Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ramón Martínez Moya became Secretary of State for Industry and Trade in August [ see p. 37708 ] . |
| 2 | Even relatively small preferences made year by year by the same committee add up over a decade to a major strategic shift in budget priorities . |
| 3 | Langdon became curate of Tithby in Nottinghamshire , probably in 1603 , and remained there until his death . |
| 4 | Densitometry has generally shown no adverse effect of tamoxifen on bone mass in postmenopausal women , although one study reported loss of bone in premenopausal women . |
| 5 | The Equal Voice study found lack of knowledge about what was available contributed to the low take-up of services by the black community . |
| 6 | By some terrific fluke Richard came face to face with his future at the precise time he most needed to see it . |
| 7 | The profits contribution from the Famous Grouse brand held steady , but sales of new and mature whisky to other distillers for blending purposes fell , as the industry reduced supply in line with the fall in demand , and this is where the damage to profits took place . |
| 8 | The world-famous pecussionist Evelyn Glennie came face to face with the musicians of the future today . |
| 9 | I scoffed at such nonsense , and leapt up the beach , lanyard in hand , only to fall flat in the surf , as the waves turned sand from firm to quick . |
| 10 | Young guitarist Eric Clapton paid tribute to King by purposely copying one of his hit solos . |
| 11 | The unique design of this study allowed examination of outcome in an unoperated ear in a group of children who did not receive surgery to either the tonsils or adenoid . |
| 12 | President Truman 's Democratic Administration existed side by side with a Congress in which there was a Republican majority . |
| 13 | William Dement conducted a number of experiments to establish the extent to which subjects lost track of time during REM sleep , in association with Nathaniel Kleitman and Edward Wolpert . |
| 14 | Within the intestinal mucosa , expression of T cell mediated immunity to gliadin in the gut occurs across a spectrum of histological and functional abnormalities . |
| 15 | There is also some evidence for a homing population of mucosa associated T cells , and consequent interaction between humoral and cell mediated immunity with secretion of cytokines . |
| 16 | In China the position was normally the reverse ; family and lineage took precedence over duty to the ruler . |
| 17 | Unlike most other economic activities , fishing took place at sea outside the territory of any member state and the fishing vessel was free to move from territory to territory at will . |
| 18 | Moral and spiritual renewal went hand in hand with economic and social renewal , and past practices and systems , with which the traumas and the injustices of the inter-war years had been associated . |
| 19 | In September Lafayette took pride of place on the Stoddard Templeton stand at the Harrogate exhibition , the main retail carpet exhibition of the year , where it was officially launched and shown for the first time . |
| 20 | The destruction of Greek tragedy went hand in hand with a nullification of Greek myth and a degeneration of the Greek national character . |
| 21 | CW queried status of funding for PC Display Panel and Video Projector equipment previously evaluated in 1992/93 . |
| 22 | A ceiling fan did duty in place of modern air-conditioning . |
| 23 | This loss of faith in course-based INSET to influence practice gave rise to growth of school-based INSET : the INSET equivalent of school-based curriculum development . |
| 24 | But according to several Washington commentators and analysts , in sending senior aides to China , Mr Bush may have signalled that the Administration gave priority to continuity in relations over moral outrage , and thus helped to shore up the repressive Beijing regime . |
| 25 | The two brothers had conversation after conversation on the theme of religion , the younger one sticking to his guns . |
| 26 | Next morning , when the O'Dells sat down to breakfast , the photograph had pride of place on the kitchen mantelpiece . |
| 27 | Sex in Miranda 's experience was n't a matter of spectacle , but of darkness and touch , magnified by her senses ' usually exacerbated state , the extremes of the night , of smoking and drinking and hunger and tiredness , and she was a blind swimmer through walls of warm water , and knew nothing of the practice and technique of the models in the pictures crammed edge to edge in the shop . |
| 28 | What Every Woman Wants by Edwina Currie stood cheek by jowl with a thriller by Douglas Hurd . |
| 29 | The controlled trial compared duration of remission on an elimination diet ( n=10 ) with that on an unrefined carbohydrate , fibre rich diet ( n=10 ) . |
| 30 | With the agreement of the two parties , Prince Norodom Sihanouk assumed power as head of state . |