Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1764 Angelica Kauffman met the German art lover Joachim Winkelmann , She painted his portrait , showing him casually dressed , holding a quill , seated over an open writing book . |
| 2 | An agreement signed during a two-day visit by senior purchasing staff from Behr appointed the Welsh Development Agency 's source team to select Welsh companies capable of supplying air conditioning system components such as wiring harnesses , precision castings and turned parts . |
| 3 | ALAN KELLY made the crucial penalty shoot-out save that crowned Sheffield United 's FA Cup fightback against Blackburn and clinched their first semi-final for 32 years . |
| 4 | In East Anglia , Colchester became the Roman Army Headquarters and later an important civil town . |
| 5 | The roads were still hard so travel was fast and easy as Mandeville used the royal messenger service to obtain good food and warm beds at priories , monasteries , taverns or royal manors . |
| 6 | Jamie Spence found the Swiss mountain air to his liking ( right ) , with a final round 60 . |
| 7 | They stopped outside one of them , among the fishing-nets , turning windmills , and buckets and spades , while Bella read the dirty seaside postcards . |
| 8 | Palladium , which got the nod back in September 1991 when OSF announced the winning DME technologies , heralds from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 's Athena project , with support from DEC , HP and IBM . |
| 9 | Rather spurious ‘ rockabilly rebels ’ Matchbox used the American Confederate flag as generic overlay-stroke-emblem during their somewhat brief halcyon days . |
| 10 | Until a year ago , Xylogics used the National Semiconductor Corp NS32000 microprocessor family in the Annex servers that are the subject of the deal with Sun , but it then switched to the Intel Corp 80376 , which is the embedded version of the 80386 . |
| 11 | BILLY HARDY retained the British bantamweight title against Brian Holmes in Sunderland last night , knocking out the Scottish challenger with an explosive assault in the first round . |
| 12 | In this pamphlet and elsewhere , Keynes proposed the inflationary gap theory of inflation : upward pressure on money wages and prices would be felt with increasing severity as the pressure of demand approached and eventually exceeded full employment output , Y * ; . |
| 13 | Kelly Von Stauffenberg used the double elimination format to full advantage at the 14 and under winter circuit tournament at Bisham Abbey , played at the beginning of December . |
| 14 | Branscomb studied the typical college library " from the standpoint of its educational effectiveness rather than its administrative efficiency . " |
| 15 | Rex dropped the dreaded Repo Man card into the slot in the keyboard and the screen lit up with all sorts of possibilities . |
| 16 | League dynamo Robert Irwin masterminded the thriving Greystone table tennis league and ensured that all the players had a feast of competition throughout the season , and pride of place went to the Cookstown team which included a unique father and daughter combination in Joe and Joanne Hutton , as well as the Scott brothers Alistair and Nigel . |
| 17 | Gen Aoun rejected the Arab peace pact for failing to ensure a clear , rapid timetable for the withdrawal of Syria 's 33,000 troops from Lebanon . |
| 18 | Prime Minister Felipe González Márquez told the Portuguese newspaper Público in an interview in late February that he would probably have relinquished his post by 1995 ; a general election was next due in 1993 . |
| 19 | When she was castaway on Radio 4 's Desert Island Discs — a year before taking over the show — Sue told the then presenter Michael Parkinson that the luxury she would want on the island would be an endless supply of clean sheets and an iron . |
| 20 | They were mounted on large mainframe computers for batch processing using a variety of packages and high level languages of which SPSS and Fortran dominated the social science world from which historians learnt so much . |
| 21 | Napoleon simplified the great patchwork quilt of minor German states and principalities , swallowed up a series of Free Cities , abolished a series of Church states and pushed the Germans into modern Europe , whether they liked it or not . |
| 22 | Jack and Hayter sampled the main east-west road at several points inside the defences , revealing a twofold sequence involving an earlier roadway 9m ( 29½ ft ) wide , with sandstone-lined drains on one or both sides , overlain by an often narrower road with a central open channel . |
| 23 | Wright knocked the free kick head high across goal and Wilkinson escaped his marker to nod home at the far post . |
| 24 | In the 1960s , Holmes and Rahe developed the Social Readjustment Rating Scale by asking 400 healthy people to rank 42 major life events according to the amount of readjustment each requires . |
| 25 | Broadly speaking , Cusick handled the early space opera episodes while Newbery tackled the later time-travel instalments . |
| 26 | Northern Telecom Ltd 's DPN-100 broadband data network system is to be installed for a new system created by Telefonica de Espana SA called the Advanced Business Services Network , in an order worth $23m . |
| 27 | For the latter catalogue Barr chose the Surrealist writer Georges Hugnet to write a historical essay , but it was Barr 's intelligent advocacy and choice of works that made the show such a significant affair . |
| 28 | As Medusa died the winged horse Pegasus and a son Chrysaor sprang from the severed neck . |
| 29 | Rebecca took the Japanese-made VHF radio , weighing no more than a bag of sugar , on her summit assault . |
| 30 | Eddery took the Listed Prix Massine on Matador , trained at Marlborough by Roger Charlton . |