Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Carrick enjoyed the early pressure but the breakthrough for Newry came after 39 minutes . |
| 2 | Carrick enjoyed the early pressure but the breakthrough for Newry came after 39 minutes . |
| 3 | The US Semiconductor Industry Association 's book-to-bill ratio for March fell to 1.17 from the revised 1.19 figure for February — a figure of 1.18 was reported at the time . |
| 4 | My right hon. Friend the Member for Sparkbrook referred to that , and it does not harm us — |
| 5 | The assistant Deputy Surveyor in the Forest of Dean reported in 1788 that : |
| 6 | The 1977 Porchester report published figures provided by MAFF to indicate the potential loss of agricultural production if 16,000 hectares of Exmoor stayed as rough sheep grazing and were not converted to grassland . |
| 7 | Although the growth of Brighton accounted for some of this expansion , most of the burden fell on an economic base too narrow to cope adequately , there being few alternatives to agriculture . |
| 8 | The terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki concluded on 17 April included Japanese possession of Formosa , the Pescadores Islands and the Liaodong Peninsula in Manchuria , the opening by China of four more treaty ports and the payment to Japan of a sizeable indemnity . |
| 9 | The Duke of Wellington died in 1852 , when Lord Derby was Prime Minister , and a most magnificent funeral was arranged in his honour . |
| 10 | The Flemish regional government and the city of Antwerp stumped up most of the BFr600m ( $18m ) needed to restore the building to its ornate , late-classical grandeur . |
| 11 | The inhabitants of Antwerp surrendered on 10 October . |
| 12 | The fall of McCarthy came in 1954 as a result of his own excesses and the actions of a few courageous individuals , rather than from any official disapproval . |
| 13 | In key respects the views of Whitehall coincided with those of the Central Electricity Board , which had for long felt that its own , indirect control of power station construction was inadequate . |
| 14 | Thus the central theme in both the works of Steiner referred to earlier is the nature , and very recent decline , of classical literary culture which , for the classically educated reader , formed a complex web of allusions and developments . |
| 15 | By 1736 the population of the town of Sheffield stood at 10,121 , which was about three and a half times higher than it had been a couple of generations earlier in 1672 . |
| 16 | Roy Hankin of Sheffield won in 4 hours , 29 minutes and 31 seconds , 15 minutes faster than his time the previous year , beating Bradford 's Melvyn McCann into second place , but not breaking McCann 's record time of 4 hours , 25 minutes and 53 seconds set in 1984 . |
| 17 | At one time the abbot 's vineyards stretched all the way to the River Severn , from beneath the castle walls where 98 corpses hung after the siege of Shrewsbury described in One Corpse Too Many . |
| 18 | British companies had to build their lines between revolutions and had to be prepared to accept the damage to bridges , track , and stations caused by civil war and insurgency , but the opportunities presented in the wheat-growing and stock-rearing of Argentina , the coffee , rubber , and minerals of Brazil , the gold , silver , copper , nitrates , and sheep-farming of Chile , the cattle of Uruguay , and the sugar , coffee , cocoa , tobacco , cotton , and cattle of Venezuela seemed at that time limitless . |
| 19 | And when the sun appeared they all died and then the people who were to be the people of Amantani came from other islands , from peninsulas in the south … ’ |
| 20 | We soon came upon a fascinating group of ancient dwellings , all that remained of the old village where the last inhabitants of Rona lived in primitive conditions and awful isolation until their final evacuation in 1844 . |
| 21 | Further north in Staffordshire the ancient market town of Lichfield founded in 1149 on the line of one of the main London to Chester roads , declined into cosy respectability as the new Holyhead road was diverted sixteen miles to the south . |
| 22 | Tours of Czechoslovakia planned for 1992 . |
| 23 | For example , when John Hey of Birkhouse in the West Riding parish of Kirkburton died in 1719 , the executors of his estate were his widow Susannah and a John Halstead , who lived at Thornhill , some 10 miles or so away . |
| 24 | Between 1897 and 1912 , the wheat crop of the United Kingdom fell by 6 per cent while that of Germany rose by 38 per cent . |
| 25 | The authoritative Latin edition of the collected writings of Paracelsus appeared in 1658 , four years before the foundation of the Royal Society . |
| 26 | In Clwyd , the terminal at Point of Ayr promised at most 132 jobs for the duration of the drilling process , she said . |
| 27 | Throughout the period 1956 to 1968 the equivalent figure in 4 year old children in the control town of Ayr remained between 6.9 and 7.2 . |
| 28 | During the next 150 years most of Hungary lay under Turkish rule , but the Habsburgs held on to Slovenia and parts of Croatia and Slavonia , including the Zagreb region . |
| 29 | Lorence R Fizia of Bathgate sent in this shot of a cruiser at Fort Lauderdale in December 1991 — this has to be form a Boeing 307 Stratoliner ! |
| 30 | The form which this idea normally took , that of a federation of States ruled by some central body which included representatives of all of them , was probably encouraged by the great political and economic success achieved in the seventeenth century by the new federation of the United Provinces . |