Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [adj] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local authorities have had to respond to a wide range of legislation from Brussels and many have received substantial financial assistance , from the EC 's ‘ Structural Funds ’ and other initiatives , for economic development projects ( such as training and infrastructure provision ) within their areas . |
| 2 | The site is only four miles from Corinium and this has led to the speculation that the establishment may have had a special function in a large estate . |
| 3 | Both Arsenal and United have picked up a stack of yellow cards . |
| 4 | And there 's only one post on Saturday and this had arrived well before I left ? ’ |
| 5 | We went along the river bank : two smugglers were being hanged near Billingsgate and this had attracted a large crowd to watch their last dance . |
| 6 | Now there is no definition of what 's small erm erm is erm in er P P G er thirteen and perhaps Mr Curtis could help us in due course erm on an assumption that the new settlement was somewhat larger that th what the County Council is proposing , whether that would erm change the view of York City Council , I I think there is another factor again I could be corrected on this by Mr Curtis and this tended to come out in the greenbelt local plan enquiry , er and that York City Council seem progressively to place more importance on peripheral development than on the new settlement strategy |
| 7 | There are exceptions to this I would suggest that very high turn outs in the er local election , local elections in Harlow almost certainly because there was a lot of interest in it press interest because of the great battle in Old Harlow and that appears to have had a spin off effect on turn out in the other wards as well . |
| 8 | He had discussed it often with Helen and both had agreed that such frankness was a necessary act of truth-telling between them . |
| 9 | As I read the previous documents , the strategy was to bring down the rate of development in North Yorkshire and that has happened . |
| 10 | At the London final , where they were interviewed by Gloria Hunniford , one contender wanted to paddle down the Amazon and another wanted to climb Kilimanjaro . |
| 11 | ‘ Two other factors will make us a better team this season — Keith Finlay has come back to the club from North Fermanagh and that has stiffened our batting while Tony Johnson from Barbados is a superb all rounder . ’ |
| 12 | Outside the village rises the noble hill of Lewesdon , neighbouring peak to Pilsdon Pen , beloved of Wordsworth when he lived at Racedown and first began to dedicate his life to poetry . |
| 13 | NO HORSE was ever given a better or more fitting name than Nijinsky and few have paid their namesake more graceful compliments . |
| 14 | In 1937 , a series of mass demonstrations in the oil industry had ushered in a period of severe labour unrest throughout the West Indies and this had led to the setting up of a Royal Commission , under Lord Moyne , to assess the social conditions on the islands . |
| 15 | As the conversion required a full strip down , both Basler and Professional have taken the opportunity to ‘ zero time ’ the airframe , to replace and radically improve systems , change and update all of the cockpit instrumentation . |
| 16 | Luckily , Essex has eight full-time advisory tutors for ABE and all have had training and considerable experience in assessing special educational needs . |
| 17 | Bailey and Tory agree to split |
| 18 | Book distributors such as Puffin and Scholastic have seized the opportunity to encourage schools to run book fairs and savings clubs , providing the school with stock and sales leaflets and offering the school a good rate of commission on sales . |
| 19 | In April this year , 1685 of the 5000 haemophiliacs had tested positive for HIV and 363 had developed AIDS . |
| 20 | Rémy of Pertuis had as good as made up his mind to leave that day , but the arrival of the earl of Leicester caused him to think again , and countermand his orders to Bénezet and Daalny to begin packing . |
| 21 | If Aethelwald and Aethelred do represent a revival of Deiran royalty , it may be no coincidence that Archbishop Aethelberht ( though at an unspecified date ) constructed a new great altar in the minster at York on the spot where Eadwine was said to have been baptized . |
| 22 | I 've only ever seen one and the one that , the recent one is called just Cher and that 's got all the last , the last few top ten hits on it . |
| 23 | Eschewing both rutted ‘ autoroute ’ and Paris-Dakar ’ engineering , ten couples somehow cajoled their 2CVs across the Sahara and eight survived to turn a brain-storm into an annual rally . |
| 24 | Eschewing both rutted ‘ autoroute ’ and ‘ Paris-Dakar ’ engineering , ten couples somehow cajoled their 2CVs across the Sahara and eight survived to turn a brain-storm into an annual rally . |
| 25 | One of the most advanced examples of development has been CLIMAP ( Climate , Long Range Investigation , Mapping and Prediction , Hays and Moore , 1973 ) which has made a reconstruction of global sea surface , ice extent , ice elevation and continental albedo for the northern hemisphere summer at 18,000 years BP and this has provided the boundary conditions for global general circulation models to simulate the climate when the northern ice sheets were at their maximum extent ( see Lockwood , 1983a ) . |
| 26 | However in the first week of operations insufficient availability of 158 's resulted in the 08.22 ex Salop and 11.00 return working ex Aberystwyth being a single Class 153 . |
| 27 | Peter Hickton was up from Taunton and keen to start working his cast as hard as ever . |