Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [verb] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Germany did join the Schuman Plan had much to do with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer , who had been interested in European unity between the wars . |
| 2 | In that context we should therefore be grateful that our own dear CAA has delegated the regulation of homebuilding in the UK to the Popular Flying Association ; but I still ca n't help feeling that the list of types approved by the PFA as reproduced in this book is ultraconservative . |
| 3 | By 1925 Whittaker had become an expert in his field and Chapman was immediately impressed by his knowledge of football injuries . |
| 4 | By 1935 Kenneth had discovered the pleasures of composing serious music and had several works published . |
| 5 | That is what they 're saying and I think that that can only be seen as eminently reasonable and I think that that Edward has hit the nail right on the head when he says look if this issue is not properly considered locally there can be no alternative if Government fails in its duty to call it in in the in the interests of of the local communities and the region at large , then it will have to go to Brussels . |
| 6 | In fact the 3000 MkIII had gone the way of many a sports car in its dotage and started to take on a softer aspect . |
| 7 | High-flying Currie has completed a course in parachuting , and he 's due to make a charity jump at Garvagh today , when he hopes to raise up to £1,000 to help the fight to save the South Tyrone Hospital 's maternity unit from closure . |
| 8 | I agreed with him , even if Posh Porky had won a scholarship to some place called St Paul 's , which in any case was miles away in Hammersmith . |
| 9 | The faithful Chignell had collected the luggage by this time , and secured two porters — one for Breeze and the other to cope with his employer 's paraphernalia . |
| 10 | The Continental ceramics sales at Christie 's and Sotheby 's on 1 March and 2 March continued to demonstrate the basic soundness and stability of this field . |
| 11 | We trust that Welsh Office Ministers will take the opportunity presented by this PPG Note to develop a national coastal strategy and explain how they expect it to be co-operatively implemented by all the key players in the field . |
| 12 | Old Jim had looked a bit got down , he thought ; I 'll cheer them up , and we 'll all have a drink . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm afraid Judd has had an accident — in an aeroplane . |
| 14 | By Feb. 12 Comelec had reduced the number of presidential candidates to the following eight ( plus vice-presidential running mates ) : Ramon " Monching " Mitra and Marcelo Fernan ; Fidel Ramos and Emilio " Lito " Osmena ; Eduardo " Danding " Cojuangco and John Osmena ; Imelda Marcos and Vic Magsaysay ; Salvador " Doy " Laurel and Rodolfo Ganzon ; Jovito Salonga and Aquilino Pimentel ; Joseph " Erap " Estrada and Vicente Rivera ; Miriam Defensor Santiago and Ed Maranan . |
| 15 | Racking the brains because a friend had fallen on hard times — the engine of his old VW has dropped a valve . |
| 16 | This Friday coming got a reason ? |
| 17 | Caledonian Macbrayne has signed a contract for a new fifteen million pound ferry which will create up to seventy new jobs . |
| 18 | The downside of the book is that it is written in a terribly deadpan style : ‘ At forty-five Picasso had become a successful man . |
| 19 | Following the award of Magna Carta in 1215 Elias helped distribute the charter around the shires , becoming an enthusiastic adherent of the rebel barons and preaching their cause at St Paul 's cross in London . |
| 20 | Given the fundamental importance of demography for any assessment of a pre-industrial economy , it is not surprising that economic historians have pressed the surveys into service ( historians of medieval England have done the same sort of thing with Domesday Book ) as sources of demographic data . |
| 21 | By 1372 England had suffered a naval defeat at La Rochelle and lost most of the gains which it had made by the time of the treaty of Brétigny ; in the following year much of Brittany was lost ; in 1375 another spectacular naval defeat was suffered ; and in 1376 and 1377 the south and east coasts of England were alerted under threats of invasion or raids . |
| 22 | By the mid-1670s Peyton had become the leader of a republican group , ‘ Peyton 's Gang ’ , and it has been argued that this group had a hand in the murder of the JP Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey [ q.v. ] in 1678 , which provoked widespread belief in the bogus ‘ Popish Plot ’ . |
| 23 | British Telecom plans to join the fray with its own transatlantic service , in cooperation with Satellite Business Systems of the US . |
| 24 | Only recently has British Telecom started modernising the equipment , introducing colour terminals for instance . |
| 25 | BRITISH Telecom has begun an exercise to stamp out overcharging amid reports that telephone bills may have been inflated by tens of millions of pounds a year , a company spokesman said yesterday . |
| 26 | There are over a million fax users in the UK , and British Telecom has published a directory of UK users . |
| 27 | £250,000 cash deal for Scots ensemble The sponsorship should have further-reaching effects , providing music away from the concert hall — the Ensemble plans 20 concerts annually in hospitals and hospices Sponsorship from British Telecom has opened a whole new horizon for the 11-piece Scottish Ensemble , says Mary Miller |
| 28 | ( 3 ) Very recent discoveries of articulated thelodonts from the Silurian and Devonian of northwestern Canada have revealed a surprising new body shape among agnathans and traces of a stomach , as well as providing evidence of the affinities of this enigmatic group . |
| 29 | The conversation lost some of its helpful nature after this and was ended only when the Smallholder demanded to know ‘ Ooever ahst Andy Sandham to baht dowen the order ? ’ and even the Old Stager forbore to express the comparisons between Sandham and the Smallholder which billowed behind his lips . |
| 30 | The relief sought is an order of certiorari , and the principal ground on which relief is sought is that in relation to Winchester the board of Lautro had on 30 October failed to observe the rules of natural justice . |