Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But also Swindon as an ex-railway town , that is looking to the future . |
| 2 | Here is the Orient as an apolitical picturesque environment . |
| 3 | Beltsville , Maryland-based Micros Systems Inc reports that it has bought a 15% equity interest in Fidelio Software GmbH of Munich , Germany for an undisclosed cash sum with the option to buy the company outright over six years ; it also took majority stakes in three Fidelio distribution and support units . |
| 4 | Playing down Russia 's reparations demands , he offered to create a centralised , united Germany as an independent force on the world stage . |
| 5 | American and British policy makers saw western Germany as an important bastion against Soviet Communism , a country which , being in the front line against the Red Army , must be tied securely to the West . |
| 6 | Manager Ian Porterfield certainly sees Newton as an important part of Chelsea 's future , insisting : ‘ Eddie 's got authority , and that makes him very , very promising . ’ |
| 7 | KEEP CLEAR : Ref Roger Dilkes ignores an angry Dave Beasant … . after giving a free-kick against Chelsea for an accidental back-pass … |
| 8 | GTE Corp 's GTE Telephone Operations in Irving , Texas has signed definitive agreements to sell its telephone service areas in North Dakota and South Dakota for an undisclosed sum : it will sell its 10,200 access lines in North Dakota to TPC Inc , owned by United Telephone Mutual Aid Corp , Dakota Central Telecommunications Cooperative and Polar Communications Mutual Aid Corp and its 8,000 access lines in South Dakota to Golden West Telecommunications Co-operative , GTE said . |
| 9 | I also like to give credit where it is due , and would , therefore , like to thank members of the Great Central Railway who were very helpful and friendly when I made a recent visit to Rothley and Loughborough as an ordinary visitor . |
| 10 | Western philosophy , with Plato as an exemplary first instance , has generally acted on the presupposition that language is subservient to some idea , intention or referent that lies outside it . |
| 11 | But his outburst will not sway Graham Taylor , who said : ‘ I see Nigel Clough as an important member of my squad . ’ |
| 12 | Dr Malcolm Chase , who is conducting the day school , highlighted the importance of Middlesbrough as an industrial area . |
| 13 | HP has beaten incumbent mainframe suppliers , IBM and Unisys to a contract with Televerket of Stockholm worth an initial $4.6m , which could grow to $100m by 1996 . |
| 14 | Mr Paisley said he had taken up an invitation from Miss Boothroyd to raise his concerns after an unsuccessful request by Upper Bann MP David Trimble for an urgent debate in the Commons yesterday . |
| 15 | He awarded the trophy for the best exhibit in the show to Marian Cresswell for an orange clivia pot plant . |
| 16 | Lucky Jim as an over-night visitor drunkenly burning his host 's sheets with his cigarette-ends , and desperately trying to disguise the damage with a pair of scissors , is farcical in a Wodehouse sort of way , though the social rank of the characters is down more than a notch or two . |
| 17 | In February 1935 , without consulting his father , he stood at a by-election in Wavertree as an independent Conservative against the India Bill , thus splitting the party vote and letting in Labour . |
| 18 | On December 27 during a Soviet-backed coup Kabul , President Hafizzollah Amin was ousted and killed Regarded by Moscow as an incompetent he had failed to prevent the killing of Soviet " military advisers " in January and had proved incapable of controlling the Muslim rebels who opposed his government Amin was in danger of being over-thrown by a militant Muslim regime . |
| 19 | In 1949 the Drama Board was set up by Leo Baker as an examining body to give national qualification to tutors of youth drama . |
| 20 | The best laughs are earned by a fine supporting cast , including Alison Fiske as an acerbic Mrs Pearce , and Michael Bryant , one of the best actors in London , as Alfred Doolittle , stealing his scenes as shamelessly as his character extracts money from Professor Higgins . |
| 21 | Shortly after this a number of the members of the YCCC bundled into a car and drove the several hundred miles from Bell County , Kentucky to Newmarket , Tennessee for an impromptu Sunday meeting with Highlander staff . |
| 22 | But the supporting cast are simply wheeled on to do their party pieces : Alan Rickman as an evil spin doctor , Giancarlo Esposito as a conspiracy , obsessed reporter , and ( best of all ) Gore Vidal as a dandified liberal senator . |
| 23 | Friends of his knew of Fleischmann as an eminent electrochemist . |
| 24 | Also , I wish to recall Victoria as an entire person . |
| 25 | The MoD is keen to preserve Ferranti as an independent force in defence electronics . |
| 26 | As there is every advantage to a team cheating , I thought it right that the sporting authorities had stomped on McLaren for an avoidable mistake , and I retain that view . |
| 27 | On May 14 , an emergency session of the Supreme Soviet blamed acting President Mamedov for recent setbacks and reinstated ex-President Ayaz Mutalibov , ousted in March after an earlier military defeat [ see p. 38827 ] . |
| 28 | The Liberals apparently entered into secret negotiations with both parties , a surprising development given that their leader , Economic Affairs Minister Itzhak Moda'i , had in 1986 resigned from a Cabinet headed by Peres after an acrimonious personal feud [ see p. 34770 ] ; Moda'i was also a noted supporter of leading hardliner Ariel Sharon . |
| 29 | Peter Kuhfield recalls Blamey as an inspiring teacher at the Royal Academy Schools . |
| 30 | With the land round Selsey and Chichester as an administrative base , the authority of the early kings of Sussex spread westwards into Hampshire and only partially east of the Ouse . |