Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 To characterize the DNA-binding specificity of the divergent pou[c] protein we expressed pou[c] cDNA in E.coli as a fusion to glutathione S-transferase ( GST ) and performed gel mobility shift assays ( GMSA ) with the affinity purified fusion protein ( 52 ) .
2 In 1912 he was a founder of the Independent Labour Party of Ireland , forerunner of the Irish Labour Party , and proposed in the Irish Worker a political programme which included proportional representation and women 's suffrage .
3 On the rural side he had 180 tenant farmers , each with between 50 and 130 acres apiece ; and just as the Prince wanted the goodwill of his urban tenants , so too in the country .
4 The new regime ruthlessly crushed all semblance of armed opposition which threatened national unity .
5 To assess the potential contribution of lamina propria lymphocytes to measured metabolism we obtained peripheral blood lymphocytes from the heparinised blood of a patient having colonoscopy for polyp surveillance with centrifugation in Lymphoprep ( Flow Laboratories , Rickmansworth , UK ) .
6 One recent instance was an enquête orale into the French Resistance which interrogated 2,000 witnesses in a standard manner under central direction.6 Nor , for all the abundance , is the evidence of recent history without its gaps : historians can still argue about the nature and origin of Hitler 's decisions on policy .
7 Laura , for instance , had two younger brothers , who were not settling very well into the stockbrokers ' firm in which they had been placed , and numerous uncles , one of them an old horror who obtained Scandinavian au pairs through advertisements in The Lady , and then , of course , her Norfolk cousins .
8 He , and others like him , were answered by Rousseau , who argues that the social contract which established private property was really the origin of exploitation and had to be replaced by a new social contract .
9 ( The Love Feast was an early Methodist institution which had some elements in common with the Communion service but did not set to duplicate it and was certainly not an attempt to replace it .
10 President François Mitterrand of France visited Israel on Nov. 25-27 , accompanied by a 150-member French delegation which included five ministers .
11 Sir Goldsworthy Gurney , a Cornishman , designed and built a steam-powered carriage which carried 19 passengers in 1827 .
12 Mr Clark admitted at the Old Bailey he encouraged British firms to sell sanction-busting military equipment to Iraq .
13 However mistaken he thought that she might be , and that her vision of life was based on a charming naïveté which took little account of the cruel realities of existence , it was , to him , admirable that she should care about such things , and in such a practical way when all was said and done .
14 He matured into a distinguished mathematician who enriched many branches of the science before he died at the age of only 44 from a ruptured appendix .
15 On the outward run he achieved 297 m.p.h .
16 The party stood on a detailed manifesto which addressed local issues but stressed that the NILP had ‘ new ideas free from the old sectarian catch cries ’ .
17 A three year old girl who fell twenty feet from a window and survived is back at home .
18 In my own school , the nursery teacher drew attention to a four year old girl who showed remarkable judgement in handling quantities of water .
19 He 's handsome , he 's fit , he 's a self-made millionaire and he 's the strident enigma who spent five years dragging Glasgow Rangers into the twentieth century .
20 On one occasion he played an active role in destroying a German column which yielded twenty-five trucks and three tanks to the partisans .
21 Baguley , who works for Manchester City council , is the national Class Two champion while runner-up Woffinden was a member of the British team who won silver medals in the 1991 World Cup in Portugal .
22 But after a 7-month-long public inquiry which saw vigourous opposition from green groups to the plan , the Government has backed a recommendation by its Inspector that the bypass should not be built to the east of the city .
23 Thousand of households would benefit from pylons scheme , inquiry told Thousands of households in the area would benefit from the new pylons scheme proposed for Cleveland and North Yorkshire , a barrister told a public inquiry which opened this week .
24 To an illiterate population they gave tangible reality to their beliefs .
25 Under the last Labour government , the minister of state in the Department of Health and Social Security who took particular responsibility for social security , Mr Stanley Orme , was a Cabinet minister .
26 When the meal was eaten Tom unwrapped a small brown package which contained four pieces of dark , home-made ginger cake .
27 It was a brilliant tactical move which killed seven birds with one stone , gave The Smiths four pages in Melody Maker and gave the fanzines a slice of national exposure .
28 The British navy which had 76,000 sailors at the end of the Seven Years War in 1763 , for example , had only 17,500 in the following year .
29 Eventually the goods had to be returned to their shelves and Pete departed empty-handed , with a muttered quotation from Ezra Pound , or some other poetic shyster who used four letter words .
30 ‘ Three days later my poor father went to visit an old friend who lived some miles away .
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