Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All Byzantine decorative form is a mixture of east and west treated in a symbolic rather than realistic manner ( 187 ) . |
| 2 | International organisations , though on a bread-and-butter level becoming from the 1860s rapidly more important and active , were still very much on the fringes of conventional diplomacy . |
| 3 | In the UNIP contest for the 1979 presidential nomination , when both Kapwepwe and Nkumbula challenged him , Kaunda showed that he was not prepared to tolerate any real alternative to himself , even when the bid came from the two most experienced politicians in the country . |
| 4 | This chapter deals with the two most formally complex types of lexical configuration , namely , hierarchies and proportional series . |
| 5 | Her mind stumbled over the new/old certainly that the garden-master she had loved was indeed a puppet . |
| 6 | The experience of other countries and movements , particularly European social democracy , provided much from which they could learn ; and the future lay in a cooperative rather than confrontational relationship between the USSR and the wider world from which both sides could benefit . |
| 7 | The lower route passes through the wide quite valley of Scandale along a broad enclosed trackway leading to Scandale Pass . |
| 8 | The north range consisted of a wide heavily buttressed , terraced corridor and a remarkable central octagonal room , which , by its position and height , would have dominated the site . |
| 9 | But if you have a machine based on an 8088/86 then you can fit an 8087 , a 286 has the 287 and the 386 has the 387DX and 387SX . |
| 10 | As an inducement to the merger , the Government provided a £13.5 million grant for the development of a new computer range to compete with the then best selling System/360 computer family sold by IBM . |
| 11 | The first form of the therapy was carried out by scientists at America 's National Institutes of Health in 1990 on a four-year-old girl suffering from the same potentially fatal inherited disease . |
| 12 | erm The second half started as the first half finished , with a again a very erm entertaining game erm in the fiftieth minute , on a break , Almondsbury 's Alex Stocker was nearest to scoring for them when he floated a long ball forward which Mark Sibble was very glad to tip over the bar . |
| 13 | The thaw in US-Soviet relations and the unwillingness of both super-powers to prolong the war led to the first publicly acknowledged round of talks between Najibullah and sections of the mujaheddin alliance in November [ see p. 37855 ] . |
| 14 | The Green Party Conference drew to a close today and they certainly had something to talk about with the publication of the government 's White Paper on the environment . |
| 15 | I do n't know anything about Wallaces goal even though I heard the match report on the 12:00 A.M. BBC 5 sports news . |
| 16 | He is leading an English team to compete in the first ever Irish staging of the Jack Charlton Trout Cup — an event which will take place at a lake near Bantry in County Cork on March 29 and 30 . |
| 17 | Bob Geldof 's initiative resulted in the biggest ever sum of money being wrung out of the haves on behalf of the have-nots ; in itself and in isolation an admirable achievement . |
| 18 | Printing a string followed by a numeric effectively moves the start of the print zones towards the right by the length of the string . |
| 19 | Problems of access and transport remained until the 1750s much as they had for centuries , the roads miry and troublesome in winter , the tidal river valleys well-nigh impassable . |
| 20 | Transfer of all Anglo-Scottish sleeping car services from the East to the West Coast main line from May 1988 was a similar decision based on a corporate rather than a regional viewpoint . |
| 21 | More slowly , separate institutions of a new kind were also provided for children , the emphasis shifting from the large sometimes disease-ridden ‘ barrack schools ’ in which they were accommodated in the mid-century , to the more intimate ‘ scattered homes ’ pioneered by the Sheffield Guardians in the 1890s , and ‘ cottage homes ’ on the model established by Barnardo . |
| 22 | Anger followed astonishment as the ball entered via the far upright . |
| 23 | To those like me whose education concentrated on the physical rather than the biological sciences , the Nilsson film was a revelation . |
| 24 | A neutral moon returned that night to shine on a thousand freshly dug graves , and Charlie swore to whatever God cared to listen that he would not forget his father or Tommy , or , for that matter , Captain Trentham . |
| 25 | Emerging at the Antarctic Divergence , it replaces the water lost to the two northward flowing currents . |
| 26 | The fulling mills still survived on site , although Stratford Mill 's involvement in the cloth trade drew to a close around 1738 , the first on the Painswick Stream to do so . |
| 27 | The first time your little bit of news gets on the Six o'clock News or your client is a member of a panel discussion , you will have arrived professionally . |
| 28 | The Audit Commission focused on the 20 most common operations , which account for about 30 per cent . |
| 29 | Yet the very development of television helped reduce the intended impact of the Gospel of good news delivered at the 8 o'clock ‘ mass ’ . |
| 30 | The JIT approach developed by the Japanese also reinforced their concept of total quality control . |