Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [noun prp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE IMPORTANCE of Hengist 's Saxon town and the ancient university made Stamford the ideal location for the siting of the Mercian court and government . |
| 2 | Originally a ford , this crossing made Frodingham an important crossroads in medieval times and even earlier was part of the southern Viking route from Flamborough to York . |
| 3 | The Nez Perce attacked Cottonwood the following day , but reinforcements from Lapwai , under Perry , helped resist the assault . |
| 4 | F needs C. In the other four cases the gains are interfirmlet : C 's other firmlet G needs F. The head office simply provides the roof of common ownership . |
| 5 | Dana cast Claudia a disparaging glance . |
| 6 | The company 's complaints department phoned Susan the next day to tell her who to contact . |
| 7 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA top gun Elserino Piol told Unigram the real reason behind Olivetti 's embrace of Alpha was all the doubts about the wisdom of his MIPS strategy voiced to his boss Carlo di Benedetti : that caused the politically wary Piol to exert himself to come up with the Alpha alternative . |
| 8 | And Patrick Scott threw Britain a crucial lifeline when he scored six minutes from time to cancel out Miroslav Tomasik 's second goal for Poland two minutes earlier . |
| 9 | A spokesman for the PPP , which joined other parties to give Shah a rare unanimous vote of confidence , was reported on March 20 as saying that his party had resisted contesting the Chief Ministership to " save the assembly " from dissolution . |
| 10 | If this was his attempt to give Chloe a radical new dynamism , it was all too laboured to succeed . |
| 11 | Riddick Bowe , who fights world champion Evander Holyfield here on Friday night , is almost certain to renege on the deal to give Lewis the first defence if he wins . |
| 12 | Beefy has been recalled for the resumed Texaco Trophy series in a bid to give England a clean-sweep revenge for their World Cup final beating by Pakistan . |
| 13 | One time , Dionne brought Jay a huge bunch of plaited purple garlic from the Breton onion man who hung around in Islington from time to time . |
| 14 | When Ramakrishna saw Kasi the Holy City , he did not see it as a physical city but as the dreams and hopes of holy pilgrims that had fallen on the city , stratum on stratum so that it became a city of holy ideas , a spiritual city . |
| 15 | David gave Juliet an encouraging smile . |
| 16 | Even Bush 's adopted home state of Texas gave Clinton a five per cent lead . |
| 17 | Adding to the Socialists ' embarrassment , the prosecutor 's report said Boublil gave Pelat the key tip-off at a lunch in a Paris restaurant celebrating Mr Beregovoy 's 40th wedding anniversary . |
| 18 | Tony Morley gave Cork an early lead , but Gary Haylock hauled Shelbourne back into contention five minutes before the break with a controversial penalty . |
| 19 | The scriptwriters dealt Audrey a small blow last year . |
| 20 | Closely resembling a trade union movement , the Workingmen 's Association gave Cipriani a mass support that none of his politically independent rivals could match . |
| 21 | The notary gave Broussac a vigorous shove which sent my companion sprawling into the open sewer . |
| 22 | Most important of all , though , rugby football gave Burton a real and early taste of fame . |
| 23 | That Aethelheard 's flight was not generally seen as discreditable is clear from Leo III 's subsequent praise of him for endangering his life against ‘ Julian the Apostate ’ , as the pope described Eadberht , but Alcuin gave Aethelheard no such credit and remained highly critical of him for allegedly neglecting his Christian duty and it is possible that in his absence the Kentish leaders were considering the election of another archbishop . |
| 24 | Georgina gave Matthew a sultry look . |
| 25 | David Currie gave Barnsley a flying start , scoring after 31 seconds , and Andy Rammell added their second . |
| 26 | Another penalty from Roberts gave Gloucester a comfortable half-time lead . |
| 27 | Military victory in the Falklands gave Britain a new stature for a time , but by 1987 the impact of this had disappeared . |
| 28 | Arrese and Salas Pombo made desperate efforts to convince military and Church leaders that the proposed laws were not a disguised attempt to make Spain a totalitarian state . |
| 29 | The follow-up in September sounded alarms specifically over hospital discharges and long-term nursing care , and the DoH set SSDs a 31 December deadline to agree continuing care strategies with health authorities . |
| 30 | She saw Garry give Benny a large hammer . |