Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] and [verb] [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 | The window in the Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre ( 2 ) illustrating the Deeds of Mercy is by Karel Svolinský and dates from 1932–3 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | That was in August 1988 and Jones was fined two weeks ' wages by boss Bobby Gould and banned for three matches by the FA . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | With England now the enemy , this was inevitably one of the most vulnerable places in the northern kingdom — and indeed had been captured early in the Wars of Independence by Edward Plantagenet and remained in English hands ever since , its garrison readily supplied and reinforced from over the nearby Border . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Tranmere 's Tony Thomas was booked in the 81st minute for a foul on Andy Legg and went off two minutes later with a leg injury . |
| 14 | It has peacocks , which like to sit on the seats when visitors are scarce , a compound with a few docile wild animals in , a small lake , a free-standing part of a Gothic cloister from the ruined abbey of Saint-Sever-de-Rustan which was removed and re-erected here , and , if you can find them among the shrubbery , busts of two French poets , one of whom was born in the town while the other went to school here : the native was the arch Romantic Théophile Gautier , whose bust in the Jar din Massey was sculpted by his exotic daughter Judith , the outsider Jules Laforgue , the strange , consumptive young poet who so influenced T. S. Eliot and died at twenty-seven . |
| 15 | 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 ] . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The serious losses suffered by the party in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in 1989 were repeated on a larger scale , and the rout might have been complete had not the assassination of Gandhi reduced the anti-Congress ( I ) swing in the June polling . |
| 18 | They analysed four Currie Cup games in South Africa and compared to four games in the World Cup . |
| 19 | Also on show will be an oil painting entitled ‘ The landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth ’ by Michele Felice Corne and painted in 1802 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It is an elaborate example of Edwardian commercial architecture , designed by T H Smith and W Wimble and completed in 1903 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | One afternoon she had lurked in the medical bookshop at the top of Gower Street and looked at glowing colour plates of carcinomas . |
| 24 | Southall 's departure forced Kendall to take off winger Robert Warzycha and send on gutsy substitute Australian keeper Jason Kearton for a dazzling debut — never mind the scoreline . |
| 25 | ‘ Champagne , hot scented baths , Sibelius , tiny kittens , very , very , very expensive underwear that you hardly know you 're wearing , and skiing at night and going into the big stores on fifth Avenue and trying on all the three-hundred-dollar dresses and shoes and then saying that I do n't like any of them — I do that quite often — and … ’ |
| 26 | The branch is involved in the Greater Notts TEC and contributes to this involvement considerably . |
| 27 | The harbour at this time was formed on the bed of the ‘ Water to Leith ’ , a small stream with its source in the Pentland Hills and flowing for thirteen miles or so through Edinburgh and Leith into the Firth of Forth at this point . |
| 28 | LVTA is the result of years of lobbying by the SMMT on behalf of its Specialist Car Manufacturers ' Group , chaired by Caterham 's Graham Nearn and consisting of seven companies which number Marcos , Westfield , JBA and Jago Automotive — all kit car makers — among them . |
| 29 | hero of a novel called The Hermit , written in imitation of Robinson Crusoe and published in 1727 ; attributed to Edward Dorrington . |
| 30 | The arrival of the British had been impressive : on 24 December 1807 a squadron had anchored in Funchal under the command of Admiral Samuel Hood and consisted of four ships of the line , four frigates and sixteen ships for transporting troops , carrying two regiments of infantry and two companies of artillery . |