Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Georges Duhamel , a doctor at Verdun and later a member of the Academy , vividly describes the chaos in one of these primitive charnel houses in ‘ La Vic des Martyrs . ’ |
| 2 | Mr O'Malley , of the Parents ' Association , having arrived to see what they had got for their money , stood with the rest of the interested parties , Mr Sylvester and Mrs Bean and Mr and Mrs Singh and quite a lot of the Sports Committee . |
| 3 | The Convention was a treaty entered into by the United States and so a part of federal law pre-empting State rules . |
| 4 | During the few moments in which she paused in her ascent to the church she reflected that now she was looking at the view the other way round ; now she was in one of the overcrowded little alleys visible from San Martino as merely a crack in a vast expanse of roof tiles and crumbling masonry and noticeable from that lofty vantage point because of the fluttering of the washing hung out on poles over the street to dry . |
| 5 | How wonderful it must be to be a great artist like Mr Beaumont or a musician like Mr Fergus or even a teacher like half the church . |
| 6 | Michelle is obviously a sunlust person in that respect and depending on whether she goes to a main package resort in Spain or perhaps a beach in India , she can either be a psychocentric sunlust person or an alocentric sunlust person . |
| 7 | It did not reflect particular animus over Korea but more a feeling of frustration at the setbacks encountered by American policy in the Far East in the previous two years . |
| 8 | Mr Terry Davis , Labour MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill , told the Guardian last night : ‘ As a former employee of British Leyland and now a member of the Commons public accounts committee , I pressed for an inquiry into the sale . |
| 9 | Talk of regional governmental or elected assemblies seemed pointless eyewash , a sign of weakness in the face of the nationalist challenge ; a policy designed to lead either to a call for total independence for Scotland and Wales or to a permanent loss of authority by Whitehall and therefore a diminution in the competence of Scottish and Welsh MPs . |
| 10 | Today the sixteen-and-a-half horse power Ford Cargo , one of a fleet of several serving the Highlands and Islands , is driven by Bill once a week to Gairloch , fortnightly to Kinlochewe and once a month to Applecross . |
| 11 | The prize money is to be spent at the Art Shop in Bondgate and Just a Fiver in Skinnergate . |
| 12 | By 3pm Dez had washed 39 cars , mostly Jaguars , Mercedes , Porsches and even a couple of Rolls Royces , plus a few Ford Escorts and other smaller cars , and was appealing for more cars ! . |
| 13 | The court in Malone also held , however , that even if an action in confidence does apply to telephone conversations , in this case the circumstances would be governed by Gartside v. Outram , where it was held that ‘ there is no confidence in the disclosure of an iniquity ’ , observations subsequently explained by Lord Denning as merely an instance of just cause or excuse for breaking a confidence . |
| 14 | But after that , there was old age and an incompetent grandson and vassaldom under Canute and then a King of Alba who did half his ruling from Orkney . |
| 15 | Jonathan Gershuny , now a Professor at the University of Bath and previously a colleague of Chris Freeman at the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University , takes a particularly optimistic view of what work will be like in the future ( Gershuny 1978 ) . |
| 16 | Thus in chapter thirty he restates the threefold division of the spiritual life which he starts in Scale 1 : the basic faith without any inner experience of God , a felt love of Christ and finally an experience of the spiritual reality of God . |
| 17 | Its unamplified tone is very bright and zingy and , to the casual strummer 's point of view , brings Music Man , Rickenbacker and just a hint of Danelectro to mind . |
| 18 | Er I drunk erm I think I drunk two two cans or maybe three cans of Scrumpy Jack and then a can of Supertricks and I was well gone I , I had to pass out . |
| 19 | For example , one person 's faith may be a genuine trust in God but also a trust in certain Christian friends , while another person has truly committed himself to God and also to the care of a Christian community . |
| 20 | Sunflowers have already caught on in France and now a handful of farmers are trying their luck with the new crop here . |
| 21 | Two watch-worthy Frenchmen , Jean-Noel Pariente , 30 , and Lionel Fainfray , 29 , whose Arthur brand of men 's underpants sells 800,000 pairs in France after only a couple of years in existence , are preparing a charge into the UK market . |
| 22 | It was done with a scornful glance at Keith and then a grin of agreement at Mrs Hollins . |
| 23 | Kerr , reared in West Bromich and once a regular on the terraces at the Hawthorns , thought the chance of facing his boyhood idols had disappeared with his red card for a professional foul at Runcorn two weeks ago . |
| 24 | Easily Accessible : Greenrigg Hotel is situated at the foot of the Caldbeck Fells and only a mile from the Cumbrian Way in the more northern and in summer , less crowded area of the Lake District . |
| 25 | It was in the context of ‘ direction ’ that I first met Julian of Norwich and subsequently a wealth of other spiritual classics . |
| 26 | aspect of Horus as the son of Osiris and Isis and therefore a child with the sidelock of youth . |
| 27 | ‘ You and McCloy and maybe a couple of others when you 've told us who they are . |
| 28 | The three asserted that their only observation had been to suggest that because such a rumour was circulating it would be wise for it to be firmly denied or some enquiry made , and that they had not made any allegation against Profumo but only a suggestion for his benefit . |
| 29 | Two important initiatives in community economic development have been the National Association of Development Trusts for England and Wales and also an investigation into the strategic needs of community enterprises called Investing in Community Enterprise . |
| 30 | Ellcock , 26 , took 117 wickets in 46 first-class matches at 29.01 during an injury-plagued 10-year career since making his debut for Worcestershire while still a pupil at Malvern College in 1982 . |