Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No mention was made in the 1956 Defence White Paper of the possibility of ending National Service , but within the War Office a committee was set up under General Sir Richard Hull ( later to become Field Marshal , succeeding Mountbatten in 1965 as Chief of Defence Staff ) to examine the size of regular Army that would be needed , and could be recruited , if National Service was abolished . |
| 2 | If your qualifications are not from the UK , or if you have studied in the UK for less than threee years by the start of the academic year for which you are applying , you are considered an overseas student for the purpose of entrance . |
| 3 | When Winston Churchill visited East Africa in 1906 as Under-Secretary of State for the colonies , his private coach was frequently detached at station sidings along the line so that the distinguished Nimrod could go hunting near by . |
| 4 | The rulers of Thessaly , then , resembled the Macedonians in considered as Greek was racially no worse than Macedon 's ; Simonides had performed there before Pindar , and in 460 Thessaly was to produce an Olympic victor called Agias . |
| 5 | She had gone to Moscow in 1943 as correspondent for the Observer and the Yorkshire Post , and from this experience wrote Soviet Ballet ( 1945 ) , which helped to introduce contemporary Russian dancing to the British public . |
| 6 | He joined Wimpey in 1981 as development accountant for the accounting systems project team in Hammersmith . |
| 7 | The appointment of John Moore in 1987 as Secretary of State at the DHSS was seen by some as a signal that the welfare programme would receive a dose of Thatcherism . |
| 8 | Henry Robb had arrived in Leith in 1913 as yard manager for Ramage & Ferguson but in 1918 decided to branch out on his own as a ship repairer . |
| 9 | Mr Medley jointed WWF in 1978 as Director from Glaxo Laboratories India Ltd where he was Managing Director . |
| 10 | ‘ Better drop it , ’ said Cardiff at last as thunder boomed in the sky and the reception glass lit up again with the flash . |
| 11 | ‘ T'was in more than t'colour of his hair that he was like a fox , ’ the maid replied . |