Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [noun sg] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On either side her head gleamed coiled braids of dark-gold hair , almost pale copper in the subdued light of the room . |
| 2 | The figure whose character achieved clearest focus was that of Fulk the Good , Geoffrey Grisegonelle 's father . |
| 3 | The commissions were not of much political importance themselves , but each of the thirty-two county commissions was headed by a national figure whose selection gives some idea of the balance of power . |
| 4 | The commissions were not of much political importance themselves , but each of the thirty-two county commissions was headed by a national figure whose selection gives some idea of the balance of power . |
| 5 | The Court of Appeal heard that a witness whose evidence sent another man to jail for murder in 1988 had been bribed by police . |
| 6 | Jennifer Kelsall , winner of the 1992 NT/3M National Nursing Award for education , describes to Ruth Devlin her initiative to help deaf women in pregnancy and labour |
| 7 | 0 n her back hung thirteen leather thongs , studded with emerald snails , which signified the planets in the sky . |
| 8 | Himself a creature of translation , in Salman Rushdie 's sense of having been borne across the world and across cultures , Ghose is among the Indo-Anglian writers of the diaspora whose work chronicles 20th-century displacement and migration.hThis novel , his eleventh , is a complex , fragmentary and at times obscure exploration of the relationship between memory and identity , and the fractures wrought in both by expatriation . |
| 9 | As Macmillan at the time was political adviser to General Alexander whose army occupied that area , many felt that he bore some responsibility . |
| 10 | Amid the protests to date , perhaps the most telling line has come from Newtownards woman Phyllis Bibby whose petition demanding urgent changes in the system had been meeting with a poor response . |
| 11 | He was referring to the British Government 's ‘ bloody Tories ’ trade block against Russia whose revolution threatened European equilibrium . |
| 12 | So tell me , if the business my grandmother started several decades ago really is on the brink of insolvency , how come you 're sunning yourself in the Caribbean , Mr Sterne ? |
| 13 | SARA had been dreaming and for a moment her dream had more reality than her waking state . |
| 14 | The Chancellor 's Autumn Statement will be too late to help Elizabeth Smart herself — the fencing business her father began 30 years ago is now in receivership . |
| 15 | The Chancellor 's Autumn Statement will be too late to help Elizabeth Smart herself — the fencing business her father began 30 years ago is now in receivership . |
| 16 | Terence O'Neill was the son of a Westminster MP and country squire whose family owned large estates in North Antrim . |
| 17 | Some Policyholders whose cover includes Personal Property ‘ All Risks ’ may find that their Policy Schedule shows a sum insured of £1,000 under Item 1 ( Clothing and Personal Belongings and Valuables ) . |
| 18 | During a 12 month period our laboratory investigated 10871 people who had had a course of hepatitis B vaccine . |
| 19 | The moment your opponent feels these taps he or she must let go immediately . |
| 20 | And when told it was Victoria after the Queen and that the Queen was a wonderful lady , and her Prince was wonderful , too , she 'd had to bite her tongue to prevent herself from saying , ‘ Aye , she 's a wonderful lady all right , she 's still for bairns your size working twelve hours a day . |
| 21 | A blacksmith whose work involved much sharpening of jumpers ( drill irons ) , could be paid at the rate of , say , so much per 20 dozen — otherwise at so much per day . |
| 22 | During the poet 's lifetime the vicar of the town was Thomas Bowles [ Baker , 1 , 576 ] , a classicist whose preaching betrays some pedantry : |
| 23 | What can I say about the sculptor that designed the molecules of the grenadilla whose shape causes this ecstasy in the matrix of the senses ? |
| 24 | Even where the only ‘ standard ’ terms of the seller are those in the exemption clause itself , still a buyer whose contract includes that exemption clause could well be regarded as buying on the seller 's ‘ written standard terms of business . ’ |
| 25 | Most kids have a pretty long list : ‘ Please may I have a Barbie doll with her van and a oops a daisy doll hands down games bensing babys teddy bears leggo my dolley suprise hungry hippoes . ’ |
| 26 | The king my father had complete confidence in your judgement and loyalty , I know . |
| 27 | But that is a small fraction of the stuff which humanity discards each year . |
| 28 | Boccioni , Carrà and Russolo showed recent works at the Esposizione d'Arte Libera in Milan in the Spring of 1911 , and owing to the polemics already aroused by Futurist propaganda their work attracted great interest . |
| 29 | More typical is the confused plight of Ewing Oil and its rickety chartered tanker , familiar to viewers of ‘ Dallas ’ ; or , in the real world , the American Trader whose load fouled southern California last month . |
| 30 | A HAIRDRESSER whose boss slipped topless pictures of her into a style book for his male customers won a sex discrimination case yesterday . |