Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb base] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EVEN the police in Jammu & Kashmir have turned against the Indian government . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | Namely , to have , in 1993-94 , as Scotland have had in the past season , three coaches . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The single paintings made by Bosch have evolved into the multiple images and mass reproduction of modern cinema and television . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Ferrari and Mansell have appealed to the International Automobile Federation ( FIA ) , an umbrella organisation which includes FISA , against the race ban . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ONLY five of the 12 players selected to represent England in this weekend 's annual HDM international indoor tournament at The Hague have played for the indoor team before — and England will be defending the title . |
| 22 | DESPITE a disappointing tour of Pakistan , where they went down 1–4 in the one-day series , Sri Lanka have stuck by the same players for this competition . |
| 23 | The incredible eggplants of the Sudan have succumbed to the US-bred ‘ Black Beauty ’ and the vast array of beets in Turkey have been vanquished by the ‘ Detroit Globe ’ beet . |
| 24 | A series of improvements at the site in Barcelona have resulted in the annual rate of three day lost time accidents being reduced by a third . |
| 25 | Murders in Moscow have doubled in the last year , still modest totals by US standards , but appalling in a city once acknowledged as the safest capital in the world . |
| 26 | DEC will target Japan as a growing market for networked computer systems and a source of strategic alliances , Reuter reports from Tokyo : ‘ Japan is a critically important market to Digital Equipment , ’ president and chief executive Robert Palmer said at an exposition of DEC products in the city ; Kubota Corp has already said it will use DEC 's Alpha chip in its workstations and rumours naming Japanese companies that are planning Alpha-based links with DEC have appeared in the Japanese business press . |
| 27 | A GROUP of travelling people who has set up a temporary encampment near the Co Down village of Ardglass have called on the local council to provide a permanent site . |
| 28 | Four bowlers from Anglesey and Arfon have qualified for the Welsh Merit championship in Rhyl next month . |
| 29 | Hosts Anne and Dave Bell have moved from the old pub in Stranton to the new Tap and Spile . |
| 30 | Few men other than Eliot have read through the lengthy catalogues of ritual in Frazer 's volumes and found those volumes to be ‘ throbbing at a higher rate of vibration with the agony of spiritual life ’ . |