Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Terry Davis , Labour MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill , told the Guardian last night : ‘ As a former employee of British Leyland and now a member of the Commons public accounts committee , I pressed for an inquiry into the sale . |
| 2 | Just over a week later his forces marched on Aachen ( Aix-la-Chapelle ) which fell on 12 July and there the archbishop of Cologne , Adolf , anointed and crowned Otto . |
| 3 | Keep your brush wet Fiona and then the colour will sort of flow in there . |
| 4 | Disappearance of their dominance would lead to a unified Ireland or else the restructuring of a new statelet with smaller geographical boundaries in which their dominance was again reassured . |
| 5 | The map gives some prominence to Lincoln and also names Lindsey ( meaning either the later Lindsey or possibly the county of Lincoln ) , and the map 's patron must have been just such a well-educated man with Lincolnshire connections as Richard de Bello , who was an MA . |
| 6 | After perhaps 80 Ma or so the increase in the temperature in the sub-lithospheric mantle below the supercontinent will lead to uplift , rifting and continental fragmentation . |
| 7 | In an eerie reversal of the situation in the North American market , Oracle 's next biggest competitor is n't the plucky standards-hot Sybase but virtually a legacy operation , Ingres , currently owned by Ask Computer Systems Inc . |
| 8 | The resignation of Sir Geoffrey Howe , the Deputy Prime Minister and last remaining member of Mrs Thatcher 's original 1979 Cabinet , on 1 November provided both the issue and the trigger . |
| 9 | Davidson , who was used to him , did not take this seriously , and rightly so , for Baldwin 's next railway activity was to leave Chequers early on the Tuesday morning in order to catch the 8.55 from Wendover and be available to see first Stamfordham and then the King . |
| 10 | To the early Bolshevik leaders it seemed only a matter of months , if not days , before first Europe and later the rest of the world joined the Soviet and other socialist states . |