Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [conj] [noun prp] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And for reformers from above — based in Whitehall rather than Northern Ireland — the past operation of local democracy was seen as part of the problem . |
| 2 | Oliver was below the salt , as far as Sir Thomas was concerned , and Gwendolen had been placed next to Lord Beddington so that Sir Thomas did not have to look at her . |
| 3 | With Mel Blyth alongside and John Jackson in goal , John was part of the triumvirate who did most to keep us in Division one for four seasons . |
| 4 | This charge may not be true ; but there is no doubt that a later President , the Earl of Bridgewater , took an entrance fee of £100 from new attorneys in the reign of Charles L42 Two men , Edward More and William Hickman , offered £1 , 1,000 for the office of Receiver of the Court of Wards . |
| 5 | CLAYBANK could prove a blinking good bet at Ayr today if Barry Hills 's big race plan pays off . |
| 6 | The President is former MP and Minister of Sport Denis Howell and with him is Malcolm Willcox of the Midlands Club Cricket Conference , Warwickshire Chairman of Cricket Dennis Amiss and Alan Oakman . |
| 7 | Warrington maintained their revival with a convincing 30–18 victory over St Helens on Saturday even though Kevin Ellis was sent off for an alleged trip . |
| 8 | CHA AM & HUA HIN |
| 9 | He does not shoot them , but at the Polyparty end — an area of open seating — he shoots Geneviève Bergeron twice and Anne-Marie Edward four times , killing them both . |
| 10 | Penny Warlock , Toby Freely and Corbett Farraday grouped themselves around a rickety occasional table , on which was perched one of Mrs Crumwallis 's repulsive collections of cacti . |
| 11 | Maynard 's quartet beat Hertfordshire 's Ryan O'Ferguson heavily and Nathan Birkett , Steve Tucker , Jamie Holmes and Paul Clapp conquered Cambridgeshire . |
| 12 | Late in the afternoon , Loppe arrived , which frankly no one had expected , for Loppe was managing things at Kouklia just as Mick Crackbene was guarding the harbour at Famagusta . |
| 13 | Reports in American newspapers and on television ensured that they were heard in Washington just as President Clinton was considering whether to tie trade with China to questions of human rights . |
| 14 | His well-being is of even higher importance to Scotland now that Peter Dods , such an admirable understudy with 23 caps , had decided to call it a day . |
| 15 | THERE WAS a double celebration in Glenrothes recently as Margaret Cunningham ( left ) and Christine Munro were presented with carriage clocks to mark ten years with CCG . |
| 16 | The dominant male of the period , like Kenneth More or Michael Dennison , was sexless , full of ‘ common sense ’ , above all , decent : the exaggerated nature of the Edwardians ' dress , its appropriation from middle-class roots , and the obsessional nature with which they pursued it , all spoke of people who did not know their place . |
| 17 | Even younger hopefuls , like Nigel Williams and Paul Bryers ( whose recent The Adultery Department took inexplicable potshots at Seventies-style communal living ) , seem to borrow their stylistic and thematic ideas from Brian Rix rather than Evelyn Waugh . |
| 18 | Feel like Ken Dodd at the Hippodrome rather than Joyce Grenfell at the Fortune . |
| 19 | ‘ The person in New York you sent a letter to on Beatrix 's behalf-could her name have been van Ryneveld rather than van Ryan ? ’ |
| 20 | Drums , I 'll have Fred Below and Al Jackson . |
| 21 | AN EMOTIONAL row broke out in Manila yesterday as Mrs Imelda Marcos vowed to defy a government ban on her bringing home her husband 's body for burial at the weekend . |
| 22 | Kee did his best to keep Albion out but Andy Hunt could n't fail with the rebound … |
| 23 | I went for a very short while to the Royal Academy of Arts for a leaving party being given for Mrs William Kerr , who firstly as Griselda Hamilton-Baillie then as Griselda Kerr , has worked so hard on the public relations staff of the Royal Academy , since 1972 . |
| 24 | Israel thinks Syria wants the UN there because Mr Assad has not accepted , in his heart , the need for face-to-face negotiation with the Jewish state . |
| 25 | It was difficult to abandon the RPF precisely because de Gaulle had so compromised himself and his unique prestige by setting it up in the first place , by fighting elections , and by being a politician " like the others " . |
| 26 | Was Costello simply upping his profile as a serious performer by hanging out with egghead musicians whose forte is Shostakovich rather than Chuck Berry ? |
| 27 | Mostly it 's woman trouble , though there 's a few went to Sweden rather than Northern Ireland . |
| 28 | Botha will almost certainly captain South Africa rather than Jannie Breedt , though Breedt may well stay as No 8 . |
| 29 | McCool was omitted from the afternoon singles along with National champion Eavan Higgins so that Hazel Kavanagh of Grange could be given her first match in the tournament and Barbara Hackett from Castletroy her second outing . |
| 30 | So Howard flies out from the Bahamas just as Bill Saltman flies in . |