Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 There was little Coleman could do in the circumstances except fill out an IAP-66 authorization form for Syrian George and take him over to the embassy for a J-1 visa to admit him to the United States for a course of study at UAB .
2 And that er , technology transfer covers submersible pump technology which will be the standard pump line and the Czechs will have a non exclusive erm , li er licence to sell it in the Soviet Union which is a prime market er , and in other areas behind the old iron curtain .
3 Mr Wendt 's income puts him on a par with Peter Wood , founder of the Royal Bank of Scotland 's Direct Line insurance company who was paid £1.84m last year , but leaves him well ahead of other leading company chairmen .
4 Jarvis 's money brought him in a tiny income , on which it was just possible to subsist if he walked everywhere , never went to the cinema , ate anything nice , smoked , drank , bought new clothes nor used the phone .
5 DINAMO Tbilisi , as expected , have lodged their appeal against UEFA 's decision to disqualify them from the European Cup ( writes Lyle Jackson ) .
6 On June 17 the Colorado leadership issued a statement deploring and rejecting the Assembly 's decision to debar him from a second term .
7 ‘ PDAG passed a motion opposing the Government 's decision to abolish it as a democratic forum involved in education and the transfer its work to Government quangos , ’ said society education spokesman , Ffred Ffransis .
8 WEST HAM stalwart Tony Gale last night hit out at the club 's decision to place him on the transfer list .
9 But Gloucestershire 's decision to place him on the restrictive List One of available players has been initially supported by the TCCB registration committee .
10 IRAS 's orbit takes it round the Earth every 100 minutes , passing within 9o of the poles on a path 900 km high , well above the water vapour in Earth 's atmosphere which absorbs much of the infrared radiation from space .
11 Subsequent analyses of observations from that day , when the satellite was well-placed for observations , showed a short burst of gamma and X-rays followed about a minute later by energetic neutrons that kept on coming until the satellite 's orbit carried it behind the earth .
12 The sweeper 's story reminded me of a tale told at Ross Carbery , County Cork .
13 Robyn 's look left him in no doubt .
14 The convoy 's route took it along the M53 motorway through Cheshire and Wirral to Birkenhead 's East Float Dock .
15 The convoy 's route took it along the M53 motorway through Cheshire and Wirral to Birkenhead 's East Float Dock .
16 The fact is that Orwell 's route takes us through a largely white part of England .
17 Filaret owed his eminence less to his holy office than to his son 's willingness to treat him as a co-ruler .
18 Miss Fogerty 's heart smote her at the sight of her patient 's distress .
19 She got an answer soon enough — the city 's mayor confined her to a lunatic asylum .
20 United almost contributed to their own downfall , but Blackpool 's finsihing let them off the hook .
21 Nicolo 's mouth captured hers in a slow , insolent kiss .
22 With Dara once more clinging firmly and rather painfully to her arm she was walked back to the small , intimate table they had been sharing on the edge of the small dance-floor , but Ace was quickly on to his feet , side-stepping Dara 's attempt to greet him with a kiss .
23 [ William Golding , The Inheritors ] It requires careful attention to realize that here we are seeing , through the uncomprehending mind of Lok , a man 's attempt to shoot him with an arrow .
24 There is a purpose in the negative force 's attempt to use you as a pawn .
25 But even though it did in a campaign where he was one of Tottenham 's top performers , Venables has been unable to keep his word because of chairman Alan Sugar 's attempt to oust him from the club .
26 Dignan 's attempt to reformulate it in a ‘ progressive ’ way could therefore be seen as partisan , and therefore necessarily outside the ambit of a ‘ rights ’ approach .
27 Arriving like a final dea ex machina , Doris 's condition makes her like an ironic version of that goddess in Tennyson 's ‘ oenone ’ , ‘ Idalian Aphrodite beautiful , / Fresh as the foam , new-bathed in paphian wells . ’
28 The second lorry ran into the car 's side sandwiching him in the wreckage .
29 While the Australian and Pakistan examples quoted above serve to illustrate the variety of provisions and problems which may emerge under the rubric of ‘ rural education ‘ , Sher 's thinking leads us to an awareness of the uniqueness of the situation in a country school whatever its location .
30 In particular , Oakeshott 's conception provides us with an insightful critique of Dicey 's method in Law of the Constitution .
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