Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Participation in such operations as " Desert Storm " in the Gulf in 1991 , however , were not favoured and the SPD wanted Germany to continue to confine military operations to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) area . |
| 2 | Queen Isabella and Mortimer sought to gain popular support by a conciliatory policy regarding the forest . |
| 3 | Bickering began on the US side yesterday , with State Department officials angrily protesting to the White House that the Pentagon failed to provide any security for the US embassy in Panama . |
| 4 | Motability has arranged special schemes with motor manufacturers , wheelchair manufacturers , insurance brokers , and other so that today a variety of schemes can be offered which not only help disabled people become mobile but also give them a chance to be truly independent . |
| 5 | More recently , the BLM has leased large tracts of wilderness to be used as garbage dumps for cities in the Los Angeles area . |
| 6 | In order to accommodation those people who wish to visit the fair for just one day , Ian Allan has arranged scheduled flights on British Midland at a cost of £189 . |
| 7 | A week earlier , Arsenal 's George Graham blamed a referee for his side 's defeat and indiscipline and Manchester United 's Alex Ferguson has blamed other teams for trying too hard ! |
| 8 | Gooch has scored 2124 runs at an average of 50.57 , whereas Gower has made 2183 runs at 50.76 . |
| 9 | Finance director Keith Todd announced that ICL has gained one point of market share in the UK , in a declining overall market — stealing back a little of the market share that IBM UK has won from ICL over the past 20 years . |
| 10 | Jenkins has enjoyed great success with Llanelli : the Schweppes Cup in 1988 , the Welsh Merit Table and Cup final in 1989 , the Cup and second place in the inaugural Heineken League in 1991 . |
| 11 | Although Lukic has made bad mistakes at ( unfortunaltely ) critical times I do n't think he is a complete donkey . |
| 12 | Jim has made some enquiries through Italian legal colleagues and by all accounts the man does come from a very good family — very good indeed — so at least he has n't told her a tissue of lies about his background . ’ |
| 13 | Director Caroline Fitzgerald has coaxed fine performances from a generally strong cast — in particular from O'Meara and Graham Arnold as the colourful butterflies that fly so distractingly around Alec 's head . |
| 14 | Hirst has missed 11 games with an ankle injury , and played when short of fitness , but his pace and power have still made an impression this season . |
| 15 | TYCOON Peter de Savary has sold 300 acres of mudflats and salt marsh at Hayle , Cornwall , to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds for £1 . |
| 16 | Lancastrian Peter Ellis has spent 12 months at the town 's Arts Centre working with everyday objects and fashioning them into works of art for his Funny Energy exhibition . |
| 17 | In his well-known book Feudal Society , the historian Marc Bloch has laid particular emphasis on the fact that in the Middle Ages men found it difficult to appreciate the significance of time because they were so ill-equipped to measure it . |
| 18 | The advent of powerful desktop computers and the introduction of the technique of running spectal analysis by Van der Schee has allowed objective analysis of the recorded signals , superceding the use of visual analysis techniques . |
| 19 | Over the last two decades ICI has made significant progress in improving energy efficiency [ see graph ] . |
| 20 | ‘ Over the years ICI has made significant reductions in its mercury emissions , ’ explained Phil Edwards . |
| 21 | In the past , the young store cattle were sold after a few months to farmers on the UK mainland but recently the EEC has guaranteed high prices for beef and so many farmers have fattened their calves on their own farms . |
| 22 | Since February last year , Ward has sold 3600 copies of the program , called Micromodeller , mainly to run on Apple computers . |
| 23 | he says , in the case of Ian the number of occasions where Ian has worked two hours on a Friday morning and then he 's worked Friday Saturday as overtime . |
| 24 | Ian has had this experience in reality and is all it with some explanation . |
| 25 | This is why Kenneth Baker has promised longer franchises for operators prepared to install systems that rely on switched-star technology . |
| 26 | Yes thank you Chairman erm I think important question very similar question I think we 're we 're all wondering whether the changed landscape of West Sussex , the changed use of West Sussex has had any influence on the flooding and as the County Council has pointed out worst amount of rain we 've had for about seventy years or so I think it 's very useful and important er to ask questions an and when this crisis is over we reflect on what we can learn from it , but I must bear in mind that it is first and foremost extraordinary climatic conditions which have caused these problems and that in itself of course might have implications erm the whole of global warming does tend to come to mind when you see what 's happening in Australia as well as what 's happening here erm that 's certainly not anything that agencies great or small can have any control over . |
| 27 | The Forest of Dean has suffered many abuses in the past . |
| 28 | The prime example discussed by Stepp and Michalski involved classifying simple pictures of goods trains . |
| 29 | More recently Rudolf Herr has had overall responsibility for the road haulage interests of the group , and until his promotion , was Chairman of the management board of Rhenania . |
| 30 | David Kelly has scored 11 goals in the 15 matches of the Keegan regime at Newcastle and the 26-year-old Republic of Ireland international relishes the high stakes riding on his return to Filbert Street . |