Example sentences of "[pron] [noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arius received support from scholarly and politically powerful bishops , in particular from the learned church historian Eusebius of Caesarea in Palestine , a man for whom Constantine came to have great respect . |
| 2 | In 1987 AMV invested in McBain Noel-Johnson , a design and advertising agency which Baulk helped found 20 years ago . |
| 3 | In South Korea , with which Czechoslovakia had established diplomatic relations in 1990 , an agreement promoting bilateral economic co-operation was signed on April 27 as were investment and double taxation agreements . |
| 4 | The philosophy which Plowden embraced rejected this thesis because the evidence upon which it drew ( demonstrated in the quality of learning in the schools which it visited ) ran counter to this belief . |
| 5 | As they approached , Corbett realised the fortifications of Earlston were a square tower of pleasing proportions within a stockade or peel which Corbett had seen many times on his journeys into Scotland . |
| 6 | In his answer , Gilmore also took up and dismissed as totally unfounded a claim which Paisley had made several weeks earlier in the Commons that his own life was in danger from government agents . |
| 7 | His remarks , which broke an established Japanese taboo prohibiting even oblique criticism of the monarch , had coincided with an intensive international debate concerning the degree to which Hirohito had exercised real power prior to 1945 . |
| 8 | Considering all the insupportable things which Wheeler had spent twenty minutes saying to him , he felt remarkably calm . |
| 9 | The course which Sukarno sought to follow included perjuangan but also hoped to extract dividends from diplomacy ( diplomasi ) . |
| 10 | Israel became the fourth country , after Hungary , Lithuania and Bulgaria , with which Ukraine had established diplomatic relations . |
| 11 | Throughout his childhood , Matthew can recall feeling angry just once — when his father unwittingly trod on a model boat which Matthew had spent several weeks constructing . |
| 12 | She marched past Elinor 's bed into the library ; in front of the large window that overlooked the sea was the wooden kitchen table upon which Elinor had written Deadly Fortune and her every book since . |
| 13 | One of the ways in which CMEAD hoped to address these criticisms was by encouraging the reform of management development , both in terms of its content and of its delivery , with a view to widening access to effective management education and development . |
| 14 | Some men had books which dealt with events in which Zuwaya had played some part , and others had seen them . |
| 15 | He thought that he could defined the , the simplest concepts to which Peano claimed to reduce arithmetical ideas , to classes and relations between classes , and even perhaps in terms of something still simpler , quite purely in logical conceptions like that of implication . |
| 16 | My parents , using mule transport , travelled to Addis Ababa through the Chercher mountains , by way of Harar , that ancient walled city which Burton had reached fifty-four years earlier . |
| 17 | His widow settled for the $1 million which RCA had offered 14 years earlier . |
| 18 | It was the third occasion on which Wingti had become Prime Minister . |
| 19 | As a matter of fact , the whole issue had been built round a concept which Nina had labelled Special Women . |
| 20 | The chains supporting the deck of timber are made of wrought-iron links which Brown had patented three years earlier . |
| 21 | ‘ I told you Alice had changed two years ago , when I saw her in London , ’ he said . |
| 22 | The problem was solved with the arrival of the two young ladies whom Oliver had met one evening in Fagin 's house . |
| 23 | It was a short stay , but the year was to be an important one , for during it Louis-Napoleon began to see new ways in which his devotion to the Bonapartist cause might be developed . |
| 24 | In it Nietzsche attempted to illuminate Greek tragedy with a modern parallel , grand opera . |
| 25 | That was what Lord Weinstock did when his GEC seemed threatened two years ago . |
| 26 | An unfortunate allusion , thought McAllister nastily , who knew her Bible , and that the cock crowed after betrayal , and from what Matey had said this woman specialised in betrayal . |
| 27 | That was exactly what Emily had felt each week asking for her housekeeping ; now she could work out a budget to suit herself . |
| 28 | Despite the shock she had received , she could see that what Oswin said made some kind of sense . |
| 29 | The savages , whose natural nobility was compared favourably with our own , were not the imaginary inhabitants of another world , but , most emphatically , real people about whom Montaigne had received reliable information from an eye-witness observer . |