Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the stink it raised in some quarters , The Krays made perfect sense as a symptom of the curious British habit of turning petty villains into national folk heroes . |
| 2 | In this Minton admitted that lithography for him remained ‘ a business of surprises , hazards and disasters ’ . |
| 3 | When I gave up cabaret , Roger became musical director on board the Canberra . |
| 4 | The fact was that Churchill and Eden were not of like minds and did not associate closely until Churchill became Prime Minister in 1940 . |
| 5 | Ellis became chief whip in March 1894 when the fifth Earl of Rosebery succeeded Gladstone as prime minister , and found life exceptionally difficult since the Liberals had only the narrowest of majorities . |
| 6 | Constance had assumed that , since she and Scarlet lived next door to each other , they would constantly be in and out of each other 's houses and behaved accordingly , which had suited Scarlet very well . |
| 7 | Delivering the Drew lecture on ‘ Government and the Arts ’ at the Central London Polytechnic , Mr Fisher pointed out that when Mr Luce announced three-year funding for the arts in November 1987 , he had said the figure could not be reviewed ‘ unless the situation changes substantially in ways that can not be foreseen today ’ . |
| 8 | The London Borough of Greenwich sought judicial review of a Government leaflet distributed to every household in England which was explanatory of the community charge or poll tax . |
| 9 | Both servers and workstations use versions of Unix SVR4 , which will incorporate the Common Japanese Language Application Binary Interface called OCMP announced last week by Sony and NEC . |
| 10 | Both servers and workstations use versions of Unix System V.4 , which will incorporate the Common Japanese Language Application Binary Interface called OCMP announced last month by Sony Corp and NEC Corp . |
| 11 | The editorial panel 's interview with Sir Jeremy Morse made fascinating reading in February . |
| 12 | On Feb. 5 Public Welfare Minister Supardjo Rustam announced that famine in Kuriwa , a district of the remote province of Irian Jaya , had claimed the lives of 132 people , after bad weather had prevented crop-planting in the area . |
| 13 | Paul Keating became Prime Minister of Australia on Dec. 19 after defeating Bob Hawke in a contest for the leadership of the ruling Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) . |
| 14 | Guernsey made short work of the opposition when they won the event on home soil in 1990 . |
| 15 | Eileen Dunning , 33 , from Glasgow Central CLP laid heavy emphasis on the common yearning to haul Labour back from the wilderness . |
| 16 | Brave Gregory Kingsley made legal history after calmly telling a hushed court : ‘ I do n't love her and I do n't want to live with her . ’ |
| 17 | Gala won the ruck and Lawson made some ground before belting the ball up the middle of the field . |
| 18 | Florey found more interest in studies of the circulation than in Sherrington 's own field , the nervous system , and presently moved to Cambridge with a studentship in pathology . |
| 19 | Intel Corp 's agreement to have Digital Equipment Corp resell its 80860 RISC-based massively parallel processors is dead because DEC found little interest from the market , Electronic News reports . |
| 20 | Malmierca gave no details , but analysts interpreted the news as further evidence that President Fidel Castro Ruz retained significant influence among the inner circle of advisers to Russian President Yeltsin . |
| 21 | Minton used this setting for his drawing , Jam Session , which he produced as a cover design for the July-August 1949 issue of Our Time , a left-wing arts magazine . |
| 22 | Boullee demonstrated one aspect of vision and I mention it because it is so clear and so obvious . |
| 23 | However , the resistance or al Muquwama posed little threat to the Iraqis , consisting in the main of poorly armed civilian-led neighbourhood committees . |
| 24 | Henry II of Germany incurred ecclesiastical disapproval by entering into an alliance with heathen Slavs against Christian Poles , while his French contemporary Robert the Pious repudiated his first wife and took a second who was within the forbidden degrees of kinship . |
| 25 | Florin Raducioiu scored all four goals as Romania retained second place in group four with a 4–0 victory over the Faroe Islands . |
| 26 | Mr Justice Drake used this power to full in summing up in the Donovan case , warning the jurors that they should not think they had to ‘ fix sums with lots of noughts on the end because it 's fashionable ’ . |
| 27 | England A ( 456–7 dec ) drew with Essex ( 317–8 dec ) A RARE century from Derek Pringle provided some spice at the very death in an opening to the season which had been all but strangled at birth by the bad weather . |
| 28 | Trains from Bulawayo used one end of this platform and trains from Umtali the other . |
| 29 | Although Gilbert and Ward found little sign of political protest in the areas of Colombia , Venezuela and Mexico where their research was carried out ( Gilbert and Ward 1985 ) , Castells documents protest movements in Mexico City ( Castells 1982 ) . |
| 30 | Mainland ice flowing from east to west at the time of the glacial maximum was diverted northwards around Harris , whereas the smaller , isolated hills on North Uist , Benbecula and South Uist provided little restriction to the regional movements . |