Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Wee Blair McAfferty now rides for the DB am team . |
2 | Promoter Jon Nicholls again managed to bring the cream of Irish music to Australia and New Zealand for the festival . |
3 | Yet despite all this La Scala soon became the focal point of Milan society and culture . |
4 | But , although the House had capital status , La Scala always had the advantage of having vital commerce on its doorstep . |
5 | One called John lived at Cheddington , owning land worth £1 with goods of £20 , another at Linslade , assessed at £2. 6s. 8d. and £6. 13s. 4d. respectively ; either could have been the owner of £1. 6s. 8d. in land at Soulbury , where William Turney also had the same income from land , together with £5 in moveables . |
6 | Below decks , Grace was shipshape , but after calling on Lord Jim Nenna always felt impelled to start cleaning the bright-work . |
7 | " He had no friends and did not deserve any , A.J.P. Taylor once wrote . |
8 | JIM MILLS yesterday resigned as manager of the Welsh Rugby League team in protest at his side 's omission from the World Cup , to be staged in Britain in 1995 . |
9 | NCR Corp yesterday announced enhancements to its Top Eed distributed transaction processing system . |
10 | He rarely survived to the final reel , because the notion of Van Cleef nobly agreeing to a duel in a deserted street was ridiculous . |
11 | When Beatrice Webb publicly renounced her stand against the suffrage in 1906 , she explained in a letter to Millicent Garrett Fawcett that : ‘ The raising of children , the advancement of learning and the promotion of the spiritual — which I regard as the particular obligations of women — are , it is clear , more and more becoming the main preoccupations of the community as a whole ’ . |
12 | The associations are anxious that the campaign gain momentum as the March budget rapidly approaches . |
13 | A ‘ NOXIOUS TWIT ’ one Newfoundland writer once called Paul Watson . |
14 | On the subject of the 1969 guidelines , William Park cryptically concluded in 1986 that the status of the proposed " demonstration shot " in Nato 's nuclear strategy still remained " unclear " . |
15 | Over the years , the traffic swelled to such an extent that La Chapelle eventually expanded to form four separate stations : La Chapelle-lntérieure , La Chapelle-Charbons , La Chapelle-Triage , and La Chapelle-Annexe . |
16 | Home Secretary Kenneth Baker strongly defended his party 's policies on crime . |
17 | Kenneth Baker yesterday said ‘ well , the Labour Party has n't changed ; they 're still a high spending , high taxation and high borrowing party ’ . |
18 | This is why Cardinal Newman once remarked , " It is not reason that is against us , but imagination . " |
19 | The last thing a child of 15 needed , Frances Crook forcibly suggested , was cell confinement and sensory deprivation . |
20 | And its LANStreamer MC 32 Adaptor , which eliminates local network bottlenecks , and Person to Person/2 , designed to enable people at remote locations to work together , are among five new local networking OEM products now offered by IBM . |
21 | But when it 's down mostly to wiggling around a stage in clattering heels there is no time for deep analysis of the psyche of folk who engage in such events and despite a doughty effort , director Ian Kellgren simply does not have enough suitable material to mesh this into any shape worthy of the tag theatre . |
22 | EEC referendum shabbily confirms that 67 per cent of us say Yes . |
23 | In addition to misinforming the administration of some of his travel arrangements , in mid-June Sununu also used a White House limousine to make a 200-mile trip to New York to attend a rare stamp auction . |
24 | Ibn Hajar merely says that alter having served as kadi of Bursa for a while , " he went to Konya and settled there " . |
25 | Ivor Warburton generously presented the Mayor with two duplicate nameplates . |
26 | In his writings Sant' Ambrogio occasionally made reference to the Basilica Vetus , a very early ( perhaps the earliest ) Christian church in Milan . |
27 | Referees of DOE proposals usually remain anonymous , and Jones could have done so had he wished . |
28 | A pupil of the anatomist John Hunter , Van Butchell later practised as a highly successful dentist before becoming an eminent truss-maker , specializing in the treatment of fistula . |
29 | As he left Number 10 , Ian Gilmour sourly summed up the changes by saying they were ‘ not much good if you are steering full-speed ahead for the rocks ’ . |
30 | On the boat , Johnson asked about ‘ the use of the dirk , with which he imagined the Highlanders cut their meat ’ , and was told they also had knives and forks , that the men tended to hand the knives and forks to the women after they had cut their own meat which they then ate from their hands , and that one old Macdonald retainer always ate fish with his fingers , claiming that ‘ a knife and fork gave it a bad taste ’ . |