Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Personally , I 'd like to see Deane ( or whoever ) rested half way through the 2nd half if he 's having one of his off days , and Strandli , Whelan or Forrester given a 20-odd minute run out . |
| 2 | The Bradford & Bingley had a similar experience . |
| 3 | To contribute to this debate , Coopers & Lybrand formed a working party to survey and examine interim reporting . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | State officials hope that when the treaty is at last ratified , NAFTA will start to bring in more , particularly in the clothing industry where Mexico has a comparative advantage and Merida has experience . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | medical student at Guy 's Hospital , London , and friend of Ben Allen ; lodges at Mrs Raddle 's , Lant St , Borough , where Pickwick attends a boisterous party . |
| 10 | And does n't the Bradford , Bingley & Dagenham have a convincing ring to it ? |
| 11 | From its wide collection of brushes , Osborne & Butler have a fine set of synthetic sable brushes called Golden Nylon . |
| 12 | This month ( 2–28 April ) Davis & Langdale present a rare cache of paintings , drawings and watercolours from Gwen John 's estate . |
| 13 | This was probably an enclosed wood for the use of the lord of the Manor for in the old English the term Hag or Haggs denoted a fenced or enclosed wood . |
| 14 | Babies are very susceptible to such infections , especially in the mouth , where Candida produces a creamy or grey-coloured membrane covering the tongue . |
| 15 | The pursuer 's son , who was present at the meeting , said that he would instruct Messrs Ferguson & Forster to submit a formal offer to the defender 's solicitors , Messrs Macfie & Alexander . |
| 16 | With the exhibition of Johannes Heisig , Tammen & Busch present a prominent young representative of the Leipzig School of painters , which became famous for the dissolution of figuration into shimmering points of colour . |
| 17 | Thankfully , though , there still remained one stark difference between the two men ; because where Luther had a cruel and vicious streak in his character , David was a gentle soul , generous and accommodating to a fault . |
| 18 | The court heard that Yafano has a previous conviction as a juvenile for cruelty to cats which involved skinning and stringing them up . |
| 19 | Thus it was argued that William had a legitimate title to the throne because he won it by right of conquest in a just war . |
| 20 | At Great Ormond Street hospital doctors tell the royal couple that William has a depressed fracture which needs an immediate operation . |
| 21 | Ian Glick QC , for Walker Greenbank , told the court that WG acquired a private shelving company , Alkar , in January 1987 , agreeing to pay its owners , Alan and William Carr , an initial amount of £2.2m in WG shares followed by a series of payments which would be linked to Alkar 's profit performance . |
| 22 | The fact that Marianne places a great deal of store by marriage but not its permanence comes as no surprise to Warren Colman . |
| 23 | It turns out , too , that Tod has a black chest with photographs of women in it . |
| 24 | Since it was undisputedly colonized by the Vikings , it is reasonable to assume that Baldersdale experienced a long and vivid history . |
| 25 | ‘ We 've heard that Middlesbrough has a large Irish community and I 'm sure there must be some Brennans who are related to us , ’ says Leo . |
| 26 | He suspects that Ivor has a secret collection of stolen coins . |
| 27 | There are persistent claims that Churchill sent a small group of secret agents to France outside SOE operations but , because no documentation exists , these claims are ridiculed by self-professed experts . |
| 28 | At the end of March , Than Tun made a defiant speech in Rangoon 's Bandoola Square and then vanished , setting up an underground resistance based on Toungoo . |
| 29 | Davies points out that Gorbachev took a conservative attitude to Soviet history for the first 18 months of his time in power . |
| 30 | Although Mexico rejected a Soviet offer in 1959 , as indicated in chapter 1 , the Soviet Union did succeed in selling oil to Argentina , Brazil and Uruguay . |