Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nos. 41 and 57 which must have had some defects , were sold to T. W. Ward for scrapping at the same time . |
| 2 | 400 people gathered at Groundwell Farm in Swindon after hearing about the illegal rave on a telephone hotline . |
| 3 | Holder , despite rave reports from Pakistan after standing as a neutral umpire in the series against India , has n't umpired another England Test since . |
| 4 | People from other cultures have compared living in the United States with living in a speeded-up film . |
| 5 | The Czechs , whose repressive system drove Lubos Kubik and Ivo Knoflicek into hiding in a remote fishing village in Spain , could also look to the Bundesliga , France is a natural destination for the Romanians and every footballer of true world class will end up in Italy . |
| 6 | They had dinner at the Trocadero in Shaftesbury Avenue before taking in the late show at the Windmill Theatre . |
| 7 | That is not to say brevity is yet a Kinnock hallmark ( ’ I 'll answer this briefly , ’ he told foreign correspondents on Friday before launching into a five-minute response ) . |
| 8 | Mexico was also the object of early Comintern interest : Moscow was keen to promote Communist activity in Mexico in order to distract the United States from intervening against the Soviet Union , and dispatched Mikhail Borodin in 1919 partly to achieve this end . |
| 9 | The duty of external non-intervention prohibits States from interfering with the valid performance of treaties that do not affect their own rights and obligations . |
| 10 | The details of this action are rather scant , but Domesday Book ( see below ) showed a distinct drop in recorded values along a line of country which suggests that the Normans moved quickly to subdue Lewes and then marched westwards to join up with secondary Norman forces landing in the Selsey area to take Chichester before moving towards the Saxon treasury at Winchester . |
| 11 | The successes first of Constantius and then of Aëtius in dealing with the Germanic invaders obscure the real weakness of the Roman position . |
| 12 | NATALIE HUNTER , 27 , has been unemployed since December after working as a graphic designer for four years . |
| 13 | ALEX FERGUSON 'S shell-shocked troops last night trudged home from Russia after failing in a dramatic penalty shoot-out . |
| 14 | [ See p. 38373 for first application of CSCE emergency mechanisms in early July with regard to the Yugoslav crisis . ] |
| 15 | Next year 's exhibition schedule at The Royal Academy includes a survey of eighteenth-century Venetian art which will be shown in London from September to December before moving to the National Gallery of Art , Washington , from January to April 1995 . |
| 16 | Not that that prevented Cale from screaming at a potted plant sitting on his piano , or suddenly demolishing a table beside his stool with an axe in mid-performance . |
| 17 | Could I remind the Prime Minister that one of the consequences of his Maastricht agreement is to prevent Northern Ireland from participating in the new cohesion fund , to the extent of losing tens of millions of pounds ? |
| 18 | The King himself , sensing the popular mood and indeed sharing it , marked the victory of the Red Army at Stalingrad by presenting to the Soviet government the ‘ Sword of Stalingrad ’ as a symbol of British respect . |
| 19 | Pressure to move to a policy of electoral reform is certain to grow , and the Left is expected to line up behind Mr Gould by calling for a radical rethink of economic policy . |
| 20 | OH , SO HAPPY : The Qulis show off Farrah after returning to a massive welcome from neighbours last night |
| 21 | Hitler 's war deprived Wooderson of going into the Olympic arena in Helsinki in 1940 as a hot favourite for the 1500 metres ; Budd 's natural progression was hindered by her country 's policy of apartheid . |
| 22 | While their type of product closely parallels Franklin 's , they are ahead of Franklin in moving towards a generic element in their product design . |
| 23 | Proceeding from Princes Street along Waterloo Place on comes to the Old Calton Burial Ground where there is a memorial to the Chartists ; the tombs of the philosopher David Hume and Archibald Constable , Sir Walter Scott 's publisher ; and a monument to Abraham Lincoln . |
| 24 | The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany stated that events in Great Britain , but also more recent developments in the Federal Republic of Germany with regard to the increasing purchase of firms by fishing undertakings from other member states and the attempted re-flagging of fishing vessels from other member states , showed that the stability objective pursued by the Common Fisheries Policy might be impaired . |
| 25 | Maria won an IBM computer and yesterday met Blue Peter presenter Diane Louise Jordan for filming of a future episode . |
| 26 | GREAT Palm misses the Prince of Wales 's Stakes at Ascot after meeting with a slight setback . |
| 27 | He also called for those hit hardest by VAT rises to be compensated , urged that the wealthy be called on to pay more and warned Chancellor Norman Lamont against aiming at a general tax level of 20p , saying it was ‘ not manageable ’ . |
| 28 | He also called for those hit hardest by VAT rises to be compensated , urged the wealthy be called on to pay more and warned Chancellor Norman Lamont against aiming at a general tax level of 20p , saying it was ‘ not manageable ’ . |
| 29 | The venture has been masterminded by local farmer Brian Craven with backing from a Dutch consortium . |
| 30 | De Klerk stressed the need for " built-in guarantees and mechanisms which would prevent South Africa from falling into a one-party state or being delivered into the hands of an irrational dictator " . |