Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the five years since coming to the throne in 1553 , Mary had vented her hatred of Protestantism upon her subjects and had tried — against their will — to force the clock back . |
| 2 | He had respected her lack of interest in what others might have called sexual morality , had respected the fact that she had slept with him and neither offered nor expected anything in return . |
| 3 | Mr Rory McShane , prosecuting for Newry and Mourne Council , said Nora and Patsy Ward had parked their caravan in contravention of the council 's regulations . |
| 4 | Molly had secretly enjoyed her initiation to sex on the night of Yanto 's near drowning , but then she had had to curtail her natural emotions for fear of waking her Father . |
| 5 | But the strangeness of the tropics and the sophistication of the almost-forgotten culture from which she had sprung had greatly exaggerated her sense of release from the frustrations of the past . |
| 6 | It was Megan Lloyd , who was the daughter of a Welsh farm worker from somewhere in Dyfed , and who had earned her place in College with a brilliant scholarship . |
| 7 | Mattie had brewed her pot after pot of strong coffee which she had gulped down scalding hot , black , unaware of its oversweetness . |
| 8 | The company has just cancelled its contract with BASF for chrome tape and is opting for a cheaper brand of conventional ferric oxide tape . |
| 9 | Although the first issue for 1858 welcomed the Nazimov Rescript with a banner headline , and although Herzen freely acknowledged that Alexander II had earned his place in history by setting the process of emancipation in train , by May 1858 The Bell had restarted its pressure for emancipation with land and soon it was insisting that much remained to be done before the process of reform bore fruit . |
| 10 | She realized she had almost forgotten his offer of marriage on Norcombe Hill . |
| 11 | Muldoon , who had won 59 per cent of the vote in Tamaki in the 1990 general election [ for which see pp. 37781-82 ] , had resigned his seat in protest at the economic , health and social welfare policies of Prime Minister Jim Bolger [ see p. 38676 ] , and had appealed to voters to send a message to the government to change its ways . |
| 12 | The official news agency Tanjug had reported on April 3 that Yusuf Zehjnulahu , the Chairman of the Kosovo provincial assembly ( i.e. the provincial Premier ) , had resigned his post in protest at what he described as the excessively brutal tactics employed by the Serbian authorities towards the ethnic Albanians in the province . |
| 13 | Long before Neil Kinnock let it be known that he had let his membership of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament lapse , the Labour Party and CND had been growing apart . |
| 14 | However , he had slowly modified his lack of jealousy into trust . |
| 15 | In 1162 he had succeeded his father as ruler of Aragon and Barcelona . |
| 16 | Henry Oakeley , who had succeeded his brother as squire of Lydham and moved to ‘ Oakeley Manor ’ ( now Lydham Manor ) , actually died while enquiring about the Railway , on 12th March 1877 , the year in which the Bailiffs Incident occurred . |
| 17 | And this week it was reported his job as consultant with a Swiss finance company was being terminated . |
| 18 | I had queried his dose of Dexamethazone with a nurse earlier , and she assured me he was getting it in his drip , but I have a suspicion that it had been reduced or even forgotten . |
| 19 | H. L. A. Hart , who has recently added his voice in support of this kind of analysis , provides the following explanation : ‘ The commander characteristically intends his hearer to take the commander 's will instead of his own as a guide to action and so to take it in place of any deliberation or reasoning of his own : the expression of the commander 's will … is intended to preclude or cut off any independent deliberation by the hearer of the merits pro and con of doing the act . ’ |
| 20 | No doubt as the matrimonial home was in the husband 's sole name the wife will have registered her right of occupation by way of a Class F Land Charge or ( if registered title ) a notice under the terms of the Matrimonial Homes Act 1983 . |
| 21 | The existing centre at Northwick Park in north-west London , has not developed its research in collaboration with hospital work , as once hoped , and is to be phased out . |
| 22 | None the less , the changes in ‘ Bantu education ’ have not fundamentally altered its status as education for inferiority and subservience . |
| 23 | The government has given its approval for sale of electricity , generated by the station , to regional electricity companies , as part of its scheme to encourage use of renewable energy . |
| 24 | A lengthy discussion of this issue is beyond the scope of this work but given its importance in relation to the socialist project I shall make some comments . |
| 25 | Schofield , who had threatened legal action to force Leeds to allow him to play for Manly in the close season , revealed : ‘ Manly have withdrawn their offer in view of the problems . ’ |
| 26 | In the remoter corners of water authority empires , which have had little more than a decade in which to professionalize themselves since their formation in 1974 , gangs of river maintenance staff inherited from the far less environmentally accountable river boards have guarded their independence from interference by senior central management within their own organizations . |
| 27 | Until recently , most people in this country limited their choice of cheese to cheddar . |
| 28 | This has clearly limited their rate of investment in new products , especially the more speculative general reference publications which both have been planning . |
| 29 | Since her marriage , she had become accustomed to a less competitive and more rural way of life and therefore regarded her return to court as a duty , an onerous duty . |
| 30 | Over 4000 members have already given their verdict in favour of the club 's ‘ fabulous facilities manifesto ’ and its dual function , ( tennis ' double whammy , if you like ! ) , that of meeting all member needs while maintaining a warm and welcoming atmosphere within the club 's spacious acres . |