Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Oliver almost wanted to run away , but just then the Dodger pushed open a door and pulled Oliver into a dark hall .
2 The Dean put down the watering can regretfully .
3 In the valley of Minas Morgul the Ringwraith sends out a command for him to put it on , but Frodo finds no response to it in his own will , feeling only ‘ the beating upon him of a great power from outside ’ .
4 Last year the DoE sent out a circular to local authorities stating that planning permission should not be given unless the impact on any old junk ( officially known as ‘ archaeological remains ’ ) had been fully considered .
5 The Scot picked up a double on the sixth end despite failing with a great chance to add a third with his last bowl , drew a match-saving shot on the next end and then produced the shot of the match .
6 The Scot picked up a double on the sixth end despite failing with a great chance to add a third with his last bowl , drew a match-saving shot on the next end and then produced the shot of the match .
7 The WEA shared both the relief and the reservations : duly expressed as a gathering of District Secretaries in September , at the National Conference in October and at meetings of the WEA Central Executive Committee which had the responsibility for formulating an official response .
8 Tony Soper was Nature 's early-riser and this programme suggested it is something of a habit with him , for we also saw him in the Falklands carrying out an investigation into whether the war — or was it just a conflict ? — had upset the wildlife there .
9 It was from here that the Stuarts sized up the potential of the area for exploitation .
10 Early advice from the DOH set out the quality aspects that contracts should seek to ensure .
11 Mr Lang urged the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland and the SMMB to put together a submission showing how the OFT 's findings were flawed and said he would pass it on to the OFT and the president of the Board of Trade , Michael Heseltine .
12 The RJWG formed however the basis of the first post-World War Two Act of 1962 ( Jugendwohlfahrtsgesetz , JWG ) which expanded and amended it but left its basic philosophy intact .
13 Instead of the numerous originals and copies generated in a documentary ocean bill transaction , the CKR created just a handful of documents , mostly in the form of simple statements .
14 The following correspondence shows how much trouble the Wordworths took over the boy .
15 Deputies to the Supreme Soviet in the Ukraine adopted overwhelmingly a declaration proclaiming " supremacy , independence and indivisibility of the republic 's power on its territory , and independence and equality in external relations " .
16 The open fields hemmed in the town along its entire northern side , while on the southern side Burghley Park and the farmlands of the Cecils offered not an acre for expansion .
17 Following the work of the joint UGC/CNAA DipHE Study Group which was chaired by Walter ( the following year to become Sir Walter ) Perry , Vice-Chancellor of the Open University , the CNAA set up a DipHE Group , chaired by James Porter , Principal of the Berkshire College , with half of its membership from the universities and half from colleges or polytechnics with an interest in teacher education .
18 An exchange of letters with Sir Denis Rooke then followed , and in December the Council basically affirmed the importance of institutional visits as the means by which the CNAA built up a picture of institutions and enabled it to exercise its responsibilities , and asked the Working Party on Partnership in Validation to give consideration to the form such visits should take .
19 In parts of the Atacama desert practically no rain falls , but in other deserts , especially locally on mountains , the annual rainfall may be as much as 250 mm ( 10 in ) .
20 SECRET talks in London between the African National Congress and a group of liberal Afrikaners , including President FW de Klerk 's brother , ended yesterday with the ANC playing down the significance of the event and President de Klerk dissociating himself from it .
21 The SRU turned down an invitation because of a packed calendar .
22 The North have both the motivation and the coordination behind the scrum to brush aside a rebuilt Midlands team .
23 In these circumstances , voluntary WEA members such as Rachael Evans in Bedfordshire and ( successively ) Barbara Brenchley and Margaret Bland in the Fenland took on the task of Federation secretary and , along with other enthusiasts , did their best to fulfil the non-teaching duties of a tutor-organiser .
24 The NHS picks up the tab , ’ he says .
25 In 1040 the Normans took over the area and its great cathedral churches date from the succeeding 100 years .
26 Not far off she could hear rushing water where the Thames tumbled over a weir , and two more children were running along the narrow bank separating the lock from the river .
27 If the Mujahideen divide up the country among themselves it is likely that the big divide would be along these mountains , which would then become the new division between Central Asia and the Indian sub-continent .
28 so he just kept going , so the pick-up jammed its anchors on , there was a Rover it was coming the other way , the Rover went up the verge
29 The IMF set about the problem by devising the special drawing right ( SDR ) as a means of settlement among its members .
30 Some of the workers in Glasgow , he said , had already decided to relocate to the Midlands to take up the offer of employment there .
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