Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then come to the POTENTIAL TEACHERS DAY on Saturday 8th March to enjoy an informative Day of Movement with the Medau Society 's Trainers . |
| 2 | The upper storeys of the dwellings leaned out over the street , giving them a drunken appearance , and the dim caverns beyond the light of the high street seemed to Isabel to mirror the dark side of this city of churches . |
| 3 | The murder in Medellín on May 21 of a leading PL senator , Frederico Estrada Veléz , persuaded Barco to cancel a two-day visit to Peru for an Andean Pact summit meeting [ see p. 37451 ] . |
| 4 | When John Hawarde , a lawyer , was summoned from his rooms in the Temple to attend the Privy Council at Greenwich he had to pay Mr Ward , the Clerk of the Council , a royal for recording his appearance , 6s. 8d. for his entering into a bond , and 6s. 8d. for the bond itself . |
| 5 | I congratulate the Government on appointing Mr. Norman Warner to conduct the national inquiry . |
| 6 | Some , including Field Marshal Lord Roberts , at one time Commander-in-Chief of the British Army , were for landing at Antwerp to sustain the Belgian Army and pose an inhibiting threat to the German right wing . |
| 7 | Whilst I was in Aachen the Head of Swedish Radio invited me to Stockholm to conduct the new Radio Orchestra and I was asked if I would do the Sixth Symphony , which was quite new then and very little known . |
| 8 | The failure to find trade outlets in a world dominated by the French , British , Belgian and Dutch colonial holdings led Germany to penetrate the Slav east — the Balkans in particular — but there , as in Prussia , they did no more than provoke Slav nationalism . |
| 9 | They had found too much to discuss for the last train to Swindon to remain a realistic option and Harry had gladly accepted the offer of overnight hospitality . |
| 10 | OFFICIALS in Elvis Presley 's home county have filed a lawsuit demanding the state of Tennessee to launch a new investigation into the singer 's death . |
| 11 | The next crisis in inter-communist relations was a result of the attempt by the Dubček leadership in Czechoslovakia to establish an alternative model of socialism , one that accorded more closely with the humanistic and democratic traditions of their country . |
| 12 | On Jan. 14 the official Iranian news agency IRNA reported that growing tension between the Parcham and Khalq factions had recently led Najibullah to impose a 14-day emergency in Kabul ; officers and soldiers had been warned to remain in barracks . |
| 13 | Students at Fourah Bay College and other establishments had demonstrated and gone on strike during March to demand a multiparty system . |
| 14 | Although Sacheverell was found guilty , the decision by the House of Lords on 21 March to impose the mild sentence of three years ' suspension from preaching was widely seen as a moral victory for the doctor over the Whigs , and the news was greeted with ( often violent ) celebrations throughout the country . |
| 15 | Paul Thompson ( 1967 ) sees the triumph of Labour as a constructive coalescence of the mature proletarian class consciousness which emerged with the displacement of small-scale production and an effective LLP , while Julia Bush ( 1978 ) , concentrating on the experience of East London , argues that during the first world war socialist activity and the growing confidence and strength of the trades unions enabled the LLP to establish a solid base which it exploited to the full when hostilities ceased . |
| 16 | On the motor bike we rode all over the countryside , to Bathampton , Bradford-on-Avon to see the old tithe barn , to Bristol to visit the Llandoger Trow , and as far as Cheltenham Spa , Leamington and Gloucester . |
| 17 | His grace together with his wife Lady Powis and the Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire Alex Carlisle were among a large group of guests who gathered in Welshpool to see the official opening of the ‘ new ’ Raven Square station buildings . |
| 18 | An assistant geologist in the Karachi office and the first employee from LASMO Pakistan to attend a full-time degree course in the UK , he graduated at the end of October . |
| 19 | To give Perdita a break , Luke took her away the following Saturday to see a high goal match at the famous Hurlingham Club which left her speechless with wonder , then on to Buenos Aires to an English production of The Merchant of Venice throughout most of which she slept . |
| 20 | Another favourite to go out early on was Kevin Mitchell who retired at Portrush on lap one so it was left to Brian Reid , Alan Patterson , and Alan Irwin to carry the main challenge to Dunlop along with Milling and Lougher . |
| 21 | A roundabout was built at the top of Anerley Hill to provide a run-round loop and was said to be located partly in five different boroughs . |
| 22 | Lisbon diplomats said Portugal had asked the United States to try a new initiative to bring the two sides together . |
| 23 | In the meantime Mr James will be asking accountants Coopers & Lybrand to provide the necessary support in this area . |
| 24 | Yesterday 's statement was agreed by more than 30 members of the securities industry and drawn up by Terry Pearson , senior securities adviser at the Royal Bank , after securities specialists met on Tuesday to find a practical replacement for Taurus . |
| 25 | In 1934 Cutts commissioned James Hilton to write a short story which eventually turned into Goodbye Mr Chips . |
| 26 | Military pressure on Mr Gorbachev to find a quick way of ending the war stems from a bigger worry : that , by letting America take over conduct of the war , the Soviet Union will see its influence suffer in the region , especially if American troops stay on once the fighting is over . |
| 27 | At Leiston , Whiteley engaged A. S. Neill to provide a well-attended course in Psychology . |
| 28 | Time enough later for Lucy to know the sheer delight of making love to her . |
| 29 | In a joint statement issued on Sept. 25 Meyer and Ramaphosa announced that their talks had progressed sufficiently to allow President de Klerk and Mandela to meet the following day . |
| 30 | Mr Millan is speaking at a lunch to be held at the SAS Royal Hotel in Brussels to celebrate the new venture , which is the first official joint undertaking of the two law societies [ which represent solicitors in their two jurisdictions ] . |