Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [adv] [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martyn Maxey of Max & Co recently welcomed Mac as Technical Director of the salon . |
| 2 | Gleizes and Le Fauconnier became friendly in 1909 after a meeting at the home of a young socialist writer named Alexandre Mercereau , where Gleizes also met Metzinger and Delaunay for the first time in the following year , although these meetings did not lead to immediate friendship , and Gleizes knew little about their work . |
| 3 | The drama begins about 210 million years ago , when the North American plate finished some 600 km inland roughly where California now meets Nevada and Arizona . |
| 4 | Seventy years on the question of whether the Major was a hero or villain still haunts Hay . |
| 5 | It is unfortunate that shorthand here makes Lewis imply that the life of submission to Grace is a course of self-improvement . |
| 6 | But it does seem possible that Georgina purposely waylaid Arabella on the day before she died , and that the two of them had a row . |
| 7 | However hard she had to fight , she would make certain that Janice never became Kirsty 's mother ! |
| 8 | There is no evidence that Wordsworth ever studied Rousseau in a systematic way , but he would have met with his influence in France , if not well before . |
| 9 | The contamination originates in African and Pacific cocoa-growing countries , where WEN 's research found that workers frequently spray Lindane and 29 other toxic pesticides on crops without adequate protection . |
| 10 | It was at Lovell 's dinner-table that Coleridge eventually found Southey , and there for the first time that he met Lovell 's wife Mary and her eldest sister Sarah Fricker . |
| 11 | But after seeing signs of a pick-up in American demand , he says the hotel industry might get a boost around September , on the basis that recovery here lags America by about four months . |
| 12 | You did n't tell anyone like , except Joe then told Stuart , Mr ! |
| 13 | As Paul Preston 's authoritative biography of Franco demonstrates , there is no real evidence to support the notion , amply diffused by Francoist propaganda after 1945 , that Franco skilfully kept Spain out of the conflict . |
| 14 | Besides , although Franco later blamed Sanjurjo and others for the advent of the Republic , he himself had made no attempt to save the monarchy . |
| 15 | If Jones has never heard of Tolstoy or read any of his books , it is meaningless to assert that Jones either likes Tolstoy as a writer or does not like Tolstoy as a writer . |
| 16 | Farrow had alleged that Allen sexually molested Dylan , but Allen was cleared of the accusation last week by a team of investigators . |
| 17 | The British became a dominant influence in Persian life during the nineteenth century ; but to this day many Persians believe that Britain merely exploited Persia for the sake of India throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 18 | The ISA project took five years to complete and involved examining basic auditing principles and essential procedures to ensure that ISAs adequately addressed IOSCO members ' concerns . |
| 19 | His papers show that contributors even included Thomas Trollope who lived in Rome , was Anthony 's elder brother and who , like him , had been brought up thoroughly to dislike Dissenters . |
| 20 | PILOT SOFTWARE REPORTS THAT LIGHTSHIP NOW SUPPORTS NT |
| 21 | Because they were both already awake and on their feet it took neither Phoebe nor Rachel long to reach Maggie 's room . |
| 22 | Strictly speaking Orwell 's book is perhaps less an allegory than a conte philosophique like Voltaire 's Candide or Samuel Johnson 's Rasselas ; Swift 's Gulliver 's Travels is not far off here either , as a source , and it is certain that Orwell profoundly admired Swift , as Waugh admired Voltaire . |
| 23 | Rent and Norfolk now deserted Lancaster and accused him of sedition , and the king ordered the confiscation of all his property and the property of his supporters until they submitted unconditionally . |
| 24 | Jimmy and Cardiff both saw Rohmer reach into the inside of his overcoat . |
| 25 | Jill pointed , laughing , at the door , and Jim playfully ushered Lindsey out as a pencil sailed past his ear . |
| 26 | He reappeared a moment later and Whitlock immediately recognized Mobuto when he emerged behind the bodyguard . |
| 27 | Kyaw Nyein went along as an Adviser , and Rance also wanted Thakin Nu to go : he was , he told London , ‘ The most important member of AFPFL Working Committee excluding Aung San ’ ( 29 December ) , but he remained behind to give direction to the League while the others were in London . |
| 28 | A good deal is said about nuclear proliferation and Goldschmidt staunchly defends France 's uncompromising stance on trading in uranium . |
| 29 | Whether or not this date gets changed , the way to control the Europe-machine is to make sure that national parliaments and peoples thoroughly discuss Europe 's next constitution before they send their ministers to negotiate it . |
| 30 | A passing cart rolled by splattering him with mud and Corbett quietly cursed Burnell for sending him here . |