Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good illustration of this point is provided by a case in which the London Borough of Greenwich sought to challenge by judicial review the distribution by the Government of a leaflet explaining the poll tax : the Borough argued that the leaflet was inaccurate and , therefore , that its distribution was illegal . |
| 2 | Afterwards Grayling tried to think of some reason in the environment that might have had something to do with the outburst . |
| 3 | Last week Scottish Secretary Ian Lang announced spending on social work projects would be £22.8 million next year , with provisional figures of £23 million for 194–5 and 1995–6 . |
| 4 | Nellie seemed to drift through each day starting a lot of things and never finishing them , and doing an awful lot of washing . |
| 5 | He paused , strangely shrunken , while Donald repeated his words , to fly round the walls of the castle to the women watching from the cliffs and battlements , and to the window where Hector lay staring into multicoloured darkness , wishing the blade had struck harder . |
| 6 | V. P. Singh offered to resign as Prime Minister on July 14 . |
| 7 | Singh had served as Prime Minister since early December 1989 . |
| 8 | Ewan had heard of some research projects that made him very uncomfortable about these people 's future . |
| 9 | Allegations that Kuwait had moved into Iraqi territory were " a falsification of reality and a resumé of inverted truths " because it was Iraq which had a " full history of violations of Kuwaiti territories " . |
| 10 | During the war , Aziz claimed , Kuwait had advanced into Iraqi territory and had set up military establishments and oil installations . |
| 11 | In a letter to the summit meeting President Gorbachev had asked for immediate support for his economic restructuring programme in the form of credits , technical co-operation , personnel training , joint ventures and joint projects . ) |
| 12 | ‘ They say if Jean had stayed in that night and washed her hair then she would be alive today . ’ |
| 13 | According to a report dated May 21 , Bosnia-Hercegovina had suffered by that date material damage estimated at US$60,000 million-100,000 million ; electricity output was down to 17 per cent of normal levels ; and about four-fifths of the republic 's industrial plant had been destroyed . |
| 14 | Of course it would turn out that the dead girl was merely someone Jerome Fanshawe had come across that weekend and who had taken his fancy . |
| 15 | As for species origins , Lyell had argued against spontaneous generation and against new species arising by the modification ( ‘ transmutation ’ ) of older ones . |
| 16 | By the time the fleet of ambulances arrived , Elfman had metamorphosized from popular hero to universal laughing-stock and he never fully recovered from the experience . |
| 17 | Chatterton had spoken with genuine admiration . |
| 18 | In its evidence to the Ashby Committee , the WEA had asked for more grant-aid to finance ‘ a considerable increase ’ in the number of full-time staff . |
| 19 | Dave Wise had moved in next door a month ago . |
| 20 | But whatever else was lost , the impetus that Winckelmann had given to Greek scholarship in Germany survived ; and if we wish to understand its subsequent history and the remarkable growth of German classical scholarship as a whole , we should not forget his formative contribution , even though much of the impending development can hardly be traced directly back to him . |
| 21 | The 1693 title-page calls attention to ‘ Alterations , Additions , and several new SONGS ’ , which is fair enough : Tonson had gone to some trouble to update it . |
| 22 | Despite excellent character-witnesses , among them Elizabeth , who delivered an impassioned plea on her maid 's behalf , Justine stood condemned by one piece of circumstantial evidence : a locket containing a picture of her late mistress had been found in her belongings — a locket which the child William had been wearing only the day before the murder . |
| 23 | Hector stood poised for another blow , but there was no clue to tell him which way to strike . |
| 24 | But David volunteered to serve with Total Tartary . |
| 25 | Perhaps appropriately , given the inflammatory nature of the effect Gav and Janice seemed to have on each other 's glands , it was called Red Heat . |
| 26 | Just how Marc Jeffrey came to die in this barn at Slade Farm near Stroud , will probably never be know . |
| 27 | John Keane opted to convey through ironic allegory the greater message of the human race , of only through waiting , with the army , in the Saudi Arabian desert , or with the RAF in the bar of the five star Sheraton Hotel in Bahrain ; a more telling topic than might be imagined , since alcohol is forbidden in Saudi Arabia . |
| 28 | John Keane opted to convey through ironic allegory the greater message of the human race , of only through waiting , with the army , in the Saudi Arabian desert , or with the RAF in the bar of the five star Sheraton Hotel in Bahrain ; a more telling topic than might be imagined , since alcohol is forbidden in Saudi Arabia . |
| 29 | Katherine felt pinioned by that look , unable to break through the invisible circle it created around them . |
| 30 | Azerbaijan , Armenia , Byelarus , Moldova and Ukraine had applied for similar status . |