Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] and [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George 's return from Northumbria , in the company of Alcuin , a representative on this occasion of King Aelfwald , was followed by a great southern council , presided over by Archbishop Jaenberht and King Offa and attended by all the bishops of the southern province , at which reforming decrees were promulgated . |
| 2 | Produced by Britain 's David Puttnam and directed by Hungarian Istvan Szabo ( ‘ Mephisto ’ ) with an international cast , it tells the chaotic story of a Paris based production of Wagner 's ‘ Tannhauser ’ by ‘ Opera Europa ’ , where ‘ you can be misunderstood in six different languages ’ . |
| 3 | Presented by Richard Cork and narrated by Magenta de Vine , the programmes provide a lively , informative introduction to ‘ The Modern Movement ’ , intercutting live footage of events and scenes which inspired the artists . |
| 4 | That was in August 1988 and Jones was fined two weeks ' wages by boss Bobby Gould and banned for three matches by the FA . |
| 5 | The New Secondary Education , the pamphlet approved by Ellen Wilkinson and issued in 1947 , observed somewhat unhelpfully : ‘ The Modern School will be given parity of conditions with other types of secondary school ; parity of esteem it must earn by its own efforts . ’ |
| 6 | The tidal estuary of the River Lune gave rise to Lancaster 's development as an inland port in the eighteenth century , trading with the West Indies , and several contemporary warehouses survive along St George 's Quay as well as the fine Custom House , designed in Palladian style by Richard Gillow and built in 1764 . |
| 7 | But consider now a misgiving voiced by Linda Woodbridge and shared by many others : ‘ To me the one unsatisfying feature of the otherwise stimulating transvestite movement is that it had to be transvestite : Renaissance women so tar accepted the masculine rules of the game that they felt they had to look masculine to be ‘ free'' ’ ( Women and the English Renaissance , 145 ) . |
| 8 | This disturbing profile of Afrikaners in their own backyard was drawn by David Dimbleby and directed by London-born but South Africa-educated Francis Gerard who , more than a decade later , makes his feature debut with A Private Life . |
| 9 | Organised by Pat Palmer and entered with great gusto by teams from classes , the event was great fun to watch and a great success for Age Concern , Action Research for the Crippled Child and the Medau Society who shared the proceeds . |
| 10 | The intimate scale of the space , the nature of the materials used , all suggest the private chapel ; the tiny rooms in San Marco , containing frescoes by Fra Angelico and intended for individual prayer meditation , or Giotto 's Arena Chapel at Padua . |
| 11 | The television station had been conceived by the Reagan administration as an extension of the propaganda service currently provided by the US-funded Radio Martí , based in the Florida Keys and established in 1985 [ see p. 33917 ] . |
| 12 | Built by Sir Christopher Wren and consecrated in 1697 the present edifice replaces an even larger one which was destroyed in the Great Fire of London 31 years earlier . |
| 13 | They analysed four Currie Cup games in South Africa and compared to four games in the World Cup . |
| 14 | Also on show will be an oil painting entitled ‘ The landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth ’ by Michele Felice Corne and painted in 1802 . |
| 15 | Irony seldom works in print and this blunt appraisal of the troubles that had beset his friend was made to Nancy Collins and published in Rolling Stone some fifteen years after the Tate murders at Polanski 's rented home in Beverly Hills in August 1969 . |
| 16 | It is an elaborate example of Edwardian commercial architecture , designed by T H Smith and W Wimble and completed in 1903 . |
| 17 | His right to do so was challenged by Lord Chancellor Birkenhead and defended by former Lord Chancellor Finlay during a debate in 1922 on Law Lords and party politics . |
| 18 | hero of a novel called The Hermit , written in imitation of Robinson Crusoe and published in 1727 ; attributed to Edward Dorrington . |
| 19 | Designed by Robert Adam and completed in 1789 , it is one of the finest examples of his work . |
| 20 | Standing at the corner of May Street and East Bridge Street it was built by JC Bretland and completed in 1896 . |
| 21 | NATO and Czechoslovakia co-sponsored on April 25-26 in Prague a conference on " the future of European security " , opened by Czechoslovak President Havel and attended by senior NATO personnel including the organization 's Secretary-General , Manfred Wörner . |
| 22 | The celebrated ‘ Colonel Mordaunt 's Cock Fight ’ , commissioned by Warren Hastings and painted between 1784 and 1786 by Johan Zoffany , is also to be put on offer , estimate on request . |
| 23 | Now in its twelfth edition ( 1982 ) , Sears List of Subject Headings was first written by Minnie Sears and published in 1923 . |
| 24 | Opposite , the shop at 15/596 is a fine example of Constructivism designed by J. Gočár and built in 1933–4 for the Baťa Company . |
| 25 | This supports the view expressed , for example , by Professor McCloskey and derived from economic theory that given the constant labour demand of the war period , the poor-relief system could not have resulted both in falling wages and in falling amounts of labour . |
| 26 | There is also an Introduction to Dewey Decimal Classification for British schools , third edition , compiled by B A J Winslade and published in 1977 . |
| 27 | This was an organization formed by film mogul J. Arthur Rank and financed since 1951 by the British film industry to make low-budget productions for screening at children 's matinee performances , usually on Saturday mornings . |
| 28 | The Grand Finale event was a horse race which was an open event known as the Halling Derby and won by Pretty Polly , a horse from Gillingham . |
| 29 | It covers about 3630 acres , traversed by the River Holbeck and drained by several small tributaries , mainly Fitlock Brook . |
| 30 | ‘ Visions Revisited ’ , chaired by Kirsty Wark and sponsored by Historic Scotland , marked the beginning of a re-examination of Scotland 's Modern building revolution . |