Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember I was once experimenting with a gauze — it had been in La Scala for a hundred years and was full of dust . |
| 2 | In general , we have to thank the Orient for the early breeds and North America for the late ones . |
| 3 | Just as I had n't minded when asked if I would like to take care of Jeffrey Bernard for a few days while he was in Sydney to promote the play about himself , Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell , which is currently playing here . |
| 4 | Director Caroline Fitzgerald has coaxed fine performances from a generally strong cast — in particular from O'Meara and Graham Arnold as the colourful butterflies that fly so distractingly around Alec 's head . |
| 5 | He nearly adopted music as a profession , but left Germany during the Nazi persecutions because of his Russian and Jewish ancestry . |
| 6 | : Ma for a few years and recently we 've reassessed the doses and also we 've reassessed the risks so those two things together have caused us to express our concern and to advise the government what to do about it . |
| 7 | A couple of years ago I was staying in Malham for a few days and decided to set out one morning for Attermire by the old pack lane from Settle to Malham . |
| 8 | Both Robert Jones and Dewi Morris will be in action on the final Saturday of the Five Nations but Jones — probably only Ireland 's Simon Geoghegan has lost more ground than him in the course of the season — would need just about the game of his life to regain his lead over Morris as the other scrum-half to Gary Armstrong . |
| 9 | There will still be a strong North-East contingent , however , including Edwards in the triple jump , Colin Walker in the 5,000 metres and Tony Morrell in the 1500 metres . |
| 10 | ‘ If one single vessel enters the port of Famagusta in the fourteen nights that follow Epiphany , the siege will be lifted . |
| 11 | This plan provided for the withdrawal of Soviet troops in exchange for ‘ guarantees of the neutrality ’ of Afghanistan by the Great Powers and its neighbours and the creation of peace-keeping forces . |
| 12 | Sainz produced a typically uncompromising display in his Toyota Celica around the stately homes and racing circuits of the north Midlands . |
| 13 | A second instrument of control is the direct subordination to Moscow of the Armed forces and security services , making it possible to bypass the national leadership . |
| 14 | The new Defence Minister , understood to be a strong supporter of Saddam Hussein 's stance on Kuwait , had been Inspector General of the armed forces and previously a deputy Chief of Staff , and had been decorated for his service in commanding the First Army Special Corps during the Iran-Iraq war . |
| 15 | The congregation of 1,500 was led by the Duke of Edinburgh , the Prime Minister , Mr Neil Kinnock , leader of the Labour Party , Tom King , Defence Secretary , and senior military personnel , including Lt-Gen Sir Steuart Pringle , retired Commandant General of the Royal Marines and a former victim of an IRA bomb . |
| 16 | Laxton , in Nottinghamshire , is the only surviving example of the open field farming system which was common to much of Midland England between the Middle Ages and the eighteenth century . |
| 17 | Before the 1965 Immigration Act , Mirpuri and Bengali families would send their sons to England for a few months or a few years at a time . |
| 18 | However , I understand that , the other day , an English acrobat 's son came up to Scotland for a few hours and said that the whole thing was non-negotiable . |
| 19 | But to the EEC this looked too much like the British proposals of the late 1950s , and it declined the overtures from EFTA for the same reasons as in the past . |
| 20 | Nigel of the clammy hands and Peter of the bow legs and disappearing chin ? |
| 21 | He was often aware of the which defended the realm of England against the Scottish raiders and then back to the Celtic saints coming out of Scotland into Northumbria . |
| 22 | There were plans to revive it and turn it into an Ulster Loyalist pressure group when a leading member , Archibald Whitmore , an ex-member of the Ulster Volunteer Force , announced to influential people at the Bath Club that he planned to develop the BF in Ireland along the same lines as the movement in 1914 . |
| 23 | They constantly warned us of the danger of the roads , about the thieves and vagabonds who dressed in green or brown buckram and played Robin Hood in the dark forests or wastelands we passed through . |
| 24 | This poem asserts the dignity of the weaver 's work , and traces the skill back to Minerva in the classical myths and to the aftermath of the Fall in Genesis . |
| 25 | At the meeting er , of the Financial Resources Committee that I attended on Wednesday the first thing we discussed was the er the giving so far , up to the end of February from the various provinces and we , by the end of February er , the total was up to thirty thousand pounds less than we required er which could mean that the end of the year it could be a hundred and eighty thousand pounds less than required but er of all the |
| 26 | She even had , by the classical period , Long Walls running down to Lechaion harbour , like those which joined Athens to Piraeus ; and she had a decent-sized navy : the Corinthians lent twenty ships to Athens before the Persian Wars and contributed forty in the Persian Wars themselves , and they had ninety ships at the battle of Sybota ( p. 89 ) . |
| 27 | ‘ There have been major developments in the NHS in the three years since the advisory council was set up and new avenues for discussing possible changes have been developed , ’ said Lord Fraser . |
| 28 | But a forgery could always claim to be written by Moses in the same terms as an authentic Mosaic document . |
| 29 | Minton had first seen Ray in the musical Guys and Dolls . |
| 30 | Yes , well it 's , it 's the classic Muslim Christian Frontier , you know , it 's like Southern Spain in the middle ages and so on , you know . |