Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But my mother knew who it was , so she quickly hid Molly underneath the stairs and that was that , otherwise we might have been brothers-in-law . |
| 2 | The ANC had earlier resisted a meeting with Inkatha on the grounds that this would lend undue national legitimacy to what it regarded as a Zulu organization with a power base confined largely to Natal province . |
| 3 | The four drove to Suez with the boats and some dummy limpet mines , infiltrated the heavily guarded dock area and launched themselves into the water . |
| 4 | Bond , from Darley Dale , plays Hong Kong 's Franky Chan in the quarter-finals while fellow Derbyshire professional David Roe will meet world and UK champion John Parrott in the final eight . |
| 5 | The nearest approach , perhaps , is the long belt of deltas extending today , from the Ganges in eastern India , via the Brahmaputra , the Irrawaddy and the Sittang , to the rivers of the Gulf of Siam and on via the Mekong to the Sang-koi and Si-kiang rivers of southern China . |
| 6 | BELAYED TO THE CLOUDS AND HIGH PEAKS , |
| 7 | The Board of Anglo-Welsh announces a revised offer to acquire Palatine on the terms and subject to the conditions set out below . |
| 8 | The release of East Germany from the chains and barbed wire of communism heralded the beginnings of a new Europe . |
| 9 | The convention on climate change is being blocked by the US on the grounds that global warming remains unproven . |
| 10 | In the 1760s improvements were made to Patrington Haven , a small port on the river Humber in the days before much of the land was reclaimed , and this facilitated the export of corn from South Holderness to places like the growing towns of the West Riding . |
| 11 | Erm you mentioned your brother earlier and er Geoff from the sports and social club I 'd like to give them a call , do you have the numbers ? |
| 12 | The defendants to proceedings begun in New York by the families and personal representatives of persons killed in an air crash in Scotland in 1988 applied for an order under the Act of 1975 for the examination of a retired Crown servant who during his period of employment as a senior forensic scientist had conducted an investigation into the crash . |
| 13 | The original proposal had been for PR in the cities but this was opposed by Unionists who were concerned to protect the efficacy of the business vote ; Central Office also opposed the alternative vote when it was put forward in the debates , and the majority of Unionist MPs and the National Union never backed either system . |
| 14 | In the case of family planning , the inter-uterine contraceptive device ( IUCD ) was launched in India in the mid-1960s before adequate research showed that many women were physically unsuited to it , and it needed a high level of professional judgement on the part of the paramedical staff inserting it . |