Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her hair had been flattened by the storm so that it made Trent think of a squashed astrakan hat . |
| 2 | The Foleys lived in a large Victorian house with a garden in Donnybrook , a couple of miles from the centre of Dublin . |
| 3 | At the top of the list of reasons for developing communal ranches in Tanganyika Masailand given in the 1955 Annual Report was ‘ Closer control of the Masai ’ . |
| 4 | Baker met with a 10-member Palestinian delegation on March 12 , the first such meeting since the US suspended its dialogue with the PLO in June 1990 [ see pp. 37547-48 ] . |
| 5 | Amid tight security the Presidents of the United States , Colombia , Peru and Bolivia met in the Colombian Caribbean resort of Cartagena and signed on Feb. 15 the Cartagena Declaration , pledging their governments to intensify and co-ordinate efforts to curb the consumption , production and trafficking of cocaine . |
| 6 | Petr Korda crashed into the top ten for this year with puzzled frowns asking : ‘ Petr Who ? ’ |
| 7 | Mr Angell responded that it would not be feasible for Moscow to leap from the present unconvertible rouble to the complex Western system of floating exchange rates , or to a dollar or yen-backed rouble . |
| 8 | Interview he sez ICI has for the last two decades looked at ways of helping the environment . |
| 9 | Hewlett and Mrs Lowndes moved in the same influential circles . |
| 10 | In 51 minutes Ian Ferguson crashed in a fierce 20 yarder which flew wide and Rangers missed a great chance to go ahead when Murdoch saved a Hateley penalty kick , after the keeper had been penalised for bringing down the big attacker . |
| 11 | [ T ] he analysis Paine made of the early American constitution was remarkably acute . |
| 12 | Article 96 of the Company 's Articles of Association requires Mr Blacker , Mr Brown and Mr Walker to retire at the Annual General Meeting since they were appointed by the Board after the 1989 Annual General Meeting . |
| 13 | Originally , Claudia and John Roberts lived in the top two floors of their tall , double-fronted end-of-terrace house , a walk away from London 's Regent 's Park and Primrose Hill . |
| 14 | Andy sits in an ancient bulging armchair , its fake brown leather rubbed through to the fabric net underneath in places and burnished to a deep black shine on the arms ; he nurses his whisky and looks into the fire most of the time . |
| 15 | We calculated standardised perinatal mortality rates for the delivery units by using logistic regression to estimate relative risks adjusted for confounding factors and then standardising these rates by multiplying by a constant chosen so that the standardised rate for all Leicestershire agreed with the crude observed rate . |
| 16 | Hill reported at the first general meeting that Lord Hamilton and Sir William Birt of the GER Co. had promised to help the Alliance in ‘ every way they could ’ ( SE 14 October 1899 ) . |
| 17 | In last Friday 's HAS Election Post a letter from M D Tubman referred to the 100-year-old British electoral system . |
| 18 | Back at the office , Schellenberg changed into a light grey flannel suit in the bathroom , speaking through the other door to Ilse Huber as he dressed , filling her in on the whole business . |
| 19 | Faced with the dilemma of dropping a shot or ‘ playing her as she lies ’ , after long deliberations , O'Leary waded in the 4-foot deep water and out went his chances of winning . |
| 20 | Alternative plans to neutralise Afghanistan surfaced in the early 1980s in the West and the Third World among academics and diplomats . |
| 21 | It was no accident that Baldwin VII of Flanders moved to a new repressive interpretation of comital justice at just the same time as he claimed the superior advocacy over all ecclesiastical houses in Flanders . |
| 22 | DG has over the last three to four years put a good deal of energy into reducing that cost base , but now , even with a quarterly breakeven level reduced to $270m from $350m , the company is struggling to make ends meet . |
| 23 | Born in Slovenia , Bratina trained with the Austrian Olympic gymnastic team before the 1914 games were cancelled by the First World War . |
| 24 | As rivals in the individual stakes , though , McColgan starts as the leading British challenger and is strongly fancied to stop American Lynn Jennings claiming a third successive title . |
| 25 | Making a sound in his throat , he turned his head away , then said , ‘ Funny thing , but neither am I ; yet I 've had to get used to it ; ’ and on this he went out , leaving Millie looking at the big fat woman and feeling she must make conversation : ‘ It 's a beautiful morning , ’ she said . |
| 26 | Apart from the obvious business of living , a house is , as Reginald Turnor describes in The Smaller English House , ‘ a place in which a man can think his thoughts and please his vision ’ . |
| 27 | Edward seemed of a sudden bereft of further speech and Joan was at a loss for the right words . |
| 28 | Gregory came from the same aristocratic milieu as Sidonius and his followers . |
| 29 | Navan consisted of an attractive brick-and-tile shopping street , with a four-pronged C. of I. church that nobody used and a bridge over a river . |
| 30 | It is in this general perspective , aimed at demonstrating the link between the relations of production and the nature of the systems in which they were located , that Marx and Engels turned to the available anthropological information on pre-literate people . |