Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [noun prp] [vb past] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wales , Toshiba took over the Rank factory in Plymouth , Tatung of Taiwan took over the Decca factory in Bridgenorth , Mitsubishi took over the Tandberg factory in Scotland and Sanyo has bought the Philips factory in Lowestoft . |
| 2 | ‘ I have crossed that ford times without number , ’ Johnstone of Lochwood put in . |
| 3 | In 1798 , General Humbert of France came over and won a battle near there , but he took so long that the nearby towns had time to refortify . |
| 4 | To port the dark gash of Loch Hourn cut into the towering peaks of remote Knoydart , while Isle Ornsay in Skye opened up to starboard . |
| 5 | Such Persian names survive in local nomenclature till Roman times : the priests of Artemis at Ephesus went on being called Megabyxoi for centuries after 330 ; or we might compare the place-name Maibozani , recently attested ( JRS , 1975 , p. 65 , line 10 , with p. 73 : a Roman inscription from Ephesus of the first century AD ) . |
| 6 | Although a network based on landlines would be more economic for most of the work , project coordinator Peter Linington of SERC pointed out that Project Universe will act as an important test bed for satellite products and services . |
| 7 | This week Kevin Morris from Cheltenham set off to be the 424th and the very first to do it backstroke . |
| 8 | Keith Taylor from Bangor added a 27-14 win over Simon Scott , Gary McElroy beat Andrew Forest 25-18 , Clifford Dennison from Dunbarton edged out Willie Watson 19-17 and Portadown 's Andrew Hughes beat Colin Mitchell 23-16 . |
| 9 | The Prosecution alleges that Stokle 's former girlfriend , Shiela Stroud from Staunton carried out the murder attempt with her boyfriend Mark Evans , and a hired hitman Norman White . |
| 10 | When Ralph of Diss searched back through ancient and modern history for parallels to the revolt of 1173–4 he found more than thirty examples of sons rebelling against their parents , including some from the recent history of both Anjou and Poitou , but he cites no case of a Queen rebelling against her husband . |
| 11 | Borisav Jovic of Serbia took over as President of the federal Collective State Presidency on May 15 in accordance with the system of annual rotation of that office . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , Noel Weir of Rathfriland got through to the singles final with a 21-7 victory over an out-of-touch Noel O'Hara from Herbert Park . |
| 13 | More plausibly , both males and females are said to return to the pond of their birth to breed , and it was this aspect of toad lore that Dr Chris Reading of Furzebrook Research Station of Dorset and Drs Jon Loman and Thomas Madsen of the University of Lund in Sweden set out to investigate ( Journal of Zoology , vol. 225 , pp201–11 ) . |
| 14 | Eighteen-year-old James Buchanan from Derry pulled back a two minute deficit from the 32-length swim to finish first after the 32km cycle , recording the fastest bike split of 48 minutes 23 seconds . |
| 15 | Their defeat by Hong Kong in May sparked off serious disturbances in the streets of Beijing , with Japanese cars and taxis being overturned and foreigners attacked . |
| 16 | An extra man , says Boswell , had joined their little party , ‘ Evan Campbell , servant to Mr Murchison , factor to the Laird of Macleod in Glenelg ran along with us today . |
| 17 | A shift in the weather pattern , bringing low pressure systems across the Alps in December laid down a firm base . |
| 18 | He did go back to London ; he did defy the might of Zanuck , but the canny Alex Korda in London stitched up the contract later which , yes , was to give him a million dollars , but also tie him to some terrible films . |
| 19 | The use of polyethylene terephthalate on a commercial scale for bottles — by a process known by the clumsy name of injection stretch blow moulding — began in the USA in 1977 , and by 1979 , when ICI in Europe took up the development , American consumption had risen to 140 kta . |
| 20 | Blackwells in Reading set up an ‘ Under £10 ’ table , which had to be constantly replenished and which the group may well replicate in other shops next year . |
| 21 | In 1812 the Cortes of Cadiz drew up a constitution which consecrated the dogma of the sovereignty of the nation . |
| 22 | As Christian doctrine developed , and it was said that God in Christ took on humanity , in both Greek and Latin the inclusive term for humanity was used , not that specifically for a male human being . |
| 23 | Now if it could be said that God in Christ took on specifically ‘ male humanity ’ , then women would be outside the scheme of salvation — and that has never been suggested . |
| 24 | Now what is in fact being said in a Christology created within such a cultural framework , is that God in Christ took on ‘ humanity ’ — the universal . |
| 25 | While at the same time we might say of all of us that God in Christ took on a humanity which , with him , we share . |
| 26 | Even if we take patristic Christology , in which it is said that God in Christ took on humanity in which we all participate , it is still the case that that human nature was the human nature of a male human being . |
| 27 | In the early stages both Pat Eddery on Dancing Brave and Gary Moore on Bering held up their mounts towards the rear , but had improved to the middle of the pack as the field made the downhill run towards the straight . |
| 28 | The 1919 Versailles Conference decision to award Shandong to Japan sparked off the nationalist eruption of the 4 May Movement in Beijing and a boycott of Japanese goods . |
| 29 | During the night of 10 February the eight Whitleys at Luqa took off to drop their paratroops over Italy for the ‘ Colossus ’ venture . |
| 30 | The longcase clock in the hall began its silver chiming and Sally with Hawkins came back with several dusty port bottles . |