Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb base] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Bharatpur , the competition between Rajiv Gandhi 's ruling Congress ( I ) party and the assorted forces of the anti-Congress opposition is so finely poised , and the pool of royal admirers so deep , that three prominent relatives of Maharajah Brijendra Singh have slipped into a democratic version of an old autocratic vice : the royal family feud . |
| 2 | EVEN the police in Jammu & Kashmir have turned against the Indian government . |
| 3 | The European Council has endorsed the demands which we , France and the United States have made to the Libyan Government requiring them to abandon their support of terrorism and to hand over the alleged perpetrators of the Lockerbie bombing . |
| 4 | Party people from Donna Summer to pioneer DJ and remixer Walter Gibbons have boogied into the sexual inferno of disco and emerged from the flames as Bible-spouting just-born Christians . |
| 5 | Mary and Reggie said , " Do sit down and join us , " but just as the six had repelled Mary and Reggie , so now did Mary and Reggie seem surrounded by an invisible current : Keep off . |
| 6 | Of the 35 goals England have scored in the 26 matches Taylor has been in charge , just three have come from outside the penalty area . |
| 7 | The supermarket chains , Sainsbury , Tesco and Safeway have applied to the high court to try to stop the opening in this country of an American style warehouse club . |
| 8 | She added : ‘ We have discovered today that Safeway have put in an amended access plan which Durham county council is likely to accept . |
| 9 | The space agencies of the United States , Russia , Europe , Japan , China and Brazil have agreed to a joint programme which will use both existing and new satellites to monitor changes in the global environment . |
| 10 | He went on to say : ‘ Student numbers in Scotland have increased by a remarkable 25 per cent since 1983 to nearly 110,000 and we fully expect by the end of the century that more than 40 per cent of young Scots will enter higher education . |
| 11 | Is it an affirmation of what his junior energy Minister says : that it will be acceptable for the Scottish Office to be staffed by Members from constituencies south of the border , or of what his Foreign Secretary and Secretary of State for Scotland have said in the past 24 hours : that nothing will happen , or is he considering the possibility of affording the Scottish people the right to determine their own future in a democratic fashion ? |
| 12 | Namely , to have , in 1993-94 , as Scotland have had in the past season , three coaches . |
| 13 | SCOTLAND — SCOTLAND have qualified for the last five World Cup finals , but with only one point from two games they already face an uphill struggle to qualify for a sixth time . |
| 14 | Although Robert Teeter remained as the nominal head of the Bush campaign , it was generally acknowledged that Baker would use his new post to exercise overall and ultimate responsibility for the campaign and attempt to provide it with a greater degree of coherence . |
| 15 | Several international human rights and relief organisations charge that Bosnian Serbs have engaged in the systematic rape , torture and murder of civilians during the former Yugoslav republic 's 11-month-old war . |
| 16 | The charges against Mr Perez have come at an inconvenient moment , not only for him but also for Venezuela . |
| 17 | In the Russian parliament , some conservative deputies led by Colonel Alexander Rutskoi have split from the main phalanx of the party to support Mr Yeltsin . |
| 18 | However , both the Warsaw Pact and NATO have changed since the 1950s , and although their military hegemony , based largely on phenomenal nuclear overkill capacity , remains unsurpassed , other blocs have arisen to challenge them on a variety of strategic issues . |
| 19 | The single paintings made by Bosch have evolved into the multiple images and mass reproduction of modern cinema and television . |
| 20 | In replying to the accusations , Mr Toshack pointed out that Bilbao 's attempts to culture a romantic image as the sole defenders of Basque traditions were at odds with £3.75 million invested in signings and more managers in 12 months than Real Sociedad have had in the last eight years . |
| 21 | Leeds 0 Ipswich 0 ; Ipswich get praised for a resolute defence . |
| 22 | Instead , IFEMA have plunged down the desperate road of offering ten complimentary booths to leading galleries , which had not committed to attend the fair , in an attempt to bolster ARCO 's international image . |
| 23 | Only a minority of immigrants to the United Kingdom have come from the New Commonwealth , and this minority has decreased in absolute terms , and even more in proportional terms , since the mid-1960s . |
| 24 | South Africa have named for the same job , not a professional journalist , but Dr. Nick Labuschagne , a man who has just been ousted as President of the Natal Rugby Union . |
| 25 | Hartlepool have recovered after a dismal run and want points to boost play-off hopes . |
| 26 | Greenpeace have applied for a judicial review of the NRA 's system of controlling pollution — based on " consents " by which companies are allowed to pollute up to specific limits . |
| 27 | Cases of salmonella food poisoning in Britain have trebled in the last three years and are at an all-time high , according to government statistics . |
| 28 | AFTER A YEAR of negotiations , 122 A tape and electronics companies , 97 from Japan and 25 from the West have agreed on a new standard for home video . |
| 29 | Ferrari and Mansell have appealed to the International Automobile Federation ( FIA ) , an umbrella organisation which includes FISA , against the race ban . |
| 30 | Wicketkeeper Moin Khan and batsman Zahid Fazal have toured with the Under-19 side , and the others have all played county or league cricket over here . |