Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( It is interesting that in arguing that polygamy grows out of monogamy Engels was reversing the evolutionary sequence as most anthropologists of his time saw it . ) |
| 2 | Mixu Paatelainen was shown the same consideration earlier in the season and the word from the maternity unit at Pittodrie is that Mrs Duncan Shearer is next in the gynaecological line . |
| 3 | Already in 1922 , Wheatley was attacking the conventional view that internationalism held the key to ending unemployment : |
| 4 | After flirting with Modernism in his earlier fiction , John Fowles was to deride the whole idea as late as 1982 , with Mantissa , which makes elaborate fun of the tradition of Joyce and argues that fiction may find it hard even to survive the grinding tedium of the nouveau roman . |
| 5 | it is , it 's exactly ten years although I reckon like , well , the thing is , these like late bookers like Richard was saying the other day , the flight ones , you du n no where your going |
| 6 | Even while Richard was attending the crusading conference at Le Mans a rebellion broke out in Aquitaine . |
| 7 | Scott was awarded the highest prize , with third on the Foreign Office list , Deane and Woodward were fourth , and Street was awarded one of the fifth prizes on the same list . |
| 8 | All Western diplomats had left Kabul in the weeks leading up to the Soviet troop withdrawal in February 1989 [ see p. 36448-50 ] , when the United States was predicting the imminent collapse of the Najibullah regime . |
| 9 | As BR looked towards the 1970s and into the 1980s , it was realised that if InterCity was to survive the growing threat posed by the airlines and the rapid extension of motorways , train speeds would have to be lifted beyond the prevailing norm of 80mph start-to-stop between main business centres . |
| 10 | Quakers breathed a sigh of relief when Fashanu 's right-foot blast took a wicked deflection and floated just past the post when Prudhoe was diving the other way , but he was laughing after 39 minutes when the Darlington defence presented him with the most embarrassing gift of the season . |
| 11 | Steven was doing the front lawn |
| 12 | Helen said quietly , ‘ That 's exactly what Edward was saying the other day . |
| 13 | Two years later St Sava was created the first Bishop of the autocephalous Serbian Church by the Patriarch of Byzantium . |
| 14 | And Anna Freud was to write the famous book called The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence . |
| 15 | ‘ Frau Fegel was saying the other day when we were playing Bach that our technique was good but that we had to learn to put feeling into our playing . ’ |
| 16 | In another move yesterday which further highlighted the government 's problems , Sirkka Hamalainen was appointed the new president of the Bank of Finland . |
| 17 | At his subsequent trial , Charles Woolridge was to take the contradictory step of pleading not guilty , but the outcome was a foregone conclusion ; he was unanimously convicted . |
| 18 | Giles was appointed the first Professor of Surgery at Leeds University in 1973 , and continued to occupy the Chair until his death . |
| 19 | He noticed that although T'zin was wearing the fancy gold coat of the Altun he had no tunic on beneath it , and his bare chest was visible through the unfastened facings . |
| 20 | Sadler was expressing the widely-shared belief among reformers that , given the prevalence of machinery , the labour demand of the present , and even more so of the future , was for ‘ skilled and versatile minds ’ . |
| 21 | A series of agreements from 1898 onwards tried to channel the tension between the two powers along ‘ Manchuria for Korea ’ lines , i.e. Russia was to have the dominant interest in Manchuria , while Japan dominated in Korea . |
| 22 | This meant addressing various specific requests to the Turks , telling them what the consequences of refusal would be , and informing the major European courts that Russia was giving the Ottoman Empire a last chance . |
| 23 | The other three new British members are The Capital , in Basil Street , whose owner Mr David Levin was awarded the yellow shield for exceptional comfort . |
| 24 | As long ago as the 1930's Zipf was investigating the statistical nature of language ( Zipf , 1936 ) . |
| 25 | Eddis was shown the yellow card for a late tackle on Neil Candlish in the 12th minute and his team mate John Johnston followed him into the referee 's note-book six minutes later after a foul on Jonathan Speak . |
| 26 | Phil was putting the last bow on the church gates when he fell on to the 6ft railings . |
| 27 | One might say that Barthes was examining the social representation of Einstein , yet to say this might be to use ‘ social representation ’ in a loose sense . |
| 28 | The Rhine was crossed the following day with minimal casualties . |
| 29 | The subject was Alexander the Great , and Paul Scofield was to have the leading part . |
| 30 | The large clock over the pawnbroker 's in Albion Street was showing the half hour when Billy spotted the trio alighting from a tram . |