Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ON THE RIGHT BERNARD DURING THE SAME VISIT . |
| 2 | Painters have responded enthusiastically , from the meticulous realism of Frith 's panoramic Paddington to the delicate impressionism of Monet 's Gare Saint-Lazare , from the distorted heat-haze imagery of Dali 's Perpignan Station to the lonely , austere beauty of Vlaminck 's station in the snow . |
| 3 | In his two-volume Mexico of the Twentieth Century ( 1907 ) Martin moved on to examine British investment and influence in that country . |
| 4 | Any budding Napoleon with a few hours to spare — or a few days , for some games — can choose from titles such as ‘ Butcher of Baghdad ’ , ‘ Gulf Strike ’ and ‘ Line in the Sand ’ . |
| 5 | Birbeck believed that Branson had played the joke as ‘ revenge ’ for a Music Week reporter feeding stories disparaging Branson to the satirical magazine Private Eye — and he was partly right . |
| 6 | Analysts believed that the greatest fear in the region was that NAFTA " local content " and " country of origin " clauses would encourage the USA to increasingly look to low-wage Mexico as a principal source of imports . |
| 7 | But Liverpool , desperate to reorganise themselves back into a title-chasing outfit , wanted the smooth-passing Clough for a vital role in midfield . |
| 8 | Two weeks ago Randalstown lost to Old Alexandra in the All Ireland Cup , but that was due to fatigue as the previous weekend they had been involved in the European Indoor Club Championship . |
| 9 | Kingsbury a patterned tonal Wilton with a Venetian style in 10 colours . |
| 10 | The body of a young climber has been found in the Scottish Highlands after a three day search . |
| 11 | Air travel grew rapidly : the first Pan Am passenger flight was on 18 January 1928 , although the first commercial passenger flights had been in German Zeppelins before the First World War , and French and British airlines had begun by the early 1920s . |
| 12 | The French Senator-Minister for the High Police controlled a web of espionage as efficient as that of the Hapsburgs , and if anything even more ruthless . |
| 13 | HOMELESS baby Heidi Grady is living in a rusty old Toyota in a public car park … right under the nose of the council which refuses to house her . |
| 14 | But this had been an attempt to land on the Spanish Main , and the Spanish felt much less concerned about the long string of small islands in the Lesser Antilles at the eastern end of the Caribbean . |
| 15 | Then the last of the human tide swept past him and he started down in their wake , guiding Karen with a protective arm round her shoulders . |
| 16 | Modigliani left Nice for nearby Cagnes in the first half of April . |
| 17 | The aim was to join Croatian and Serbian Serbs in a Greater Serbia . |
| 18 | And while he was busily playing a little-heralded starring role for Ireland in their early Five Nations games against Scotland and France , McBride was slowly guiding Malone to the Digital Ulster Senior League title . |
| 19 | Despite Lawrence guiding Boro into the Premier League in his first season at Ayresome Park , Bassett won the award for lifting a relegation-threatened side into the top half of the First Division . |
| 20 | The tale goes that a little while back , IBM Corp was using street names , reportedly from the Palo Alto town map , as its product code names — Sierra , Summit perhaps — and had been carefully working up the map , so that all you had to do to put a top IBMer into a real flap was to pick a name from the map a couple of streets up from the most recent one you 'd heard of and ask how that product was coming along . |
| 21 | The tale goes that a little while back , IBM Corp was using street names , reportedly from the Palo Alto town map , as its product code names — Sierra , Summit perhaps — and had been carefully working up the map , so that all you had to do to put a top IBMer into a real flap was to pick a name from the map a couple of streets up from the most recent one you 'd heard of and ask how that product was coming along . |
| 22 | The time of The Smiths ' appearance had not been fully publicised yet , as the strain of Prokoviev 's ‘ Romeo and Juliet ’ filled the hall , the atmosphere in G-Mex became as intense as Old Trafford on a rare day of victory . |
| 23 | Middlesbrough will be at home on Wednesday , February 26 , with the second leg at Old Trafford on the following Wednesday . |
| 24 | Robson is now even more determined to assist United in the overriding ambition of bringing the League title to Old Trafford for the first time in 25 years . |
| 25 | Marshall took 10 for 92 in that match but arrived at Old Trafford for the third Test reportedly with a rib injury . |
| 26 | THE selectors made a serious start to the job of digging English cricket out of its present hole by bringing four virtual newcomers to Old Trafford despite the resounding defeat . |
| 27 | Selling Old Trafford to a first-time buyer on a 100 per cent mortgage would be easier than selling Manchester for the 1996 Olympics . |
| 28 | Paul Merson was close to stunning Old Trafford in the 80th minute with a stupendous 35-yard volley which took goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel unawares , but smacked hard against his crossbar . |
| 29 | In the foreground are the chimney-stacks of the Cabinet Office — complex pillars of weathered grey London stock brick rising like the high Alps from the blue slate foothills of the roof . |
| 30 | It faced north , with a splendid view of the Bay and Old Harry over the former orchard-garden of the Royal Victoria Hotel , but now developed as ‘ Peveril Heights ’ . |