Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb past] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the proven track record of the French in launcher rockets caused relatively little objection to the Ariane 5 preparatory programme ( where Germany had a 22 per cent stake ) , the Hermes programme ( German 30 per cent stake ) was increasingly criticized by both Germany and Britain , which had their own designs for space aeroplanes — Saenger and Hotol . |
| 2 | Artaria & Co published the six ‘ Haydn ’ quartets , of which the last three were K.458 in B flat , known as the ‘ Hunt ’ because of its ‘ hunting-style finale ; K.464 in A , and K.465 in C , the remarkable ‘ Dissonance ’ Quartet , so-called because of its intensely chromatic slow introduction . |
| 3 | The shipping and construction group P & O gave a hundred thousand pounds to the Tory election fund . |
| 4 | The Bradford & Bingley had a similar experience . |
| 5 | In the second session of the morning Gordon Burnett and Alan Robertson from O & M described the recent branch survey . |
| 6 | To contribute to this debate , Coopers & Lybrand formed a working party to survey and examine interim reporting . |
| 7 | Have anxiety , fear , guilt , anger , personal embarrassment or ridicule played a significant part in what you have just been analysing ? |
| 8 | His most recent succés du scandale came last spring at the Venice Biennale , the art world 's Cannes , where Koons showed a polychromed sculpture of him and Cicciolina as a soft-core Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden , surrounded by three laser-painted and varnished canvases of the couple making love . |
| 9 | After a night of endless fun — rounders followed by Cluedo , Cheat and a visit to the Clumber Park Social Club where Ken performed a striking rendition of Wild Thing on his guitar — I felt burnt out the next morning , but everyone else was raring to go . |
| 10 | The waiting room at the Moscow station where Newby caught the Trans-Siberian was like waiting-rooms in all communist countries , the ‘ preserve of the lumpen proletariat , the hoi polloi ’ , with not a member of the administrative or managerial class to be seen . |
| 11 | In Johnson 's report , the education offered by the city takes precedence over any popular descriptions or concerns , beginning with an interest in the fact that Hector Boece or Boethius became the first President of the King 's College , in 1494 , at the instigation of Bishop William Elphinstone , effectively the founder of Aberdeen University — whose tomb may still be seen . |
| 12 | Where equity supplemented the common law , as by the recognition of uses and the grant of equitable remedies for the infringement of legal rights , it was not particularly repugnant to common lawyers because it did not countermand their authority . |
| 13 | Enough is known from archaeology to realise that in many cases chance finds of flint nodules or fragments provided the raw material for small tools . |
| 14 | How MARSTON & LANGINGER created the perfect conservatory for this Norfolk rectory |
| 15 | However , where blacks had no viable method of expressing nationalism when disillusion with the achievements of civil rights set in , Catholics could revert to a nationalism which already shaped much of their previous experience . |
| 16 | They had gone all over the place ; peeking into the Oval Office ( but the little rope was across , Hakim said ) ; stopping on the stairs to look at a picture called The Canine Cabinet , in which North pointed out a drowsing member and said it was Casey ; and into the Roosevelt Room , where North showed the young Iranian the Nobel Prize won by Theodore Roosevelt for negotiating peace between the Russians and the Japanese . |
| 17 | His almost total indifference to the trappings of conspicuous wealth or consumption proved a subtle , yet powerful , role-model , and a disincentive to the usual gripes about status and salary . |
| 18 | Patrick , much better but still weak , had become a paying guest ( Jack paid ) at Moxie 's house , where Moxie had a self-contained flatlet , often let to a student , and where she could ‘ keep an eye ’ on Pat . |
| 19 | However , the most notable feature of these accounts is not so much their dating , as the apparent belief in St Augustine 's , where Goscelin spent the last years of his life , that Cnut visited them both on the way to and from Rome . |
| 20 | Leaving Howard to try and persuade Colonel Mortimer to take his men to the cemetery that night — reasoning that one American to another would get a better result Ace , Benny and Petion returned to the TARDIS , where Ace indicated the remaining pilfered weapons in her shopping trolley . |
| 21 | The near extinction of the North American buffalo or bison offered a chilling example of the destructive power of modern firearms . |
| 22 | Legal & General reported a half year profit before tax of £74m ( v £56m ) . |
| 23 | But it 's the establishment front runner in the US , where Dell pioneered the direct marketing of PCs , which now accounts for almost a third of the total market . |
| 24 | Stephan Brüback of the German shop design specialist Hans Brüback Landenbau & Verkaufstechnik took a visual approach to the theme of customer recognition , suggesting that social differences be accepted and even adopted in the definition of a shop 's corporate identity . |
| 25 | The MPs for Mansfield and Brecon & Radnor had the smallest majorities in the 1987 general election . |
| 26 | Rugby World & Post hit a new peak with a record 65,000 sale of the October World Cup preview issue . |
| 27 | Following another violent incident police were called to the White Hart pub , Boreham , where officers found a 20-year old man lying on the floor with a knife still embedded in his back . |
| 28 | Was this where Jesus fed the 5000 ? |
| 29 | Of course , Roman emperors deified themselves , made their horses consuls and existed in a state of terrifying paranoia which eventually provoked genuine plots and assassinations , but in retrospect the gross crimes of a Caligula or Nero lacked the all-pervading hypocrisy of the modern tyrants . |
| 30 | Death or surrender became the only options . |