Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun prp] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A sound had her spinning round and she found herself looking into the astonished eyes of Marie as the girl slid from her bicycle and walked forwards to confront her .
2 He may consolidate his position by entering into a merger of sorts with Carlton when the Government permits such tie-ups in 1994 .
3 Andy was supervising a chlorination at a large tape manufacturers in Middlesbrough when the opportunity came for him to test drive the vehicle .
4 Remember , the Richardson 's have run gangs in Deptford since the war .
5 Omitting the reference to property this decision was extended to manslaughter involving cars in Seymour though the Crown wished to reserve the question whether a risk to property was sufficient : on the facts it was not relevant .
6 John Cresswell said the Labour group had chosen to pay for repairs on homes in Cockerton when the funding should have been more widely distributed .
7 The official news agency Tanjug reported on Aug. 13 that nearly 90,000 people had left their homes in Croatia since the start of the clashes , quoting Red Cross figures of 48,161 Serbs who had fled to Serbia and 30,651 Croatians to Croatia plus some 10,000 people who had fled to Bosnia .
8 All was well until at a meeting on 16 August 1889 at Euston , when the directors heard ‘ that a meeting is to be held tomorrow , Saturday the 17 inst. , in the Schools at Stantonbury when the question of recommending a school Board for the Parish of Bradwell in lieu of the present voluntary arrangement is to be considered . ’
9 And yet he did encourage those six-monthly sessions at Chequers when the think-tank would come and brief the full Cabinet , and smaller ones in No. 10 for the junior ministers .
10 Changes which are identified here are thought to be suggestive of changes which might take place in other areas of Shetland as the construction phase of the oil era winds down , and the oil production phase takes off in earnest .
11 Still , it provided the Gray family with regular exercise , so often did we pursue it over large tracts of Scotland as the tent tried to escape home to warmer climes in the south , flapping its PVC accessories like the wings of a large , wounded goose trying to take off .
12 Within a single ontological cluster C one can use all the elements of S to distinguish subclasses of C. When a training set TS is a subset of C , and all the tests made on instances use only functions and predicates from S , then the invented clusters are called simple .
13 Witnesses said the bus , carrying 49 Britons on a day trip from Cyprus , was driving through an underpass on the main road leading to the Pyramids of Giza when a man dropped the bomb from a bridge above .
14 The Gulf war came too late to help the profits of Turner Broadcasting last year , whose CNN broadcasts from Baghdad since the war started have sent viewership — and advertising revenues — soaring .
15 There is no doubt that Lowe used sign language — during sometime in his career , he must have spent a period or periods in Edinburgh because the Member 's List of Edinburgh 's Congregational Deaf Church lists a John William Lowe of London as Member no. 125 , married to a hearing wife , for the period 1836 to 1838 .
16 I would actually ask the Harrogate Borough Council , where are these more environmentally sensitive sites in Harrogate than the Valley , the Beck and the Crag ?
17 This attractive sign welcomed visitors to Cleveleys until the roundabout was removed and traffic lights substituted in 1968 .
18 Dave Herriot , now 67 , convener of shop stewards at Walkerburn when the mill crashed , said : ‘ Everyone has been sickened by the way the system has treated us .
19 ‘ I felt there was a real danger that we would turn full circle and go back to the dark days under Revie when the manager 's indecision was final . ’
20 The continued pressure of allied troops in Japan after the signing of a peace treaty should be separately negotiated .
21 She wrote to us about it , it was like the first days in Britain except the weather was much better .
22 There are few more impressively glittering sights in Britain than the summer afternoon at the start of Ascot week when the members of perhaps the most prestigious order of chivalry in Christendom process through the grounds of Windsor Castle .
23 They had to quit their favourite sports at Exeter because the council 's cover with troubled Municipal Mutual Insurance ran out .
24 My mother had more stories of India than the war : my mother dancing with young men at the club , the cobra she saw on the veranda , the retired doctor in the Indian army who sent her his travelling rug before he died .
25 The great paintings of Europe since the Renaissance , even the major landscapes , have been conceived within a finite box , They are interiors , constrained by a rigid three dimensional matrix within which movement is permitted .
26 The airline has always denied it was aware of hostilities in Kuwait when the flight landed .
27 There is a theory that they brought with them the ancestors of the naturally polled northern breeds such as the Angus and Galloway , but in fact there had been polled cattle in Britain since the Iron Age and they were not necessarily imported — not even from Scandinavia , where many cattle are polled .
28 He had been in New Zealand in January last year for a holiday with relatives in Christchurch when the crime took place .
29 Conditions in England while the tax was being gathered are likely to have been grim , considering the devastation caused by the recent fighting , and that the tribute came on top of the large amounts levied in Æthelred 's reign .
30 Excellent progress was made in disposing of properties in Arizona when the market was considerably more bullish .
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