Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh pn] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether or not one regards this as a prime example of the way in which a political settlement was undercut by the optimism of those Frenchmen who believed in a military solution it should also be pointed out , as Irving does , that ‘ Any policy which might have been construed as the abandonment of Indo-China would have been rejected by the National Assembly in 1947 , if not by an overwhelming majority , then at least by a decisive one ’ but this , in turn , did nothing to resolve the US dilemma . |
| 2 | Local issues , including the election of three independent candidates who campaigned against a new road , played a part in the Tories ' loss of Merton , and similar borough-specific factors seemed to be at work in those Labour authorities where the party fared particularly badly . |
| 3 | Champion was a friend of two youngsters who died on a stolen police motorbike in July , sparking three nights of rioting in the Hartcliffe area . |
| 4 | Frederick , a man of limited imagination who thought himself to be the very model of a modern enlightened despot and who had travelled in Poland in his younger years , believed that the Polish nobles and gentry were fools and madmen , deluded Catholic warmongers who lived in a perpetual fog of political weakness and drunken anarchy . |
| 5 | We have hundreds of testimonies from escapees who left behind a nice flat , two cars , country cottages , yachts … |
| 6 | But the dozen or so Erk sympathisers are no match for the rest of the 500 deputies — all members of the People 's Democratic Party , the former communists who regrouped under a new name after the failed Moscow coup . |
| 7 | He made two calls to contacts who sold to a private collector in New York . |
| 8 | Opposite me , sat a small , thin man with yellowed teeth who ate in a great hurry . |
| 9 | Pupils could select areas of a historical map , for example , and call up further screens of related data or sources — the census records of families who lived in a particular house , perhaps . |
| 10 | It will not be the first match involving a South African representative side on West Indian soil ; symbolically that honour befell the Jamaican and South African under-19 teams who met in a 50-over contest yesterday just outside Kingston . |
| 11 | At one stage writers who subscribed to a cost-push position were in danger of having their economists ' union cards taken away from them . |
| 12 | Families from Aberdeen , Glasgow and Edinburgh were included in the study after they were referred by medical practitioners who knew of a strong family history of the disease . |
| 13 | However , Alistair Clark , president of the Law Society of Scotland , which represents 6,400 solicitors , criticised the decision to allow banks , building societies and other authorised practitioners who complied with a statutory code of conduct to charge for conveyancing . |
| 14 | ‘ Harry ’ had a paddock full of mares who lived in a semi wild state , receiving little handling and no extra feed . |
| 15 | Three people were reported killed during a shoot-out in Lomé on Nov. 27 between police and demonstrators who responded to a general strike call launched on Nov. 16 by the Collectif des syndicats indépendants and the Collective of the Democratic Opposition-2 ( COD-2 ) [ for May general strike see p. 38901 ] . |
| 16 | Its wealth depended on the scientists who worked in a large lab behind the administrative block . |
| 17 | And the two men would shake their heads over the inconsistent , bloody-minded civilians who swarmed through a general practitioner 's surgery , deliberately misleading qualified men about the nature of their fatal diseases . |
| 18 | Police in Wiltshire are urgently appealing to motorists who drove past a chemical spillage on the M four near Swindon to immediately consult their doctors . |
| 19 | The expansion of American medical research , much of the finest quality , attracted European doctors who aspired to a scientific career , and they did well to spend a year or two in an American laboratory , or even to emigrate there altogether . |
| 20 | In theory , the captain of a ship was entitled to take into his ship as midshipmen , volunteers , or captain 's servants any of the sons of his friends who hoped for a naval career , but in practice even this form of entrance patronage was limited and largely in the hands of flag-officers , for it would be a captain with a liking for half-pay who would refuse the requests of an influential admiral . |
| 21 | A FATAL accident inquiry at Ayr into the deaths of two schoolboy friends who drowned in a flooded quarry yesterday heard that the boys ’ parents had not known of the dangers . |
| 22 | Trouble from racists who objected to a white woman going out with a black man . |
| 23 | He er , is a sheep farmer and er , two or three years ago the Atherstone passed through his land and er ran amuck amongst his flock and he lost actually three in lamb ewes who drowned in a local river . |
| 24 | He wanted to raise £2,000 to treat one of his children who suffered from a tubercular hip infection . |
| 25 | Last nights theft took place when an antiques dealer stopped to change a wheel on his car on the hard shoulder of the M Six near the Keele service station in Staffordshire and was attacked by three men who escaped in a white van . |
| 26 | AN RAF air-sea rescue helicopter today joined a massive search for three young men who disappeared in a small speedboat after setting out on a two-hour trip along the west Wales coast . |
| 27 | In '60s Scotland , local hard men like Jimmy Boyle did n't have a look in , the role of working-class hero was inevitably played by footballers , and in particular a group of young men who dressed in a continental style and made The Kray Twins look like artless thugs . |
| 28 | There were four Portuguese : a gentleman in a fine lace ruff and blue hose who Sara presumed was Dom João , a weather-hardened man , who she thought might be the ship 's master , and two young lieutenants who acted as a ceremonial guard . |
| 29 | VOLUNTEERS who sang to a sick dolphin for 36 hours to calm it returned the mammal to the sea at Gwithian , Cornwall , yesterday . |
| 30 | Most of the mothers were nurses who worked in a civilian hospital , but were part-time reservists in the US Army and were posted to Saudi Arabia at short notice in the run-up to the war . |