Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A FATAL accident inquiry at Ayr into the deaths of two schoolboy friends who drowned in a flooded quarry yesterday heard that the boys ’ parents had not known of the dangers . |
| 2 | ‘ We will be convening a conference on Friday with the heads of all our institutions to review the future of national pay bargaining , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Following the report in early 1990 by accountants Coopers and Lybrand into the activities of offshore financial businesses in the UK 's Caribbean dependent territories , it was agreed in talks in May between UK government officials and the Chief Minister , Emile Gumbs , that Anguilla 's Constitution would be amended ( by Order in Council within the next few months ) to allow the Governor to assume responsibility for the offshore financial sector . |
| 4 | Following a report published in early 1990 by accountants Coopers and Lybrand into the activities of offshore financial businesses in the UK 's Caribbean territories , it was agreed in May in talks held in London between the UK government and Gumbs to amend the Constitution in order to allow the Governor to assume greater control of the offshore financial sector [ see p. 37824 ] . |
| 5 | A series of cancellations by coach parties left their Rosslyn Hotel in Falmouth with no bookings at all . |
| 6 | Friday 18th June will go down as being Black Friday in the minds of certain men at the Institute . |
| 7 | The views across the Weald from the windows of this coach are impressive as the train trundles towards Horstead Keynes and beyond . |
| 8 | By now , the Othmanli ( or Ottoman ) Turks , another migrant group from Central Asia , were firmly established in Anatolia in succession to the Seljuks , having wrested Constantinople from the Byzantines in 1453 . |
| 9 | This little-explored area , where technology and imagination meet , reflects the debate in France and the United States on the limits of architectural awareness . |
| 10 | They have favoured the marked expansion of the Woodcock on the Downs in recent years , and also provide the Grasshopper Warbler and Yellowhammer with one of their principal nesting habitats . |
| 11 | MDC has also been more sympathetic than LDDC to the interests of existing firms in the area . |
| 12 | I do not think that there were any doubts in Northern Ireland about the circumstances of that case . |
| 13 | For the Executive Committee of the District and , especially , for Jacques it was also a fresh opportunity to strive for a rejuvenation of Tawney 's basic principle that the WEA was a social movement endeavouring to promote political , social and cultural democracy in post-war England through the processes of liberal adult education . |
| 14 | The Society would like to express their sincere thanks to Mr Wheeler for the gifts of these photos and information . |
| 15 | Of course , some may in the early years have argued plausibly that the payments would rid England of the raiders for good , for it need not have been evident in the 990s that the problem would intensify as it did . |
| 16 | When was there one occasion when a government of any colour was imposed upon England against the wishes of three out of every four English voters ? |
| 17 | The industrial revolution of the eighteenth century brought England into the ranks of major European powers , and although the English were somewhat detached from the affairs of the continent , and more concerned with imperial expansion overseas , the events of the French Revolution and the wars with Napoleonic France forced them to play an ever increasing role in Europe . |
| 18 | Trying to push Whaddon into the realms of professional soccer means that all my time , twenty-four hours a day , three days a week , is devoted to the team . |
| 19 | there is a better chance now than ever before to break down that prejudice which prompted the Irish people to confound in one common hatred the oppressed classes of England with the oppressors of both countries . |
| 20 | Cabinet met again on 15 January with the words of one critic , who claimed it would be ‘ throwing the small shopkeeper to the supermarket wolves ’ , still ringing in their ears . |
| 21 | Next to the thistle , the insignia which represents the spirit of Scotland in the minds of many foreigners who are potential visitors are the grouse , the red deer and the salmon . |
| 22 | It occurred therefore to one of " the Teutons " who came over with Daniel Höchstetter in the days of Royal Bess , that guineas and half-guineas might be coined without anyone being the wiser . |
| 23 | The successful applicants will form part of an active research group led by Professor Peter Donnelly , Dr Richard Nichols and Dr David Balding in the Schools of Mathematical and Biological Sciences at QMW . |
| 24 | He met former James Bond girl Alison Doody in a Dublin nightspot on the last day of his trek around Ireland in the footsteps of ex-fiancee Julia Roberts . |
| 25 | Nicholas Brady , the US Treasury Secretary , speaks in Washington on the consequences of low US savings rate . |
| 26 | With Al White and Major Carl Cross at the controls of 20207 , after a series of tests the Valkyrie joined-up with four other aircraft : a white USAF F-5A Freedom Fighter flown by GE test pilot John Fritz ; a T-38A Talon flown by USAF Captain Peter Hoag with Joe Cotton in the rear seat ; a USN F-4B Phantom II piloted by USN Commander Jerome Skyrud with E J Black in the back and a red-tailed NASA-owned F-104 Starfighter flown by Joe A Walker . |
| 27 | Following Aelfwine 's death in the battle of the Trent against the Mercians in 679 or 680 ( HE IV , 21 ; Vita Wilfridi , ch. 24 ) ( see below , p. 117 ) , Deira was ruled from then on directly by the Bernicians ( see Appendix , Fig. 7.1 ) . |
| 28 | And Nottinghamshire 's business leaders are the least confident in the East Midlands about the prospects of increased sales according to a survey by the accountants Price Waterhouse . |
| 29 | Sacrificed to the cause of poverty : Keith Joseph , whose ‘ cycle of deprivation ’ speech halted his political rise , talks to Mary Kenny about the problems of poor , young mothers |
| 30 | Lesley Joseph , sexy Dorien in the show with Linda Robson and Pauline Quirke as the wives of two jailbirds , was there to pick up the award . |