Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As with all visitors to such events I decided , first to look for my old pals Brucie and Tarby , the funniest men in golf . |
| 2 | But on closer examination he was forced to admit even he may have been wrong , and he demanded that the PWL stable looked after its young charges Kylie and Jason and prevented them from destroying their lives . |
| 3 | Michael Stich holds aloft the Stella Artois Championship trophy after his straight sets victory over Wayne Ferreira at Queens Club |
| 4 | There is a sad ending to this tale , " Cocky " had grounded Guy Gibson after his epic Dams sortie , but he pestered his Group Commander to return to active flying . |
| 5 | James won by six shots with a 13-under-par total of 275 after his Irish rivals Eamonn Darcy and Christy O'Connor , jun , suffered a last-round collapse . |
| 6 | HOT HEAD AFTER his foul-mouthed outbursts Mark Ramprakash could be told to let his bat do the talking |
| 7 | Hoving proved his own worst enemy , and eventually his taste for the tinsel and show of the art world overtook whatever feeling he had for the art itself , and he left the museum after his cherished Arts Communication Center ( to be funded by Walter Annenberg , with Hoving as its head ) , a nebulous film-studio-cum-information centre to be built in gallery space reserved for the European decorative arts department , was dissolved after much local criticism . |
| 8 | They sold off their small tools division where we sold some bearings to them . |
| 9 | The Cambridge board clearly perceived the Circular ; s exhortation as an opportunity to provide through its Rural Areas committee ( RAC ) both the forum and the mechanism called for and thus to develop its own role and expand its activities within a triumvirate of providers . |
| 10 | A new law setting out tough penalties for car theft goes through its final stages today.It was put through by Oxford West MP John Patten , Minister of State at the Home Office . |
| 11 | The company , which sold a record 508 cattle through its Electronic Auctions Systems Europe franchise on Thursday , has given the necessary six months notice to the franchise-holding ANM Group , Aberdeen . |
| 12 | Through its national resources centre , by collaboration with university departments and other academics , community-based and government bodies , in promoting conferences , workshops and seminars , and supporting a visiting fellows programme , CRER hopes to disseminate its research results as widely as possible . |
| 13 | The Chartered Institute of Building has recently addressed these issues through its Northern Counties Region 's European Initiative . |
| 14 | In responding to children 's writing , teachers are well able to distinguish between an embryonic attempt at a story and a more developed example ; indeed , there is substantial research available on the stages of story-writing through which young writers progress . |
| 15 | But the station was praised for its regional opt-outs policy . |
| 16 | The advertising industry gathers tonight for its annual awards ceremony . |
| 17 | mfl ab During the two-day hearing , Mr Clay said the 285,000-member RCN had been frequently attacked for its industrial relations policy . |
| 18 | Groupe Bull SA Bull will not develop Posix compliance for its proprietary GCOS operating system , according to Ian Fowler , Bull UK 's product marketing manager . |
| 19 | Asked where the company would be looking for its future clients Mr Ainslie stressed the importance of Europe , particularly Switzerland , Germany and Italy . |
| 20 | If you have n't activated the turbo facility , the machine might not be running at 20MHz , which would account for its lousy games performance . |
| 21 | Tivoli Systems Inc has signed agreements with eleven companies which will integrate , support and provide consulting services for its object-based systems management software . |
| 22 | All this activity led to a loosening of the earlier close relationships with the WEA and it was believed within the Federation that the new tutor was pursuing the Cambridge Board 's emerging policy for its rural areas programme . |
| 23 | It followed Iraq 's formal acceptance that it would comply with a UN directive demanding that it submit by March 27 a comprehensive plan for the destruction of equipment and installations used for its ballistic missiles programme . |
| 24 | Stoke Mandeville Hospital is best known for its spinal injuries unit , and the support of Jimmy Saville . |
| 25 | The report established that foreign companies had knowingly supplied Iraq with key equipment for its nuclear weapons programme , estimated to have cost US$10,000 million , and named an Iraqi official , Jaffar Dhia Jaffar , as the " mastermind " with " lead technical and administrative responsibility for [ Iraq 's ] nuclear weapons programme " . |
| 26 | The UK Department of Trade & Industry has chosen AT&T EasyLink Services Inc 's Open System-conformant electronic mail service for its Open Systems Programme Initiative : it will be used for communications between Open Systems Programme participants , including blue chip companies , suppliers and consultancies ; the initiative is intended to stimulate take-up and use of open systems within UK industry ; value of the pact was not given . |
| 27 | Under its previous director , Mark Francis , who holds the current position of curator of contemporary art at Pittsburgh 's Carnegie Museum , it enjoyed international recognition for its adventurous exhibitions policy . |
| 28 | Ferruzzi is hunting for partners for its troubled chemicals businesses , and is talking with Royal Dutch/Shell about a possible deal in plastics . |
| 29 | They needed a strengthened carriageway for their armoured personnel carriers and lighting to make sabotage difficult , not that the demoralised citizens had the nerve to inflict mass reprisals upon themselves . |
| 30 | SDOs are a means by which the government can grant consent for extensive activities , for example , for Mercury 's cable-laying for their alternative communications system , under the Town and Country Planning ( Telecommunication Networks ) ( Railway Operational Land ) SDO 1982 . |