Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in common with other colonised people such as the Algerians under French rule described by Frantz Fanon or the Black Americans by Stokely Carmichael in the 1960s , they believe that they and their children should themselves be the civilising force to overcome the ‘ civilisation ’ , the predominant philosophy and way of life , that has colonised them . |
| 2 | Delta 's partners hop around many of the more interesting parts of the USA , such as the Florida Keys or the national parks of the Rockies . |
| 3 | The Treasury saw local councils as part of that strategy just as much as spending departments in Whitehall or the nationalised industries — a very clear ‘ agency ’ view . |
| 4 | ‘ We tend to think that it 's a problem restricted to the Republikana Party in Germany or the Fascist followers of Jean-Marie Le Pen in France . |
| 5 | Take a short break to beautiful Bruges or the subtropical SunParks , where it 's always 84°F . |
| 6 | The only problem was deciding where to go : Orkney , Caithness , Ross-shire , Sutherland or the Outer Isles ? |
| 7 | In 1850 neither St Petersburg nor Constantinople nor the western powers realized that war was on the horizon , but with hindsight it is possible to see that the battle-lines were drawn . |
| 8 | We have to remember that Napoleon and the literal believers in old men on clouds have got it wrong . |
| 9 | As indicated in the first chapter , there has evolved during relatively recent times a " traditional " listing of Muftis , the tradition beginning essentially with Mustakimzade and reaching perhaps definitive expression in the widely-used the equally widely-used chronological history by Danismend , and , more recently , Altunsu 's In respect at least of the origins of the institution this tradition has triumphed over another of some antiquity , advanced by Katib Celebi and followed by Hezarfen and the western authors d'Ohsson and Hammer , which names Hizir Bey ( d. 863/1459 ) , the first kadi of Istanbul , as the first Seyhulislam and which differs in several other respects from the now-accepted account of the succession of fifteenth-century Muftis . |
| 10 | He knew Duke Ellington , Errol Garner and Louis Armstrong , and singers such as Fats Waller , Ella Fitzgerald , Nellie Lutcher , Vera Lynn , Bing Crosby and a dozen others . |
| 11 | The patrol of four Land Rovers , carrying 12 men from the Cheshires and the Royal Engineers , came under fire at around 10am on Saturday . |
| 12 | The atmosphere in Fontanellato and the surrounding villages was now very tense . |
| 13 | Mr Glennie and the other men , Phillip Hoffman , Rick Hellriegel and Jim Nalepka , were washed ashore on Saturday night , after drifting since 3 June . |
| 14 | Captain Mel Bowen , a Ministry of Transport investigator , seems to have made up his mind after interviewing Mr Glennie and the three others . |
| 15 | I had to have a talk with Mrs Rumney and a few days later I called in at The Laurels . |
| 16 | No they 're a bit you know long for her but they 're the same size as she was wearing Jean and the other ones were too narrow for her feet . |
| 17 | Microbe Hunters ( 1925 ) , a marvellous , rumbustious picture of Louis Pasteur , Robert Koch and the other pioneers , was one famous outcome . |
| 18 | It is plausible that on one level this new démarche was directed at Indian reservations about Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and the intensified tensions which ensued in the Indian Ocean . |
| 19 | Even the critic Arthur Jerome Eddy , who was the author of the first English book on Cubism and a cautious supporter of the movement , was able to write : ‘ In short Picasso and a few followers have reached a degree of abstraction in the suppression of the real and the particular that their paintings represent the same degree of emotion as the demonstration of a difficult geometrical proposition . ’ |
| 20 | Pentecostal minister the Rev Colin Hill and a dozen members of his nearby Kemble Street Elim Church congregation asked more than 100 people going to the show to turn back . |
| 21 | Open spaces and parkland are a feature of Birmingham , with the lovely city parks , Cannon Hill and the Botanical Gardens and the wilder country parks at Sutton Coldfield and Woodgate Valley . |
| 22 | In order to ascertain whether or not a particular trust is or is not charitable you must look at the preamble to the statute of Elizabeth I , the Charitable Uses Act 1601 and the classification by Lord Macnaghten in Commissioners for the Special Purposes of Income Tax v. Pemsel and the reported cases generally . |
| 23 | Are Strach , DoL , Tinkler and the other casualties fit yet ? |
| 24 | Tension between the ruling HDZ and the Serbian minorities worsened when Milosevic , seeking to boost his popularity in Serbia , urged the Krajina Serbs to declare their autonomy from Croatia [ see p. 37666 ] . |
| 25 | They were no more testable than the claims of Paley and the other advocates of natural theology . |
| 26 | It was based on the Memorandum of Dissent of the minority , the late Professor ( subsequently Lord ) Kaldor and the two trades union representatives , on the Royal Commission on the Taxation of Profits and Income which published its Final Report in 1955 . |
| 27 | Its foreign policy would defend the objectives of the Non-aligned Movement , the UN and the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) , and would pay special attention to relationships with Portuguese-speaking African countries , Brazil , Portugal and the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 28 | The European Free Trade Association was formed in 1959 , by Britain , Switzerland , Austria , Portugal and the Scandinavian Countries , but it was not to prove a substitute for the E.E.C . |
| 29 | He was still working hard : writing poetry , correcting proofs , and with Florence compiling an autobiographical statement which was published posthumously in two volumes as The Early Life of Thomas Hardy and The later years of Thomas Hardy . |
| 30 | Richard and a few followers escaped downstream to Geoffrey de Rancon 's castle at Taillebourg while the bulk of his troops were driven back into the cathedral , where they held out for a few days . |