Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But also Swindon as an ex-railway town , that is looking to the future . |
| 2 | Beltsville , Maryland-based Micros Systems Inc reports that it has bought a 15% equity interest in Fidelio Software GmbH of Munich , Germany for an undisclosed cash sum with the option to buy the company outright over six years ; it also took majority stakes in three Fidelio distribution and support units . |
| 3 | Playing down Russia 's reparations demands , he offered to create a centralised , united Germany as an independent force on the world stage . |
| 4 | American and British policy makers saw western Germany as an important bastion against Soviet Communism , a country which , being in the front line against the Red Army , must be tied securely to the West . |
| 5 | Manager Ian Porterfield certainly sees Newton as an important part of Chelsea 's future , insisting : ‘ Eddie 's got authority , and that makes him very , very promising . ’ |
| 6 | KEEP CLEAR : Ref Roger Dilkes ignores an angry Dave Beasant … . after giving a free-kick against Chelsea for an accidental back-pass … |
| 7 | GTE Corp 's GTE Telephone Operations in Irving , Texas has signed definitive agreements to sell its telephone service areas in North Dakota and South Dakota for an undisclosed sum : it will sell its 10,200 access lines in North Dakota to TPC Inc , owned by United Telephone Mutual Aid Corp , Dakota Central Telecommunications Cooperative and Polar Communications Mutual Aid Corp and its 8,000 access lines in South Dakota to Golden West Telecommunications Co-operative , GTE said . |
| 8 | I also like to give credit where it is due , and would , therefore , like to thank members of the Great Central Railway who were very helpful and friendly when I made a recent visit to Rothley and Loughborough as an ordinary visitor . |
| 9 | But his outburst will not sway Graham Taylor , who said : ‘ I see Nigel Clough as an important member of my squad . ’ |
| 10 | Dr Malcolm Chase , who is conducting the day school , highlighted the importance of Middlesbrough as an industrial area . |
| 11 | HP has beaten incumbent mainframe suppliers , IBM and Unisys to a contract with Televerket of Stockholm worth an initial $4.6m , which could grow to $100m by 1996 . |
| 12 | Mr Paisley said he had taken up an invitation from Miss Boothroyd to raise his concerns after an unsuccessful request by Upper Bann MP David Trimble for an urgent debate in the Commons yesterday . |
| 13 | Lucky Jim as an over-night visitor drunkenly burning his host 's sheets with his cigarette-ends , and desperately trying to disguise the damage with a pair of scissors , is farcical in a Wodehouse sort of way , though the social rank of the characters is down more than a notch or two . |
| 14 | In February 1935 , without consulting his father , he stood at a by-election in Wavertree as an independent Conservative against the India Bill , thus splitting the party vote and letting in Labour . |
| 15 | In 1949 the Drama Board was set up by Leo Baker as an examining body to give national qualification to tutors of youth drama . |
| 16 | The best laughs are earned by a fine supporting cast , including Alison Fiske as an acerbic Mrs Pearce , and Michael Bryant , one of the best actors in London , as Alfred Doolittle , stealing his scenes as shamelessly as his character extracts money from Professor Higgins . |
| 17 | Shortly after this a number of the members of the YCCC bundled into a car and drove the several hundred miles from Bell County , Kentucky to Newmarket , Tennessee for an impromptu Sunday meeting with Highlander staff . |
| 18 | But the supporting cast are simply wheeled on to do their party pieces : Alan Rickman as an evil spin doctor , Giancarlo Esposito as a conspiracy , obsessed reporter , and ( best of all ) Gore Vidal as a dandified liberal senator . |
| 19 | Friends of his knew of Fleischmann as an eminent electrochemist . |
| 20 | Also , I wish to recall Victoria as an entire person . |
| 21 | The MoD is keen to preserve Ferranti as an independent force in defence electronics . |
| 22 | As there is every advantage to a team cheating , I thought it right that the sporting authorities had stomped on McLaren for an avoidable mistake , and I retain that view . |
| 23 | Peter Kuhfield recalls Blamey as an inspiring teacher at the Royal Academy Schools . |
| 24 | With the land round Selsey and Chichester as an administrative base , the authority of the early kings of Sussex spread westwards into Hampshire and only partially east of the Ouse . |
| 25 | So Sullivan recommended rather that the Shah enter the States through an obscure air force base in either Maine or South Caroline , and best of all at night , . |
| 26 | therefore , how could they have constructed Stonehenge as an astronomical observatory ? |
| 27 | There is talk of Iraq 's eternal right to Kuwait , and of Kuwait as an integral part of Iraq . |
| 28 | Preventative measures are indeed being advocated by the N.S.C.A. as an interim measure to deal with the widespread nuisance caused by straw and stubble burning after harvest . |
| 29 | Under the Adult Education Regulations of 1924 , all existing sixteen Districts of the WEA became eligible for direct , specific grant-aid from the Board of Education and the status of the WEA as an integral part of the national framework in a putative educational system was recognised . |
| 30 | Lord Nelson sails out from Liverpool next Friday for an eight-day voyage to the Inner Hebrides . |