Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allan Stewart had flushed with discomfiture at the defusing of his story . |
| 2 | Ung Phan had served as Minister of Communications , Transport and Posts until his arrest in mid-1990 for attempting to establish a new , liberal political party in Cambodia [ see pp. 37598-99 ] . |
| 3 | Jan Zindel has worked with the Netherlands Christian Radio Association ( NCRV ) for more than 30 years and is committed to the development of media skills , particularly broadcasting , in Third World countries . |
| 4 | Nyamwisi Movingi had resigned from this post on March 22 , accusing the government of leading the country to disaster . |
| 5 | Well Kenneth Baker seems to live in a world of his own . |
| 6 | An object 's appearance is the first way we recognise where it comes from : a Volkswagen ‘ Beetle ’ is an instantly recognisable shape even if the VW badge has fallen off the car ; likewise we recognise a Rolls Royce . |
| 7 | I was so pleased to note that someone more knowledgeable than your reviewer Robert Nye about the Rev William Gaskell had written to you ( the Rev Andrew M Hill , Points of View , 13 March ) . |
| 8 | Especially if a proposed line of pylons from a new power station now being built at ICI Wilton comes stamping across the foreground . |
| 9 | Midfield player Jason Peake has returned to Leicester after a month 's loan . |
| 10 | Vernon , 18 , hero of non-League Bath City 's FA Cup win over Cardiff , is on trial with Saints and manager Ian Branfoot wants to look at him in a reserve game . |
| 11 | Graham defended the decision on the grounds that Bolger and the French Prime Minister Michel Rocard had agreed during the latter 's visit to New Zealand in April 1991 that the Rainbow Warrior affair was closed . |
| 12 | THE FIRST and most serious change that Professor Horst Rollnik has seen during his 19-year long career at Bonn is the vast growth in the number of students , in all subjects including his own , physics . |
| 13 | But now a more menacing threat was posed for Russia : massed German units were attacking the Polish salient from the north , while Austro-German armies thrust up from the southeast — precisely the strategy that the Austrian commander General Conrad von Hötzendorff had advocated in 1914 . |
| 14 | In 1958 William Burroughs had moved to Paris , where Allen Ginsberg had helped set up the ‘ Beat Hotel ’ that persisted into the early 1960s . |
| 15 | Growth in the size of the EEC budget has accelerated in a steady curve over the last three decades . |
| 16 | A fine view of Chesterfield Central dating from the 50's as the afternoon train to Sheffield Victoria waits to depart with Director 62667 ‘ Somme ’ , as a later train headed by 62666 ‘ Zeebrugge ’ waits to take its place in the bay . |
| 17 | A Middlesbrough driver has died in a road accident in Kirkby Stephen , Cumbria . |
| 18 | With this in mind , Neal Taylor has written to me from South Devon with a request for a simple battery indicator . |
| 19 | Nursing staff at the famous Beeson Ward had hoped for a last minute reprieve , but the Health Authority stuck by its decision to close down the only ward in the country where nurses , not doctors , have the responsibility for admitting and discharging patients . |
| 20 | Encouraged by Hamadan , Younis made much of the minor role Nabi Berri had assigned to him in the Air Jordanian incident and admitted he had helped guard the hostages after the TWA 747 hijack . |
| 21 | An Italian daily paper said prosecutor Maria Cordova had asked for the indictment of Maradona and Guillermo Coppola for an alleged shipment of 6.6lb of cocaine from Argentina to Italy in 1991 . |
| 22 | The company plans to build a factory at a site 700 miles North of Moscow in conjunction with the Russian Kamaz engineering company and wants Mr Mukwala fluent in Russian after spending six years at Moscow University to help liaise with the local workforce . |
| 23 | Although Attorney General William Barr refused to comment on the appointment of former District of Columbia federal attorney Joseph diGenova or to confirm which officials were under investigation , it was widely reported that the latter included outgoing Chief of Staff James Baker . |
| 24 | Rijkaard and Van Basten had travelled to Holland but Milan did not want them to play and both pulled out of the squad , Rijkaard with flu , Van Basten claiming he was tired after his trip to Tokyo for the World Club Championship . |
| 25 | FORMER England B scrum-half Marcus Hannaford has recovered from a fractured cheekbone he suffered during Gloucester 's controversial League match with Saracens six weeks ago . |
| 26 | Will Famagusta have fallen by then ? ’ |
| 27 | Kelly Good has suffered from cystic fibrosis since she was a baby . |
| 28 | Of course it would turn out that the dead girl was merely someone Jerome Fanshawe had come across that weekend and who had taken his fancy . |
| 29 | Last week Scottish Secretary Ian Lang announced spending on social work projects would be £22.8 million next year , with provisional figures of £23 million for 194–5 and 1995–6 . |
| 30 | The silver-framed photograph of Philippe Chaumont had appeared for the first time since he had known Chantal . |