Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worse for them , whether they go on backing Mr Gorbachev or opt for some other tough guy , the rattle of gunfire has not had the intended effect . |
| 2 | The tariff reform camp had a bonus in 1911 from events in Canada : Laurier 's Liberal government had negotiated a Reciprocity Agreement with the United States that cut across all of the arguments for imperial preference . |
| 3 | The section of CONFIG.SYS that deals with this looks like this : device=c : \dos\himem.sys device=c : \dos\emm386.exe noems dos=high , umb devicehigh=c : \dos\smartdrv.sys xxxx yyyy ( where xxxx is the cache size , and yyyy is the minimum size it can be when Windows 3.0 or higher is running ) |
| 4 | Homeless people got off trains at Euston , King 's Cross and Paddington and came to that area . |
| 5 | Then to that further past , still up the stream Ascend and think of some divine first day In holidays from school . |
| 6 | They are allotted by tender each Friday and issued on each working day by the Bank of England . |
| 7 | The branch is involved in the Greater Notts TEC and contributes to this involvement considerably . |
| 8 | ‘ Champagne , hot scented baths , Sibelius , tiny kittens , very , very , very expensive underwear that you hardly know you 're wearing , and skiing at night and going into the big stores on fifth Avenue and trying on all the three-hundred-dollar dresses and shoes and then saying that I do n't like any of them — I do that quite often — and … ’ |
| 9 | So she gave Jamie to a horse dealer called Liz Burt and asked for another in return . |
| 10 | The penultimate chapter in this book will be concerned with arriving at generalisations about the functioning and effectiveness of the project as a whole , but it is appropriate at this point to identify a number of interesting features of the Major Project as illustrated by these two schools , and to indicate some issues that require further thought . |
| 11 | The Lou Reed that emerges from this pathetic book is a self-satisfied boor when he is intoxicated , a self-righteous booby when sober . |
| 12 | ( 7 ) At or about this time , the bidder will hold its own EGM and comply with all necessary formalities . |
| 13 | The pattern of uneven development was thus between growth in the South East and West Midlands of England and decline in much of the rest of the country . |
| 14 | This means that all users who may be affected by the SPR are notified of its existence via the Mail System , and that a particular user is nominated to respond to the SPR and informed of this responsibility via the Mail System . |
| 15 | The chamfered heel , the shock-absorbing device of the first K-SB3s and used on many other early boots , has now been rejected by many hillwalkers . |
| 16 | He also included four strophic Arien and continued in this simpler vein in his Teutsche Villanellen for one to three voices ( 1627 ) . |
| 17 | It was centred on Athens and felt by more than a third of the population . |
| 18 | I went to Dubai and called on several prominent figures who had known him as a local businessman . |
| 19 | Once she 'd met Janice and come to some conclusion , then she would know what she had to do next . |
| 20 | In the Islamic communities of the savannah religious reformation tended to reinforce entrepreneurial skill , as demonstrated by the Murid Brotherhood in Senegal and in the development of the ‘ Reformed Tijianiya ’ ( a more fundamentalist and anti-colonial Islamic movement ) which also originated in Senegal but spread through much of the savannah in the 1930s . |
| 21 | So I had to go to Moscow and look for some plywood . |
| 22 | Colchester police issued a photograph of Lisa and appealed for any sightings of her to be reported . |
| 23 | So when I have to weigh up whether I can afford to trade in my battered old VW and think of those who have a BMW or Mercedes , then you begin to wonder at the sense of it all . |
| 24 | Towards A.D. 900 refugees coming north from Moslem-occupied Spain settled near León and established in that area an architectural style part Christian and part Arabic , called Mozarabic . |
| 25 | He will be badly injured but will return to the Highlands and live for many years . ’ |
| 26 | It has an innocent enough title — The Needs of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers from their Medical Departments in the 1990s — and in it he very reasonably argues that an increasingly sophisticated public , provided with alarming insights concerning drugs like Opren and thalidomide by such philosophical weeklies as the Sunday Times , is going to demand a great deal more information about the many medicines doctors so recklessly prescribe , ( Those are n't quite the terms he uses , by the way . ) |
| 27 | A report prepared by head teachers in Cambridgeshire and circulated to all county councillors comments on the impact of the £2 million cut in the county council 's budget . |
| 28 | It covers about 3630 acres , traversed by the River Holbeck and drained by several small tributaries , mainly Fitlock Brook . |
| 29 | George 's return from Northumbria , in the company of Alcuin , a representative on this occasion of King Aelfwald , was followed by a great southern council , presided over by Archbishop Jaenberht and King Offa and attended by all the bishops of the southern province , at which reforming decrees were promulgated . |
| 30 | The foulest Babylonian custom is that which compels every woman of the land once in her life to sit in the temple of Ishtar and lay with some stranger … after sexual union has made the woman holy in the goddess ' sight , she returns home … |