Example sentences of "john [noun prp] [vb -s] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agriculture minister John Gummer has given the go-ahead to the establishment of a new Central Science Laboratory on a greenfield site at Sand Hutton , near York . |
| 2 | Brian Davison looked at the Count of Mortain 's lands in the West Country based on the castles of Neroche and Montacute in Somerset ; James Bond has examined the estates of Evesham Abbey in Worcestershire ( Fig. 13 ) and Abingdon Abbey in Oxfordshire , and John Blair has discussed the endowments of Lewes Priory in Sussex before 1200 . |
| 3 | Special Projects Engineer ( Electrical ) John Nicholls has achieved the increasingly rare distinction of serving one employer for more than fifty years . |
| 4 | John Baillie has made the further point that , in his detailed criticism of cyclical views of time , St Augustine was anxious to defend the doctrine of creation and particularly its corollary that ‘ through the creative power of God the course of events is characterized by the emergence of genuine novelty . ’ |
| 5 | DERRY 'S Ulster Unionist alderman John Adams has attacked the council 's decision to donate £16,000 to the Bloody Sunday Initiative . |
| 6 | Prosecuting counsel John Nutting has alleged the two men , who were travelling in a red Sierra , were stopped in June last year on the A64 Leeds-York road , North Yorkshire , by Special Constable Glenn Goodman and Pc Alexander Kelly . |
| 7 | John Scott has provided the most comprehensive description and analysis of the development of the upper classes in Britain . |
| 8 | John Dyter has gained the Royal Horticultural Society 's Associateship of Honour — one of only four people nationwide to be conferred the honour this year . |
| 9 | WELSH Secretary John Redwood has warned the Welsh people that they must put up with strangers buying new houses and speaking in foreign accents in pubs if they want jobs . |
| 10 | Colonel John Wilson has given the club immense service , having been President for the last 10 years immediately following 23 years as Match Secretary . |
| 11 | FORMER journalist John Brook has hit the road to pursue his love of folk music . |
| 12 | John Stevenson has noted the importance of transport networks , with riots occurring not only at sea ports but also along inland waterways where corn might be moved out of a district , such as on the Trent or Avon . |
| 13 | John Triseliotis has used the term ‘ constructed insecurity ’ . |
| 14 | Mrs John Dugdale has succeeded the Lady Susan Hussey as Lady-in-Waiting to The Queen . |
| 15 | Every President since John Kennedy has used the Wall to dramatise the global Communist threat , to assert American leadership of the Western world , and to underpin fundamental foreign and security policy directions . |
| 16 | ‘ The controversy surrounding the employment arrangements of John Birt has obscured the major issue in British broadcasting — the future of the BBC beyond 1996 when its current charter expires , ’ says the letter . |
| 17 | In the letter to the Times , the board members say : ‘ The controversy surrounding the employment arrangements of John Birt has obscured the major issue in British broadcasting — the future of the BBC beyond 1996 when its current Charter expires . |
| 18 | Nick Peterken and Andrew West have taken up posts in Hartlepool , while John Lewis has joined the company 's Barnard Castle office of Watson 's . |
| 19 | John Prescott has made the clearest pitch for the left 's support by defending the ‘ old vision ’ of socialism . |
| 20 | Some Ministers believe the combination of Chris Patten , the chairman , and John Major has given the wrong signals : ‘ Patten and Major are sweet and sweet , whereas what this campaign needs is sweet and sour . ’ |
| 21 | John Major has escaped the toils of the poll tax . |
| 22 | John Major has convinced the Scots that he cares far more about them than Mrs Thatcher did , but the real test in Scotland may be about to start , writes Toby Helm |
| 23 | John Major has proposed the setting up of a national environment agency which will combine the regulation of waste disposal with the work currently carried out by HM Pollution Inspectorate and the National Rivers Authority . |
| 24 | John Searle has compared the computational view of mind to an Englishman who has no understanding of Chinese processing Chinese symbols according to rules which correspond to the grammar of Chinese : what he deals with may be meaningful Chinese sentences , but he is none the wiser . |
| 25 | Alliance Party Leader John Alderdice has condemned the murder . |
| 26 | John Peacock has designed the gown , of course , and he took me to meet Martin Adams who is making the crown . |
| 27 | JOHN SMITHS HAS dominated the Glasgow bookselling scene for even longer than Thins has been preeminent in Edinburgh , but there are differences . |
| 28 | John Ambrose has adapted the cross slide on his lathe and added an indexing head for cutting flutes with a router ( above right ) |
| 29 | And one-time teammate John Smith has contacted the Echo in an attempt to get in touch with Peter . |