Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun prp] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Western banks regarded Romania as a good risk : cynically , they judged that Ceauşescu would keep the lid on the pot in Romania in a way that Gierek had manifestly failed to do in Poland . |
| 2 | France , under-rated by many , has outgrown Germany throughout the postwar period . |
| 3 | SNA communications house Systems Strategies Inc says it has designated UnixWare as the primary development platform for its new Express 2.0 Unix-to-IBM ( AS/400 and mainframe ) comms software . |
| 4 | Competing in the free market of air fares had catapulted Branson into the rarefied area of government policy and international relations , and helped to define what had hitherto been purely instinctive beliefs in a more rigid ideological context . |
| 5 | The Democratic Convention also won the mayoralties of the important cities of Brasov , Constanta , Ploiesti , Sibiu and Arad ( having won Timisoara in the first round , with 64 per cent of votes ) . |
| 6 | You will find most of your fellow-passengers have booked KLM on the unhesitating recommendation of both their friends and their Travel Agent . |
| 7 | Well Mademoiselle you screamed , too protested Gwendoline in an injured tone , louder than I did , I should think . |
| 8 | But Webb 's strict ethical judgement that , once the couple had been pronounced man and wife , Benjamin was not entitled to put them asunder , disregards the fact that Benjamin has rescued Elaine from a loveless marriage before it is consummated . |
| 9 | While Dexel trades with most of the Far East countries , using a network of agents , it has targeted China as a major growth area . |
| 10 | It was she who had interviewed Meg for the Old Rectory and Meg now found it difficult to connect that confident , tweeded , slightly aggressive woman with the two gentle old people she knew . |
| 11 | It then bores on in this vein until our hero — Bjorn Borg , unmistakably — has won Weembledon for the fifth time consecutively . |
| 12 | He had returned to Poland on Jan. 4 to answer the charge , and on Jan. 7 it was reported that a lesser charge was being substituted because prosecutors had ruled that Tyminski had attacked Mazowiecki as a rival candidate rather than as the holder of state office . |
| 13 | A young woman called Simone Thiroux had eyed Modigliani for a long time . |
| 14 | De Benedetti disclosed that Hewlett-Packard Co had also approached Olivetti for a possible alliance , but declined to elaborate . |
| 15 | Had General Francis not had his two sticks propped against his chair as a tangible reminder of his condition , and had he not , as had now been explained to me , been making this social call to thank me for nursing his son after paying a second professional visit himself to Bernard Remington-Hart , his appearance and that Rolls outside would have frozen Margaret into a prissy caricature of her normal self . |
| 16 | The episode has placed Alan in a difficult position . |
| 17 | Tiu said that about 70 countries had already recognized Moldova as an independent state , and that relations with Hungary would be a first step to closer integration with Europe . |
| 18 | Milos Zeman , in an article in the popular monthly Technicky Magazin , directly attacked the country 's hardline Communist rulers for their refusal to accept change , saying that their leadership had turned Czechoslovakia into a backward country . |
| 19 | Kiosks sell a bewildering variety of Russian and imported goods , from Mars bars to fake Rolex watches , an example of the primitive commerce which has turned Moscow into a vast souk . |
| 20 | Regarding economic co-operation , Soviet sources reported that Shevardnadze had presented Baker with a 15-page outline of possible areas for economic and scientific co-operation between the two countries . |
| 21 | He had met Freud in a dark forest . |
| 22 | You have n't seen Alexander for a long time , have you ? |
| 23 | She had been on a bus once and had seen Simon in a posh car pulling out of an ‘ executive ’ housing estate opposite the boating lake . |
| 24 | Ten years now he had lived in Vienna , fourteen since he had quit Russia for the last time , twenty-two since the day he had realized his boyhood ambition to become an officer in the St. Petersburg Grenadiers . |
| 25 | Peter Burridge had captained Millwall to a 4th Division promotion in 1962 and had thereby brought himself very much to the attention of Palace 's astute managerial team of Arthur Rowe and Dick Graham , both as an inspirational skipper and as a regular scorer of important goals . |
| 26 | " It was an insult , " thundered Tupper , " to the service which had turned England into the British Empire , an incredible stupidity which would halve the mariner 's loyalty automatically " . |
| 27 | Later , after she had visited Joy for the last time and he had filled her arms with fruit , as he had on every visit , she made her way to the cemetery . |
| 28 | At that time hardly anyone but Winters would have named Williams in the same breath as Eliot , and it is characteristic of Winters 's perversity ( or his independence ) that thirty years later , when it had become usual to set Williams up against Eliot , Winters 's opinion of Williams had long been much less favourable . |
| 29 | Naturally , what the duke had in mind was his own political interest , and his managers duly picked a man named Hamilton for the vacant charge , a gentleman whose brother was a bailie of one of the royal burghs in which the Montrose faction took an interest . |
| 30 | Nahum 's happiness was infectious and his gesture of conciliation had saved Seb from an embarrassing situation . |