Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , Britain 's forthcoming presidency of the European Commission might be used as an opportunity for the more dirigiste members of Mr Major 's staff to press for a move to the narrow band of the ERM , in which case interest rates must be locked into those of Germany . |
| 2 | The likely outcome is the offer of a three-year contract for the former England skipper and his no.2 Terry McDermott . |
| 3 | John Cunningham in ‘ The Guardian ’ , referring to coverage of the mortar bomb attack on Whitehall wrote : ‘ Whitehall 's scariest 60 minutes proved to be one of radio 's finest hours , effortlessly making the case for an all news channel ’ . |
| 4 | The 15,000 crowd at Limerick 's famed Thomond Park for the All Ireland League key match between Shannon and Garryowen was it own testimony to the grip the competition has gained on the Irish game . |
| 5 | Unless this provision is satisfied , any yearly interest paid by a company must be paid subject to deduction of basic rate income tax , and Target will need to comply with paras 2 to 4 of Sch 16 to the Taxes Act 1988 and account to the Revenue for the tax it is liable to withhold ; the lender will suffer the cash-flow disadvantage of receiving interest payments with tax withheld at source ( although it would be entitled to offset the withholding tax suffered against its corporation tax liability for the same accounting period under s7(2) TA 1988 ) . |
| 6 | LAWYERS for Mike Tyson demanded a new trial for the former heavyweight champion yesterday , arguing that the jury which convicted him of rape was not allowed to consider whether his accuser had confused him as to whether she was a willing sex partner . |
| 7 | For most local history purposes a simple wordlist will suffice for both Old and Middle English — the dictionary for the latter being Stratmann 's Middle English Dictionary ( Oxford 1891 ) — and what now follows are words the author has found most useful in pursuing his studies . |
| 8 | In a biography about the former England captain about to be published , the rift which existed between the pair for the final 15 months of Lineker 's international career is at last revealed . |
| 9 | Romania is to stay a republic , suggesting the country 's new rulers see little future for the former King Michael . |
| 10 | The code of practice for the former District Audit Service referred to four additional responsibilities . |
| 11 | on conditions of carriage for the same day operation but , not in that league at all . |
| 12 | All caution ( H & S ) was thrown to the wind as a few sample experiments will show : how to make coal gas ; a safe gas explosion ; how to make a banger ; how to explode a little picric acid . |
| 13 | Quiet , steady and composed , Gavin was an ideal partner for skipper Jim Cannon at the heart of the Palace defence and , if the early '80s were a time when our back four was often under a lot of pressure , Gavin played his part in Palace 's revival at the end of the decade although , in spite of skippering our successful 1988–89 side for a few matches mid-season , he incurred yet another injury and was prevented from playing in all but the final three games . |
| 14 | Sir , Congratulations to Catherine Paice on reporting of the many pollution problems faced by farmers throughout the UK ( Features , June 21 ) . |
| 15 | A January 1991 co-operation agreement signed by the government and former contra leaders , which among other things was to guarantee the personal security of former contras , was jeopardized by the murder of the former contra commander Col. Enrique Bermúdez in February [ see p. 38000 ] . |
| 16 | To mark Glasgow 's year as the European City of Culture , The Royal Mail is printing a set of stamps , one of which depicts the facade of the former Templeton Carpet Factory . |
| 17 | With a tiny shrug she started working shampoo into his hair , but fear of the same thing happening again made her fingers a little more tentative than usual . |
| 18 | We rounded Cape Andrea and anchored in Marciana Marina harbour below the same mountain village on the north side of the island . |
| 19 | In Andhra Pradesh , the autocratic rule of the former film star , Mr N.T. Rama Rao , has led to a steady haemorrhage of defectors from his Telugu Desam party to the Congress . |
| 20 | And the speech was indeed a frank catalogue of the state of the personal computer business today : revenues down 14% , Apple Computer Inc , IBM and DEC contemplating low margins and sinking market share , the astronomical cost of developing a new package , the failure of PCs to penetrate much beyond word processing and spreadsheets , the monopoly lock of a few software houses on the marketplace and engineering 's inability to develop an intuitive box , all conspiring to dissuade any sensible PC guy from putting any more money into research and development . |
| 21 | Only a little more indirect is the effect of the same cuckoo genes on the behaviour of the besotted host . |
| 22 | A quick spin of his ‘ Sweet Freedom — The Best Of ’ compilation album of a few years back is proof enough that he has had many hits in his home patch without making similar in-roads here . |
| 23 | On one occasion I persuaded Vaughan Grayson Mann to show me around her house so that I could write a review of the many oil paintings which had brought her national fame as an artist . |
| 24 | They emerged from the entrance of a former iron mine in the Forest of Dean , exhausted . |
| 25 | ANN Brough , Maureen Coulton and Shirley Taylor , who previously worked together in the systems and control department of the former Trusthouse Forte Hotels , have formed a partnership offering accounts and control support services to the hotel industry . |
| 26 | Thus he deplored the action of the former Archbishop Sancroft in consecrating two new bishops , whose names were approved by the exiled James II , in order to maintain the Apostolic Succession among the non-jurors . |
| 27 | Among the most violent incidents during 1990-91 were the July 1990 killing of Ian Gow [ see p. 37623 ] ; the September shooting of a former Gibraltar Governor [ see p. 37720 ] ; the October IRA " human bomb " attacks [ see p. 37784 ] ; the November rocket attack on the home of a Belfast High Court judge [ see p. 37869 ] ; the February 1991 IRA mortar attack on Downing Street and attacks on mainland railway stations [ see pp. 38019-20 ] ; and the March 1991 Craigavon killings [ see p. 38112 ] . |
| 28 | It was significantly increased in comparison with the % cytotoxicity of the same serum samples against untreated target cells ( 11.6 ( 2.6 ) % ) ( Fig 3(A) ) . |
| 29 | International recognition of the former constituent republics of the Soviet Union , and of Russia as its legal successor , followed swiftly after the Alma Ata agreement . |
| 30 | Consultants will be invited to carry out a major study into the former steel plant , which closed last June with the loss of 1,200 jobs . |