Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trent fought to hold the BMW upright . |
| 2 | Director of New York 's Whitney Museum of American Art until his contentious dismissal in 1990 , Thomas Armstrong has joined the Andy Warhol Museum as its director . |
| 3 | Every time Jim tried to pass the Ford moved up close to the Renault 's rear bumper , or rather the towbar protruding from it , and Jim was forced to ease back again . |
| 4 | Simeon has seen the Christ with his own eyes . |
| 5 | When Nintendo tried to buy the Seattle Mariners baseball team a huge row broke out over possible Japanese ownership . |
| 6 | Everyone knows Mr Baker has edited the Faber Book of English History in Verse , and included some lines from Henry V , but even there he never got to that particular bit . |
| 7 | DEC has previewed the Rdb 6.0 version of its relational database , saying that at $6,643 per tpsA on an Alpha AXP DEC 7000 Model 610 , it is the first production database to go below $7,000 per tpsA ; it ships December . |
| 8 | They claim that Prince Sihanouk has offered the Khmers Rouges a role in the future government of Cambodia , in return for a promise not to disrupt the election . |
| 9 | ULSTER Unionist security spokesman Ken Maginnis has accused the Dublin Government of ‘ deliberately distorting ’ the true cost of border security . |
| 10 | WEST Germany has asked the UN Security Council to meet to discuss the situation in Romania . |
| 11 | A working compromise was reached only after Barbarossa agreed to hold the Pope 's bridle and stirrup at a formal meeting ; an act of ritual homage which he had at first refused . |
| 12 | The commission in Brussels has vetoed the Strasbourg parliament 's line : Brussels knows that Britain and West Germany would never agree to a total ban . |
| 13 | LASMO has welcomed the UK Trade and Industry Select Committee 's recognition of the value of sour gas projects for electricity power generation . |
| 14 | Maureen Hornsby has joined the Bristol branch as district manager . |
| 15 | SINN Fein president Gerry Adams has criticised the Dublin Government for supporting a new round of ‘ talks about talks ’ among the constitutional parties here . |
| 16 | NOW THAT Lord Cholmondeley has sold the Holbein to the National Gallery , he will be getting on with his film career , I am told . |
| 17 | ‘ Because INCUBUS has penetrated the US government at all levels . |
| 18 | Bookies William Hill has made the BBC 's Only Fools And Horses 13-8 with Coronation Street ITV 's top hope in second slot at 9-4 . |
| 19 | Counsel has advised the SIB that the full report can not be published at present . |
| 20 | For the past two years the BVDG has used the Cologne Art Fair as a platform to promote support for particular museums . |
| 21 | Nick Faldo has won the Ritz Club Golfer of the Year Award for his victory in The Open Championship and his second successive US Master title . |
| 22 | To reassure the owner , Renault has fitted the Safrane with several methods of anti-theft protection . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , Oman assiduously followed the general GCC line , supporting the Saudi decision to invite United States forces to defend the Gulf and agreeing to the stationing of foreign forces on Omani territory . |
| 24 | The Taiwanese Foreign Ministry had issued invitations to UN officials in early 1991 after the Legislative Yuan passed a resolution urging Taiwan to apply to re-join the UN . |
| 25 | By the end of that month Raybestos decided to abandon the Knockanemore dump ‘ in the interests of community harmony ’ . |
| 26 | In order to try and get a ‘ Northern English accent ’ , Dustin went to see the Beatles in A Hard Day 's Night about a dozen times determined to ‘ sound like those guys ’ . |
| 27 | Mitterrand had visited the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia on Oct. 3-4 , holding talks on Oct. 4 with King Fahd before travelling on to Yanbu to see French troops there ; an announcement on Oct. 17 that the French contingent was to be supplemented by the dispatch of a further 500 troops would bring its total strength to 750 air and 5,700 ground troops . |
| 28 | Among the controversial issues which any negotiations would have to address were the following [ see also p. 36837 for so-called " Harare declaration " on ANC proposals for future negotiations , and p. 36912 for earlier policy guidelines ] : ( i ) nationalization : in press interviews in the days following his release , Mandela had reasserted the ANC 's stated policy of nationalizing certain sectors of the economy , including mines — this immediately provoked sharp falls on South African financial markets [ see also p. 37176 ] ; ( ii ) the armed struggle : Mandela had refused to renounce this policy , repeating on Feb. 14 that government installations were legitimate targets for sabotage [ ibid. ] ; ( iii ) power-sharing : the government and the ANC still appeared to be a long way apart on interpretation — the ANC for its part was not prepared to accept an arrangement similar to the current tri-cameral parliament ; ( iv ) sanctions : Mandela had already stated that " the conditions for which sanctions are being applied still exist " and thus there was no need for a review of the question [ for UK Prime Minister 's unilateral decision to break EC agreement on voluntary sanctions see below ] . |
| 29 | Mandela had urged the EC to refrain from lifting any sanctions for two or three months ; he told the ANC consultative conference that the time had come for a " re-evaluation " of sanctions , but the 1,600 delegates voted to push for their retention . |
| 30 | Thomas Balne had acquired the Swann Inn , and was also Charles Titford 's new landlord . |