Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is coal in Kintyre and large pieces are sometimes brought up by fishing boats working locally , so perhaps the old people who say that coal was mined at Daill and used by a local blacksmith in the First World War are correct , although no trace of workings has been found . |
| 2 | V. iv , death of Richard as performed in a private theatre , PP 49 . |
| 3 | Now , after living in a large house at Cape Cod on the east coast of America for 35 years , she has returned to England and settled in a small village in Berkshire . |
| 4 | The Prague meeting was preceded by sharp disagreements between the Soviet Union and some member states , notably Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland , whose representatives spoke openly about the dissolution of COMECON and pressed for a speedier implementation of currency convertibility and the right to trade individually with organizations such as the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 5 | Rhee never doubted that he was destined to lead Korea and acted with a strange mixture of arrogance , duplicity , cunning and tenacity to establish his power . |
| 6 | Sow seed in a cold frame in March and April , or from heeled cuttings taken in July and struck in a cold frame . |
| 7 | When the Soviet Union intervened militarily in Afghanistan the British Foreign Secretary , Lord Carrington , rapidly proposed a plan for Afghanistan which was approved by the Council of Ministers of the EEC and adopted as a joint EEC declaration on 15 January 1980 . |
| 8 | HT-29 cells were washed with PBS and harvested by a 10 minute incubation with 0.05% trypsin/0.02% EDTA 24 hours after reaching confluency . |
| 9 | He led a field of seven candidates in an inconclusive first round , and in the second round run-off he defeated Oleg Lobov , currently the second secretary of the Armenian CP and regarded as a pro-Gorbachev reformer . |
| 10 | From Tabard Road a woman wheeling a pram had emerged in Kingsmarkham High Street And stopped outside a plate-glass display window of the Southern Electricity Board . |
| 11 | It was entered by a narrow door in Meard Street and reached by a tiny , rickety lift situated at the far end of a gloomy passage . |
| 12 | On 11th May the Bill was given a Second Reading and referred to a Select Committee , which met on 10th July with Molesworth as Chairman . |
| 13 | Yet another reveals that a fanciful sculptured clock at Waddesdon previously regarded as French is also by Giuseppe and related to a fascinating sequence of designs . |
| 14 | These qualities have been recognized , released and blended within the ‘ Maranyl ’ MIT and directed as a common goal . |
| 15 | This exhibition , organised by David Yeomans and accompanied by a short book of the same title , explored the relationship between architectural design and carpentry from the mediaeval period to the present day . |
| 16 | There is good experimental evidence for the applicability of the BKZ Equation ( 3.19 ) and it is also similar in form to a more recent constitutive equation derived by Doi and Edwards and based upon a primitive chain model . |
| 17 | The argument was slim : the painting had been bought in the US and declared as a temporary import in 1955 . |
| 18 | He attacked both the British and the Russians for their " imperialist " policies in Iran and called for a free , independent Iran with a constitutional monarchy . |
| 19 | The night air was warm and humid as the small motor fishing vessel slipped out of Ness Harbour near the Butt of Lewis and steadied on a northerly course into the Atlantic . |
| 20 | The first ‘ Laura Ashley ’ fragrance , produced in France and packaged in a floral box designed by Nick , was another venture contributing to the total ‘ Laura Ashley ’ woman . |
| 21 | A series of microphones mounted above public buildings around Manchester and linked to a central computer record the noise levels of aircraft and fines are imposed for exceeding permitted levels , 109 perceived decibels in the daytime and 101 at nighttime . |
| 22 | In their dialogue al-Hussaini refused to consider Jerusalem as separate from the West Bank and called for a unified Jerusalem as " two capitals with one municipal umbrella " . |
| 23 | The Hardy Hall case was both longer than Dubbingtons and couched at a higher level . |
| 24 | It is now in Glen House , Innerleithen , Peeblesshire , which is still owned by Lord Glenconner but operated by a private company as a conference centre . |
| 25 | The air unit was commanded by Senior Colonel Wang Yon , who had served in Manchuria and graduated from a Soviet military academy as an air force lieutenant in the Soviet army ; he had been in North Korea since 1945 . |
| 26 | The layout is owned by Alistair Kerr and assisted by a small band of volunteer workers , ranging in age groups between 10 and 20 . |
| 27 | So she felt when she allowed herself a journey to London and made like a homing pigeon for the perfumery counters of department stores . |
| 28 | Despite these various influences we should also recognize that , perhaps because of the growing differentiation of law as a separate discipline ( a process recognized by Ginsberg and associated with a positivist outlook ) , the methods of the social sciences are often not rendered explicit in the functionalist style in public law . |
| 29 | In one corner we have Nintendo as represented by a dodgy Italian plumber called Mario , and in the other we have Sega which has put its faith in a trendy blue hedgehog called Sonic . |
| 30 | John Mellancamp Though thrust on a disdainful market in the mid-'70s as the posturing rock rebel Johnny Cougar , this talented songwriter has subsequently reverted to his real name and found a niche as an accomplished performer and composer of Mid-Western adult rock songs . |