Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was educated at the Orme Boys ' School , Newcastle under Lyme , then articled to the local architects Chapman & Snape . |
| 2 | His Homily for the Sunday after Ascension Day , which may date from soon after 1000 , says that a king should protect his people against an attacking army and rule with love and justice , and on the advice of his counsellors. Ælfric seems to have been much influenced by the contemporary continental churchman Abbo of Fleury , who had spent two years at Ramsey in the 980s , for he translated into English not only his Passio of St Edmund of East Anglia , but also the treatise De duodecim abusivis sæculi , written in seventh-century Ireland , and used by Abbo in his Collectio canonum , addressed to the French monarchs Hugh Capet and Robert the Pious . |
| 3 | In 1907 a north aisle was added by the local architects Clifton & Robinson , almost doubling the area and detracting from the proportions . |
| 4 | Among that most representative breed of ministers , Moderators , it is even closer to the mark , and without consulting the records I can think of the Very Reverends MacLeod , Fraser , Craig ( Archie ) , Craig ( Robert ) and Reid , as examples . |
| 5 | ‘ There was very little he could do about the horrendous injuries Cooper suffered in his two fights against Ali , but he saved him on countless other occasions with his quick , methodical work . ’ |
| 6 | But that put him at a disadvantage according to the flatty rules Daine had strung himself with . |
| 7 | ‘ There are thousands of traits all with different intensities of selection — you have to look for the critical ones-for Lovejoy and Latimer that means the joints of the knee and hip , not the hands and feet . |
| 8 | Lunar cartography improved steadily during the next 200 years , culminating in a masterpiece of observation and delineation produced by the German astronomers Wilhelm Beer and Johann Mädler in 1837 . |
| 9 | When he visited The National Gallery in London , he was enchanted by the Italian Masters Massacio and Pierro de la Francesca , and the manner in which they portrayed the human figure . |
| 10 | It has been approved by the National Farmers Union ( NFU ) . |
| 11 | Laurentius is now collaborating with the technological giants Philips in Eindhoven to perfect the image of the X-ray using computer-boosting techniques , so that a clear positive print of the watermark and the structure of the paper can be achieved . |
| 12 | She first visited in March last year with her mother thanks to the villagers who started an appeal when they heard about the serious burns Elena suffered in a domestic accident . |
| 13 | Anne 's first words were not uttered in the encouraging tones Robyn had hoped for . |
| 14 | We have opted for a single 19″ Triton fluorescent tube in this 2′ tank . |
| 15 | Purugganan was believed to be a member of a newer , more hardline underground group , known as the Young Officers Union ( YOU ) . |
| 16 | Loco hauling of the Regional Railways Saturday Birmingham-Pwllheli services continued throughout the summer with some motley rolling stock being used . |
| 17 | In the North East of England the waterways developed as a network linked to the wide rivers Aire , Calder , Ouse and Trent . |
| 18 | A Music Hall sling from 1890s , introduced by the Irish comedians O'Connor and Brady , had probably first popularised the word : How it came to be adopted by , and applied to , youthful street gangs is something of a mystery . |
| 19 | His designs for Hagley Hall were drawn out by the architect John Sanderson , the Warwick Shire Hall was executed by the well-known mason-architects William and David Hiorne , who described themselves as its ‘ surveyors ’ as well as its ‘ builders ’ , and he had as his regular assistant a mason called William Hitchcox . |
| 20 | After Lulu had rung off , Charlotte thought about the four letters Beatrix had left with her and reflected that the contents of two were still a complete mystery . |
| 21 | There were several possibilities — amongst them , reading through the several books Mr Bligh-Bond wrote on the subject of church architecture , Paganism and the occult . |
| 22 | In England obituaries regretted that he had not appeared more regularly for his country , while in Dunedin cricketers could only dream of the great things Jack Crawford might have done for Otago cricket … if only a World War had not interfered with something as important as cricket . |
| 23 | Enjoy numerous scenic drives , or walk along coastlines taking in the breathtaking views Northern Ireland has to offer . |
| 24 | The group , including newspaper , TV and radio reporters , looked at the various ways ICI is working for a cleaner environment . |
| 25 | Greg Cooper came from Auckland , Arthur Stone from Waikato , Stu Foster from the north , followed by the two wings John Timu and Paul Cooke , plus the usual number of outside players attending the social sections of the University of Otago . |
| 26 | Each opens with thanks addressed to Jesus for the particular incident of the Passion under consideration and closes with a prayer which first applies this incident to aspects of the meditator 's own life and then modulates into a set pattern indicated by the Latin directives Pater Noster , Et ne nos , Adoramus , Aue [ Our Father , And [ lead ] us not , we praise , Hail ] . |
| 27 | The passive construction allowed for the divergent realities David touched on . |
| 28 | He it was who was associated with the Tor' dei Conti — whose construction had depended on funds provided by Innocent — presumably as its castellan . |
| 29 | Mr Savage sees most accountants falling into the two categories I-Control and I-Explore . |
| 30 | Yesterday a policeman warned Mr Evans that unless the cars were removed from the yellow lines St Paul 's Motors would receive a series of fixed penalty fines . |