Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an assistant in early 1643 to John Rushworth [ q.v. ] , clerk-assistant of the House of Commons , Mabbott became connected with the parliamentary army secretariat and acted as agent for the army , mainly in London , throughout the civil war and interregnum . |
| 2 | WE WERE sailing from the Queensland port of Cairns to go diving on the Great Barrier Reef . |
| 3 | Apart from Mrs Thatcher 's unqualified declaration of support , the only other comment on the events in Panama has come from the Spanish Prime Minister , Mr Felipe Gonzalez , who told the Cortes in Madrid that his government ‘ condemned outright all foreign intervention ’ . |
| 4 | On occasions Strach has played on the left — To accomodate Hendrie in the promotion year , and when Batty , Macca had a go at right-back last season . |
| 5 | Quizmaster Magnus Magnusson KBE has landed in the hot seat himself . |
| 6 | Just as McBride and Doyle before him , Ciaran Fitzgerald has suffered from the Irish notion that Messiahs work . |
| 7 | Palace striker Chris Armstrong has confessed for the first time that manager Steve Coppell took a huge gamble signing him . |
| 8 | England marksman David Hirst has trained for the first time in five weeks after recovering from a cracked ankle , and is desperate to link up with Chris Waddle . |
| 9 | Moscovici has referred to the second process by which social representations are produced as objectification . |
| 10 | Steve and Stuart are just 2 of the homeless people , Dawn Walker Webb has helped over the past 20 years in Swindon . |
| 11 | CARL PREAN has written to the English Table Tennis Association asking to be omitted from future ranking lists because of the way they are determined . |
| 12 | D. B. MacDonald has speculated on the difficult question of the origin of this view in Islam and has suggested that it arose from a Muslim heresy ‘ in that dark but intense period of theological and intellectual development which stretched from the death of Muhammad for at least two and a half centuries ’ . |
| 13 | In this , the second annual report on our environmental activities , a range of examples are given to demonstrate how ICI has responded to the environmental challenge opposite each of our objectives . |
| 14 | The EC guideline is 26 ppb. * Greater use of catalytic converters in the Netherlands has led to the first ever recorded drop in Nox concentrations . |
| 15 | The ownership and use of cars in the Netherlands has doubled in the past fifteen years . |
| 16 | Dr Ward has spoken of the potential effects on children who were unborn at the time of the incident . |
| 17 | Mr Baker has spoken of the renewed ‘ need for American leadership ’ . |
| 18 | With its new MouseMan Cordless , Logitech has opted for the alternative cordless solution , radio . |
| 19 | As Philip Warner has said in The Special Air Service , the official history re-issued in an expanded edition in 1983 , the regiment ‘ has often been criticised for the high proportion of officers and N.C.O.s , as well as first-class men , which it absorbed , and the answer must invariably be that used in this way they caused far more damage to the enemy than they would have done if they had been with other units . |
| 20 | ENGLAND boss Graham Taylor has admitted for the first time that his team flopped in the European Championship finals because they were n't fit enough . |
| 21 | Yet opinion in Germany has shifted over the past year . |
| 22 | Should Linda want to move over the next seven years , she does not have to worry because the loan is fully portable . |
| 23 | This year Marks and Spencer has leapt to the top slot , Shell is now second and Glaxo third . |
| 24 | Material collected in south-east Ecuador has revealed for the first time Triassic marine sediments with bivalves , as well as Jurassic microfloras and Cretaceous macrofaunas . |
| 25 | As expected , Graeme Hick has prospered on the Indian tour and regained one essential ingredient — confidence . |
| 26 | PRESIDENT Mikhail Gorbachev has appealed to the Russian Republic not to go it alone on reform and warned that the Soviet Union stood on the brink of an economic and political abyss . |
| 27 | This island alone in Indonesia has clung to the old Hindu religion and culture . |
| 28 | Their original £2,000 investment in chemical company MTM has sunk with the Cleveland-based business . |
| 29 | Definitely out is Leeds ull-back Tony Dorigo , and Garry Parker of Aston Villa has withdrawn from the stand-by squad with a stomach problem . |
| 30 | Frankly , it is hard to see what Vidal has brought to the familiar myth , most recently remade as Young Guns . |