Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Fimbra has reached this impasse comes as no surprise to anyone with a knowledge of the chequered history of this organisation responsible for policing many of the black sheep of the financial world . |
| 2 | The Royal Commission ( 1949 , Chapter 15 ) while uncertain that the trend of ‘ national intelligence ’ really was downwards , felt that ‘ it is clearly undesirable for the welfare and cultural standards of the nation that our social arrangements should be such as to induce those in the higher income groups and the better educated and more intelligent within each income group to keep their families not only below replacement level but below the level of others ’ . |
| 3 | Nautor is famous for producing some of the highest quality fibreglass yachts in the world . |
| 4 | This popular prime-time , Sunday evening CBS network show provided Reagan for eight years with ‘ a vehicle for becoming familiar to a whole new generation of young people who would later vote for him . |
| 5 | We have shown that TCR -β rearrangement or , more likely , expression of a functionally rearranged TCR -β gene , is not only necessary but also sufficient for driving most of the immature IL-2R-positive DN thymocytes to the DP stage and for expanding the pool of thymocytes . |
| 6 | Its skull — two metres long — was well developed , with three strong pointed horns useful for defence and for stripping some of the remaining shorter fronds , resembling the cycads used in Florida as indoor pot-plants . |
| 7 | The two sides agreed to hold a further meeting soon which is expected to produce firm proposals for resolving some of the Irish concerns on security . |
| 8 | After devoting much of the first ten years of his presidency to slow development of the institutions of democracy , Mr Mubarak has spent the past two in regression . |
| 9 | The sheriff 's reply sounded clearly in the hushed corridor , impressing the assembled kids and seeming to confirm Grant 's claim to be part of an official police operation — if any needed convincing after seeing one of the feared Apostles being dragged unconscious into an empty cubicle . |
| 10 | ROHITA looked special after blasting clear in the final furlong for a three-lengths win in the Payne and Gunter Fillies Stakes at Goodwood and it may take a good one to stop her in the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot . |
| 11 | After becoming involved with the Working Men 's College , established by Frederick Maurice [ q.v. ] in 1854 , Elizabeth Malleson was inspired to found a counterpart for women . |
| 12 | The young man was killed after becoming entangled in the unguarded rotors of a power harrow while attempting to remove a stone . |
| 13 | After surveying some of the available evidence on the United Kingdom , France , Germany and the United States regarding parliamentary defence against the dominance of officials , Page concluded that in the approval of legislation , the approval of the budget and scrutiny of administration , European parliaments are largely dominated by the executive . |
| 14 | VICENTE Fernandez won the English Open at The Belfry after sinking one of the longest putts ever to win a golf title . |
| 15 | ANDY TOWNSEND last night refused to back down after going wild over an X-rated tackle that left Dennis Wise in a heap . |
| 16 | A WIDOWER studying for a doctorate at Cambridge University was banned from driving yesterday after pleading guilty to a drink-drive offence . |
| 17 | Several months later , Ms Kennedy was banned from driving after pleading guilty to a drink-drive charge . |
| 18 | And after scoring four for the first time in a European game , he said : ‘ I 'm proud and privileged to break such a great player 's record . |
| 19 | After lying still for a few minutes , I threw back the duvet , got out of bed , walked to the door of the bedroom , opened the door , switched on the landing light , walked across the landing , opened the bathroom door , went into the bathroom , put the basin plug into the plughole , turned on the hot tap , ran some hot water into the wash basin , looked in the mirror … |
| 20 | There is evidence that , in living species too , ‘ fossil genes ’ occasionally come into their own again , and are re-used after lying dormant for a million years or so . |
| 21 | In the past several months , after interviewing many of the same candidates , the Los Angeles County Museum of Art , the Cleveland Museum of Art , and the Phillips Collection each hired a new director , and the Corcoran Gallery of Art appointed a deputy director . |
| 22 | They returned early and , after sending most of the major labels running for their blessed chequebooks , signed to EMI . |
| 23 | After staying awake for a hundred and forty four hours . |
| 24 | Oxford had a four goal mountain to climb against Tranmere after losing 5-1 in the first leg … what was improbable looked impossible by half-time with Rovers Kenny Irons giving his team a one goal lead … |
| 25 | Alan McManus also bowed out of the tournament after losing four of the last five frames to Jimmy White . |
| 26 | His team is like Dumbo : no-one seriously believes it can fly all the way back here for next summer 's World Cup finals after losing 2–0 to an American side that chortled with disbelief . |
| 27 | The news was welcomed by members of Darlington Health Authority which has now reversed a trend , after having some of the fastest growing waiting lists in the region this time last year . |
| 28 | Mr Barrantes , 61 , bowed out of the 1985 presidential elections after coming second in the first ballot . |
| 29 | An hour later , after admiring some of the rare and beautiful pieces in the shop , Müller left , having learned nothing . |
| 30 | AFTER finishing 12th in the last World Cup in Lahore coach Cees Koppelaar pledged to ‘ create a new Ireland . ’ |