Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amused by her burgeoning vanity , she dawdled over the unpacking to give Mrs Wallington plenty of unencumbered time with her son . |
| 2 | In fact the principle of non-interference was invoked by Brezhnev himself after 1975 in response to Western criticisms about human rights violations in the Communist bloc . |
| 3 | This appears especially curious as the issue of providing powers was assuming considerable national importance for the WEA which in 1929 was pressing for retention of its Chapter III providing powers during the Board of Education 's review of the 1924 Regulations . |
| 4 | This is how it was for Regina who from 1942 , when she was eighteen , suffered numerous breakdowns . |
| 5 | Observers were divided over the role played by Chadli himself in this dramatic turn of events . |
| 6 | Bonanza boasted to me that with his organisation he 'd be sure and locate Connie himself within that time . |
| 7 | And towering above is Sgurr Alasdair which at 3,251 feet is the highest peak in the Cuillin . |
| 8 | Throughout the war ( except during the worst days of the blitz ) the Gallup Poll had been assessing the popularity of the government , and of Churchill himself as Prime Minister . |
| 9 | Mortimer 's estates were taken into the king 's hands , but , in contrast to his father in 1322 and Mortimer himself in 1327 , Edward did not immediately use the confiscated lands to underpin the power of another group of favourites . |
| 10 | A possible explanation of this is that Ecgberht was indeed regarded as Ealhmund 's heir and that Ealhmund in turn inherited from King Ecgberht of Kent a local overlordship of south-eastern England which in varying forms had been a recurring feature of historical development in the area since the time of Aethelberht , son of Eormenric . |
| 11 | And along these power lines also comes death , for we recall that little bit of power in Niagara which in former days used to rid the state of its criminals . |
| 12 | Ceolwulf left England himself in 796 in the company of the bishop of London ( ASC A , s.a. 794 ) but whether to go on pilgrimage or into exile is not known and he died the same year ( ASC D , s.a. 796 ) . |
| 13 | Prosecution attorneys argued that these plea bargains and inducements were little different from procedures followed to obtain convictions of other " kingpin " drugs traffickers , including Lehder himself in 1988 . |
| 14 | Charlie completely blotted the great man out of the match and , with this vital piece of their armoury missing , Tottenham were nonplussed and the Palace went on to win with two goals scored by Billy Morgan , who had joined the club as part of the same complex deal as Cross himself in 1922 . |
| 15 | Cardus , however , feels the factory have made great strides forward with the chassis of the 1991 NSR which in recent years has failed to match the sweet handling of the Yamaha YZR . |
| 16 | It may be worth noting that Heath himself in another article extends his time-scale further back to include the reforms of the first decade of the twentieth century . |
| 17 | It was Whipple who in 1950 originated the ‘ dirty snowball ’ theory of cometary structure , which remains widely accepted today . |
| 18 | Thus a note might reach the union committee asking for exemption from the quarterly meeting ( to avoid a fine ) such as the one from Mrs K. who in 1922 said " I wish to be exempt from Society meetings as I have to attend to my children in the evenings " . |
| 19 | She spoke quietly , but flushed and non-stop , of their plans , of Joszef , of little Joe , nearly ten , of Anna , nine , of Sara , of Ruth who at five sang enchantingly . |
| 20 | In 1940 , for example , there were widespread rumours that Julius Streicher , the detestable Jew-baiter of Nuremberg who at that time had to come before Göring — of all people — to face charges of corruption , had fled across the border with 30 million Reichmarks . |
| 21 | Alongside them were young Vietnamese ; the best known later was Pham Van Dong who in 1955 became prime Minister of North Vietnam . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , no , you would n't — Austria has much beauty — big cakes — big lakes — England none of these things . |
| 23 | Recipients like the widow of Oswestry who in 1788 got an allowance of 3s ( 15p ) a week for three years supplemented by occasional special payments — 1s to hedge her garden , 3s ( 15p ) for seed potatoes and even £1 for thatching straw — are far from uncommon . |
| 24 | Erm , I think it was March to about July something like that . |
| 25 | A lot of countries do n't have control over their own economies , they do n't have control over things like whether of not people are going to have jobs , whether or not people are going to make a livelihood , whether or not people are going to even be able to live in the country , because in Ireland something like 1000 people a week are leaving the country in order to get work . |
| 26 | Frank what about this argument that 's going on about the free kick that was disallowed ? |
| 27 | Someone who could n't forget that it was nearly , but not quite , that height , was one Malcolm Ferguson who in 1878 became so incensed by Ben Lawers being declared officially under the 4,000-foot mark by means of new surveying techniques , he decided to do something about it . |
| 28 | The dead man 's been named as Group Captain Roger Sweatman who at 58 was the Regional Commandant of Air Cadets in Wales . |
| 29 | Among the most detailed derive , not entirely unexpectedly , from people like John Elliott and Helen Simons who at some time have worked with Lawrence Stenhouse . |
| 30 | One of the earliest defectors to the West was the Russian Igor Gouzenko who with considerable difficulty sought asylum with the Canadian authorities in September 1945 , bringing with him a vast amount of information about Russian espionage activities in North America . |