Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been frustrated in her 1988 cruise to Scandinavia , Islander headed north-east once more last summer and this time succeeded in passing through the Limfjord , sailing down the Kattegat and up into the Baltic as far as Stockholm before retracing her steps to visit Copenhagen for the second time on this voyage . |
| 2 | The District Council has accommodated the highest proportion of Greater York growth of all the districts surrounding York over the last ten years , and therefore I think it likely that it would expected to accommodate the largest proportion of the fourteen hundred dwellings that would be accommodated in the new settlement , erm I do not think that any of the settlements or that there is sufficient land within the Southern Ryedale area to accommodate that level of development without adversely affecting character of the settlements , or compromising greenbelt objectives , as I mentioned this morning , and also I question whether or not erm whether th most of the settlements in the Southern Ryedale area have only a minimal s minimal service base anyway on which to tack any large housing growths , and I do n't necessarily foresee any subsequent rise in the service base of those settlements as a result of the housing being added on to them . |
| 3 | The same waves reached Hawaii in the central Pacific less than 5 hours later and must have travelled at a speed of 740 km per hour . |
| 4 | It has n't stopped him making guest appearances and recordings with western orchestras , and he is no longer in a position where he 's asked only to conduct Russian music — ‘ Berlioz and Beethoven with British orchestras were far more interesting propositions for me than , for example , Tchaikovsky , because you remember too much the way Russian orchestras play Tchaikovsky with the huge sound and the heaviness and the passion ’ . |
| 5 | The winners have Grimsby in the next round and that 's a good draw . |
| 6 | I have no plans to visit Lancashire in the near future . |
| 7 | I have no plans to visit Blackpool in the immediate future . |
| 8 | Norsemen conquered Orkney in the ninth century when the islands became dependencies of Norway and Denmark . |
| 9 | When the sick and exhausted Armenians reached Beirut after the Ottoman collapse , they were allowed to build shacks on the swamps of Bourj Hammoud in the east of the city and then to erect houses which look to this day curiously Balkan , their wooden balconies hanging over the narrow streets of Camp Marash . |
| 10 | Influential Western figures encouraged a revival of plans to neutralise Afghanistan in the mid 1980s . |
| 11 | The Republicans forced Truman on the defensive and their greatest victory over the President was the Taft-Hartley Labor-Management Relations Act ( 1947 ) passed over Truman 's veto . |
| 12 | Five hundred years ago , some 10 million elephants roamed Africa from the Mediterranean to the Cape . |
| 13 | Serbs , Croats and Muslims have all committed crimes but UN investigators blame Serbs for the worst atrocities such as so-called ethnic cleansing , concentration camps , systematic rape and mass murder . |
| 14 | It was funny I should have just tidied the room this day , thought Nessie as the two strangers laid Kevin on the new-made bed . |
| 15 | Kanwal Rekhi , executive vice president of Novell 's interoperability systems group , thinks his company has the resources to challange Microsoft in the corporate , client-server marketplace , and even claims that Novell will take at least half of the market from the clutches of Microsoft 's NT . |
| 16 | Kanwal Rekhi , executive vice-president of Novell 's interoperability systems group , thinks his company has the resources to challenge Microsoft in the corporate , client-server marketplace , and even claims that Novell will take at least half of the market from the clutches of Microsoft 's NT . |
| 17 | Following the immense popularity of Goldman 's analysis of the problems facing RE in the 1960s ( Goldman 1964 ; 1965 ) , the emphasis on moral education was given a partner , that of life-themes — general topics which could be seen in greater depth through helping pupils to appreciate their symbolic use within religion . |
| 18 | The grandfathers both put fifty-rupee notes in the plate , while one of the daughters-in-law presented Chaman with the traditional gift of a plate of flour . |
| 19 | Helmut Kohl 's calls to brief Major on the British economy are doubtless answered by a builder screaming at the German Chancellor to speak English , or ordering him to get off the line so they can deal with the other jobs they 've got on the go . |
| 20 | The blurring of art and film histories leads Levin into the murky waters of Situationist discourse on art . |
| 21 | FOOTBALL lovers in the south are set to miss out when Rangers play Marseille in the European Cup . |
| 22 | And thereupon the said Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons pursuant to their respective letters and Elections being now assembled in a full and free representative of this nation taking into their most serious consideration the best meanes for atteyneing the ends aforesaid Doe in the first place ( as their Ancestors in like Case have usually done ) for the vindicating and asserting their antient rights and Liberties , Declare . |
| 23 | The Nez Perce scouts taunted Howard from the far bank of the river . |
| 24 | Buses connect Finikounda with the nearby towns of Pylos , Methoni and Koroni , and the city of Kalamata is only an hour and a half distant . |
| 25 | Since his shock sacking , Fry had promised to sue for unfair dismissal , and he urged his players to report Flashman to the local police for threats he had made against them . |
| 26 | According to police files in Copenhagen , the five players treated Scandinavia to the seamier side of Scottish culture . |
| 27 | I was critical of the plans of the Burma Educational Service and government advisers to absorb Judson into the one system , and I hoped that through Judson Western members of staff might be able to continue to serve students when the process of Burmanising the University inevitably took place . |
| 28 | Two of the small number of Liberals representing Quebec in the federal parliament resigned from the party in response to Chrétien 's election . |
| 29 | Following their 2–1 win over Middlesbrough , the juniors visit Doncaster in the Northern Intermediate League tomorrow . |
| 30 | There is no doubt that by returning to nursing in the next decade you will be helping to prepare the profession for the enormous demographic and social challenges facing Britain in the 21st century . |