Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were a useful member of the West 's military alliance , and in 1981 they persuaded a hesitant European Community to take them in as full members . |
| 2 | Harold Wilson probably underwent the most disagreeable experience of any Prime Minister in that it was regarded as respectable political tactics to traduce him on any grounds other than political . |
| 3 | A rebuilt Lower Gate matches it at the other end . |
| 4 | Very painstaking stratigraphical work put it beyond doubt that men had been contemporary with animals now extinct , and that human history must therefore go back long before the 4004 BC computed from Genesis . |
| 5 | Many will welcome that sensible proposal , but can the right hon. Gentleman underline it with a categorical assurance that the Government have no intention of privatising water in Scotland either this side of an election or afterwards ? |
| 6 | When I drew the attention of the Leader of the Opposition to a previous threat of this kind , made by the hon. Member for Coventry , South-East ( Mr. Nellist ) , the right hon. Gentleman withdrew it at once . |
| 7 | As the right hon. Member for Islwyn ( Mr. Kinnock ) and his Front-Bench team are so singularly ill-informed , why does not my right hon. Friend invite them to the Department for a teach-in , when they could be given the true facts and figures ? |
| 8 | Mr. Raffan : Will my right Hon. Friend join me in congratulating the miners at Point of Air in my constituency for their dramatically increased productivity since the miners ' strike ? |
| 9 | Will my right hon. Friend join me in welcoming the £24 billion programme for public housing over the next three years detailed by the Department of the Environment yesterday ? |
| 10 | Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating the chairman , trustees and staff of the Aintree national health service hospital trust on the establishment of a new £7 million project that will give it the largest accident and emergency unit in Europe ? |
| 11 | Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating the Secretary of State for Education and Science on devising tests for seven-year-olds which go back to the basics of reading , writing and arithmetic ? |
| 12 | Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating the courageous efforts of the European Community observers in Croatia ? |
| 13 | Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating the Prime Minister on his initiative yesterday with President Mitterrand on the Soviet Union ? |
| 14 | Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating Councillor Mrs. Lydia Simmons , the Labour chairman of the housing committee in Slough , on her appointment as a member of the board of the NHS trust for Wexham Park hospital in my constituency ? |
| 15 | Will my right hon. Friend join me in sending congratulations to a Yorkshire manufacturing company , Spring Ram plc , which at the end of the month will open two new factories in my constituency , creating 400 new jobs , which is at present building two new factories in Barnsley which will create 400 new jobs , and which has a plan to create 1,100 new jobs in Bradford over the next four years ? |
| 16 | Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating staff at the university of Kent and the two commercial pharmaceutical companies with whom the university is combining in a venture called ’ Viridian ’ , which is a programme of environmental biotechnology based entirely on bacteria that are naturally available ? |
| 17 | Will my right hon. Friend join me in condemning the supermarkets that have recently been opening on Sundays ? |
| 18 | On the eve of the first anniversary of the Gulf war , will my right hon. Friend join me in expressing our gratitude to our armed forces , our commitment to the independence of Kuwait and our determination to ensure that Saddam Hussein and his generals comply with all international sanctions or suffer the consequences ? |
| 19 | Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating Beloit Walmsley in my constituency on winning a £63 million contract in Russia and a £90 million contract in Iran ? |
| 20 | Will my right hon. Friend join me in sending condolences to the bereaved family and wishing those who are injured a speedy recovery ? |
| 21 | Far from taking money away from British farmers , will my right hon. Friend bear it in mind during his negotiations with Mr. MacSharry the inequity in national aids ? |
| 22 | A pleasant 15-minute walk brings you to the first two faces , which contain dozens of routes at VS to E1 . |
| 23 | Pete is a bony Londoner with a sallow but healthy skin and clean floppy fair hair , Ellie an attractive girl in her early twenties , her light greenish hazel almond-shaped eyes showing her to be of mixed blood . |
| 24 | A very light northerly wind wafted us round the moored yacht on which we had marooned the photographer . |
| 25 | The romance of the French Foreign Legion struck me in the same way , and especially the exhibits from Kolwezi and Chad , where there were photographs of camouflaged paras with shaved heads and sunglasses helping starving babies . |
| 26 | Their exploitation of this recently opened path aroused jealousy among the knights , one of whom refused to answer a charge levelled against him by the Erembalds in the court of Charles the Good , on the ground that his accusers ' lowly social origins barred them from comital justice . |
| 27 | The Social Democratic Party considers it to be its positive and principal task to further the self-determination of the proletariat in each nationality rather than that of peoples or nations … it is only in isolated and exceptional cases that we can advance and actively support demands conducive to the establishment of a new class state . |
| 28 | The biological aspect of woman-centred psychological theories provides them with some theoretical distinctiveness . |
| 29 | Will he consider bringing the Conservative party , and talking to the Scottish National party to bring it into the Scottish Constitutional Convention so that we can then have a genuine debate on which way the constitution of Scotland should go ? |
| 30 | Van Gelder had just left the bridge when another loudspeaker came to life , the repeated double buzzer identifying it as the radio-room . |