Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [verb] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his letter of Aug. 14 Saddam had underlined his determination " not to keep any of Iraq 's potential outside the arena of the great duel " and it was widely believed that this implied either an intention to consolidate Iraqi gains in Kuwait or launch an attack against Saudi Arabia . |
| 2 | ASSAULTING OR OBSTRUCTING A CONSTABLE IN THE EXECUTION OF HIS DUTY |
| 3 | Jock Houston , secretary of the Borders branch of the Educational Institute of Scotland , said : ‘ Discontinuing or changing the site of a school does require consultation under 1981 regulations . |
| 4 | He told them another long joke and won a laugh out of Bella that sealed the success of the evening for him . |
| 5 | Find all towns in the state of Texas that have a population of more than 10 000 and are more than 50 kilometres from a railway . |
| 6 | THE role of the church in helping to topple the Communist order in Poland and East Germany , compounded by the fact that it was the fate of a Protestant clergyman in Timisoara that triggered the unrest in Romania , has raised the prospect of Romanian churches becoming a focus of political resistance . |
| 7 | Although we have no record , the Magnolia Grandiflora from the United States that clothe the wall of the north wing of the house must have been some of the first plantings of magnolias at Lanhydrock ; I would guess that are now well inside their second century . |
| 8 | ‘ There are thousands of traits all with different intensities of selection — you have to look for the critical ones-for Lovejoy and Latimer that means the joints of the knee and hip , not the hands and feet . |
| 9 | Reuter adds from Washington : President George Bush yesterday angrily denounced followers of Gen Aoun and said a partition of Lebanon would be totally unacceptable to the world community . |
| 10 | ‘ Land of limitless possibilities ’ turns out in strength for Mr Major The Prime Minister flew in to Teesside Airport on Tuesday and said the possibilities for the North-East were almost limitless . |
| 11 | A DAYTIME burglar struck a home in Four Marks on Tuesday and stole a quantity of jewellery . |
| 12 | English National Ballet start their Christmas season at Royal Festival Hall next Tuesday and give The Nutcracker in the Peter Schaufuss staging until January 20 . |
| 13 | He crossed over to Corbett and put a hand on his shoulder . |
| 14 | I was also working for Visionhire and hating every minute of it . |
| 15 | Pakistan , Iran , India and the Gulf states having mostly refused military bases to the superpowers could in his view credibly affirm their opposition to the permanent presence of Soviet troops in Afghanistan and endorse the objective of returning Afghanistan to a non-aligned status . |
| 16 | In 1878 he tramped through the Cevennes with a donkey named Modestine and discovered the delights of Travels with a Donkey . |
| 17 | Barat then returns , encounters Travers , and succeeds in imitating Marie and obtaining the meat in order to perform a bizarre ritual to preserve it from theft : ( To touch both arse and cunt three times ) |
| 18 | His public interests were religion , politics and law ’ ; leading to ‘ In 1640 , on Thursday December the 28th , this Alexander Brodie was one of a party which included my ancestor , the Laird of Innes , that came to the grand old cathedral of Elgin and destroyed every object in it . ’ |
| 19 | The Committee censured Mr Soper and imposed a fine of £250 . |
| 20 | He attended two performances of Figaro and gave a concert at the opera house , which included the première of a new symphony he had written specially ( K.504 , known afterwards as the ‘ Prague ’ ) . |
| 21 | Kylie was spotted by casting director Alan Hardy and snatched the role of Carla , the little Dutch girl , from under Dannii 's nose . |
| 22 | Novelists are unlikely to imitate Thomas Hardy and dispatch a character with an adder bite . |
| 23 | Hemming says that Brihtheah 's were made because he was from Berkshire and had no relatives in Worcestershire , and in Edward the Confessor 's time Bishop Hermann complained that nobody could hold the see of Ramsbury without the help of kinsmen . |
| 24 | The most famous of these was in September 1233 , when Siward and several score raiders rode across England into Berkshire and pillaged a manor of Peter des Roches , bishop of Winchester [ q.v . ] . |
| 25 | Unable to cope any longer with his conditions of work , he moved abruptly to Brussels and took a room in a cheap hotel at 72 Boulevard du Midi . |
| 26 | At twenty-one he had married Elizabeth Egerton of Tatton and become the tenant of Sledmere for life . |
| 27 | The couple live in Arizona and have an apartment in New York . |
| 28 | Pingel got the vital score after taking a pass from Brian Laudrup and slotting the ball past helpless Albanian keeper Foto Strakosha from close range . |
| 29 | It reaffirmed UN support for the " just struggle " of the people of Bosnia-Hercegovina and demanded the repatriation of refugees and deportees . |
| 30 | She used to get up in the morning , every Tuesday and Friday and catch the half past seven bus , from to Nottingham and another bus down to Boulevard , to Miss 's , do a day 's skivvying and come back again , and then do her ironing and so forth , at night-time . |