Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] [Wh pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stirling had a lucky encounter , however , with Brigadier John Marriott , a Scots Guards officer whom he had known in Cairo . |
| 2 | MPs on the Commons Public Accounts Committee who will be examining the criticisms are to question the ministries on the report on January 24 . |
| 3 | He then reports to the Public Accounts Committee who will follow up a selection of his reports . |
| 4 | Neddy was an old Dales character who played the harmonium and who found an old bell one day which he placed on top of his harmonium because he liked the sound of it . |
| 5 | The other problem was the insider dealing charge against , the firm 's highly regarded Scottish companies analyst whom even his rivals regarded as being as honest as the day is long . |
| 6 | A friend of 30 years standing who had previously cared for a woman with senile dementia described how : |
| 7 | here at last is a British sports team who 've found the secret of winning |
| 8 | If you fancy your chances , contact Carolyn Andrews at the public affairs department who will send you the necessary registration forms . |
| 9 | He actually fired a public relations officer who had dared argue that the real sales figures were one or two percentage points short of the goal . |
| 10 | It was after noon by the time we actually got sorted , much to the annoyance of the lady from the Public Relations company who had hired us . |
| 11 | It will be readily appreciated how important it is to agree on a name which reflects the separate identities ( and vanities ) of the firms involved without assuming Dickensian proportions and which at the same time commands the approval of any public relations consultant who has been engaged . |
| 12 | Although the funds had come from Hurley 's budget , the yacht was bought in the name of Andreous Kasikopu , a retired Cypriot marine police captain who looked remarkably like Claude Rains . |
| 13 | On principle , Hurley refused to share information with the Germans and British , except when he needed their cooperation for controlled deliveries through Frankfurt and London , but , braving his disapproval , Coleman made a point of renewing his friendship with Hartmut Mayer , the German police officer whom he had met in Munich during the 1972 Olympics and who was now the BKA 's liaison officer on Cyprus . |
| 14 | Rabat : A TOP police chief who confessed to having sex with more than 1,600 women in a three-year spree of rape and abduction was sentenced to death yesterday . |
| 15 | If anyone wants chapter and verse on this the erm address of the British Agro-chemicals Association who put out this literature will be on our fact sheet . |
| 16 | It was Michel Bonfils , the general secretary of the French Students Union who realised that in order to arrest the declining fortunes of the student game , it needed an inspiring international competition . |
| 17 | Three members of a Colombian drugs cartel who used Oxford language schools as a cover have each been jailed for ten years . |
| 18 | TRANMERE ROVERS , of the Third Division , forced a replay against a shaken Spurs side who were rescued by a Higgins own goal in the 69th minute of this Littlewoods Cup fourth-round tie . |
| 19 | She would in fact be taking over from a male contracts officer who would be leaving the company in four months ' time . |
| 20 | The story is of a civil rights leader who was born 25 years ago and it 's a day in his life . |
| 21 | ‘ They are only an average valleys side who change in the pub , ’ he chuckles . |
| 22 | A FIXED ODDS punter who attempted a huge swindle with a forged coupon was placed on probation yesterday . |
| 23 | The MP had asked him whether the inquiry under the Assistant Chief Constable of West Yorkshire could be extended to the four members of the Serious Crimes Squad who were involved in preparing the case of the Birmingham pub bombing in 1974 . |
| 24 | These guidelines shape who we are , our beliefs , values and attitudes , and we are understandably terrified of letting them go , whether we react in compliance with them or against them . |
| 25 | That they managed to start up so speedily was largely thanks to local representatives of the Jewish Refugees Committee who simply doubled up for the RCM . |
| 26 | One , from the second year basic studies team who teach a programme bringing together English , history and geography in a thematic syllabus , includes lists of themes in each of these subjects . |
| 27 | The Forum also revealed it was proposing Mr Jan Czarnogursky , the prominent Slovak lawyer and human rights activist who only last month under the old regime was put on trial , for the post of prime minister or first deputy prime minister . |
| 28 | Hawkins ' qualities in this sort of role were deployed again ln a film that brought together the American director John Ford and former Ealing writer T. E. B. Clarke , Gideon 's Day ( 1959 , Gideon of Scotland Yard in US ) , where he plays a slightly muddled police officer who , in true English fashion , only reveals his mettle under pressure . |
| 29 | The association 's concerns have been backed by the National Rivers Authority who said in a letter : ‘ The site and building is on the flood plane of the River Eden and the flooding of the area and the building can not be discounted . ’ |
| 30 | Given Hoving 's long-standing jealousy of John Walsh , a former curator in the European paintings department who is now the director of the J. Paul Getty Museum , it is surprising that Walsh does not come in for more snide brickbats than a conversation Hoving cites with Getty , where the eccentric billionaire asks him if he would become the director of his museum . |