Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun prp] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is not space to enumerate all his works which arose from such associations , but The Battle of Tewkesbury for voices and instrumental ensemble for the 1971 Tewkesbury Festival and Henry Purcell for counter-tenor , clarino obbligato and strings for Alfred Deller and Stour Music ( 1971 ) , the Jubilate for Charlton Kings Choral Society ( 1979 ) , the Scherzo for piano and orchestra for Douglas Smith and the Cheltenham Sunday Players , the moving Concerto for trumpet and strings in memory of Bernard Brown ( 1976 ) , and the Cantate Domino in memory of John Clough ( 1978 ) are all interesting examples that deserve to be heard again . |
| 2 | Apparently this new method had been tried out down south and it seemed ideal for the temperamental Orkney climate because you harvested when it was green and then you put it in a pit and packed it with a tractor and then you left it until it turned black and rotted and then you cut it up in chunks and fed it to the cattle . |
| 3 | It was the latest blow in what has proved an unhappy first season so far for the former England striker and Grampus in the new J.League 10-club championship , launched on May 15 . |
| 4 | The likely outcome is the offer of a three-year contract for the former England skipper and his no.2 Terry McDermott . |
| 5 | The electrophysiological mechanisms responsible for the long QT interval and torsades de pointes in patients with acquired and idiopathic LQTS are uncertain . |
| 6 | Her former dealer , Alec Gregory-Hood , has opened an office in Dover Street for The New Rowan Gallery and will be organising exhibitions in other spaces in due course . |
| 7 | Pundits reckon that Rocco Forte — boss of the Little Chef to Happy Eater chain — could be lining up a takeover for the prestigious London group and the price of the Savoy ‘ A ’ shares rocketed from 633p to 710p , before closing at £7 . |
| 8 | They now start at £33,600 for the 4.0-litre XJS Coupe but the £52,900 price tag for the range-topping V12 Convertible is still about £43,000 cheaper than its Mercedes SL equivalent . |
| 9 | At the same time as OPEC massively increased oil prices in 1973–4 , Japan was experiencing high and accelerating rates of inflation , there was an internal political crisis for the ruling LDP party as their support inside and outside the Diet fell in the face of corruption scandals and popular pressure for tighter controls on environmental pollution . |
| 10 | Severe winter conditions create much hardship for the isolated Settle–Carlisle line and the railway provides the only reliable form of transport at such times . |
| 11 | When wintry weather looms over the horizon reach for the latest Freemans catalogue and choose your wardrobe from a favourite arm chair . |
| 12 | CAROLINE PARNELL looks at the Langbaurgh campaign Into battle again in constituency of contrasts Candidates from the three main political parties only are fighting for the marginal Langbaurgh seat and all three stood just five months ago . |
| 13 | A new era begins for the bomb-damaged Ulster landmark when the curtain goes up on Jack and the Beanstalk in December , starring Jimmy Cricket and May McFetridge . |
| 14 | Non-transgenic brain RNA ( nTgB ) was used as a positive control for the endogenous mNF-H signal and negative control for transgene expression while SKNSH RNA as positive control for the human NF-L protected fragment and negative control for the mNF-H protected fragment . |
| 15 | The modest target posed no problems for the bubbling Pontblyddyn side as they stormed to a winning 67–3 in the 20th over , opener Mark Hughes ( 31 ) and Mark Williams ( 16 ) ensuring that shell-shocked Colwyn missed out on a zone semi-final . |
| 16 | This is demonstrated , on the one hand , by Enterprise Zones , the enlargement of exemptions in the GDO and talk of further relaxations of control , and on the other , by inquiries , like those for the Third London Airport and Sizewell , breaking the records for length of time taken . |
| 17 | In 1991 they raised more than £3,000 for the national BBC appeal and , after taking a well-earned year off , organisers have set a target of £10,000 . |
| 18 | Getting the slaves across the Atlantic was always a difficult problem for the Royal Africa Company and for all the other traders . |
| 19 | Their boats have been used for the Royal Lymington Cup and the Air Canada Industry Sailing Challenge , as well as the Chartered Surveyors ' Regatta and many other similar events . |
| 20 | Joseph had devoured the contents of the book avidly during the long Pacific crossing and had begun reading it again after they left Hong Kong . |
| 21 | In China , on the other hand , where jade was established as the most valued and highly regarded precious substance , gold did not become prominent until Persian influence became important during the Eastern Zhou dynasty and the Han empire , and first really flourished under the Ming and Ching dynasties . |
| 22 | The apparent paucity of copper may result from the emplacement of relatively anhydrous granites into tectonised and anhydrous metasediments , especially in the Dalradian and Moinian sediments of Scotland which were metamorphosed during the Ordovician Grampian orogeny and the later Caledonian event . |
| 23 | Some of these died in captivity while being brought to the coast from the African homeland , and even more lost their lives in the brutal conditions on board the slave ships during the notorious Atlantic crossing or ‘ Middle Passage ’ . |
| 24 | We know , for example , that for much of that period , places such as the lower Ouse Valley and the lower Arran and Ada Valleys were in fact flooded arms of the sea and that the sediment brought down by the rivers of Sussex from inland , along with deposition by the sea in the quiet waters within those estuary-type areas , has gradually in-filled them . |
| 25 | It could and did reject , revise and remake legislation on the floor of the House ( such as the 1858 India Act or the 1867 Reform Act ) . |
| 26 | The June meeting was attended by Hans Brunhart , the head of government and Foreign Minister of Liechtenstein , which was involved in EFTA via a special protocol to the Stockholm Convention ; Brunhart said on April 3 that his country had been accepted as the seventh EFTA negotiating and contracting partner in the EES and was ready to become a full member of EFTA or strengthen institutional ties with the organization once an EES agreement was concluded . |
| 27 | The ride is a very pleasant one of about twenty miles through rural scenery and past well-maintained stations , with all the right traditional railway sounds such as ‘ chuff chuff chuff chuff ’ , which has disappeared from British Rail , and my favourite , ‘ clackety clack ’ , which is much reduced on BR due to the use of continuous welded rail on all busy lines , though the older sectioned rail survives on the lines around South Shropshire such as the Central Wales Line and the Cambrian . |
| 28 | The power of the new technology first came home to audiences in the Lawnmower Man , promoted as the first VR film and starring Pierce Brosnan . |
| 29 | The introduction of inflationary expectations into the Phillips relationship created what is known as the expectations-augmented Phillips curve and this plays an important role in the monetarist approach to inflation . |
| 30 | Regarded as the third Saatchi brother when he was finance director of their advertising group , Martin Sorrell decided to branch out on his own in 1985 . |