Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] [noun] ' " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | What should have happened , perhaps , was for all the actors in this particular drama to have realised the rival groups ' strengths and weaknesses and for senior management to have developed control procedures that divided up responsibilities for the production process in an equitable way . |
| 2 | A 1 million b/d ‘ strategic ’ pipeline had been installed so as to enable the southern fields ' production to be sent out via the northern pipeline system through Syria , or the reverse ; as it later proved , a sensible precaution . |
| 3 | When in barracks and field dress , generals often choose to wear the general officers ' cap badge not in the dark blue GS beret , but in the ‘ tribal headgear ’ of their former unit . |
| 4 | Weber shared the classical elitists ' hopes for developing a systematic social science , but he did not agree that natural science methods could be simply transposed to explain social action or behaviour , since a plausible account of actors ' motives is required for completeness ( Runcimann , 1972 ) . |
| 5 | Byrne plays the young ragamuffins ' father , Papa Riley , a former leader of the travellers who went to pieces when his beloved wife died in childbirth and now subsists on cheap whisky and stale fags in a rundown council flat while his boyos fend for themselves . |
| 6 | There is an example of this in ‘ Fighting talk ’ where the police are recorded as using the white boys ' own rules of territoriality as a device to keep them apart from blacks ( ‘ if you 're on your own territory we 'll nick the others , but if you 're outside , we 'll nick you' ) . |
| 7 | Given the Bosnian Serbs ' previous actions , their defiance may not seem surprising . |
| 8 | Breavman , the main character of his autobiographical novel The Favourite Came recollected his father singing the old soldiers ' song ‘ K-K-K-Katy … ’ ! |
| 9 | The division has poisoned the neighbouring countries ' relations — further complicated because the official language of Ghana is English , that of Togo French . |
| 10 | When O'Neill returned from a meeting with Harold Wilson in London , he reacted in a manner guaranteed to confirm the Free Presbyterians ' claims that O'Neill 's policies were designed to achieve in the political sphere what the ecumenical movement was trying to do in inter denominational co-operation . |
| 11 | SCOTT GIBBS became the British Lions ' latest casualty in the jinxed centre positions during a messy 34–16 victory over Southland today . |
| 12 | In my spare time I saw a lot of John Keay , an Agriculture graduate of the U. of Saskatchewan and a good friend , as well as Jerry Harwood and Quincey Moffat with whom I was closely associated in organizing the annual Boys ' Parliament elections . |
| 13 | Not so CND house designer John Parke , who produced the anti warmongers ' new hallmark . |
| 14 | The LSE group ( which was set up in October 1990 to support the Irish students ' campaign and to campaign for abortion rights for women in England and Ireland ) will be organising a further picket on that day to highlight this fundamental attack on Irish women 's right to choose . |
| 15 | Last August , we were lucky enough to have John with us when we marched through London and delivered a petition of five hundred thousand signatures , requesting the Prime Minister to implement the British Pensioners ' Charter . |
| 16 | Reflecting the Nordic countries ' close relations with the Baltic states Iceland on Aug. 26 , 1991 , became the first country formally to establish diplomatic relations with Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania [ see p. 37945 ] . |
| 17 | An interesting parallel for this is provided by an exhibition that has just opened in East Berlin , commemorating the 500th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Muntzer , the theologian and Protestant reformer , who led the 16th-century Peasants ' Revolt . |
| 18 | Britain , in fact , had been explicitly invited to attend the foreign ministers ' meeting in Messina . |
| 19 | For London readers , Shoreditch offers the following gatecrashers ' guide to election night ( assuming that some sort of celebration is in order ) . |
| 20 | She wrote long letters home to Antonia in which she translated the other girls ' lives in terms that made sense to her . |
| 21 | The continuance of our training programme depends on attracting new students so please do all you can to publicise the Potential Teachers ' Day to be held on Saturday 8th March 1986 at Warwick Park School , Peckham High Street , London SE 15 . |
| 22 | At the sixth attempt Mr Perks , from Llanddaniel , Anglesey , has won the Welsh Seniors ' Golf Championship which is staged annually at Aberdovey Golf Club . |
| 23 | For similar reasons , conservatives are also reluctant to disband the discredited Workers ' Guard . |
| 24 | This is a fax I want you to send to Ian in Aiden Mouth and it reads as follows good afternoon Ian , at long last I 've been able to get down to this memo of yours , dated the thirtieth alt can you please let me know the actual deliveries ' figures in the first part of this memo . |
| 25 | The lady of medium build will need the regular ladies ' shaft coded " L " , while the more powerful and hard-hitting female could use the same clubs as a slightly-built man . |
| 26 | The memorandum ( endorsed by the National Joint Advisory Council representing the British Employers ' Confederation , the TUC , and the nationalized industries ) identified as the essential problem the provision of a place in society for the ever-growing proportion of elderly persons and suggested that : ‘ Age sixty-five for men and sixty for women ought no longer to be regarded as ‘ normal retiring age ’ ' . |
| 27 | Clearly , the houses will then be put in a position of having to sell bills ( or to borrow ) to meet the other banks ' demands . |
| 28 | It criticised the OECD countries for failing to meet the United Nations ' foreign aid target of 0.7 per cent of their GNPs . |
| 29 | Capture the Indian Officers ' Club atmosphere in this brightly lit restaurant . |
| 30 | The £500 deposit would hardly pay for the barristers ' lunches at the public inquiry , whereas my standing for Parliament will concentrate the other candidates ' minds solidly on the issue and emphasise the public 's outrage at National Grid plc 's proposals . |