Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Yet Morgan ( 1972 ) wrote that British East Coast N. lapillus refused to attack L. littorea even when starved for 4 months .
2 The pair want to hear from anyone who had relatives serving with the Tyneside Scottish even if they can only give the name , rank , serial number and home address .
3 The rebels — whose version of Islam is North American rather than Arabian — went to jail , and the outside world forgot about them .
4 Is n't the House of Commons looking more and more like his Temple of Doom ?
5 Then Cantona committed his second And if the masses shoe-horned onto the Vicarage Road terraces had the growing feeling it was to be Watford 's night , Cantona 's second howler of the night when Strachan 's cross found the darling of Elland Road unmarked again and just six yards out .
6 Leeds are the same team basically but needed a spell out of the limelight : everyone is totally obsessed with Man United now and lets hope it will tell on the scum — we are definitely benefitting .
7 Conversation had to be minimal , but they did guide me through the maze of one-way streets , diversions and road-works which makes driving in Prague difficult even if there are no other cars on the streets .
8 If Dennis can maintain parity in the midst of such vested interest , then the credit really should rest with McLaren International rather than the drivers , neither of whom has had an entirely blemish-free season .
9 Always shrimps , bread and butter , a bowl of mustard and cress and a rich , light , golden sponge-cake baked that morning in the oven with the Sunday joint so that it had a faint savour of burnt meat fat .
10 Rovers entertain Sheffield United today and a confident Dalglish said : ‘ With a performance like last Sunday at Liverpool , we 'll win a lot more than we lose . ’
11 The figures given by Vermeij ( 1976 ) suggest that N. lapillus more than 25 mm long are safe from even large shore crabs , Carcinus maenas , and velvet swimming crabs , Liocarcinus puber , ( Table 6 ) .
12 The House of Lords held unanimously that there is no defence of entrapment in English law .
13 The House of Lords held unanimously that a court of summary jurisdiction has a similar discretion , overruling Reg. v. Guest , Ex parte Anthony [ 1964 ] 1 W.L.R. 1273 and Reg. v. Gore Justices , Ex parte N. ( An Infant ) [ 1966 ] 1 W.L.R. 1522 which were two decisions of the Divisional Court to the contrary effect .
14 That made Jay nervous again but Peter assured him they would manage , it was dead easy , a breeze .
15 MANILA ( Reuter ) — President Corazon Aquino of the Philippines said yesterday that the body of Ferdinand Marcos still had a ‘ malignant power ’ that could be used by her opponents to seize power .
16 This acrylic surface is the type that has been used at the US Open ever since it moved from Forest Hills to Flushing Meadows .
17 THE big guns came out firing blanks again at the US Open yesterday as the upset epidemic claimed world number one Jim Courier and three-times Wimbledon champion Boris Becker .
18 Hoping to lay to rest the hare started by an interview given to the Wall Street Journal by a top Siemens AG staffer , Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG management board chairman Hans-Dieter Wiedig said at the opening of the Cebit Hannover Fair yesterday that his company had no plans for a strategic link with another computer company .
19 All he had to do then was to make it known that he had promised to leave Laura alone so that she could have a rest in peace , to make an excuse about paying a brief visit to the Gents , to go up to his room — probably via the guest-lift — to stick his hand inside the room and grab the handbag , to take out the jewel before dumping the handbag , and then … ’
20 He had n't wanted to find Caspar dead even if it was Jack 's right to shoot him .
21 The listeners tuned in to the German wavelengths because they found Joyce amusing unintentionally or for his anecdotes , or else because they wished to hear both sides of the argument , or even because they did not trust their own authorities to tell them the whole truth .
22 The pressure is now on the likes of Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp to get ultra-cheap versions of their RISCs ready so that they can rush out systems that will match the rock-bottom pricing that Tsunami will encourage .
23 For the Stussy die-hard only and with a firin' soundtrack , it 's around £9.95 and available through major Stussy stockists .
24 It was probably at that time that Zborowski took Modigliani to visit Anders Osterlind , a Swedish painter whom Modi had met in Paris years earlier when they visited the Cézanne retrospective together and almost cried with excitement .
25 IAN WOOSNAM , so out of form coming into the Masters , nevertheless began to put up an heroic defence at Augusta National yesterday and was within a stroke of the lead as he came into the finishing holes in his second round .
26 They 've got to keep Danny Wallace , Dion Dublin happy even though in reality they are miles from a first team place .
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