Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grimsby frustrated Middlesbrough in the early stages with their sweeper system and repeated back passes to their goalkeeper . |
| 2 | Systematic sampling of West German voters carried out in 1979–80 indicated that 13 per cent of all voters in the Federal Republic had a consolidated extreme rightist ‘ world view ’ ; 14 per cent responded positively to the statement that ‘ we should again have a Leader who would rule Germany with a strong hand for the good of all ’ . |
| 3 | Experts cite Romania as a possible future instance where human rights violations could lead to a call for action from outside national boundaries . |
| 4 | The brilliant incandescence of heated lime led Welsbach in the 1880s to experiment with fabrics impregnated with nitrates of the lanthanides and actinides ; on ignition a fragile skeleton of oxides was left . |
| 5 | The Western banks regarded Romania as a good risk : cynically , they judged that Ceauşescu would keep the lid on the pot in Romania in a way that Gierek had manifestly failed to do in Poland . |
| 6 | France , under-rated by many , has outgrown Germany throughout the postwar period . |
| 7 | I 'll go back to London , I 'll move to a new district , I 'll start seeing Sophie on a regular basis , I 'll do my job as if I were any competent lawyer , and I 've come here alone , you bastard , so why do n't you do whatever you 've got in mind ? |
| 8 | The result was urban chaos but a richness of building styles which redeemed Brighton from the overbearing formality of its more classical contemporaries . |
| 9 | I think I played my part in helping Middlesbrough into the Premier League . ’ |
| 10 | He first met Minton in a top-floor club in Wardour Street and they became firm friends . |
| 11 | He later urged voters to support Lissouba in the second round and , according to sources close to the two parties , on Aug. 11 UPADS entered into a formal electoral alliance with the PCT . |
| 12 | The spark that arises between Vronsky and Anna proves not only damaging to Karenin ( Anna 's husband ) but also to the young Kitty Shcherbatsky , who seeing Vronsky as a possible suitor , was in love with him . |
| 13 | Vested interests in Germany saw only what they wanted to see : namely that the Junkers were the traditional political and military leaders of German society , that they had brought about German unification and that this would make Germany into an industrial power of the first order . |
| 14 | The MoD is keen to preserve Ferranti as an independent force in defence electronics . |
| 15 | DEC and Microsoft , neither of whom could ever be accused of being the least bit friendly to Unix , look for all the world like they 're ganging up to try and kill it off once and for all , using NT-on-Alpha as the blunt instrument . |
| 16 | " If you say so , " agreed Chuck with a happy laugh . |
| 17 | With this announcement the powers which had occupied and divided Germany after the Second World War effectively accepted the inevitability of early German unification , although the statement contained no indication of the four powers ' preferred timetables for unification or for the two-plus-four negotiations . |
| 18 | And his toe-nails were long and curved , like the horns of a goat , reminding Melanie of the cloven hooves she thought he might have had . |
| 19 | However , it is equally possible he was encouraged to kill Kirov by the local NKVD , or secret police . |
| 20 | The young woman pursed her lips and , for a few brief seconds , smiled sweetly , reminding Corbett of the pious , beautiful , young nun he once knew . |
| 21 | Yet at the same time , he needed each superpower to see Bucharest as a natural place for influencing the views of the other one and other players in the international game . |
| 22 | SNA communications house Systems Strategies Inc says it has designated UnixWare as the primary development platform for its new Express 2.0 Unix-to-IBM ( AS/400 and mainframe ) comms software . |
| 23 | Miss F met Courtney at the Royal Free Hospital when she had her baby by caesarean section . |
| 24 | But it was the same friend who eventually led Jean to the dead man 's ‘ passion wagon ’ caravan . |
| 25 | Angie Bowie : I actually met David for the first time when he was with feathers at the Roundhouse and I was with the European head of Mercury Records , a gentleman called Lou Reisner . |
| 26 | What is odd about the fact that admiral Horley ruled Hungary between the two War World Wars ? |
| 27 | ‘ You 've been listening , ’ announced Ken in a pointed BBC accent , ‘ to an excerpt from Forever Amber . ’ |
| 28 | So when we came to make the recording in Vienna I asked Strauss through a mutual friend we had at that time if I could use a fuller body of strings in the climaxes . |
| 29 | If Churchill recommended Ramsey to the new young Queen who had never before been confronted with the situation , and the Queen asked the archbishops whether they objected , they could not say that they did . |
| 30 | That was great and started a whole year of being in America for me , which was seeing David as a major star and also for myself , experiencing life as it should be as a major star , with your cars and people looking after you and the record company being polite to you rather than treating you like shit and not working . |