Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Despite the stink it raised in some quarters , The Krays made perfect sense as a symptom of the curious British habit of turning petty villains into national folk heroes .
2 Prime Minister Bob Hawke made sweeping changes in his Cabinet , appointed on April 3 following the re-election by a narrow margin of his Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) government on March 23 .
3 IDE drives available range from 80 to 515Mb , along with diskless and floppy-only variants .
4 Then Harvey produced two items from his own pocket .
5 In this Minton admitted that lithography for him remained ‘ a business of surprises , hazards and disasters ’ .
6 Timex sacks 300 workers in pay strike
7 When I gave up cabaret , Roger became musical director on board the Canberra .
8 ICI supplies large quantities of ‘ Propathene ’ for all of those applications [ including , of course , its own ‘ Propafilm ’ ] and expects their growth to continue [ though perhaps at a slower rate than in the immediate past ] .
9 Three weeks ago Goering met some Englishmen on Sylt , you know it ?
10 These grants equalled nearly a third of all EEC grants that year for uranium prospecting ( £416,000 ) .
11 The fact was that Churchill and Eden were not of like minds and did not associate closely until Churchill became Prime Minister in 1940 .
12 Of the two famous rune stones which stand outside the church at Jelling , the smaller states that " King Gorm made these memorials to Thyre his wife , Denmark 's ornament " ; the larger that " King Harald commanded these memorials made to Gorm his father and Thyre his mother .
13 Mummius made some amends to the Greeks by generous dedications in their sanctuaries .
14 HOLDING a single red rose and brushing tears from her pale cheeks , little Rebecca Leyland led 1,000 mourners behind her mother 's coffin yesterday .
15 Ellis became chief whip in March 1894 when the fifth Earl of Rosebery succeeded Gladstone as prime minister , and found life exceptionally difficult since the Liberals had only the narrowest of majorities .
16 Constance had assumed that , since she and Scarlet lived next door to each other , they would constantly be in and out of each other 's houses and behaved accordingly , which had suited Scarlet very well .
17 Delivering the Drew lecture on ‘ Government and the Arts ’ at the Central London Polytechnic , Mr Fisher pointed out that when Mr Luce announced three-year funding for the arts in November 1987 , he had said the figure could not be reviewed ‘ unless the situation changes substantially in ways that can not be foreseen today ’ .
18 The London Borough of Greenwich sought judicial review of a Government leaflet distributed to every household in England which was explanatory of the community charge or poll tax .
19 But the Leeds players are backing Lukic to banish that nightmare in what will be a second leg atmosphere as intense as at Ibrox .
20 DEC WINS MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS FOR ALPHA RISC MACHINES
21 In a whirlwind tour of the region Mr Baker met Tory candidates in Hexham , Wansbeck , Blyth , four from the Newcastle constituencies , Wallsend , Tynemouth , Darlington , Stockton South and Langbaurgh .
22 But Gary made innumerable professions of faith from childhood onwards .
23 A. MacDougall made 4183 gallons at Ardbeg and John Johnston 4178 at Lagavullin .
24 Skipper Conlan made three centuries in the summer league , earning him a first team call-up .
25 Beside him , Philippa made strange gestures with her fingers and Rastani replied in the same sign language .
26 Howlers on Barro Colorado Island eat large quantities of fruit , notably figs , though different Ficus species have different amino-acid contents in the protein fraction of fruits and leaves ( 40% of their intake is leaves ) .
27 Both servers and workstations use versions of Unix SVR4 , which will incorporate the Common Japanese Language Application Binary Interface called OCMP announced last week by Sony and NEC .
28 Both servers and workstations use versions of Unix System V.4 , which will incorporate the Common Japanese Language Application Binary Interface called OCMP announced last month by Sony Corp and NEC Corp .
29 Seaman made good saves from Ndlovu and Robson , Winterburn blocked a shot on the line while Smith blasted a good opportunity over the bar .
30 QP is already involved , being grouped with Cathcart and Newton Mearns Baptist Churches as ‘ Glasgow C ’ group .
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