Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The earliest extensions or additions may be discreetly sited and carefully designed , but very quickly the hut syndrome is underway and the house is rapidly surrounded by one- or two-storey flat-roofed extensions of the very utilitarian kind mercilessly caricatured by Osbert Lancaster . |
| 2 | In case anyone should question these financial allocations , can we point out that they only move the film and crafts sectors towards the level of support long enjoyed in England and Wales . |
| 3 | After scenes of tension memorably recounted by Edward Hyde , first Earl of Clarendon [ q.v . ] , |
| 4 | Lee 's stepdad suddenly appeared behind Philip . |
| 5 | At the very least , however , unpalatable though the proposals may at present be , they may prove more acceptable than the alternative already foreshadowed by Sir Adrian Cadbury should his own committee 's voluntary code fail to command compliance — the even more unpalatable prospect of governance by legislation . |
| 6 | A fresh scandal , believed to be the largest loan fraud ever uncovered in Japan , was revealed on Aug. 13 . |
| 7 | To this , the Inspecting Officer concurred , provided that not more than one car ever stood in Lower Church Street . |
| 8 | The court held that the car still belonged to Bennett . |
| 9 | He kept the windows open because the car still smelled of Arabella 's perfume . |
| 10 | Fatal Attraction actress Close said of George Bush 's campaign : ‘ How dare they talk about a kinder and gentler nation . |
| 11 | The only other person in the bar was an old inhabitant of Cobham and during our conversation I mentioned that my beat-grandfather once lived in Cobham but had died many years before I was born . |
| 12 | The blood always belonged to God , for ‘ I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls … whosoever eateth any manner of blood , I will set my face against that soul … and will cut him off from among his people ’ ( Lev . |
| 13 | During the blitz years the brigade also went to Coventry , Birmingham ( twice ) and Portsmouth . |
| 14 | At the time of this repossession by X the car clearly belonged to Z. This was because X had sold it to Y who had sold it to Z. It was held , however , that Y , in allowing X to repossess the car , was within the section . |
| 15 | Against this decision the applicant sought and obtained leave to appeal to Her Majesty in Council , but since there was an issue both as to the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal to hear the appeal from Barnett J. , and as to the power of that court to grant onward leave , the applicant also applied to Barnett J. himself for leave to appeal direct . |
| 16 | One soldier even hid from Yakovlev the fact that he was a party member . |
| 17 | At the fourth landing the boat almost ran into Boulogne harbour , despite earlier reconnaissance of the target beaches by her skipper , Lieutenant-Commander J.W.F. Milner-Gibson RN . |
| 18 | She needed a short cultural briefing session for a Japanese employee newly arrived in Manchester . |
| 19 | It was rumoured that the ‘ train' actually came into Hallington Station and blew off steam ( even though the track had been lifted for some years ) . |
| 20 | This Brazilian team can mark and tackle with a cool realism that their 1974 World Cup side never achieved in West Germany , when toughness became confused with thuggery . |
| 21 | He ordered the expulsion of ARF leader Khrayr Marukhyan , a Greek citizen recently arrived in Armenia . |
| 22 | This bill had proposed sending members of the Japanese military to assist the international force currently ranged against Iraq in the Gulf . |
| 23 | Hussa and the boy 's sister soon arrived from Al Ain and installed themselves in the adjoining bedrooms . |
| 24 | Thus for BrF the first band shows a splitting of about 0·32 eV and is clearly due to a level largely localized on Br ; in IBr ( Fig. 6.18 ) the first two bands show splittings of 0·58 and 0·36 eV and are assigned to lone-pairs mainly localized on I and Br , respectively . |
| 25 | One interesting case nevertheless arose on Tehran radio , in an excerpt from Communique No 47 of 25 September 1980 . |
| 26 | All the work eventually fell on Gavin shoulders . |
| 27 | NAM 's Membership Secretary Terry Musson is in charge of this project and has undertaken this work largely single-handed since July . |
| 28 | Talks between the Brussels powers , America and Canada on an Atlantic Pact finally began in July . |
| 29 | The meeting established a broad framework for the negotiations at the parallel intergovernmental conferences on political union and on economic and monetary union , which the Council formally opened in Rome on Dec. 15 . |
| 30 | His aunt and sister-in-law always lived in Cambridge . |