Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [noun prp] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some corners missed part of it altogether , none more so than Low Birk Hatt Even during the last decade before the dawn of the twenty-first century , the prospect of water on tap there was still problematical . |
| 2 | The siting of the Roman Ermine Street just to the west of Stamford prompted Francis Peck in 1727 to suggest that Stamford was formerly the important Roman town of Durobrivae , originally called Doorebriff He supported the claim with some incoherent etymology that related the name to the Saxon word ‘ Welland ’ , irrespective of the fact that the gentle Welland does not rage or boil ( according to Ekwall 's English River Names , Welland means ‘ good stream ’ ) . |
| 3 | She ran home , ran as fast as she could ; she was running from the picture of Miss Arabella Marks deep in a hole where earth crept up round her lace-frilled socks and drowned her beautiful blue eyes . |
| 4 | Davenport took a pass from stand-in central defender Ian Sampson deep in the Boro half and moved on menacingly towards the edge of the box where he unleashed an incredible right-foot shot which flew , true as an arrow , into the top left hand corner of the net , inches outside the despairing hands of goalkeeper Stephen Pears . |
| 5 | ‘ President Clinton likes lighter food than President Bush , ’ said White House chef Pierre Chambrin yesterday at the annual meeting of top people 's cooks in Paris . |
| 6 | BRADFORD City signed Barnsley defender Colin Hoyle yesterday after the directors dipped into their pockets to meet a £30,000 fee . |
| 7 | It took a foreign observer like Alexis de Tocqueville earlier in the century to describe ‘ the people of the United States as that portion of the English people which is commissioned to explore the wilds of the New World ’ . |
| 8 | With fellow Mud-man Steve Turner along for the ride on bass , Arm has hooked up with a pair of Seattle luminaries who , though hardly household names in these parts , provide such virile guitar bursts and songwriting savvy to vouchsafe our rightful respect from now on . |
| 9 | Darlington produced a fine performance to outgun a side 16–18 , despite losing Ian Dent and hooker Keith Gaddis early in the game through injury . |
| 10 | Timmy , 34 , and his Australian wife Lynda proudly show off five -week-old William Theodore Mallett here for the first time . |
| 11 | The Loyalist Coalition , consisting of the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party led by William Craig and the Democratic Unionist Party led by the Rev. Ian Paisley together with the Anti-White Paper Unionists led by Harry West , refused to take part in the talks . |
| 12 | TODAY 'S excellent programme at Cheltenham has not been ruined by the hard ground to the extent which at one time appeared likely and there are two bonus runners , namely the champion hurdler , Beech Road in the Charles Heidsieck Champagne Bula Hurdle , and the Queen Mother Two Mile Champion Chase winner Barnbrook Again in the A.F.Budge Handicap Chase . |
| 13 | Last week 's article ‘ What 's wrong with German Science ’ ( p 277 ) should have contained an acknowledgement to the generous help of Dr Christoph Schneider now at the Wissenschaftsrat ( Science Council ) in Köln . |
| 14 | The 30-year-old Londoner , son of the late Graham Hill , steered his Canon Williams Renault on to the front row of the provisional grid alongside pole man and team-mate Alain Prost with a brilliantly controlled display of driving on the treacherous Interlagos track . |
| 15 | The photograph shows one of CHESTER 'S servicing teams helping star performer PETER WHITEHOUSE out of the window as a warning to what happens to those who under-perform . |
| 16 | Blackburn star Shearer still on the way back from injury began on the bench for the fifth successive game , while for once Wright failed to get his name on the scoresheet . |
| 17 | In the autumn of that year , staff of the Marine Geophysics Unit moved into the top level and they were followed by staff from South Oswald Road later in the year . |
| 18 | I saw Mr. Faisal Husseini earlier in the year and the Minister of State , my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Grantham ( Mr. Hogg ) , has met other Palestinians . |
| 19 | Francis Pym went to Defence ; Peter Walker to Agriculture ; Sir Ian Gilmour also to the Foreign Office ; Norman St John-Stevas became Leader of the House . |
| 20 | The Regent desired him , as proposer of the scheme , and as having already served with the Earl of Dunbar , to accompany Sir Simon Fraser down to the Earl 's camp near Berwick , there to help that man inform Dunbar of the decisions made and to assist in convincing him to take over the keepership of Berwick Castle . |
| 21 | A GAZZA-style injury has put football mad singer Rod Stewart out of the game for a year . |
| 22 | You took her pet lamb Joseph out on a spree , did n't you ? |
| 23 | BRITAIN delivered its third significant blow in two days to the world champions , Pakistan , when Mark Maclean put the seventh-seeded Umar Hayat Khan out of the World Open here yesterday , and became the first Scotsman ever to reach the quarter-finals . |
| 24 | ‘ A new country has appeared on the map of Europe , ’ said President Leonid Kravchuk shortly after the vote . |
| 25 | Hartlepool Rovers are unchanged for the visit to Northern , but call former Darlington full back David Glendenning on to the bench . |
| 26 | Three major divisions can be recognized ( Fig. 3.11 ) ( 1 ) the Southern ( Patagonian ) Andes , extending from Tierra del Fuego northwards to the Gulf of Penas at latitude 47°S where the actively spreading Chile Ridge extends westwards into the Pacific ; ( 2 ) the Central ( Chilean-Peruvian ) Andes reaching from the Gulf of Penas northwards to the Amotape cross structure at the Peru-Ecuador border where the northwestern trend of the mountain belt changes to a northeasterly orientation ; and ( 3 ) the northern ( Colombian-Venezuelan ) Andes , extending from the Amotape cross structure northwards and then eastwards to eventually link with the Caribbean Arc . |
| 27 | In 1533 , the Bishop became involved with the Holy Maid of Kent , with her visions and threats against King Henry VIII , and also along with his friend Sir Thomas More with the Bishops ' stand against the King over his divorce and subsequent marriage to Anne Boleyn , which brought him into trouble with the King . |
| 28 | Colours of a dancer 's mettle A stint in television made choreographer Lea Anderson long for the pure movement of live theatre . |
| 29 | A team led by CCG 's Alison Harvey won the annual petanque challenge match with Glasgow-based catering suppliers Autobar Scotland recently at the Birds and Bees pub in Bridge of Allan . |
| 30 | The 24-year-old Bavarian already has a giant-killing reputation after knocking former champion Michael Chang out of the French Open last month . |