Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [subord] [noun prp] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , Saint Gobain , a recently privatised glassmaker , outbid Britain 's BTR to buy Norton , an American maker of abrasives , for FFr11 billion ( $2 billion ) just a few months before America 's recession began . |
| 2 | The argument is difficult to uphold in some respects since Furth 's argument seems to be that deprivation of experience is at fault , but he does not provide any suggestions for an approach to maximising deaf people 's performance . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , Roger , so have I. Indeed , over the last few weeks since Ruthven 's death , I have been careful , wherever possible , to eat the same foods he did . |
| 4 | After some seasons as Lancashire 's first professional captain , he had a spell as team manager . |
| 5 | ‘ Come un'ape ’ might have been replaced with something more apt for a bass voice ( Dandini really should be a baritone ) , and the newly-exhumed concert aria ‘ Alla voce della gloria ’ , though a fine showcase for the voice , makes an indifferent showing beside such gems as Alidoro 's ‘ Là del ciel ’ ( also from Cenerentola ) . |
| 6 | Many were in mint condition and judging by the list sent in , a pretty comprehensive collection it is too , ranging from World War Two aircraft of the fighting powers to post-war helicopters and such giants as Convair 's B–36 . |
| 7 | The Americans have such ballets as Loring 's Billy the Kid and De Mille 's Rodeo and Fall River Legend . |
| 8 | Similarly the delicate and subtle nuances of such ballets as Ashton 's A Month in the Country , Robbins ' Dances at a Gathering and MacMillan 's Song of the Earth are successfully conveyed and capture the audience 's attention from the moment the curtain rises by the impetus , rhythm , dimension and variety of dance . |
| 9 | The style must disclose and be expressive of the moods , emotions and actions of the roles played even where few personal feelings are allowed to show , as in such ballets as Ashton 's Monotones where all that is needed is a calm , unhurried and seemingly endless weaving of the dance design in all its dimensions . |
| 10 | Variations from such ballets as Petipa 's Don Quixote , Raymonda and La Bayadère and Bournonville 's Napoli are still considered by most classical dancers to be more technically demanding than the more complex twistings and turnings of modern choreographers who mix their styles . |
| 11 | While many are praising the ruling for providing a chance for some to see such masterpieces as Matisse 's ‘ Grand Riffian ’ and Seurat 's ‘ Les Poseuses ’ without the required pilgrimage to Merion , Pennsylvania , critics of the decision are echoing a warning they have offered since the Barnes attempted to deaccession works last year . |
| 12 | OUR reader has listed only some umpiring decisions which may have disappointed Pakistan , without referring to such concerns as Ramprakash 's dismissal in the Edgbaston Test to an equally ‘ dubious faint edge ’ , or a number of slightly questionable lbws against England during the series . |
| 13 | About three-quarters of voluntary charities established in the second half of the nineteenth century were evangelical in inspiration , including such charities as Barnardo 's and the YMCA . |
| 14 | The delegation , which included Edvard Vedernikov , deputy chairman of the Parliamentary Commission which oversees financial matters , and Igor Moskovsky , a senior financial adviser to the Russian prime minister , spent a week in London , visiting such places as Lloyd 's , the ASB , The Stock Exchange , the Treasury and the Institute . |
| 15 | She began to publish her poems in such places as Harper 's , and won a guest post on the magazine Mademoiselle . |
| 16 | Here on the horizons of thought such ideas as Kant 's noumena come to life . |
| 17 | The ‘ Aspects ’ ‘ Baroque Sampler ’ ( ) , with the Toronto SO again under Andrew Davis , is a collection of such favourites as Pachelbel 's Canon , Albinoni 's Adagio , and Jeremiah Clarke 's Trumpet Voluntary . |
| 18 | Over the years John Galloway had acquired many other business and financial interests , in such firms as Earle 's Shipbuilding & Engineering Company in Hull , the Carnforth Hematite Iron Company , and the North of England Trustee , Debenture & Assets Corporation Ltd . |
| 19 | The risks of such abnormalities as Down 's syndrome and spina bifida increase rapidly with maternal age from 1 in 2,700 births to mothers aged 25–9 , to 1 in 170 to mothers aged over 45 . |
| 20 | Handbags have reached such status symbol heights that many high street chains offer interpretations of such classics as Chanel 's Kelly bag , Prada 's quilted nylon and gilt bag , and Gucci 's print bag . |
| 21 | Early in her career she contributed frequently to such journals as Fraser 's Magazine , Lett 's Illustrated Household Magazine , Belgravia , and the Governess . |
| 22 | It explores the relative importance of such factors as Britain 's economic decline , the structure of British government , the dominant style of policy-making and the resurgence of party ideology for understanding the changes . |
| 23 | However , when I got to Liverpool on Thursday and saw the state of the ground , instead of thinking about such horses as Laura 's Beau , Rubika and Cool Ground as the major chances , suddenly it was the good-ground types such as Docklands Express who re-entered calculations . |
| 24 | She accepted such remarks as Jonquil 's , ‘ But you 're only a kid . ’ |
| 25 | But numerous patronymics of later formation have lasted — Johnson , Jackson , Peterson , Lawson , FitzPayne — perhaps to a total of more than a hundred and fifty , and to this day there are useful studies to be carried out on the distribution patterns of such rarities as Mattimoe = relative of Matthew . |
| 26 | Here , for the first time , Mozart demonstrated to the full his superlative skill in making music a medium for the expression of human emotions — in such highlights as Ilia 's aria ‘ Padre , germani , addio ’ , which expresses her conflict between love for her enemy and duty to her native country ; Idomeneus ' aria ‘ Fuor del mar ’ , in which the king describes how , although he is physically safe , his mind is still storm-tossed by dark forebodings ; and the masterly quartet ‘ Andrò rammingo e solo ’ — one of the great operatic ensembles of all time — in which four characters all express different emotions . |
| 27 | Although the PDM held fewer seats than Namaliu 's Pangu Pati , Wingti successfully constructed a coalition which consisted of the PDM , the People 's Progress Party ( PPP ) , and the League for National Advancement ( LNA ) — which had formerly participated in the Pangu-led government of Namaliu — together with a majority of the many independent MPs . |
| 28 | Maybe the Sovtelexport agency is no better supplied these days than Russia 's food shops . |
| 29 | The ensuing publicity brought in commissions from all areas as Kos 's reputation grew and her work became widely known . |
| 30 | It was many years since Selwyn 's wife had persuaded him that it was not good manners to pick his teeth in company , but his lips still made the motions of mouthing a toothpick . |