Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His most notorious story was a psychoanalysis of Rupert Murdoch based on material from sources including the office cleaners . |
| 2 | A spokeswoman for the US relief agency Care said on Nov. 12 that as many as 40 people might have died in a gunfight between guards and gunmen who ambushed a convoy of trucks heading for Baidoa north-west of Mogadishu laden with grain for starving people , forcing all but one truck to turn back . |
| 3 | ( The biography of Evan published in Welsh in 1987 appeared under the title Llyfr Rhodyn ei Daid — ‘ His grandfather 's fern book ’ . ) |
| 4 | Had ICI decided to hive off its less promising activities to struggle on as best they could , leaving the main field to more glamorous products ? |
| 5 | Direct employment in Scotland associated with Ministry of Defence expenditure on equipment stood at around 14,000 in 1989-90 . |
| 6 | ( Robyn scans the front-page headline of the Guardian , ‘ LAWSON DRAWN INTO FRAY OVER WESTLAND ’ , but does not linger over the text beneath . |
| 7 | The booklet has ben produced as part of the NKRF/Kidney Foundation Gift of Life initiative , a campaign to prevent kidney disease , and to encourage more people to carry organ donor cards . |
| 8 | It was a little winter scene — the Thames frozen from bank to bank , people skating , and children playing round a bonfire on the ice . |
| 9 | In the Court of Appeal , Lord Denning MR decided in favour of Cheall , invoking the European Convention on Human Rights , which declared that everyone had a right to join a trade union , which proposition Lord Denning identified with the common law . |
| 10 | Prior to the application to Council , a research project financed by the Polytechnic , Wolverhampton based on sample from the Gloucester and the Bristol port books had developed a database capable of storing and retrieving commodity and topographical data . |
| 11 | Skipper Alan Kernaghan led by example at the heart of defence and Andy Peake did an excellent job against his former team . |
| 12 | It was clear to Alexei that if the Merkuts did not wish to see Jehana given in marriage to Artai , there were reasons which had nothing to do with the suitability of the match . |
| 13 | Hunt , a part-time preacher , had also been under investigation for using state-owned aircraft for profit-making preaching trips , but was understood not to have ben charged in relation to this . |
| 14 | After an even start Oxford led by quarter of a length at the mile but Cambridge were ahead by the same distance at Hammersmith Bridge . |
| 15 | Never , in all her life , had Lydia gone to bed with anyone out of simple mechanical need and never out of the kindness of her heart . |
| 16 | The 44th session of the UN General Assembly in New York adopted by consensus on Dec. 11 , 1989 , a resolution recognizing the joint efforts of the UN and the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) to achieve a peaceful solution to the Saharan conflict but noted the importance of bringing about direct negotiations between Morocco and the Polisario Front . |
| 17 | With the scores level , Akram then had Mallender caught at slip via a rebound and bowled Tufnell next ball . |
| 18 | Somerset openers Andy Hayhurst and Mark Lathwell began promisingly against the pacemen but Carrick came on for the last over before lunch and had Lathwell caught at slip off a cunningly flighted ball which turned . |
| 19 | He expresses the opinion that had Miss Thomas arrived at hospital before 1.32 a.m. she would almost certainly have been saved . |
| 20 | Emmenthal must have Switzerland stamped in red on its rind , whereas the markings on Gruyère are in blue . |
| 21 | The might of Gloucester beaten by bottom of the table , West Hartlepool , who 'd never won a first division game before . |