Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomson soon found himself hob-nobbing with Mongkut , the King of Siam , who he met through the royal children 's governess , Anna Leonowens . |
| 2 | Meanwhile doubts about the private banks ' ability to cope caused mounting worries . |
| 3 | BRITAIN 'S Monique Javer took advantage of an erratic performance by Dominique Monami , of Belgium , to reach the second round of the Suntory Japan Open yesterday , while Mark Petchey qualified for the top-class men 's event , in which Stefan Edberg is defending his title , by defeating South Africa 's Byron Talbot 6-7 , 6-1 , 6-4 . |
| 4 | William Graffunder , an expatriate German and the promoter of an organisation in Cardiff which he registered as the Amalgamated Seamen 's and Tradesmen 's Union of Great Britain and Ireland in September 1890 , likewise made no bones about its connection with the Shipping Federation in the supply of " free labour " , though he denied being its official . |
| 5 | Detective Sergeant Burgess went off to report to his Superintendent , and Redpath , who 'd been on duty since midnight , decided to try for a few hours ' sleep . |
| 6 | Who tried to hide during the 1984–85 miners ' strike by wearing a bag over his head ? |
| 7 | When we held activities at the school , the girls would always opt for the domestic tasks ' and it was difficult to persuade them to take on some other responsibility . |
| 8 | The professional officers , particularly when organised through a chief officers ' team , as advocated by the Bains Committee , and led by a chief executive officer can provide a formidable obstacle to councillors intent on policy innovation that goes against conventional assumptions . |
| 9 | All payments between Kazakhstan and Russia have to pass through the two countries ' central banks . |
| 10 | Sometimes , of course , it can work the other way round ; I recall a woman , going through a difficult time with her husband , returning after a few days ' holiday to find that he had swept and cleaned the house from top to bottom . |
| 11 | What do you know of the two men 's relationship ? |
| 12 | The hon. Gentleman has just been reminded of the shabby teachers ' pay record of the Labour Government whom he supported some years ago — It was his Government then , although their successors may not be represented on the Front Bench in quite the way that the hon. Gentleman would wish . |
| 13 | If the landlord attempts to take counter measures ( eg by erecting lockable posts in some spaces and issuing keys to some of the tenants and not others ) he may face an action for interfering with the other tenants ' easements . |
| 14 | The complex dielectric permittivity ε * can be measured from the change in amplitude and , if the phase lag between the applied voltage and the outcoming current is determined ( see figure 13.16 ) , then ε * can be resolved into the two components ε′ , the storage ( dielectric constant ) and ε′′ , the loss ( dielectric loss ) . |
| 15 | Some knowing souls disagree with the national selectors ' assessment in reckoning that Watt is too tall for a prop and that in the 1990 District Championship he was the outstanding ball-winner at the front of the line-out . |
| 16 | Here is another chapter opening from the same children 's book . |
| 17 | FIVE local girls have been included in the Irish Women 's waterpolo squad that plays Scotland at the Drumchaple pool in Glasgow on October 2 . |
| 18 | Alex , her brother , was big enough to be included in the older children 's activities and without him she had felt unprotected . |
| 19 | But I read in an article this morning ( 'Students set to pay full fees ' , 29 September ) that if I were applying in a few years ' time , I would have to ask my parents to pay the full cost of my tuition . |
| 20 | In any event we would like to know of any intending applicants for training , even if they are unable to come to the Potential Teachers ' Day . |
| 21 | Robyn had not felt so exalted since the great women 's rally at Greenham Common . |
| 22 | In 1975 a steel fence was added on the visiting supporters ' side of the corridor to further restrict access between the two halves . |
| 23 | These villages lie way beyond the reach of limited government services , which were shown to be in crisis last year when the island group was added to the United Nations ' list of Least Developed Countries ( LDCs ) . |
| 24 | Returning to the All Blacks ' 11-match tour to Australia , the NZRFU has bowed to Australian pressure and loosened the grip on the Bledisloe Cup , for many years the symbol of Trans-Tasman supremacy , but which has only regained popularity in the last decade or so when Australia have been able to break the All Blacks ' hold on the Cup . |
| 25 | He considered applying to the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps of Arkansas University , a nearly foolproof means of escaping combat service in Vietnam . |
| 26 | Markov was posthumously rehabilitated to the Bulgarian Writers ' Union early in January 1990 , when a Bulgarian publishing house was reported to be preparing to republish his writings . |
| 27 | She was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies ' College , Ormond College , and Melbourne University , where she studied philosophy and history ( BA 1903 ) . |
| 28 | The general election of May 1982 was won by the United Workers ' Party ( UWP ) which was returned in the general elections of April 6 and April 30 , 1987 , after winning nine of the 17 parliamentary seats in both . |
| 29 | The initiative for the women 's group came out of a seminar on ‘ Women and Mass Media ’ , which was organised by the Joint Women 's Programme , 22–24 August . |
| 30 | Opposition is being led by an unusual alliance consisting of the Outdoor Writers ' Guild , which counts many leading walkers among its membership , the Country Landowners ' Association and the National Farmers ' Union , as well as the National Trust , the Countryside Commission and individual walkers . |