Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [art] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All Russian attempts to penetrate the Teleuts ' territories were opposed , since they regarded themselves as overlords in the northern Altai . |
| 2 | Using these forms has the advantage of enabling the selection personnel to compare the applicants ' responses and qualifications quickly and easily . |
| 3 | Many of us , but not all , are keen to see Somerville remain a women 's college . |
| 4 | When Pravda became the Bolsheviks ' legal mouthpiece in St Petersburg in 1912 , he suffered the frustration of having many of the articles he submitted for publication rejected by the editors in Russia ; communication between the Central Committee and local party organs was much too tenuous to admit of close supervision ; and , as we shall see , during the war and the revolution itself , Lenin 's word was by no means accepted as holy writ . |
| 5 | In 1971 Jack Webb became the Bondholders ' Secretary , followed by Harold Chambers in 1975 up to 1981 , from which date to their winding up Basil Peacock held the reins . |
| 6 | My honourable friend the member for er South Hamms , Madam Deputy Speaker , er gave I thought a a an amusing but perceptive speech about the growth of deregulation , indeed some were saying that deregulation er is in fact the fastest growing part of bureaucracy in Whitehall and there have been calls to deregulate the deregulators er , he is of course quite right that Parkinson 's theory can extend in this area and one can find that deregulation acquires a life and momentum erm of its own . |
| 7 | To answer the understandable need to touch and be involved with animals , the park has a Children 's Farmyard . |
| 8 | The folk of these towns and villages took their convicted witches , stood them in pitch-filled barrels and set them afire : in Forres stands a witches ' stone , site of such burnings — in thunder , lightning , or in rain ? |
| 9 | His death-warrant bore 58 signatures , headed by that of John Bradshaw who , born in Marple in 1602 , may have attended the School in his youth ; however , if he did , it seems to have made but little impression on him , for in his will he made bequests to increase the Masters ' salaries at his other schools , Bunbury and Middleton , and to found a new school in Marple , without mentioning Stockport . |
| 10 | ANC officials called for police help during the weekend of April 13-14 when some 500 armed Inkatha supporters attacked a workers ' hostel near the Mandelas ' home in Soweto . |
| 11 | They introduce the ‘ Son of man ’ , and the relationships between Christianity and other religions whose heaps of broken images strew the anthropologists ' pages and the sites of the world 's past cultures . |
| 12 | Only one side has the children 's interests at heart . |
| 13 | One other attempt to revive the Pioneers ' intention requires a mention , that of the Co-operative Productive Federation ( CPF ) . |
| 14 | It was known that the financial controls within the industry left a good deal to be desired , but when the new Minister of Fuel and Power , Aubrey Jones , tried to tighten up in 1956 ( even beginning the publication of annual investment targets in a bid to increase the Boards ' commitment to them ) , he found it was not easy to impose such discipline when his target was fixed unreasonably low , as the Boards assured him it was . |
| 15 | A TORY council yesterday failed in a High Court bid to halt a teachers ' boycott of school tests . |
| 16 | At the apex of the pyramid came the princes ' homage to the king — at least where they took it ( excluding therefore the counts of the far south and of Brittany , and the duke of Normandy after the breach of 1051 ) . |
| 17 | Today the owners of the horse were unavailable for comment but their solicitor said that while they accepted the horse broke loose they do not accept liability and are disputing any claim the horse caused the boys ' injuries . |
| 18 | Fundamentalist missionaries challenge the settlers ' church . |
| 19 | Jim Courier , of the United States , beat Holland 's Richard Krajicek to win the men 's singles title at the Japan Open in Tokyo yesterday . |
| 20 | Retailer Dixons includes a directors ' responsibilities statement on a separate page with the auditors ' report . |
| 21 | Daak was moving again now , swinging wildly from side to side in an attempt to avoid the lasers ' targeting . |
| 22 | Two parliamentary inquiries reported in January , one into the ethnic clashes in Tirgu Mures in March 1990 [ see p. 37327 ] , and the other into the violence surrounding the miners ' dispersal of demonstrators in Bucharest in June [ see pp. 37544-45 ] . |
| 23 | American Julie Parisien overcame a stomach bug to win the women 's slalom in front of her home crowd in Park City , Utah . |
| 24 | Menshevik and SR sympathizers dominated the soldiers ' committees ; among the peasantry the SRs enjoyed far more support than any other party ; the Mensheviks were most prominent in the trade unions ; together the two parties won large majorities in municipal duma elections which began in May ; and in June they dominated the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets and consolidated control of its Central Executive Committee ( CEC ) . |
| 25 | The narratorial simile guides the reader ; its deletion shows the peoples ' world-view . |
| 26 | Tuesday sees the children 's sports , and the White Horse fun run . |
| 27 | Teacher-student interaction is present and the actual carrying out of an online search increases the students ' understanding of the concepts of information retrieval . |
| 28 | Mike Blaisdell and Rick Brebant both scored three goals to inflict the Pirates ' first defeat in the quarter-finals . |
| 29 | The programme showed a children 's nightdress which is sold in the shops for £1.10 . |
| 30 | In the build-up to the ground offensive , preparations were made that were consistent with an amphibious assault on the Kuwait coast to draw the Iraqis ' attention away from their right flank , the direction from which the main Allied thrust was eventually to come . |