Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [art] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should like to take this opportunity to thank all the employees of Johnson Matthey for the skilled and dedicated service that resulted in this year 's record performance |
| 2 | The policies of the Fabians were described by Beatrice Webb during the 1890s as ‘ essentially collective ownership wherever practicable ; collective regulation everywhere else ; collective provision according to need for all the impotent and sufferers ; and collective taxation in proportion to wealth ’ . |
| 3 | Other spellings — Kyese , Keise , Keese — are known to have been recorded in the shires of Gloucester , Worcester and Hereford during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , but today only the style Keyse is found in that area , and Kease appears nowhere except in the author 's own ancestral bloodline . |
| 4 | Overseeing the whole process would be a Scottish Deer Commission , replacing the RDC as a credible and contemporary wildlife management agency , with wide responsibilities , adequate resources and meaningful powers . |
| 5 | We remember the Spiros as a warm and loving family . ’ |
| 6 | The English first bred turkeys in Norfolk during the 17th and 18th centuries . |
| 7 | Negotiations on June 2 in Moscow between the Russian and Moldovan Foreign Ministers agreed to establish working groups for a negotiated settlement . |
| 8 | These were Denis Baxter for his delicate etching ‘ Cannington Viaduct ’ , Miranda Ellis for the almost abstract and evocatively coloured watercolour ‘ Blue morning kitchen window ’ , Sophie Rider for the solid and amusing sculpture ‘ Horse with tulip ’ and Bonnie Brown for the de Stael-like oil painting ‘ Celia 's dream on the headland ’ . |
| 9 | He is helped by some good performances , too , especially from Danny Webb as the cleverest and most conscience-racked of the sales force . |
| 10 | But as they approached Kingsbere after a long and tiring day 's journey , a man came to tell them there were no rooms available . |
| 11 | He convinces Roderigo that Cassio is a rival likely to seduce Desdemona , and makes Othello and Montano see Cassio as a drunken and irresponsible officer . |
| 12 | For students taking the American Studies strand , a particular feature of the course is the intercalary year which is taken at a university in the United States between the second and final years . |
| 13 | Listen to the Ink Spots , watch Paris , Texas for the eighth or ninth time , shut the doors and lie back on those same damp pillows . |
| 14 | A particular form of abuse which was greatly resented was the levying of extra taxes to pay for imperial ceremonies — for example the assumption of power by a new sultan — and for the increasing costs of the wars which the empire was forced to fight as its power was challenged by its enemies , notably the Habsburgs during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 15 | I grew up in a small mining village on the outskirts of Rotherham during the fifties and sixties . |
| 16 | This effort at reconciliation , combined with gradual economic improvement , allowed Kádár to steer Hungary through the 1960s and 1970s towards increasingly liberal , economic and social measures . |
| 17 | Gen. Amin al-Hafiz , President of Syria during the early and mid-1960s , was also a member . |
| 18 | Jan Cochran has written to Pat about the above and , amongst other things , has asked if we are planning to invite the voluntary sector to contribute . |
| 19 | Even so , the direction of the indigenous developments on Crete during the neolithic and Early Minoan periods is enough to show a continuity into the Middle Minoan . |
| 20 | REAL PALS : Andrew Bell ( left ) was helped by Frankie as a lonely and mixed-up teenager |
| 21 | There are many more than ten but I would certainly say they include my grandmother Sarah Howells , and Rosa Parks , the black American woman whose protest sparked off the civil rights movement in the United States during the Sixties when she refused to move from a whites-only seat on a bus . |
| 22 | Such technical control was first developed in the mechanised , mass-production industries in the United States during the 1890s and early years of the present century , as epitomised in the steel mills . |
| 23 | She worked widely in the United States during the forties and fifties , playing , among other parts , Blanche in Tennessee Williams ' A Streetcar Named Desire , then made her English début in the West End in 1960 , playing Mrs Patrick Campbell . |
| 24 | He 's accused of murdering Dr John Gore and his wife Ruth Gore at their cottage in Tetbury between the 6th and 9th of September last year . |
| 25 | Andrew Sarris accepted that , ‘ By following up the glamorous Graduate with the dreggiest drop-out imaginable , Dustin Hoffman has achieved his aim of not becoming the Andy Hardy of the sixties and seventies . ’ |
| 26 | The three points on this line lie within of a degree and the line extends to the church at Bishops Cannings with a better than ⅛ degree accuracy . |
| 27 | The Crues make their UEFA Cup debut against Swiss side Servette Geneva at Seaview on Tuesday with no fewer than five of their regulars classed as ‘ foreigners ’ . |
| 28 | Compare the delicate creamy taste and springy texture of a Charme de France Brie with the softer but more traditional flavour of St Benoit Brie , both have a floury edible rind . |
| 29 | ‘ During their short lives the twins brought much happiness to people both through their singing with Christ Church choir and their work , Becky with the elderly and Emma with children . ’ |
| 30 | I have just discovered that Gaveston was probably poisoning the Lady Eleanor with a slow but subtle potion . ’ |