had suffered , for during this turbulent period it was itself in a sort of Limbo . |
| 20 | But to write the word themselves Chinese children — those spoilt and individualistic ‘ little emperors ’ ? — will practice writing individual strokes for hours on end until they can get this horizontal or that vertical line exactly right . |
| 21 | Send the Colonel my best wishes when you see him again , Sergei . ’ |
| 22 | He 'd always had the nicest smile , open and boyish , but she 'd forgotten the way his hazel eyes sparkled with greenish lights , perhaps because she 'd never seen him so tanned before . |
| 23 | The point of the metaphor of father is to indicate the experience which religious people have of God as a loving creator . |
| 24 | The senator found it hard to hide the rancour his own son provoked in him . |
| 25 | It is easy , however , for rhetoric about freedom and choice to blur the reality which professional workers encounter daily . |
| 26 | ‘ Throughout his eight and a half years as Labour leader he has shown the sort of courage in reforming the party which few politicians are capable of — and which , it must be said , John Major has never been called on to demonstrate in his effortless , virtually unchallenged glide through the great offices of state . ’ |
| 27 | Regional pride , the growth of language and caste-based movements , suspicion of the Hindi-speaking north , have eroded the support which national parties used to enjoy . |
| 28 | The explanation of this furrow was discovered in the 1960s and restored the reputation of a German geophysicist who proposed a hypothesis which most people disregarded . |
| 29 | So I suppose you want a coffee my dear man ? |
| 30 | When the sun rose on Cheddar Cliffs — as the gorge was invariably called — he found a scene which justified superlatives , and which travellers had long regarded as among the most remarkable natural sights in lowland Britain . |