Example sentences of "[pron] [noun prp] [verb] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fear of the conflict spreading to other ministries , along with memories of a series of strikes which Rocard attempted to settle case by case in the autumn of 1988 [ see pp. 36707-08 ] , led him to seek a single settlement with public employees . |
| 2 | Records held relate to organisations in the private , public and voluntary sectors with which Napier has had contact of one kind or another . |
| 3 | It lay at the point where the fertile coastal plain to which Shurton belonged gave way to the austerely beautiful Quantock Hills , and in the meeting of those two quite different landscapes the village acquired something of its distinctive character : Stowey was a place always busy with the concerns of a lowland domestic world , but the gateway as well to a solitary hill country where man 's dominance was suddenly challenged and nature prevailed . |
| 4 | The tennis game to which Ken had likened comedy was now a ping-pong match between two equally determined performers , neither of whom wanted to allow their ball to fall to the floor . |
| 5 | Fields privately resented the way in which Branson had taken responsibility for the purchase of the first Virgin aircraft ; while Branson , for his part , grew increasingly alarmed at the way in which his new partner appeared to be running the rest of the company . |
| 6 | It was on this issue that his controversy with R. J. Campbell , then minister of the City Temple in London , centred ; many had accepted the views to which Forsyth had taken exception . |
| 7 | Even in a co-operative relationship , Soviet military capacity was still " the most significant factor " of which NATO had to take account in maintaining the European military balance . |
| 8 | This , if anything , was an explicit embodiment of the notion of merit and that notion of educational distinction which Butler saw replacing class distinction . |
| 9 | Each language module under WSP consists of not only the character tables , but also a dictionary , which WSP uses to improve recognition accuracy — see the How does OCR work box . |
| 10 | Estonia and Finland have signed an agreement under which Estonia undertakes to halve sulphur emissions within the next five years , compared to 1980 levels , in return for Finnish financial assistance . |
| 11 | Others said that Sawyer had panicked and gone straight out and given the signal without first doing the reconnoitring for which Ryan had allowed time . |
| 12 | As a direct interaction of a component of TAGH with the EGF binding site on the receptor is not apparent , the mechanism by which TAGH leads to EGF receptor phosphorylation is unclear . |
| 13 | The intention is to use this information to throw light on why British companies seem to be more reluctant than their US counterparts to make use of such methods . |
| 14 | In a simplistic sense , the West produces the software ( information ) which Asia uses to develop hardware ( manufactured goods ) for sale throughout the world . |
| 15 | He was impressed and proceeded to tell her about Keeley , recalling some inflammable occasion on which Keeley had set fire to something or someone . |
| 16 | He found another Brahmin cultivating half an acre of land which Ragu had laid claim to and beat the man up with a stick , causing arm fracture , hospitalization and a court case . |
| 17 | One should beware the temptation of ‘ reading off ’ from the high demographic homogeneity of this category any necessary political homogenisation ( a temptation to which Goldthorpe appears to give way ) . |
| 18 | After eight takes of a scene in which Sinatra had to eat cheesecake while Brando spoke , Sinatra finally lost his temper . |
| 19 | It was this very quality of non-conformity for which Leslie had expressed admiration in June 1941 when Wavell was relieved of his Middle East command . |
| 20 | Russia 's Radio reported a state of emergency in Mardakert , which Azerbaijan had renamed Agdere . |
| 21 | The ballet 's most notable virtue , widely remarked upon in the reviews , was the sensitivity with which John had matched movement to music . |
| 22 | Carse did so partly as a result of George Smart 's comment that the conducteur ‘ answers the purpose of the prompter at our [ London ] opéra house , they have no other prompter , ’ which Carse took to imply impotence in the post of maître and artistic power in the violin leader . |
| 23 | It will be Porter 's third attempt to win the European title having lost twice to Italian Salvatore Fanni — who Regan beat to become champion . |
| 24 | In fact the people who Jesus chose to spend time with , to care for and even to heal were not the ‘ successful ’ people of his day but the Brian Smarts of his day . |
| 25 | Morpurgo was some harmless retarded constituent for whom Dysart had provided employment and accommodation . |
| 26 | He cites a distinguished , contemporary English descendant of the eighteenth century essayists , Gilbert Ryle , whose account of ‘ self ’ corresponds in both mode of thought and expression to that of the non-literate Dinka people of the southern Sudan , amongst whom Lienhardt did field work . |
| 27 | Around it Willie had added rain so that it appeared to be flying against a great wind . |
| 28 | What Patrick said made sense . |
| 29 | I sat back , surprised because what Catesby said made sense . |
| 30 | You could not call what Lugh had done gossip , because he had done it for their own good . |