Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None the less , the Committee considered that the instruments were available and the time ripe for achieving this enormous ambition : " We have the advantage given us by then necessity of a new departure among rapidly changing conditions , and by the opportunity of avoiding some causes of past failure " . |
| 2 | A distrust of social revolutions was not absent from their considerations , any more than a distrust of traditional religion whose sacred texts committed it to discontinuous change ( ‘ creation ’ ) and interference with the regularity of nature ( ‘ miracles ’ ) . |
| 3 | He condemned postwar curtailment of civil liberties , and support for parliamentary reform involved him in metropolitan politics , but he disappointed Whigs and Radicals alike . |
| 4 | The US Food and Drug Administration announced earlier this month that it was likely to initiate a ban against farm use of the antibiotic — known as sulfamethazine in the US — because two laboratory studies linked it to thyroid cancer in rats and mice . |
| 5 | Although his orders placed him in theoretical command of the Simonova 's mission , in practical terms he was a guest of the civil servants who operated the vessel . |
| 6 | On Aug. 11 McCarthy delivered to Pérez de Cuéllar the letter given him by Islamic Jihad . |
| 7 | Cecilia has done well — she is now on a polytechnic degree course — but nothing in her years in care prepared her for independent living . |
| 8 | Clacton magistrates remanded him on conditional bail to appear before them again on March 31 . |
| 9 | She could hear Penry 's heart pounding against hers , as her kisses matched his in utter frenzy . |