Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [vb past] [prep] [art] [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 | I have to admit that I felt a strange sense of elation as I hit him again , in fact I plumbed the depths of bad taste by yelling , ‘ Never one around when you want one , is there , Jack ? ’ as Armstrong bounced for the second time . |
| 5 | The Law Reform ( Limitation of Actions ) Act 1954 for Scotland provided in the relevant section : |
| 6 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The people of Kislev moved into the Old World from the areas east of the Worlds Edge Mountains and founded the kingdom which lies on the north eastern borders of the Empire . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , do shut up ! ’ said Molly , thinking of Jacqueline left in the sole care of Giovanna . |
| 10 | But once upon a time the ad pages of NME throbbed with the heady thrills of Loon pants ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The treaty of Brest-Litovsk , which the military superiority of Germany forced upon the young Soviet State at the end of the year , revealed the limits of its power : ‘ The past keeps fast hold of us , ’ Lenin observed gloomily at the 8th Party Congress , ‘ grasps us with a thousand tentacles , and does not allow us to take a single forward step , or compels us to take these steps badly . ’ |
| 13 | Britain 's Courtaulds and Hoechst of Germany agreed on a joint venture that will merge their viscose and acrylic-fibres businesses in Europe . |
| 14 | May 1945 , the final capitulation of Germany occurred with an unconditional surrender to the Allied forces . |
| 15 | The first stage of Felix lased for the first time in August 1991 , and the second stage will be operational this summer . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Moving with them to north Africa , he was initially held in enforced inactivity behind the lines , a problem which he solved in characteristic style : ‘ The Battle of Alamein began on the 23rd of October , 1942 . |
| 18 | In fact , Hainer Bastian see this exhibition as completing the vision of Picasso presented at the last great retrospective in New York twelve years ago , when the focus was on his Cubist , surrealist and classical phases . |
| 19 | I see in my mind the laughter of Ramakrishna transformed into a transcendent substance which echoes down the mystic roads . |
| 20 | Increasing pressure for the relaxation of the strict deadlines for motor vehicle emission standards and for the attainment of NAAQSs resulted in the Clean Air Amendments of 1977 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A Landsat TM image of Leicestershire recorded on a cloud-free day in July 1984 constitutes the basic data source . |
| 23 | Today , there is a small octagonal chapel in the Beirut coastal suburb of Antelyas dedicated to the 1915 massacres . |
| 24 | While in Cartagena , Colombia , on Dec. 2-3 for the " Group of Rio " summit [ see p. 38675 ] , President Fujimori of Peru and President Borja of Ecuador met for the first time to discuss their longstanding border dispute [ see p. 38526 ] . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ( Notice the similarity between this analysis and the reinterpretation of Keynes outlined in the previous section . ) |
| 27 | Mauritania , still in dispute with Senegal , was not represented by its head of state , and there was no delegation from Nigeria , which had been represented in Casablanca in December 1988 [ p. 36717 ] ; however , President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda attended for the first time . |
| 28 | By counting the number of LC in representative fluorescence photomicrographs of monolayers before and after removal of nonadherent LC , we determined that the majority ( experiments ) of TC-LC added into the binding assay adhered to KC . |
| 29 | The Midland Valley of Scotland developed as an internal molasse trough during the early Devonian with thick calc-alkaline lavas and clastic red-bed facies sediments derived from the erosion of the adjacent Caledonian mountains . |
| 30 | By a curious coincidence , this month you have two chances to buy depictions of the Grand-ducal coronet of Tuscany destroyed during the Napoleonic invasions . |