Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can look across the Rio Grande river in Texas and see American-owned factories , deregulated and non-unionised , on the Mexican side . |
| 2 | All golf and gin and bridge and cars and the right accent and the right money and having been to the right school and hating the arts ( the theatre being a pantomime at Christmas and ‘ Hay Fever ’ by the Town Rep Picasso and Bartók dirty words unless you wanted to get a laugh ) . |
| 3 | The British bombardment on the Somme began on 24 June ( the infantry attack went in on 1 July ) and on that same day Falkenhayn stopped the massive flow of ammunition to Verdun and cancelled all reinforcements . |
| 4 | I went to the top of Ludgate Hill and watched exhausted men being carried out of the Old Bailey , then down side streets to where the steeple of St Bride 's church was tottering and the bells had gone crashing down minutes previously . |
| 5 | The off-licence was empty except for two drop-outs buying canned beer : the proprietor contrived to address Scarlet and Constance without once taking his eyes off his other customers , not even as he wrapped a bottle of Smirnoff and extracted six cans of Long Life from under the glass counter . |
| 6 | However , the island remains very much a part of Portugal and receives annual funds from the central government . |
| 7 | He is married to Andrea and has three children , Diane , Stephen and Sarah , and one grandson . |
| 8 | The strongest motivation for inscribing multilateralism in the new world order came from the United States and had definite implications for the UK . |
| 9 | The European problem was not to oppose the American proposal adamantly , but to find some compromise that would both satisfy the United States and assuage European fears of a revitalised German militarism . |
| 10 | Afterwards he went to the United States and obtained three degrees , the most prestigious being a doctorate from Princeton awarded in 1910 . |
| 11 | The Committee continued to monitor the development of CPD and sought more resources to enable the regions to offer a service to members . |
| 12 | Girke 's surprising companion will be the architectural photographer Pedro Guerrero , now in his seventies , who in the 1940s photographed Taliesin in its early stages for Frank Lloyd Wright and made several portraits of Wright himself . |
| 13 | Mr Salumäe helped to establish the Information Department in 1988 founding the magazine Eesti Kirik and producing regular programmes on religious themes for both radio and television . |
| 14 | Having holidayed previously in Sunwing Crete and enjoyed excellent standards of service and accommodation synonymous with the Sunwing name , we decided to try the island of Lanzarote under the same safe banner . |
| 15 | Then when you stop dieting , the body , which has been acting in a kind of starvation mode , finds that it has become used to its new BMR and requires less calories to function . |
| 16 | ‘ We usually draw at home against Arsenal and concede four goals in the return match at Highbury . |
| 17 | No reason why a theatrical manager has to be in Shaftesbury Avenue and pay those rents . |
| 18 | Hardly a day goes by without being neck-high in severely anoraked shop assistants , munching Kit-Kats and watching endless slides of football ground urinals from the length and breadth of Britain . |
| 19 | I went to Marks and Spencer and stole some clothes , and then I stole some other things — I was short of money . |
| 20 | In 1980 , just after the revolution , the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights visited Nicaragua and inspected ten prisons around the country . |
| 21 | The south-facing house is situated in one of the oldest streets in Ely and boasts superb views of the medieval cathedral . |
| 22 | The dam itself — 45 miles west of Exeter and completed two months ago — is 430 metres across and 40 metres high . |
| 23 | Sitting pretty : Marion Barry , who lost his job as Mayor of Washington and served six months ' jail for cocaine possession , is back in city government after winning a council seat . |
| 24 | With him she rode across the Rockies and made two expeditions , in the Far East and Africa , on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society , to study tribal languages . |
| 25 | Kevin Blanchfield was the war pensions welfare officer based at Hightown Barracks in Wrexham and has 13 years experience helping exservicemen and their dependants following discharge from the forces . |
| 26 | He made his Palace debut at Clapton Orient ( 0–1 ) on 26 February and made 13 appearances for us in all the remaining matches of the season . |
| 27 | But the team who led the table with an eight-point lead over the third-placed club in February and had two games in hand are surely lacking more than the rub of the green . |
| 28 | The results of the six sessions of contemporary art which took place on 5 , 6 and 7 May and launched three weeks of intensive auction activity in New York , were difficult to predict and , even when they were known , provided little evidence about the current state of the market . |
| 29 | After a period of political upheaval precipitated by an attempted coup in March 1990 [ see pp. 37314-15 ] , the government lifted the state of emergency in May and endorsed constitutional amendments aimed at ending the PDPA 's monopoly on political power [ for its renaming in June see p. 37530 ] and introducing multiparty democracy . |
| 30 | It was not until 1946 that the French departed from Lebanon and Syria , spitefully shelling Damascus and killing 500 Syrians as they did so . |