Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JACK CHARLTON 'S Republic of Ireland last night were warned by the Spanish to prepare themselves for World Cup war tonight . |
| 2 | Suddenly , in July 1945 , with the successful testing of the atomic bomb , the Allied found themselves in possession of the means to cut short the war . |
| 3 | His aim is not to mock or preach but to explain one country to another , and his sense of the absurd keeps him from becoming solemn . |
| 4 | The Germans and the English have plenty in common with each other , but what have you in common with the Russians or we with the Japanese ? ’ |
| 5 | The English established themselves in a strong defensive position and on the evening of 26 August the French approached . |
| 6 | The English used it as a convenient base for raids into the Scots East and Middle Marches , and as a permanent threat , its strong position on the rocky spine at the junction of the two rivers making it a very difficult nut to crack . |
| 7 | I 'd been amazed that in London you could buy ready-made couscous in packets , and that the English used it in their cooking . |
| 8 | The English beat us in Cardiff , the French destroyed us , it 's really very bad . |
| 9 | I blame both local councillors in Scotland and Scottish Members of Parliament , from both sides of the House , who were stupid enough to allow revaluation in Scotland to continue after the English stopped it in 1973 . |
| 10 | Should you get your luggage down as the express hurls itself through Lower Poppleton ? ) |
| 11 | ‘ Then , the British got us into the mess . ’ |
| 12 | The British bought it from Baron Thun in 1920 , lock , stock and barrel . |
| 13 | He says the British did nothing for him while he was awaiting trial . |
| 14 | No dust showed above the roads yet , evidence that the French had plenty of time to make their attack . |
| 15 | The French relieve you of £1.05 in tax , 63 per cent of the £1.66 pump price you would be charged if diesel happened to be sold by the gallon in Calais . |
| 16 | In the Middle Ages , when the French adjudged them to be alien , difficult and heathen , they were held to have descended from Scotsmen transported to Spain by Julius Caesar . |
| 17 | Both the Germans and the French claim him as a hero , and in this sense the Emperor becomes more than a mortal ruler . |
| 18 | Meanwhile Palestine became a directly administered British mandate , while the French imposed themselves in Syria and Lebanon , and the Italians in Cyrenaica ( Libya ) . |
| 19 | Last year the French won it in Belgium and rivalries remained strong . |
| 20 | The French recognized him as heir to their throne by a treaty of May 1420 , on the understanding that he would marry the French King 's daughter , Catherine . |
| 21 | Germans want their children to become scientists or engineers ; the French want theirs to be teachers ; the British , lawyers ; the Italians , clerks . |
| 22 | The Romanians managed to duck round the back and take up the lead as the French extracted themselves from their collision with the pontoon . |
| 23 | Unable to effect a landing , the French satisfied themselves with an attack upon the Cawsand fishing fleet and were then compelled to put back to sea . |
| 24 | Different languages have varying alphabetic characters — the French have lots of accents , as do Germans and Dutch , whilst some European languages do n't use letters that others do . |
| 25 | But that night she had knelt in her cell through the long , dark hours , begging the Almighty to forgive her for her envy and sadness . |
| 26 | Not surprisingly , the next time the Almighty posted him to Nineveh , Jonah did as he was told . |
| 27 | The explosion was in fact caused by members of the Guandong Army , but the Japanese announced it to be the work of non-uniformed members of the Chinese army . |
| 28 | We use evidence as a weapon in an argument , the Japanese use it as an element in a construction . |
| 29 | But the Americans do not seem likely to force the Japanese to overcharge them for chips again . |
| 30 | ‘ without lawful authority or reasonable excuse ’ The proof of this point is on the defence and they must prove on the balance of probabilities that the accused had it with him with lawful authority or reasonable excuse . |