Example sentences of "[noun] [unc] [noun sg] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Breakfast is an excellent Dutch buffet and the enthusiastic owners Mr. and Mrs. Van der Vorst take personal care to ensure that every guest enjoys their stay . |
| 2 | In 1793 Britain set up a Board of Agriculture to promote the growing of potatoes to counter Napoleon 's threat to starve this country into submission . |
| 3 | It is a fan 's dream come true to watch it and a commentator 's dream to be part of it . ’ |
| 4 | Since the patients in Newcombe and Ratcliff 's study sustained penetrating missile wounds of the brain whereas those of Hécaen and Sauguet suffered from naturally occurring lesions it is possible that aetiological differences account for the discrepant findings . |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't pull or touch a hair on the horse 's leg to have any effect . |
| 6 | Clambering on to the horse 's back felt odd and briefly unsafe and then , unexpectedly , exhilarating . |
| 7 | This must be rectified because a higher phosphorus level will interfere with calcium absorption in the horse 's gut creating further problems . |
| 8 | He was then released on bail and , as is the custom , the police required conditions of his bail that he should not go back to his girlfriend 's address to prevent any possibility of any further offending . |
| 9 | In such circumstances , even if the date of Samson 's composition remains problematised , attention shifts to the date of its first publication in 1671 . |
| 10 | Is Samson 's strength rating high enough to withstand injury ? |
| 11 | On July 25 the commission of inquiry into Boudiaf 's assassination published preliminary results . |
| 12 | In other words , Kundera 's novel isolates certain tendencies in the behaviour of poets ( and others ) in order to prosecute an attack on Stalinist Czechoslovakia . |
| 13 | Poetry has often been a form of self-pity and a means of self-advancement , and it has often pretended otherwise : Kundera 's book rumbles such pretence , as in the comedy he stages of an embassy of poets to a college of policemen and a debate there about the aesthetic of the socialist love-poem . |
| 14 | Maybe someone will provide a 24-hour 0898 number which we can dial when we ca n't sleep at night for thinking about the copy of Milan Kundera 's Immortality lying untouched on the bedside table . |
| 15 | In spring 's Office Talk assistant editor slated a River Runs Through It , only for the film to pack out cinemas nationwide for several weeks ! |
| 16 | Mr Fitzwilliam 's acquittal came two weeks after Mr John Briggs , deputy chairman of engineering group Wheway , was cleared of allegations of illegal share trading . |
| 17 | Walker 's image confirms this meaning . |
| 18 | When it came to how long Charlie would take to master the baking trade , Becky 's judgment proved accurate . |
| 19 | Opposition parties feared that the AP 's decision to impeach eight of the Court 's judges was part of a strategy to create a compliant judiciary in order to facilitate its electoral victory in the 1993 presidential elections . |
| 20 | At the same time , while accepting that tension between richer and poorer peasants was growing and that Stolypin 's reform created fierce friction between those who separated from the commune and those who remained within it , revisionists have stressed that it did not shake their common determination that noble land should be transferred into their hands . |
| 21 | Moreover , the covenant went on to restrict the defendant 's ability to accept any professional appointment . |
| 22 | The defendant 's mother became suspicious because she had overheard a conversation about drugs . |
| 23 | The plaintiffs sued for the defendant 's failure to honour this promise and the defendant pleaded lack of consideration , the plaintiffs being already under a duty of delivery by the contract with A. The Court of Exchequer ( Martin and Wilde BB. ) found for the plaintiffs : Wilde B. thought that the plaintiffs might have found it advantageous not to comply with their contract with A so that their agreement with the defendant was a detriment to them ; in any event , they agreed to part with the cargo to the defendant which was a benefit to him . |
| 24 | The acknowledgement of service enables the defendant 's solicitor to correct any misnomer in the writ unless , of course , it is so fundamental that he might not accept service at all . |
| 25 | More than anything else he did , it was Nicolae Ceauşescu 's decision to demolish much of this splendid city which aroused the concern of public opinion in the West about his regime . |
| 26 | In the summer of 1988 , Doina Cornea , the former lecturer in French literature at Cluj University , smuggled a letter to the BBC and RFE attacking Ceauşescu 's plan to demolish thousands of villages as part of ‘ systematization ’ . |
| 27 | At meetings of the European Parliament 's Human Rights Committee ( at which even the French Communists stayed silent ) , Newens compared Ceauşescu 's plan to demolish half the villages in Romania and to relocate millions of people into standardized concrete blocks with the effects of redevelopment around Kings Cross on his own constituents . |
| 28 | Ceauşescu 's policy killed two birds with one stone : on the one hand , he began the process of ridding Romania of what he considered troublesome alien minorities and earned hard currency from their new countries for the privilege ; and at the same time , he gained a reputation in the West as a ‘ good ’ communist , a man to do business with — in this case , by bartering for human beings . |
| 29 | Now it was Aunt Nellie 's turn to go white . |
| 30 | Annadale Strider Alan Keys won a tight battle for the veteran 's prize clocking 31.34 while Children 's Hospital nurse Finnoula McCourt ( Dub ) easily won the women 's section in 39.50 . |