Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [noun] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a major setback for Miss Green arose in 1931 with the appointment by the Cambridge Board of Extra-Mural Studies of Frank Lee as its staff tutor in Northamptonshire . |
| 2 | The saga for Richard Wunder began in 1967 when he was in Florence finalising the arrangements for the purchase of the Powers ' studio and archives . |
| 3 | Above Dorothea 's head , six new , blue mugs hung on six newly-erected hooks , for Florence Ames thought of all things and was constantly suggesting improvements — not that she insisted upon them or took anything in hand , only looked and suggested and then left the idea to be considered , accepted or rejected . |
| 4 | In the 1980s , stars such as Kim Basinger relied upon overt sexuality in order to give their bland beauty a quasi-pornographic appeal . |
| 5 | A feted and fashionable artist in his own lifetime , the pictures of Anders Zorn rose to extraordinary prominence in the Scandinavian art boom of the late 1980s : in August 1989 ‘ Naked under the Trees ’ sold for £1,424,554 , having made £20,000 in 1976 . |
| 6 | and Kaplan J. ) [ 1991 ] 2 H.K.L.R. 215 given on 15 March 1991 allowing an appeal by the taxpayer , HK-TVB International Ltd. , from the order of Godfrey J. made on 9 April 1990 in the High Court whereby he had allowed an appeal by the commissioner by way of case stated from the decision of the Board of Review that the relevant profits for the years of assessment 1980–81 to 1983–84 inclusive did not arise in or derive from Hong Kong from a trade or business carried on by the taxpayer in Hong Kong . |
| 7 | I began to wonder how much of our knowledge of Roman Britain depended on such figments of the imagination — a depressing thought ! |
| 8 | Last month a thirty-foot stretch of the walls of Urbino actually did fall down , provoking a ritual wailing and breast-beating in the Italian press last heard when the bell tower of Pavia cathedral collapsed in 1989 , killing three bystanders . |
| 9 | A further indication of the growing strength of Hispano-Axis relations came on 20 October , when the German police chief , Heinrich Himmler , arrived in Madrid for talks on police collaboration between Spain and Germany . |
| 10 | David Grindley 's bid for a European Cup 400 metres place ahead of Roger Black met with limited success . |
| 11 | David Grindley 's bid for a European Cup 400 metres place ahead of Roger Black met with limited success . |
| 12 | By May 1990 more than 3,000 evacuees from the destroyed EL Chorillo district of Panama City remained in temporary accommodation in two aircraft hangars , waiting to be rehoused . |
| 13 | The internal divisions which seemingly threatened , but actually assisted , the political survival of General Franco continued into 1942 . |
| 14 | APPEAL ( No. 6 of 1991 ) with leave of the Court of Appeal of Bermuda by the plaintiff , Horace Brenton Kelly , from the judgment of the Court of Appeal of Bermuda ( Blair-Kerr P. , Roberts and Henry JJ.A. ) given on 30 November 1989 allowing an appeal by the defendants , Margot Cooper and Helen Cooper ( trading as Cooper Associates , a firm ) from the judgment of Hull J. delivered on 14 November 1988 in the Supreme Court of Bermuda ( Civil Jurisdiction ) , whereby he awarded the plaintiff $200,000 damages for breach of contract and made a declaration that the defendants were not entitled to commission on the sale of the plaintiff 's property , and the defendants ' counterclaim for commission was dismissed . |
| 15 | Zimbabwe became independent in April 1980 as a republic within the Commonwealth , after a 15-year period of unilaterally declared independence under the government of Ian Smith ended in 1979 with the Lancaster House agreement on the Constitution [ see p. 30165 ] . |
| 16 | In both directions — south towards the Grand Parade and Patrick Street , and north to the quays — other horse-drawn vehicles threaded their way , wheels screaming , drivers cursing and cracking whips , the while throngs of Friday shoppers darted from one side of the unpaved road to the other , dodging between carts and traps and under horses ' necks as if they were n't there at all . |
| 17 | The trial of Justine Moritz began at eleven . |
| 18 | APPEAL ( No. 10 of 1992 ) with leave of the Court of Appeal of Hong Kong , and with special leave , by the applicant , George Tan Soon Gin , from the judgment of the Court of Appeal of Hong Kong ( Yang C.J. , Silke V.-P. and Bewley J. ) given on 29 November 1991 , whereby they held that they had no jurisdiction to hear the applicant 's appeal from the judgment of Barnett J. delivered on 13 May 1991 in the High Court [ 1991 ] 2 H.K.L.R. 400 refusing the applicant 's application for judicial review of the decision of the first respondent , Judge Cameron , in the district court dated 4 December 1990 , refusing to stay the criminal proceedings by the second respondent , the Attorney-General of Hong Kong , against the applicant in the district court relating to West L.B. ( Asia ) Ltd. and Barclays ( Asia ) Ltd . |
| 19 | ‘ A key factor to the defeat of Raybestos Manhattan lay in convincing workers of the dangers to their lives from their working conditions . |
| 20 | Appointed KCB when his governorship of Vancouver Island ended in 1863 , he retired from his British Columbia post in the following year , citing the state of his health . |
| 21 | In the twenty years between 1960 and 1980 , the tenancy of Downing Street changed between Labour and Conservative four times , an average occupancy of only five years : the Great and Good were trying to produce policies which would be durable enough to survive the swings . |
| 22 | The EMSA of extracts of COS cells transfected with this deletion mutant ( Figure 3b , plasmid V ) showed that the protein in the lower complex ( N-Oct 5B ) was expressed at high levels and that in the upper complex at low levels ( N-Oct 5A ) , which is also the pattern seen in brain extracts ( Figure 3a , lane 7 and 1 ) . |
| 23 | It is no secret that the governor of Brixton prison knew on 4 February 1991 that a breakout from the prison was being actively contemplated by IRA terrorists in the prison , yet they were not split up or moved . |
| 24 | The pier is small , the cottages few and tidily arranged , the little beaches a delight for pebble collectors , the bay a narrow inlet of Loch Torridon landlocked on three sides by gaunt grey hills , and only the cry of seabirds disturbs the silence . |
| 25 | In 1987 , The Tsarevich , jointly owned by Edgar Bronfman , the Chairman of The Seagram Company and Ivan Straker , Chairman of Seagram Distillers ran into second place behind Maori Venture , owned by 92-year-old Jim Joel who thus becomes one of the select band who have owned both English Derby and Grand National winners . |
| 26 | A GOVERNMENT minister yesterday promised emergency cash aid to bail out areas of North Wales devastated by last week 's ‘ storm of the century . ’ |
| 27 | Archipenko , who had been a friend of Delaunay for some time , now also denied being a Cubist ; the Art column of Gil Blas reported on 14 December 1912 : ‘ M. Archipenko has formally announced that he has completely detached himself from the Cubist group whose principles he rejects . ’ |
| 28 | The Conservative government of Harold Macmillan responded with various novel proposals , including indicative economic planning and an application to join the European Economic Community . |
| 29 | The last group of Zbonszyn children arrived on 29 August , three days before the outbreak of war . |
| 30 | That wo n't give anything away , ’ cajoled Deana , and it was at that moment that an open-topped , low-slung dark red sports car purred to an impatient halt directly in front of the foyer 's big glass doors and the unmistakable silhouette of Tom Russell sprang with athletic grace from behind the wheel and began to stride across the cement footpath towards the entrance . |