Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [noun] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Floating pumice fields were so thick that sailors could walk on them — and some bore bleaching human remains 4,500 miles across the Indian Ocean to deposit them along the beaches of Zanzibar . |
| 2 | Interior Ministry troops , who had come under fire from rooftop snipers , later succeeded in throwing a cordon around the CP headquarters to protect it from further attack , but Moscow radio reports said that by the evening of Feb. 13 the violence had spread from the city centre to numerous locations in the suburbs , and that automatic gunfire could be heard . |
| 3 | Bouterse claimed that Shankar had collaborated with the Netherlands government to humiliate him by failing to lodge a diplomatic protest when , on three occasions during December , he was denied access to the Netherlands or to the local press while in transit at Amsterdam airport . |
| 4 | These mages of Saphery and their personal guards are often summoned by the Phoenix King to aid him in his wars . |
| 5 | Even its name is a hybrid of the Aymara verb to buy something for oneself and the Spanish diminutive . |
| 6 | Anyway , I only have to look around the Dreamflight group to see lots of children who are worse off than me , ’ she said . |
| 7 | Many fans believed all they had to do was hand over the ticket stub for the Latvia game to get one for the visit of Jack Charlton 's men — that plainly is not the case . |
| 8 | De Gaulle 's known views — fashioned by his interpretation of the collapse of France in 1940 and his resentment over the refusal of Britain and the United States to treat him as an equal in prosecuting the war effort , on the failings of the Fourth Republic , on reforming NATO , on the need for France to acquire greater international prestige , along with his ambition to affect a lasting reconciliation between France and West Germany ( ideally on French terms ) — all influenced his decision to terminate the Maudling Committee negotiations , and all were still influential in his rejection a few years later of the British application to enter the EEC . |
| 9 | This situation , in which other countries were relying on the United States to provide them with the dollars needed to boost their reserves , seemed to leave the USA in a highly privileged position , for the only way that other countries could accumulate reserves was if the USA provided them , by spending abroad more than it received . |
| 10 | After start-up funds from the Gulbenkian to employ our data-base operator , we have now received some funds from the Baring Foundation to assist us in this major task . |
| 11 | Booms stayed on standby at the mouth of the Hamble River to protect it from the slick . |
| 12 | This is called the Richardson number ( sometimes the gradient form of the Richardson number to distinguish it from other forms defined somewhat differently ) . |
| 13 | Its suspected health hazards , such as cancer and nervous disorders , led the US government to suspend it in 1974 . |
| 14 | On Sunday , after leaving my suitcase with the hall porter who was to see that it was in the Land Rover to meet me after the shooting , I enjoyed brunch in the Gleneagles restaurant sitting at the same table as the Princess Royal . |
| 15 | Over the years it had become apparent that Constance considered Brian a person of little consequence and that , this being the case , she would not have minded if he had hired the Albert Hall to denounce her as a barbarian and certainly cared nothing for his kitchen sulks and drawing-room sarcasm . |
| 16 | Dintenfass , uptown , has invited artists from the P.P.O.W. gallery to join it in a show called simply ‘ VOTE ! ’ |
| 17 | In 1966 the Americans , and the British , both in economic difficulties themselves , pressed the Bonn government to relieve them of military costs in Germany . |
| 18 | The war was just over , and she was climbing aboard an RAF transport to take her to the demobilisation centre . |