Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bradford & Bingley had a similar experience . |
| 2 | To contribute to this debate , Coopers & Lybrand formed a working party to survey and examine interim reporting . |
| 3 | His most recent succés du scandale came last spring at the Venice Biennale , the art world 's Cannes , where Koons showed a polychromed sculpture of him and Cicciolina as a soft-core Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden , surrounded by three laser-painted and varnished canvases of the couple making love . |
| 4 | After a night of endless fun — rounders followed by Cluedo , Cheat and a visit to the Clumber Park Social Club where Ken performed a striking rendition of Wild Thing on his guitar — I felt burnt out the next morning , but everyone else was raring to go . |
| 5 | They had gone all over the place ; peeking into the Oval Office ( but the little rope was across , Hakim said ) ; stopping on the stairs to look at a picture called The Canine Cabinet , in which North pointed out a drowsing member and said it was Casey ; and into the Roosevelt Room , where North showed the young Iranian the Nobel Prize won by Theodore Roosevelt for negotiating peace between the Russians and the Japanese . |
| 6 | Patrick , much better but still weak , had become a paying guest ( Jack paid ) at Moxie 's house , where Moxie had a self-contained flatlet , often let to a student , and where she could ‘ keep an eye ’ on Pat . |
| 7 | But it 's the establishment front runner in the US , where Dell pioneered the direct marketing of PCs , which now accounts for almost a third of the total market . |
| 8 | Stephan Brüback of the German shop design specialist Hans Brüback Landenbau & Verkaufstechnik took a visual approach to the theme of customer recognition , suggesting that social differences be accepted and even adopted in the definition of a shop 's corporate identity . |
| 9 | Of course , Roman emperors deified themselves , made their horses consuls and existed in a state of terrifying paranoia which eventually provoked genuine plots and assassinations , but in retrospect the gross crimes of a Caligula or Nero lacked the all-pervading hypocrisy of the modern tyrants . |
| 10 | In April 1990 , three partners and a manager from the newly-merged Big Six firm Ernst & Young took the unusual step of leaving to set up their own practice . |
| 11 | Last year , for example , Ernst & Young completed an International Quality Study , a joint project with the American Quality Foundation ; more than 500 companies in the US , Canada and Japan participated . |
| 12 | In 1988 , Northern Arts , the regional arts board for Cleveland , Cumbria , Durham , Northumberland and Tyne & Wear devised an enterprising scheme to provide interest-free loans to commission and purchase new works of art . |
| 13 | Tradition tells that Peden told the new bride to — . |
| 14 | But neither he nor Boyce enjoyed an absolute monopoly , for there were others in business as undertakers at that time , such as Eleazar Malory of Whitechapel , well established by 1700 , and John Clarke of Jermyn Street , who was advertising in 1725 . |
| 15 | Considering he was joining an honour roll that included his big brother John , it was somehow fitting that Patrick played the leading role in the two-hour 48-minute finale to the grand prix circuit which saw the younger McEnroe and Jim Grabb dismiss the more experienced Anders Jarryd and John Fitzgerald 7-5 , 7-6 , 5-7 , 6-3 . |
| 16 | Thus it was argued that William had a legitimate title to the throne because he won it by right of conquest in a just war . |
| 17 | Ian Glick QC , for Walker Greenbank , told the court that WG acquired a private shelving company , Alkar , in January 1987 , agreeing to pay its owners , Alan and William Carr , an initial amount of £2.2m in WG shares followed by a series of payments which would be linked to Alkar 's profit performance . |
| 18 | A witness , Andrew Swanick , told Bristol Crown Court that Kelly took an arrow-shaped knuckle duster knife to work the day before the incident happened . |
| 19 | It was no wonder that Hercules seemed an apt role-model . |
| 20 | There are persistent claims that Churchill sent a small group of secret agents to France outside SOE operations but , because no documentation exists , these claims are ridiculed by self-professed experts . |
| 21 | At the end of March , Than Tun made a defiant speech in Rangoon 's Bandoola Square and then vanished , setting up an underground resistance based on Toungoo . |
| 22 | Davies points out that Gorbachev took a conservative attitude to Soviet history for the first 18 months of his time in power . |
| 23 | Mr Ceausescu had encased himself in such an impeneterable fortress that Gorbachev spared the Romanian leader from the warning he was to deliver later to Erich Honecker , that ageing leaders who failed to reform in time would pay dearly . |
| 24 | Although Mexico rejected a Soviet offer in 1959 , as indicated in chapter 1 , the Soviet Union did succeed in selling oil to Argentina , Brazil and Uruguay . |
| 25 | They received the news silently , unwilling to concede that Woolley had a good reason for doing anything . |
| 26 | And although Lucy made a valiant effort to control her quickening breath , the mad thumping of her heart and the heated excitement rising within her , it was a losing battle — and at last she gave herself up to the rapturous bliss of the moment . |
| 27 | Although Kandinsky proclaimed the vital importance of the inner and personal inspiration it is extraordinary how he seized upon and exploited the styles of Matisse , Malévich , Klee , Arp and the Surrealists . |
| 28 | John Hargreaves , prosecuting , said that Bulmer had a long list of previous convictions . |
| 29 | Figures released by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) showed that Afghanistan recorded a visible trade deficit of US$220,600,000 in 1989 and a deficit of US$217,100,000 on the current account of its balance of payments . |
| 30 | At Virgin , over and above establishing more centralised management functions ‘ my role was to ensure we were informal but not casual , to the extent that Richard had a limited number of objectives we were committed to spending money on , based on a view of ; the company and the things we had to do well ’ , he said . |