Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The training grounds and living quarters of the gladiators ( Caserma dei Gladiatori ) are extensive at Pompeii and adjoin the large theatre ( 148 ) . |
| 2 | In order to draw this out of him , he wrote a vastly elaborate commentary on the Lay , softening the blow of his harsher criticisms by inventing the personae of a whole group of scholarly editors who are debating the text in the way that scholars have disputed over Homer or Beowulf It would seem that Tolkien took a great deal of notice of Lewis 's invented editors , for he rewrote his Kay and incorporated a high proportion of their emendations . |
| 3 | He negotiated Malaya 's independence from the United Kingdom two years later and was the country 's first Prime Minister , overseeing the creation of the Federation of Malaysia in 1963 , and during the next two years withstanding the threat of " Confrontation " with Indonesia and taking the difficult decision that Singapore secede from the Federation . |
| 4 | People in the British colony of Hong Kong could settle in the British colony of the Falklands and form an independent state . |
| 5 | The first is the ‘ Austin Special ’ , drawn up by Ted Newman-Jones in Texas and sporting a six-in-line headstock , three of those shimmery-sounding lipstick-tube pickups and a body that looks like someone left a black Les Paul out to melt in the sun , and the second is our review guitar , the Chandler ‘ 555 ’ . |
| 6 | Mosbacher , 64 , like Bush a native easterner who moved to Texas and made a personal fortune in oil and gas , had served as Bush 's national finance chairman in 1988 and was once again expected to concentrate on financing the campaign . |
| 7 | Stukeley also began enthusiastically landscaping the garden of his house in Barn Hill and devised a formal garden on a concentric circular layout which could have been based on his Stonehenge plan ( see drawing ) . |
| 8 | Suddenly he knew what he had to do : he had to go to Monument Hill and see the broken earth for himself . |
| 9 | Kelly sat in the jockeys ' stand at Sandown and gave a quiet laugh . |
| 10 | Ally Donaldson kicked two penalty goals for Currie and converted a late try by Dean Mack . |
| 11 | The strike reportedly took place in mid-April and involved an eight-hour walk-out by up to 2,000 textile factory workers in Berat , some 70 km south of Tirana , protesting against low wages , although one report also spoke of anti-Hoxha slogans being daubed on the factory walls . |
| 12 | Eddy dangles a very tempting adulterous carrot in front of Richard and suggests a convivial evening of wife swapping . |
| 13 | Convinced that the treaty would undercut German sovereignty by taking away powers from the German parliament , he left Brussels and filed a sweeping complaint claiming that Maastricht damages constitutional guarantees of individual rights and democratic procedure . |
| 14 | It was here , in 1685 , that the Duke of Monmouth marched out from Bridgwater and lost the bloody Battle of Sedgemoor . |
| 15 | Francis also implies , somewhat unconvincingly , that the event was conceived in a spirit of Potlatch and accepts the Lettrist belief in the legitimate use of plagiarism . |
| 16 | India declares war , defeats Pakistan and establishes the independent state of Bangladesh . |
| 17 | The Foreign Ministers condemned Serbia 's and Montenegro 's " crimes of annihilation and deportation … which contravene human values and international laws " in Bosnia-Hercegovina and urged the international community to observe UN sanctions . |
| 18 | A similar organisation of the Habsburg government , the Geheime Kabinets-Kanzlei , operated not merely in Vienna but in Brussels , Liége , Frankfurt and Regensburg and enjoyed a high reputation for its technical skill . |
| 19 | There was still an amiable air to the action but Cantona showed his commitment when he crashed into substitute Abel and earned a yellow card . |
| 20 | Schafer , who by then was back in the United States and running a military supply business called Minihawks in the Atlanta area . |
| 21 | It has an international appeal , with the introduction — written by Betty Viner and providing a brief history of the subject — written in English , German and French . |
| 22 | ‘ We have no intention of taking a stake in another company , nor is there any other company that wants to take a stake in Siemens Nixdorf and become a dominant partner , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Martin Crowe set the South African bowlers back on their heels by ignoring his safety-first opener John Wright and sending the pugnacious left-hander Mark Greatbatch in first with Latham . |
| 24 | Many individuals stand to do better by leaving SERPS and entering a private pension arrangement into which part of their National Insurance contributions and those of the employer are invested . |
| 25 | Government minister Robert Freeman now had a meeting with Roberts and promised a new inquiry . |
| 26 | I think we have something like a hundred and twenty nationalities living in Kuwait and enjoying the free school , the free hospital . |
| 27 | Now the declared objective is to ‘ free ’ Kuwait and to destroy the military capacity of Iraq . |
| 28 | In return Ferdinand renounced his claims to the Spanish and Burgundian lands held by the Habsburgs , but he later acquired the crowns of Bohemia and Hungary and ascended the Imperial throne on the abdication of Charles in 1558 . |
| 29 | I had a clerk in St Paul 's write it out , then stood by Aldgate and bribed a royal messenger , carrying the white wand and wearing the royal gold-and-blue surcoat , who was travelling to King 's Lynn , to leave the message with Master Daunbey . |
| 30 | Eventually , he settled in East Dulwich and opened a small grocer 's shop . |