Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The audience for the BBC 's nine o'clock news doubled to 13m on the day war broke out , and that for ITN rose by a third . |
| 2 | Matthews entered the game at 3–4 as Colchester went to a one-setter system . |
| 3 | Prime Minister Bufi spoke at a rally for Baker attended by a jubilant crowd packing Skanderbeg Square . |
| 4 | All the more reason for Lorraine to look for a bigger home . |
| 5 | FIG. 1 Mortality , size distribution and maturation of Nephila clavipes in a rich habitat ( Panama , Cerro Galera Hill Road ) . |
| 6 | Instead , the naked corpse of Hauser lay on a central table , the chest cavity spread open , and several organs glistening purply on gleaming dishes to either side . |
| 7 | Representing a more traditional form of British cinema , John Schlesinger 's Madame Sousatzka ( Virgin ) has a stand-out performance by Shirley MacLaine and a keen eye for varied London locations , while A Time Of Destiny ( Vestron ) is a baroque romantic melodrama from Gregory Nava ( El Norte ) , which despite the miscasting of William Hurt as a Basque immigrant 's son seemed to me to have been unfairly downgraded . |
| 8 | Britain 's Courtaulds and Hoechst of Germany agreed on a joint venture that will merge their viscose and acrylic-fibres businesses in Europe . |
| 9 | It was no accident that Baldwin VII of Flanders moved to a new repressive interpretation of comital justice at just the same time as he claimed the superior advocacy over all ecclesiastical houses in Flanders . |
| 10 | I see in my mind the laughter of Ramakrishna transformed into a transcendent substance which echoes down the mystic roads . |
| 11 | He now works in a group set up by the Bishop of Ely to work on a better understanding of market forces than that shown in Faith in the City , he says . |
| 12 | A team at the University of Dundee reported on a neural computer that checks cervical smears containing up to 200,000 cells and decides whether they are abnormal or not with 96 per cent accuracy . |
| 13 | A Landsat TM image of Leicestershire recorded on a cloud-free day in July 1984 constitutes the basic data source . |
| 14 | In autumn 1985 the former American National Security Adviser , Brzezinski , proposed the external neutralisation of Afghanistan combined with a Soviet military withdrawal , the introduction of Islamic peace-keeping forces for an interim period , and self-determination for the Afghans . |
| 15 | In Masterman 's view , the Battle of Orgreave stands as a salutary reminder that ‘ what is omitted from television 's agenda can not easily enter the general consciousness and that the control of information , whether it takes a brutal or sophisticated form , is the very cornerstone of political power ’ ( ibid.:108 ) . |
| 16 | But when Geoff Hamilton handed me a chunk of Barnsdale to turn into a well-planted garden , I had to put my money where my mouth was . |
| 17 | The 1515 ex Euston on the 13th of January consisted of a three coach Sprinter and a two coach Sprinter coupled together . |
| 18 | The revelation of Elvaston led to a topiary revival in the 1850s . |
| 19 | The recently reported masses of Rhizosolenia associated with a major front in the equatorial Pacific in the fall of 1992 ( ref. 15 ) may provide a modern analogue for the origins of the Thalassiothrix mat deposits . |
| 20 | Throughout 1954 and 1955 the setting up of ITV led to a great exodus of talent from the BBC , attracted , no doubt , by the higher rates of pay advertised by the commercial stations . |
| 21 | At one end is the Temple of Jupiter built on a high podium ; the Corinthian Order is used and the building was flanked by two triumphal arches . |
| 22 | The extreme case would be when the removal of NTBs led to a domestic monopoly becoming a perfectly competitive market . |
| 23 | The case for the removing of NTBs leading to a fundamental reconstruction of the economy of the EC may have been overestimated by the Cecchini Report . |
| 24 | The city of Lothern grew from a small fishing village to a great city to accommodate the increase in trade from the colonies and other realms . |
| 25 | The US state of Louisiana defaulted on a nineteenth century loan and was still unwelcome to bond markets a century later . |
| 26 | MYSTERY SLANG : ‘ Venus Grove ’ ( Virgin ) conjuring up the dark brooding of The Doors and the yarn spinning of Tom Waits from a new , wild-eyed Nick Cave type — out on Monday |
| 27 | THE city of Liverpool rose to a great occasion for the Battle of the Atlantic commemorations . |
| 28 | By 300 the West added the birth of Jesus integrated into a solar calendar by being placed at the winter solstice . |
| 29 | We have grown used to expecting the Spirit of God to speak in a gentle whisper , not a roaring wind . |
| 30 | In him the Word and Wisdom of God dwelt in a unique degree . |