Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nyamwisi Movingi had resigned from this post on March 22 , accusing the government of leading the country to disaster . |
| 2 | But now a more menacing threat was posed for Russia : massed German units were attacking the Polish salient from the north , while Austro-German armies thrust up from the southeast — precisely the strategy that the Austrian commander General Conrad von Hötzendorff had advocated in 1914 . |
| 3 | Kelly Good has suffered from cystic fibrosis since she was a baby . |
| 4 | Of course it would turn out that the dead girl was merely someone Jerome Fanshawe had come across that weekend and who had taken his fancy . |
| 5 | Last week Scottish Secretary Ian Lang announced spending on social work projects would be £22.8 million next year , with provisional figures of £23 million for 194–5 and 1995–6 . |
| 6 | March wind doth blow for some time to come , according to the coastguard , and believe me it blows hellish hard round Gullholm . ’ |
| 7 | In fact it has nothing to do with political affiliations at all , since admiration and support for Rigoberta Menchu has come from all sides . |
| 8 | These had a being and authority of their own , like the sets seen by the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard left playing in deserted motels off highways in the west . |
| 9 | Data collected by Dr Arne Semb-Johansson of Oslo University show that toad populations on the Hvaler islands in the outer Oslo fjord have plummeted since 1966 . |
| 10 | Gregory King had estimated in 1688 that the arable land of England and Wales amounted to nine million acres in all . |
| 11 | Miss Kenton seemed to think about this before saying a little sulkily : |
| 12 | The number of WEA branches had doubled to forty and thirty-six Student Groups existed . |
| 13 | It was n't until 25 minutes later that he remembered — and by then the former Miss England had drowned in two feet of muddy water . |
| 14 | Mohammad Azharuddin returned to form with 106 at Adelaide |
| 15 | Thus Richard Dyer has argued of gay machismo that , by taking the traditional signs of masculinity and ‘ eroticising them in a blatantly homosexual context , much mischief is done to the security with which ‘ men' ’ are defined in society , and by which their power is secured' ( ‘ Getting Over the Rainbow ’ , 61 ) . |
| 16 | Before the table Edward Hussey stood hunched in defensive composure , very plainly dressed — had he set out to demonstrate the modesty of his means ? — and with his countenance fixed in an expression of resigned and dutiful benevolence . |
| 17 | As many as 5,000 Palestinians had been held in Syrian prisons since 1983 , when relations between Arafat and Syrian President Hafez al-Assad had deteriorated into open hostility [ see pp. 32457-59 ; 32649-51 ] . |
| 18 | The Hindu of Feb. 24 reported that United States officials had intervened in late January to dissuade the Pakistani Army from intervening in Kashmir . |
| 19 | In the documents that the hon. Gentleman is quoting from , did he notice the statement that unemployment in the TEC area has risen by 81 per cent . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , Delyn MP David Hanson has called on British Coal to withdraw the advance redundancy notices sent out to workers at the 31 pits listed for closure . |
| 21 | Algerian radio reported that on Jan. 16 Ait Ahmed had met with two FIS leaders , Abdelkader al-Hachani ( described as chairman of the FIS provisional executive bureau ) and Mohammed Said , at the offices of the Algerian League for the Defence of Human Rights . |
| 22 | The ideological basis of Kremlin policy seemed confirmed at this time by Stalin , who declared in a speech in February 1946 that the Second World War had vindicated the Soviet system of government . |
| 23 | Johnny Marr began to slide towards potential alcoholism , drinking a bottle of Remy Martin a night , and the band began to drift apart . |
| 24 | Richard Baxter continued preaching in these churches for about a year until 1662 , when he was forbidden by law from any further public ministry . |
| 25 | Richard Baxter had preached to large congregations who listened to him very attentively . |
| 26 | Erm the following the the last meeting of the committee , erm the matter was er raised by your Chairman and er he asked me to send to all of you er a copy of an extract from the erm Commissions Report relating to Derbyshire and a copy of a Department of the Environment press release of the twenty second of October which refers to one or two things that er David Curry had said about strategic planning and that was sent out to all members of the committee on the twenty second of November and erm n not expecting you to have brought back with you or to have remembered exactly what it said , perhaps I can just erm refer to the , the options for erm strategic planning that were outlined by Mr Curry in that press release and i the er erm er paper that he had delivered . |
| 27 | STANDARDS engineer David Savage has retired after 11 years with BNFL at Risley . |
| 28 | The self-built homes of Mexico City have increased from 14 per cent of the population and 23 per cent of the built-up area in 1952 to more than half the total population and built-up area today ( Hurtado 1986 ) . |
| 29 | The Tec Ni Wavers come in four sizes for a variety of finishes and the perm solution comes in two strengths — natural and coloured hair . |
| 30 | In Rome , Jandi Sapi has focused on lesser-known artists . |