Example sentences of "[noun prp] ['s] [noun] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Olsen has therefore concentrated on four periods when the paintings connect most directly with historic events : from 1797 to 1814 when Napoleon 's Empire imposed a kind of unity on the country ; from the restoration of the monarchy until mid century when historic Romanticism came into conflict with Realism and gradually waned as a moving force in Italian art ; the triumph of Realism in parallel with the rapid progress towards unification from 1849 to 1870 ; and the final period from 1870 until the end of the century when Realism evolved under wider European influences into Symbolism and Divisionism . |
| 2 | In a corner of Frankie 's room stood a large wooden chest whose drawers were too stiff for him to open . |
| 3 | When you ring , Butlin 's will make a provisional booking and request that you send in a booking form , available in a Butlin 's Holiday Worlds brochure . |
| 4 | When you call , Butlin 's will make a provisional booking and ask you to send in a booking form , available in a Butlin 's Holiday World Breakaways brochure or send you a copy . |
| 5 | Rich , handsome and intensely ambitious , Mr Stein 's failure to run a real race — after more than 20 years in New York politics — has been a baffling feature of the election from its outset . |
| 6 | Hariri also blocked Jonah 's attempt to arrange a humanitarian aid package to the deportees who were stranded in freezing conditions with little food . |
| 7 | Pathak 's calculations yield an amazing result . |
| 8 | Below : Buffalo 's officers gave a rousing cheer to the Duke of Edinburgh and Lord Sterling as they passed by abroad the Royal yacht , Britannia |
| 9 | But Meadowell 's air suggests a place where the rhetoric of ‘ permanent recession ’ takes on a chilling substance . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the juxtaposition of a mega-theme park and hotel resort beside President Mitterrand 's efforts to establish a serious architectural archive of grands projets in Paris must be noticed . |
| 11 | ‘ It will be very interesting to see what they come up with , particularly after they offered at Tuesday 's meeting to write a very strong letter of protest to the TCCB . ’ |
| 12 | Des Walker 's Sampdoria suffered a shock 3-2 home defeat by Atalanta . |
| 13 | Des Walker 's Sampdoria suffered a shock 3-2 home defeat by Atalanta . |
| 14 | Derek Walker 's guide covers a delectable area of rock climbing , as he rightly points out in his introduction . |
| 15 | Wilfrid 's failure to secure a sympathetic hearing suggests that it was not only Oswiu 's family which found him unpalatable . |
| 16 | Critics of the PLO 's decision to back the participation of a Palestinian delegation in the current Middle East peace process would most likely have taken the opportunity of Mr Arafat 's demise to make a bid for power . |
| 17 | Apanage 's smile assumed a more acid cast . |
| 18 | Dennis 's shield sported a reclining deer . |
| 19 | Donna 's face blenched a little under her makeup . |
| 20 | And Andrzej Seweryn 's Yudhishthira has an Olympian calm betrayed by a vicious mole of nature in the form of compulsive gambling . |
| 21 | Glennie and Boegner ( 1981 ) discussed Sole Pit inversion tectonics in some detail and using Marie 's method gave an estimate of 1500 m uplift in the deeper parts of the Sole Pit . |
| 22 | Er , group wide , in the U S A , the er , New York headquarters staff under David 's direction achieved a very worthwhile er , reduction in telecoms , two million a year and this was by er , aggregating our telecoms erm , business and negotiating an er , one contract . |
| 23 | Eventually , Sir David 's office issued a statement about the Prime Minister . |
| 24 | Little did I know how right he was because the first thing that happened when David 's mother had a bad day , she would call me everything under the sun . |
| 25 | Hubbard 's remark that ‘ the constructional features of ( Thomas ) Hitchcock 's harpsichord reveal a sensitivity to influence which may bespeak a certain uncertainty on the part of its maker ’ is surely unjustified . |
| 26 | A classic example of wasted power is found in Ventura 's ability to generate an index automatically . |
| 27 | In fact Major Wiseman 's letter preserves an inaccurate memory — not surprising after so long — of the actual circumstances , for it conflates the events of twelve days and relates them as if they had happened on the same night . |
| 28 | The first reference to Theodore in Gregory 's Histories concerns an unexplained alliance of the clergy of Marseilles and Dynamius , the patricius , or governor , of Provence , against the bishop in 581 . |
| 29 | Streat worked to try to achieve common purpose and interest with American textile interests but was handicapped by a certain reluctance to go too far and by MacArthur 's reluctance to receive a joint Anglo-American mission in 1950 . |
| 30 | Despite Soviet President Gorbachev 's proposals to include a united Germany as an " associate member " of both NATO and the Warsaw Pact [ see p. 37466 ] , it emerged on June 14 that the Soviet Defence Minister , Marshal Dmitri Yazov , had opposed all proposals which did not endorse a united Germany as part of " a bloc-free European collective security system " . |