Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence the landing of the Imperial Guards to dilute the acid of resistance , and allow over seven hundred Space Marines led by Lord Vladimir Pugh to spearhead a fierce organised drive against the capital and the praetorian troopers , with whom they would cope . |
| 2 | And then he used to have the bus on from here to Holyhead to see the other people in Holyhead . |
| 3 | Then come to the POTENTIAL TEACHERS DAY on Saturday 8th March to enjoy an informative Day of Movement with the Medau Society 's Trainers . |
| 4 | The upper storeys of the dwellings leaned out over the street , giving them a drunken appearance , and the dim caverns beyond the light of the high street seemed to Isabel to mirror the dark side of this city of churches . |
| 5 | The murder in Medellín on May 21 of a leading PL senator , Frederico Estrada Veléz , persuaded Barco to cancel a two-day visit to Peru for an Andean Pact summit meeting [ see p. 37451 ] . |
| 6 | When John Hawarde , a lawyer , was summoned from his rooms in the Temple to attend the Privy Council at Greenwich he had to pay Mr Ward , the Clerk of the Council , a royal for recording his appearance , 6s. 8d. for his entering into a bond , and 6s. 8d. for the bond itself . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't need to be Plato to see the obvious , ’ he said coldly . |
| 8 | I congratulate the Government on appointing Mr. Norman Warner to conduct the national inquiry . |
| 9 | Some , including Field Marshal Lord Roberts , at one time Commander-in-Chief of the British Army , were for landing at Antwerp to sustain the Belgian Army and pose an inhibiting threat to the German right wing . |
| 10 | Whilst I was in Aachen the Head of Swedish Radio invited me to Stockholm to conduct the new Radio Orchestra and I was asked if I would do the Sixth Symphony , which was quite new then and very little known . |
| 11 | The failure to find trade outlets in a world dominated by the French , British , Belgian and Dutch colonial holdings led Germany to penetrate the Slav east — the Balkans in particular — but there , as in Prussia , they did no more than provoke Slav nationalism . |
| 12 | Having won two of this series in the fastest times already , he would have had to finish four seconds behind the steeplechaser Mark Rowland to lose the first prize of £5,000 . |
| 13 | They had found too much to discuss for the last train to Swindon to remain a realistic option and Harry had gladly accepted the offer of overnight hospitality . |
| 14 | ‘ We have now asked Reed to suspend the proposed changes until we have had a meeting with them on 22nd April . |
| 15 | So had several issues from the previous August when Lebanon 's football team under the captaincy of Pierre Gemayel , a Maronite Christian , had travelled to National Socialist Germany to attend the Olympic Games in Berlin . |
| 16 | Dissenting minorities were driven out by religious difficulties : Roger Williams left Boston within a year of arriving , though it was not until five years later that he made his way south through the dense woodlands to Rhode Island to launch the first settlement based on principles of religious toleration in 1636 . |
| 17 | OFFICIALS in Elvis Presley 's home county have filed a lawsuit demanding the state of Tennessee to launch a new investigation into the singer 's death . |
| 18 | The next crisis in inter-communist relations was a result of the attempt by the Dubček leadership in Czechoslovakia to establish an alternative model of socialism , one that accorded more closely with the humanistic and democratic traditions of their country . |
| 19 | Dahnendorf emphasises the failure of Nazi Germany to establish a complete , totalitarian basis of support through social reform . |
| 20 | On Jan. 14 the official Iranian news agency IRNA reported that growing tension between the Parcham and Khalq factions had recently led Najibullah to impose a 14-day emergency in Kabul ; officers and soldiers had been warned to remain in barracks . |
| 21 | Students at Fourah Bay College and other establishments had demonstrated and gone on strike during March to demand a multiparty system . |
| 22 | It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely . |
| 23 | Although Sacheverell was found guilty , the decision by the House of Lords on 21 March to impose the mild sentence of three years ' suspension from preaching was widely seen as a moral victory for the doctor over the Whigs , and the news was greeted with ( often violent ) celebrations throughout the country . |
| 24 | Paul Thompson ( 1967 ) sees the triumph of Labour as a constructive coalescence of the mature proletarian class consciousness which emerged with the displacement of small-scale production and an effective LLP , while Julia Bush ( 1978 ) , concentrating on the experience of East London , argues that during the first world war socialist activity and the growing confidence and strength of the trades unions enabled the LLP to establish a solid base which it exploited to the full when hostilities ceased . |
| 25 | In 1907 he returned to Sheffield to establish a new joint laboratory for Firths and John Brown & Co . |
| 26 | THE day Ron Morris arrived in Middlesbrough to launch an innovative house-building dream was the day sceptical Teessiders first thought about taking bets on his chances . |
| 27 | Mrs Thatcher resisted attempts by Brussels to promote a Community-wide Social Charter , which she regarded as introducing ‘ socialism by the back door ’ . |
| 28 | He had a strong lobby at the National Gallery led by Dodge Thompson , and Gil Ravenel and Mark Leithauser , the two principal exhibition designers , who doubtless want Rusty to continue the big shows . |
| 29 | For the people of Pakistan to enjoy the huge benefits of heating and cooking at the press of a switch , then praise be to the Darlington firms of Head Wrightson and Whessoe . |
| 30 | On the motor bike we rode all over the countryside , to Bathampton , Bradford-on-Avon to see the old tithe barn , to Bristol to visit the Llandoger Trow , and as far as Cheltenham Spa , Leamington and Gloucester . |