Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [art] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is helped by some good performances , too , especially from Danny Webb as the cleverest and most conscience-racked of the sales force . |
| 2 | Even so , the direction of the indigenous developments on Crete during the neolithic and Early Minoan periods is enough to show a continuity into the Middle Minoan . |
| 3 | Compare the delicate creamy taste and springy texture of a Charme de France Brie with the softer but more traditional flavour of St Benoit Brie , both have a floury edible rind . |
| 4 | The maize or Indian corn is what you may well be most conscious of here , a crop introduced into the western Pyrenees in the 1600s and long a staple there , occupying now nearly half the cultivated space . |
| 5 | ) . Their biggest hit was called ‘ But I Love Sergeyevitch ! ’ which was probably the first pop song to treat Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev in a friendly if rather frivolous manner . |
| 6 | Giving priority to developmental work was appropriate in the circumstances of Nottinghamshire in the mid-eighties and still remains so in many respects . |
| 7 | The Quality Scotland Foundation , chaired by , was formed in late 1990 by a group of prominent Scottish Businesses who recognised the need for a survival strategy for Scotland for the nineties and beyond , focusing on the quality issue for economic , commercial , environmental and social development . |
| 8 | He also added that there was an element of fear involved — vendors must respond to Microsoft , he said , because the firm may well become ‘ the IBM of the 1990s and beyond ’ . |
| 9 | He also added that there was an element of fear involved — vendors must respond to Microsoft , he said , because the firm may well become ‘ the IBM of the 1990s and beyond ’ . |
| 10 | In Britain the idea of openly partisan broadcasting was pioneered by the Scottish Nationalists ' clandestine and illegal Radio Free Scotland in the 1960s and more recently by Southern Sound , who used a discarded former commercial radio band to set up their entirely open and legal Conference Radio FM to cover the 1990 Conservative Party Conference from an unashamedly pro-Conservative viewpoint . |
| 11 | The same method was used by country people in Spain in the 19605 and probably still is . |
| 12 | When Graham Smith contracted cancer , she invited him and his wife on holiday to Necker in the Caribbean and also on a Mediterranean cruise on board the yacht owned by Greek tycoon , John Latsis . |
| 13 | But suddenly , social life and entertainment , or the lack of it , faded into insignificance for me , with the arrival from North Africa of a mysterious and rather unsubtly coded letter which one did not have to be a cryptanalyst to interpret as evidence that Leslie was coming home . |
| 14 | A set of dogmas borrowed from Paris in the 1960s and earnestly debated in international conferences has no national existence , and seeks none . |
| 15 | The 4th looks ominous , although it probably wo n't be until the Sun is close to Pluto on the 14th and superbly aspected by your ruler Mars on the 19th that anything happens . |
| 16 | Bidault , it has been said , leader of the Resistance in occupied France , may have been unaware how the world outside had changed during the war ; but in any event distrusted Ho as a communist as well as a nationalist threat to France 's post-war international position . |
| 17 | The CINVA Ram , a machine for compacting soil developed in Colombia in the 1950s and widely used in Africa and Latin America , is a good example of this effort . |
| 18 | COVER STORY : Top pianist Alfred Brendel talks to JH in a revealing and musicologically fascinating interview ( see page 18 ) |
| 19 | Since the work of S. S. Stevens in the 1930s and later , it has been recognized that , although the Weber-Fechner Law holds for many sorts of sensory experience , the exponent varies widely ; nevertheless , the principle of a quantitative correlation between external stimulus , neural activity and experienced sensation remains intact and now appears to be well-established . |
| 20 | ‘ I tremble at crossing swords with you , ’ said Robert Bossu in the sweetest and most reasonable of voices , his high shoulder leaned at ease against the panelled wall at his back , ‘ but I must observe that she did not allow it to succeed . |
| 21 | The Treaty on European Union can honestly be regarded as an attempt to respond , in the medium- and long-term , to the economic and political imperatives of Europe in the 1990s and beyond . |
| 22 | Keeping Sheridan on a straight or even a wavy line definitely came into the category of crisis control . |
| 23 | Most governments , including that of Britain , have shied away from receiving the Dalai Lama as a political as well as spritual leader . |
| 24 | According to the Archangelsk-based newspaper , Volna , Moscow radio reported that the units would be financially independent , funding themselves in part by collecting titanium scrap " which is littering the entire tundra landscape from Mezen to the Yamal and beyond , in the form of wreckage from the first stages of rockets launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome " . |
| 25 | This Spring , BBC2 is televising a Primetime production of one of the great theatrical stagings of the 1980s — Trevor Nunn 's landmark production of Othello , with Willard White in the title-role , Ian McKellen as Iago , and Imogen Stubbs as a more than usually childlike Desdemona . |
| 26 | ‘ Might take it up full time , sir , ’ said Bodie with a thin and slightly arrogant smile . |
| 27 | The evident difficulty of writing about an artist who has transformed the traditional process of mapping a terrain of physiognomical likeness onto the production of a surface that suggests a process of physical disintegration rendered in assertively material terms is resolved by Packer in an oblique but entirely conventional manner . |
| 28 | Skiing : Park City creates a fantasy on the carpet John Samuel reports from Utah on an artificial but nonetheless entrancing start to the World Cup season . |