Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DRAG racing star Ian Merryweather has launched a quest to raise funds in a bid to defend his European crown . |
| 2 | His rather surprising decision to accept the modest living of Little Tuckett had put an end to that . |
| 3 | To Nora 's barely hidden horror William had joined a partnership in Northumberland . |
| 4 | In one 1982 case , Mr Justice Taylor refused to allow a man who had been described by the " Sunday People " as a violent and drunken bully to bring a prosecution for criminal libel . |
| 5 | Scarborough wildlife leader Jim Ward has launched an appeal to create a rescue centre . |
| 6 | Dean Acheson had caused a storm in the British media with his suggestion that Britain 's world role was just about played out . |
| 7 | Ian Wright has become a player who holds the key for the two Grahams , George and Taylor . |
| 8 | Californian Tamara Rotola has hired a lawyer to fight for maintenance from Albert for her six-month-old daughter . |
| 9 | When he had returned home that day , after leaving Franco , Maria Filippa had placed a dish on the table , filled with warm fresh taralli . |
| 10 | Inspired by early American works , artist Haydn Cornner has produced a collection of Country Primitive paintings of farmyard animals . |
| 11 | Although at times Freud seems to hold an empiricist view of science — one based on collecting observations and then finding theories to explain them — he did also use the insights of myths , as with Oedipus . |
| 12 | 2 All except Ian Paisley have had an audience with the Pope . |
| 13 | SCOTLAND 'S Colin Montgomerie has gained a place in the World Championship of Golf in Jamaica next month as replacement for American John Cook . |
| 14 | Financial adviser Peter Hargreaves of Hargreaves Lansdown has produced a guide to Gilts which he will send free to Assets readers who call 0272 741 309 . |
| 15 | MNR leader Afonso Dhlakama had cancelled a July 19 meeting in Rome with US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jeffrey Davidow , claiming that the government planned to assassinate him . |
| 16 | By deflecting Oakeshott 's arguments into a critique of constructivist rationalism Hayek seeks to maintain a rationalist approach which may avoid many of Oakeshott 's criticisms . |
| 17 | Composer Richard Taylor has written a stage version of the film classic ’ Whistle Down the Wind . ’ |
| 18 | On arrival home they find their house has been destroyed by fire ( how writer David Renwick manages to get a laugh out of this has to be seen to be believed ) and they then have to do battle with the insurance company . |
| 19 | He had always claimed to be acting for the best ; not selfishly , but for all men , as the great sage Confucius had said a ruler should act . |
| 20 | Miss Grimsilk has found a way of giving us something exciting and original at very little cost . |
| 21 | When Miss Poraway had mentioned a Tupperware party Mrs Stead-Carter had gone much further than she 'd ever gone before . |
| 22 | In 1976 , as a county court judge , Judge Hill refused to give a wife suing for divorce a court order that her husband 's mistress should be evicted from the marital home . |
| 23 | Last June David Ennals tried to introduce an amendment to the Mental Health Act which would have allowed nurses to withdraw from ECT . |
| 24 | And just as there are books on the Munros , Richard Goedeke has written a guide to their alpine equivalents , describing each peak and the easiest way up it . |
| 25 | For the moment , Mr V.P. Singh has retained a number of portfolios , the most senior of which is defence . |
| 26 | By the time that Edward Heath had to appoint a chairman twenty years later , he chose Professor Michael ( later Lord ) Swann , Vice-Chancellor of Edinburgh University , on the grounds that running the BBC was rather like running a university , with a ferment of ideas , plenty of eccentricity and troublesome students . |
| 27 | Miss Martindale had had a school , but her rigid ideas and stern manner had frightened the children , and their parents had taken them away . |
| 28 | For instance , Irving Janis has developed an account of foreign policy-making which he termed ‘ Group-think ’ ; according to this account , members of a decision-making group may fail to voice their reservations over proposed courses of action in order to remain on good terms with the rest of the group . |
| 29 | Mrs. S. Higham has arranged a display of crafts and the Water of Leith Conservation Trust will supply a speaker . |
| 30 | Mrs. S. Higham has arranged a display of crafts and the Water of Leith Conservation Trust will supply a speaker . |