Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the FMLN offensive which began 12 days ago and cost an estimated 1,300 lives , the capital was reported calm yesterday . |
| 2 | The Royal Bank 's participation was the brainchild of Bill Speirs , a lecturer in management at Sheffield University who has close ties with the Branch . |
| 3 | An airforce technician has admitted starting a fire at an RAF base which caused nineteen million pounds damage . |
| 4 | The much-praised new ski area at Aonach Mor near Fort William which opened last season has picked up two more awards in the close season , including one for architecture . |
| 5 | ‘ An RAF Dakota which had crash-landed in Holland and was put back into service . |
| 6 | It was prompted by a memorandum from the Union Internationale des Huissiers de Justice et Officiers Judiciaires which reviewed current practice and suggested the introduction of a new mode of service involving direct communication between a huissier de justice in the country of origin and a similar officer in the country of service . |
| 7 | By 1086 , Droitwich salt was being widely distributed over the Midlands ; King William himself had eighty-five salt pans here . |
| 8 | He shot once with King Edward You knew all that , it was one of his favourite stories , and you must have known all about the guns . |
| 9 | Equally striking and individual although aesthetically remote from the Lichtenstein , Falling Figure of 1947 by Stanley William Hayter who remains one of the most under-rated figures in the realm of modern art although recognised as the father of printmaking and creator of Atelier 17 in Paris and then in New York . |
| 10 | For the first 15 minutes it seemed that Alton would be overrun by an RAF side which included four players who regularly turn out for Alton . |
| 11 | Another deaf man , a David Bedwell who had partial hearing , enlisted in the Army Service Corps as a driver , and his deafness cost him his life when he failed to hear three challenges as he was approaching the gates of a barracks . |
| 12 | The Trunchbull was standing in front of the class , legs apart , hands on hips , scowling at Miss Honey who stood silent to one side . |
| 13 | It is still very much the planting-out stage at the Greenmount kitchen garden with Crosbie Cochrane who has some timely advice for anyone interested in a fresh supply of their own vegetables . |
| 14 | Other collectors to have enriched the collection include Charles Fairfax Murray who donated forty eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century paintings to Dulwich in 1911 , a number of which will be lent to Christie 's . |
| 15 | But he was a man who liked challenges and this wilful — child — for despite her boasted nearly twenty-one years , to Neil Cochrane she seemed little more — appeared to offer one . |
| 16 | The facts involved the sale of a second-hand Mercedes car which developed unusual faults requiring repair for a Mercedes of that age and mileage . |
| 17 | I wanted to get away from the boring white theme , but the only dress I really liked was one by David Fielden which had white fur and beading . |
| 18 | , Benjamin Wills ( 1807–1899 ) , Plymouth Brother , was born in Devonport , Plymouth , 12 December 1807 , the only child of Quaker parents , Benjamin Newton , a draper of Plymouth dock who died ten days before the birth of his son , and his widow Anna , a daughter of Roger Treffry of Lostwithiel , with whom Newton lived until the age of twelve . |
| 19 | Although the art of painting was not as well developed as architecture and sculpture , there were , nevertheless , a number of Slav artists from the Adriatic coastlands who displayed considerable talent and whose works are to be found in church frescoes and other paintings on both the Italian and eastern shores . |
| 20 | Teague 's career looked all over after the world cup final … but he 's beaten off a shoulder injury and is back at his best … so too is Oxfordshire jockey Richard Dunwoody he rode five winners on saturday … today he won again on the Nicholson trained Now Your Talkin … he 's the top jockey with 40 winners … now he 's talkin … the Williams team from Didcot do n't do a lot of talking apart from Nigel of course but they 've swept the board in formula one this season … |
| 21 | ‘ The rich Miss Havisham who lives all alone in the big house in town ? ’ asked Joe . |
| 22 | According to Mr Lee , a code of conduct has been agreed during the Tweeddale campaign which precludes each of the bidders from passing comment on the opposition 's package . |
| 23 | Coming from a desperate industrial province in the Ural mountains which lacks any kind of hi-fi electrical equipment . |
| 24 | A spokeswoman for Magdalen College , Oxford , said : ‘ There is no person called Verity Bough who has any connection with the college . |
| 25 | And what I will do is to look erm tt in some detail at er an analysis of a man r called Richard Newstat I mentioned last time , Mr Shirley Williams , and Richard Newstat wrote a book in nineteen sixty called Presidential Power and that book is now in whatever , what it is , I do n't know , seventh or eight edition and it 's probably still the single best selling book on the American presidency and er for good reason because it , it , it raises an , an argument which is really quite simple but often neglected . |
| 26 | Hereford back in action tomorrow … at Edgar Street they face non-league Woking in the FA Cup … winners away to Nottingham Forest … our losing run stops now thanks to Gloucester rugby club who on Saturday in the league drew twelve all with Saracens in London … it was a close thing tho |
| 27 | One had heard the ominous rumblings from the singers regarding the complexity of both choral and works , and the language of one of them ( Hebrew ) , but in performance on Saturday evening they sounded tremendous . |
| 28 | He decided to tell the story of William Black to the Down Presbytery which met monthly and consisted of the Presbyterian ministers of a substantial section of County Down together with one lay elder from each congregation . |
| 29 | But said that they went on Tuesday evening they had some people over and they were looking we were gon na go for a meal in Chorley er they 'd come over from Grantham , and they were going over on the night on the night ferry , on night boat from Hollyhead . |
| 30 | Mary Leapor , however , would have studied under a man named Richard Cooper who made strenuous efforts to improve the school during the middle years of the century [ Clarke ] . |