Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [art] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Although the Soviet Union had become the major influence on revolutionary socialist movements since 1917 , the Communist International had always looked upon Germany as the next most likely centre for a proletarian revolution . |
2 | He then hit Snell for a fifth straight six and a 12th four before being deceived by Kuiper 's slower ball , which he skied to extra . |
3 | Trovoada had been under increasing popular pressure to take action against Daio after the latter publicly criticized him on April 3 . |
4 | BORIS YELTSIN , maverick and volleyball enthusiast , is the only plausible rival to Mikhail Gorbachev for the first freely elected president of the Soviet Union . |
5 | In her own words : ‘ I left home on the 9.30 a.m. train to attend a Medau class in London , travelled across to Balham in time for music , followed by the evening of training , then still in track suit back to Paddington for the 10.30 p.m. train , arriving home at 1 or 2 a.m. the next day . |
6 | Nevertheless , it was a jubilant team which returned from the match venue on the River Sorria in Portugal with the highest ever placing for an Irish team in this event . |
7 | But the theories of urban degeneracy put forward by Charles Booth and Llewellyn-Smith in the 1880s still followed the principle set by Lamarck — that acquired characteristics could be inherited . |
8 | The play portrayed the life and fantasies of Zoditch , a crusty , lonely old publishing clerk ( played by Dustin in a high-pitched nasally projected voice ) , responsible for reading the diary of Chulkaturin , a nineteenth-century Russian landowner who died young . |
9 | Entries trickled in all Saturday plus a few just five minutes before the event started on Sunday to bring us up to just about last year 's figure . |
10 | I pulled off my entire six-man defence and , much to his surprise , sent on Reg Pybus as the lone forward and moved the forwards back into defence . |
11 | A grossly unstable patient from a referring hospital turns out to be a typical ( for us ) unstable angina ; a patient with life-threatening ventricular tachycardia can only come to Barts for the appropriate highly specialised medical or nursing therapy ( or one of the few other centres , most of which are also on the Tomlinson hit-list ) . |
12 | It surpasses BPX 's old record , set in July for the A-24 well , which extended 2,500 feet . |
13 | In particular , the introduction by Mike Mogridge of a sponsored Pro-Am Tournament in 1980 is of special significance , raising over the next seven years over £20,000 for charity and bringing many interesting people to the Club — Ian Botham , David Lloyd , Ray Reardon , to mention a few . |
14 | A fan ran on the pitch and attempted to approach Walsh after the sending-off as early as the 14th minute . |
15 | The once-great Computer Systems News , which had to suffer the indignity in its declining months of being called Systems and Network Integration , gives up the ghost this week but not before it reports that IBM will turn up at AutoFacts in November with a new-fangled massively parallel machine that runs both AIX/ES and MVS and is based on a new ( possibly hybrid ) chip developed at the Thomas Watson Lab . |
16 | Meanwhile , the UK Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , in a speech to the House of Commons on Feb. 22 , said that reforms in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union were likely to transform NATO into a political rather than a military alliance . |
17 | It is offering optimised Pentium compilers for those that want to do the job themselves , but Santa Cruz claims performance increases by 170% on Pentium from an 80486 even without recompiling — and around 230% with recompilation . |
18 | They drove back out of Bourton in the gloomy still gusty dusk but even in that light the village sprawled around shallow stream criss-crossed with toy bridges had an undeniable if rather practised charm . |
19 | The City party had left Coventry on the two o'clock train , which was cheaper than the earlier ones but allowed no room for delay — and the engine broke down during the journey . |
20 | Day One : Travel from London Liverpool Street on the 7.30 p.m. boat train to Harwich . |
21 | The arrival of skiffle in the UK during the mid-'50s also added to blues awareness , Lonnie Donegan even nicking his stage name from New Orleans ' blues giant Lonnie Johnson . |
22 | His eyes were hard now , glaring at d'Aubigny with the occasional sideways knowing glance at the sulky Angus . |
23 | Dowie and Moore peppered the Forest goal with headers while Marriott frustrated Hurlock with a superb one-handed save from his 25-yard shot . |
24 | The text almost serves as a history of aviation in the UK from the 1930s onwards . |
25 | Norman Girvan 's ( 1976 ) study of mining TNCs in the Caribbean evocatively labels this relationship ‘ Corporate Imperialism ’ . |
26 | I 'll take you over to Paris and we 'll watch them in Paris on the twenty so she said , oh when ? |
27 | Concepts of scientific management were discredited until the Dust-Bowl of the 1930s once again focused public attention onto the problem of unrestricted exploitation of land and water . |
28 | The tension between the ideas of nationalism and of socialism , and the great strength of the former , can also be seen in other , somewhat different contexts ; in Quebec , for example , the rise of the Parti Quebecois in the 1960s almost certainly owed more to its nationalism than to the social democratic aspects of its programme . |
29 | Well she goes June come on , could have had it next Friday I think something must be happening next Friday , she goes to Australia on the seventh well maybe that is next Friday Oh no it 's the is n't it ? |
30 | Back to Washingtons on the 22nd again with F/L Easter for Operation Bullseye — my last Bullseye was in a Lincoln ( 'J ’ ) on March 29 , 1957 — we did a seven hour night trip , bombing Heligoland from 18,200 feet — problems on the way back with controls iced-up prior to interception by night fighters off Cromer . |