Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | MI5 's initial task was to counter alleged German plans to secretly invade Britain by infiltrating thousands of spies . |
| 2 | The ports , such as Harfleur , at the mouth of the Seine , could develop ship-building facilities , and the control of the lower Seine effectively made Rouen into a sea port and a shipyard . |
| 3 | Mr Beaton had been dumped by a road-side and picked up by police who had been alerted to the hijack and had eventually stopped MacIver in the lorry at Doune . |
| 4 | They point to the poster campaign it launched last September , through Ogilvy & Mather , which effectively relaunched Wisk as a mainstream colour care detergent , and the new label design as evidence of Lever 's determination to boost its sales . |
| 5 | RANGERS , having won the Battle of Britain by beating Leeds to progress to the Champions League , begin their quest to successfully invade Europe against Marseille at Ibrox tonight . |
| 6 | Mr Robertson told the second and final day of a hearing by the board 's video appeal committee that St Theresa was portrayed in mystical ecstasy — using pain to place herself at the mercy of her subconscious and thereby contemplate Jesus on the Cross . |
| 7 | UK firm VisionWare Ltd , Leeds , is enhancing XVision , its X-Windows-under-Microsoft Windows software , to support Novell Inc NetWare , thereby allowing Univel Inc UnixWare application servers to integrate with NetWare-based personal computer networks . |
| 8 | Rather asked Hussein about the pressures on George Bush and the prospects for any negotiations . |
| 9 | But it was the same friend who eventually led Jean to the dead man 's ‘ passion wagon ’ caravan . |
| 10 | Narrowly escaping the hostile intentions of the awakened populace , they eventually bore Mildred into Canterbury amid great rejoicing . |
| 11 | Top stylist at the salon , Jeff Goodwin , had been working on a new idea called Le Flic and together with make-up artist Julie and a new wardrobe of clothes , successfully transformed Alice with these three beautiful styles . |
| 12 | Vaughan eventually found Tyndale in Antwerp and had several talks with him in a meadow outside the city walls . |
| 13 | She instinctively shielded Ari with her arm , drawing her close to her body . |
| 14 | As the tsars slowly transformed Ukraine from ally into colony , later generations of Ukrainians came to agree with their national poet 's assessment of him as ‘ the unwise son ’ . |
| 15 | They eventually approached Berwick from the north-west , rounding the skirts of Halidon Hill , and from there able to look down on the grey town at the wide mouth of Tweed , two miles off . |
| 16 | Soon after the liberation of Poland he joined the Polish regular army as a war correspondent and eventually entered Berlin with the First Polish Infantry Division . |
| 17 | Taken together the 1972 Basic Treaty on Germany and the 1975 Accords seemed effectively to provide Europe with what it had lacked since 1945 : a post-war peace settlement based on the acceptance of the Continent 's division . |
| 18 | Hateley , who virtually single-handedly beat Leeds in the last round , said : ‘ We could have been 4–0 down . |
| 19 | However , the ethnic Albanian majority in Kosovo province protested that the proposed constitution would effectively strip Kosovo of the special autonomous status conferred on it ( within the Serbian republic ) in the 1974 Yugoslavian Constitution . |
| 20 | As a long time drinker of real ale , who has only joined CAMRA in the last year , I found this belly-aching very annoying . |
| 21 | Democracy , then , in Syracuse , Akragas and elsewhere , meant the rule of a prosperous agricultural class , which did not necessarily regard Carthage as an enemy , or benevolent co-existence with Carthage as a sin . |
| 22 | The idolisation of Miss Hatherby that had so annoyed Nora in the early days of the piano lessons had gone . |
| 23 | These telecoms authorities apparently regarded IBM as members of their purchasing club for computers . |
| 24 | she feels he is common , poor boy and he does n't even realise that Miss Havisham is actually only using Estella as a tool , a beautiful tool , to break men 's hearts and to get her revenge on the male sex . |
| 25 | Only to support Bruce in what he said Mr Chairman , that it is absolutely essential that we do keep some money after to take advantage of five B. |
| 26 | In Donegal town every July or August Marys from around the world battle it out in the most amicable ladylike way for the highly prized Mary from Dungloe title . |
| 27 | Julian had a humbler conception of her task than the other prophetic reformers I have mentioned , who all experienced God as an absolute imperative to action and felt that they had a mission to defy the religious and secular establishment of their day . |
| 28 | He lived in France all his life and , apart from three years spent in London ( 1857–61 ) training for a business career , only visited Britain for short painting expeditions on three other occasions in 1874 , 1881 , and 1897 . |
| 29 | The level of shareholders ' return varies according to the investment attraction of the various companies — from 8.10 per cent for highly rated Thames to 9.68 per cent for South West , hit by a series of pollution incidents . |
| 30 | The level of shareholders ' return varies according to the investment attraction of the various companies — from 8.10 per cent for highly rated Thames to 9.68 per cent for South West , hit by a series of pollution incidents . |