Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It was not until the eighteenth century that the word Champagne became synonymous with the sparkling wine of the region .
2 The later history of the Daily Express suggests not : when the Express became hostile in the 1920s , Younger raged " when I think of the large sum of money this office has put into that gutter print it makes my blood boil " .
3 My heart turns red In the expanding now
4 Although it has been telling the world how successfully it has recovered , Unisys Corp made clear at the annual meeting last week just how parlous the company 's condition remains .
5 On examination she was unwell with a pyrexia at 38°C , a tachycardia , and chest signs consistent with a left basal pneumonia .
6 His Technique became fundamental to the whole school curriculum .
7 I think we ought to be pleased at the money made available in the last 5 years for players .
8 Eighteen eighty nine the Foston selling plate at Derby was declared void after the whole field got lost in the thick fog covering the course and ended up running round the back of a cricket pavilion .
9 Shell became knowledgeable about the possible pitfalls of RFI when , five years ago , objections were raised over the company 's plan to site a gas-separation plant near a NATO radio transmitter in St Fergus , Scotland .
10 Perhaps , in the primordial soup , left and right handedness were in free competition until some small chance advantage became overwhelming through the evolutionary progress .
11 Hard to picture happy mystical Tibetans dancing mysteriously in their bright robes in a place where two inches of bare skin turns black with the little schmucks in seconds .
12 Southall , delighted with the look made famous by the great Russian goalkeeper Lev Yashin , has even added to the macho image by pulling out all the padding which comes with today 's goalkeepers ' shirts because he thinks it gets in the way of doing the job properly .
13 Problems arising from interviews are discussed and the task of case checking allocated for the following week .
14 During the late 1580s , Hooker became involved in a bitter theological dispute with the Presbyterian , Walter Travers , and as a result in the early 1590s he retired to a country living in Wiltshire to compose a literary apologia for the church which had been created in 1559 .
15 The wide gulf between these approaches reveals the extent to which the relation between theological and historical study became problematical through the nineteenth century .
16 REGRESSION therapy became popular in the 1960s and early '70s but was later largely discredited , mainly because it is so open to abuse , writes Victoria Macdonald .
17 With the transition from a basically personal hatred of the French Revolution to the more general threat to society posed by the Russian Revolution , continental freemasonry became insufficient as a causal explanation .
18 Now the carbon-dioxide snow gleamed white beneath the icy disdain of the stars .
19 Speed got booked for a heavy tackle which prompted the first use of the chant ‘ the referee 's a German ’ .
20 The fate of glagolitic became involved with the ecclesiastical politics of Dalmatia , where Byzantine and Latin religious influences overlapped .
21 The other club to fall foul of the disciplinary committee yesterday was St Helens , who travel to Wakefield tomorrow without Roy Haggerty and Stuart Evans , both banned for four matches .
22 For indeed the demand and supply schedules do not in practice remain unchanged for a long time together , but are constantly being changed ; and every change in them alters the equilibrium amount and the equilibrium price , and thus gives new positions to the centres about which the amount and the price tend to oscillate . [ … ]
23 He is improving generally and his memory and concentration became normal during the 0/2 dosage .
24 Burney 's mouth sagged open in a shamefaced grin .
25 The worst wildlife depletion occurred prior to the Second World War before conservation was even recognised .
26 The fold stands empty in the drowned field ,
27 THE FUTURE LOOKS STORMY FOR THE NEW NATURAL HERITAGE AGENCY .
28 As it was , and for the foreseeable future , the continent seemed indefensible against a determined Soviet attack .
29 When the drawer is pulled out , it brings the hidden columns supporting the five car bays level with the front base of the house .
30 Further , on making the order for costs in the sum of £7,171.50 , the justices paid no regard to the fact that there was no machinery for costs to be taxed and no power for the local authority to intervene on an assessment by the area director of the father 's legal aid costs pursuant to the Civil Legal Aid ( General ) Regulations 1989 ( S.I .
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