Example sentences of "[noun prp] [subord] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their value is 200 GCs if sold to a collector ; non-collectors wo n't buy them at any price . |
| 2 | How do you turn a clapped-out Lada into a Mercedes while driving down the motorway ? |
| 3 | She met Andy while working on a production of Carmen at Sky Television , and at their wedding , her two outfits stole the show . |
| 4 | Like most true Cornishmen , the Arundells were staunchly Royalist during the troubles , and the sixth Sir John was killed at Plymouth while charging at the head of his troop in 1643 . |
| 5 | Well folks , Here is my virgin entry into the world of the Leeds-United mailing list ( not counting my plea for the Leeds-Crewe score on Saturday whilst shackled to a PC ) . |
| 6 | ‘ Like all provincial towns , it will lose its individuality , ’ said Hardy when presented with the Freedom of the Borough in 1910 , but he could not have foreseen the demise of the small local shops so intrinsic to the town 's character , or the threat of a huge new shopping centre . |
| 7 | In her effort to record the delight she derives from such details , evidently travelling as far afield as the US and Turkey , her outdoor work recalls both the practice of Marjorie Content 's work of 1928 in picking out the pattern of urban activity and its settings , and Lee Friedlander when focusing on the witty suggestibility of statues and lamp-posts , while her interiors remind me of the work of Margaret Watkins of 1919 . |
| 8 | While the UK and the USA reportedly expressed support for plans to transform the nine-member Paris-based Western European Union ( WEU ) [ see p. 37212 ] into the basis of a cohesive European defence pillar for NATO , other member states , notably France , Germany and Italy , saw the WEU as evolving into a genuine European security and defence policy . |
| 9 | V. iv , death of Richard as performed in a private theatre , PP 49 . |
| 10 | From about July 1988 to March 1989 inclusive the first defendant entered into transactions with members of the United Kingdom investing public who paid out money thereunder in return for shares in Euramco as appears from the entries for that period in the schedule annexed hereto . |
| 11 | More people were put to death in Ireland than died in the French revolutionary Terror of the time . |
| 12 | Victorians disregarded , or perhaps frequented , child prostitutes in the Strand until re-sensitised to the evil by a reformist campaign . |
| 13 | AMOCO , the US oil company , announced last night that it had found a new gasfield 125 miles east of Aberdeen while drilling on a prospect it has named Appleton . |
| 14 | Items like smoked salmon ( usually from Scotland or Ireland when served in the UK and the Loire when served in France ) , oyster , artichokes and asparagus , are regular first course features on French and international menus — and whether in English or a foreign language they are good choices for the figure- and health-conscious . |
| 15 | At this stage in his life , this was as important to Nicholson as searching for the character he was playing . |
| 16 | In addition it offers the latest avalanche conditions in Scotland as supplied by the Scottish Mountain Safety Group , and winter climbing conditions in the major Scottish centres . |
| 17 | The implementation of the government 's proposals for reforming the NHS as outlined in the White Paper Working for Patients in January 1989 [ see pp. 36503 ; 37158 ] made significant advances in the early part of 1990 to ensure the creation of an internal market uniformly across the country by April 1991 . |
| 18 | The guardian ad litem had been to a well known and eminent consultant psychiatrist , who described L. as suffering from an ‘ emotional disorder characterised by anxious , withdrawn and fearful behaviour accompanied by temper tantrums . ’ |
| 19 | Their only rule of religious , moral and social life was the Law of Moses as found in the first five books of the Old Testament ( called the Pentateuch or the Torah ) . |
| 20 | It was discovered as recently as 1983 by Alain le Brun when excavating at the Neolithic settlement of Khirokitia in southern Cyprus and has been found to date from 6000 B.C. The important point about its location is that Cyprus has no wild cats and this means that the animal must have been brought over to the island by the early human settlers . |
| 21 | The PKK had on Oct. 1 shot dead about 55 people ( most of the population ) in the small village of Cevizdali near Bitlis when confronted by the army . |
| 22 | The South Korean news agency Yonhap on Oct. 19 reported Kim as saying during the visit that he would remain in power for four to five more years . |
| 23 | Christian spoke of Nahum as belonging to the new generation of his people , an educated man and a future spokesman for them . |
| 24 | Since the rise of semi-literate England as seen in the dissolution of so many libraries is something that only political action will be able to solve — in an age when , despite a decade of ‘ Thatcherism ’ and a supposed return to Victorian standards , the state is still all-powerful — it is suitable to end on a political note . |
| 25 | It was Hudd , five seasons ago , who waved his flag furiously at referee Hobbs when , unsighted , he failed to spot Proby forcing his shinpad down the throat of Mossborough Sandinista 's Keith Driscoll until alerted by the enthusiastic linesman . |
| 26 | Not in a career sense , because the leaden weight that lay on her heart told her that his career was now Loxford with Quindale , Church End , New End and Snead until relieved by the trumpets of Doomsday , but as a person . |
| 27 | The regional materials of each area , once so varied , began their slow demise as bricks , for instance , became cheaper to import from the Midlands than to bake in the village kiln . |
| 28 | Fur coats/jackets , etc. are not covered under this section but would be covered under Jewellery and Valuables if effected under the policy . |
| 29 | When added to the tapering off of Soviet oil production , the ‘ opportunity cost ’ to the USSR of energy exports to CMEA as opposed to the West has altered appreciably — all the more so once these exports became vital for financing her own grain and equipment imports from the West . |
| 30 | By June 1990 a total of 95,000 Germans had their applications for citizenship approved by the West German embassy in Bucharest , while the mayor of Sibiu , Mircea Tomas , was reported by Tanjug as saying during a visit to Belgrade that the German community in Romania had fallen to only 80,000 . |