Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Jaguar XJ two-twenty has already sold out , even though it costs more than four hundred thousand pounds to buy and may cost another twenty thousand pounds a year to insure . |
| 2 | The Jan. 30 meeting also voted to extend assistance to Romania ( excluded when demonstrations were crushed in June 1990 — see pp. 37544-45 ) . |
| 3 | Napoleon III had already found it useful as a place where a few quiet days might be spent with a friend . |
| 4 | The collusion of Clement V with Edward I and Edward II had surely jeopardized the political integrity of any future archbishop . |
| 5 | Before his death Edward IV had also initiated military activity against France , following Louis XI 's renunciation of some of the key terms of the 1475 treaty of Picquigny . |
| 6 | Before his death Edward IV had also initiated military activity against France , following Louis XI 's renunciation of some of the key terms of the 1475 treaty of Picquigny . |
| 7 | The completeness of the Woodville collapse casts doubt on any suggestion that Edward IV had deliberately built up their power as a bulwark for his son — something which would have been tantamount to a conscious factionalization of politics . |
| 8 | The completeness of the Woodville collapse casts doubt on any suggestion that Edward IV had deliberately built up their power as a bulwark for his son — something which would have been tantamount to a conscious factionalization of politics . |
| 9 | Whatever Edward IV had initially envisaged as the relationship between the two men , Gloucester gained the upper hand almost immediately . |
| 10 | Whatever Edward IV had initially envisaged as the relationship between the two men , Gloucester gained the upper hand almost immediately . |
| 11 | An emergency meeting of the IEA in Paris on Jan. 11 had unanimously approved a contingency plan to take this step in the event of a Gulf war . |
| 12 | Already Edward I had briefly confiscated the property of alien religious houses , and Edward II 's seizure of the Templars ' lands — neither acknowledged nor perhaps intended to be permanent — was strikingly similar to his father 's action in essence . |
| 13 | In accordance with the recommendation made by the BCP central committee in December 1989 [ see p. 37109 ] , the National Assembly on Jan. 15 voted overwhelmingly to repeal Paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 1 of the Constitution , whereby the BCP was defined as the " leading force in society and in the state " and as guiding " the construction of an advanced socialist society in close fraternal co-operation with the BAPU [ Bulgarian Agrarian People 's Union — hitherto the only other legal political party — ibid . ] " . |
| 14 | One of these anathemas was already fairly old : Gregory VII had already condemned lay investiture of clergy to spiritual offices in 1078 . |
| 15 | In earlier incidents , OMON units on Jan. 14 had briefly occupied a police station in Riga , and had tried to remove two of the barricades which had been put up by Latvians on main roads , bridges and around public buildings in response to events in Vilnius . |
| 16 | There are some observers — myself included — who feel that the July meeting at Down Royal has now gained in importance to such an extent that it deserves to be kept on its own and I understand that the Killarney executive are not totally against a move to an earlier date . |
| 17 | One nominee for Security Council membership , senior Gorbachev aide Valery Boldin , on March 7 failed twice to secure the required endorsement by an absolute majority of Supreme Soviet deputies . |
| 18 | He did so again not long afterwards , again in front of Allen , mentioning how pleased he was with the mini-finding of December that had retroactively authorized the arms sales . |
| 19 | The young person who , unfortunately , reaches the age of 16 after July 2 has now to return to school for another year and will be almost 17 years of age whenever they leave . |
| 20 | The passing of a decade between the Royal Assent granted to the Consumer Credit Act 1974 ( the 1974 Act ) and the bringing into force of all sections of this piece of legislation on 19 May 1985 has substantially contributed to the general confusion . |
| 21 | Here was a footballer the like of which the Whaddon faithful had never witnessed before . |
| 22 | Her book which was reviewed in CH News in May 1991 has already sold over 2000 copies . |
| 23 | Nuclear Electric says the station 's closure since February 1991 has already lost it £125 million . |
| 24 | Indeed , the judge 's order of 2 July 1991 had specifically provided for the access being exercised in Kingston on alternate weekends . |
| 25 | For my part , I think it would be open to the English courts to apply the civil law maxim directly to the situations we have in these two appeals , and treat the two plaintiffs as lives in being at the times of the events which injured them as they were later born alive , but it is not necessary to do so directly in view of the effect which the Montreal Tramways case [ 1933 ] 4 D.L.R. 337 has already had in the development of the common law in this field in other common law jurisdictions . |
| 26 | Parliament on May 26 voted overwhelmingly to legalize brothels and sex clubs . |
| 27 | A report published by the human rights organization Amnesty International on Aug. 21 contained further claims that hundreds of people had been killed while under detention between November 1990 and March 1991 [ for April report see p. 38135 ] . |
| 28 | The England international has yet to score a league goal for Lazio following his £5.5m summer move from Tottenham . |
| 29 | Before the House of Lords Ms Webh argued that the later decision of the Court of Appeal in Hampson v Department of Education and Science [ 1990 ] 2 All ER 25 had now superseded this test and should be applied accordingly . |
| 30 | The May 6 issue proudly boasted a new circulation of 300,000 plus . |