Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jones was handed the biggest fine in FA history on Tuesday and given a suspended six-month ban for his part in the video ‘ Soccer 's Hard Men ’ . |
| 2 | In order to draw this out of him , he wrote a vastly elaborate commentary on the Lay , softening the blow of his harsher criticisms by inventing the personae of a whole group of scholarly editors who are debating the text in the way that scholars have disputed over Homer or Beowulf It would seem that Tolkien took a great deal of notice of Lewis 's invented editors , for he rewrote his Kay and incorporated a high proportion of their emendations . |
| 3 | For an afternoon 's work , it was hardly going to be Tosca and given the raw materials no one would have minded had they chanted ’ What a Load of Rubbish ’ . |
| 4 | The incident started on March 12th at around 8 p.m. when Peter Nicholas Bradley of Aldershot , went into Oddbins and selected a four-can pack of beer , the court was told . |
| 5 | ‘ This honour is a marvellous way to finish off 1992 , ’ said Roy , 60 , who was struck down with cancer in March and given a one-in-10 chance of survival . |
| 6 | As part of the process he resigned as chairman of the ruling MPR and appointed a transitional government headed by a First State Commissioner ( Prime Minister ) . |
| 7 | Mobutu resigned as chairman of the MPR and appointed a Prime Minister ( First State Commissioner ) as head of government . |
| 8 | They had tried a few in the Fahan Lodge Hotel after sailing back the night before , been seen off by two ugly English girls ( Morally ugly , said Rory — they would n't screw ) and had roared into Buncrana in the BMW and done the High Street bars . |
| 9 | That afternoon Meehan was released from Peterhead and given an interim compensation payment of £2500 with a promise of more to come . |
| 10 | Later re-designated the AIR–1 and given the civil registration R–RAIR , a replica of this aircraft is now preserved in the Museum . |
| 11 | Rosemary had been to Venice and seen the original bridge , and she enthused for a long time on the beauties of that city and how much she would like to go there again after the war was over . |
| 12 | It could have recognised the independence of Bosnia and begun a negotiated withdrawal to Serbia and Montenegro . |
| 13 | Setting a pair of compasses to measure a distance of exactly 2000 miles , he fixed the point squarely on the Russian township of Kharkov and inscribed a full circle . |
| 14 | There was a certain entrepreneurial spirit about our man ; he seems to have had an eye for the main chance , and at no time more so than in 1854 , when he left behind the delights of Hoxton and begun a brief flirtation with the idea of running a lodging house . |
| 15 | It was not until the year of his death that he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and awarded an honorary LLD by St Andrews University . |
| 16 | Chen [ 17,18,20 ] has measured actinomycin dissociation kinetics from a series of oligonucleotide sequences of the type ATAXGCYTAT and ATAXGCYATA and shown the following time constants CGCT/AGCG , 600 s ; CGCA/TGCG , 1000 s ; CGCG 850 s . |
| 17 | By the early 1640s she had moved to London and begun a religious quest in pursuit of whose ends she became involved with the first Quakers in 1654 . |
| 18 | Later we learned that he had gone back to London and given a mischievous account of our conversation in literary circles , and we were ‘ very much blamed ’ . |