Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man had spent about thirty minutes behind the wheel of a Land Rover Discovery like this one … they 'd followed Geoff 's normal route from Banbury to the village of Mollington , onto Cropredy , then back into Banbury . |
| 2 | The research will contribute to the debate about agricultural change in Europe through a field-work study of the economic , cultural and political dimensions of the development of one estate . |
| 3 | All of us would arise in due course like Venus from the waves — shining , lovely , renewed , with sharp neat cuts , elegant waves or subtle highlights — or so we hoped ; it was an act of faith . |
| 4 | LEBANON 'S Christian leader , General Michel Aoun , last night denounced a draft peace agreement produced by the country 's parliamentarians in the Saudi resort of Taif on the grounds that it did not set a timetable for the withdrawal of Syrian troops occupying the country since 1976 . |
| 5 | Ochirbat visited China in May 1990 [ see p. 37454 ] , and co-operation agreements in the educational and legal fields were signed on Nov. 26 and on July 4 , 1991 ; an agreement was signed on June 24 to increase to eight the border crossings between China and Mongolia from the hitherto sole crossing at Erenhot in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia . |
| 6 | Although not intransigent , Wash was clearly uneasy about the specific link with Bedfordshire as the precedent to establish a principle . |
| 7 | Adam of Eynsham , the biographer of St Hugh of Lincoln , gives us a revealing description of Richard in the last summer of his life . |
| 8 | In this respect CCW appears to be no different , although we hope it will greatly strengthen political support in Wales for the need to conserve and use natural resources sustainably . |
| 9 | The ESRC have recently commissioned research into aspects of social , economic and political change in Europe with a focus on Eastern Europe . |
| 10 | This is admittedly an extreme case since Germany has passed from the , in theory , most complete pan-German political unity under Hitler to a situation where at least two states coexisted which could claim to be all or part of the German nation . |
| 11 | The first signs of political discontent in England over the conduct of the war surfaced in the parliament of February 1371 , when the commons refused to grant a subsidy until the king 's clerical ministers of state had been replaced by laymen who , unlike their clerical counterparts , would be liable to answer for their misdeeds in the royal courts . |
| 12 | He preferred to explain divine presence in Christ on the analogy of inspiration : Jesus was a man , essentially like all others except in being perfectly good . |
| 13 | The ECRS argued the case for official recognition before the appropriate committee of the European Parliament at Strasbourg on the 23rd September 1987 , when John Young as spokesman submitted to the committee a draft regulation for consideration by the European Parliament . |
| 14 | Addressing the European Parliament in Strasbourg on the following day , Berisha appealed for food aid , technical and financial assistance and " organized emigration " from Albania to other European countries . |
| 15 | As a young man he had walked past the University to light his lamps , but the Old College had gone , removed to the rural splendour of Gilmorehill in the 1860s . |
| 16 | The economic base of Japan as a whole remained overwhelmingly agrarian . |
| 17 | Prayer here could be that the Christians would be strengthened in their witness through the Wimber meetings and that there will be a strong witness to Germany from the March . |
| 18 | In 1899 he climbed Mount Lumpa in Nepal and in 1900 he joined the Allied march on Peking during the Boxer rising . |
| 19 | However sluggish it was in its domestic investment , US business did respond to the possibilities for profitable investment in Europe by a wave of overseas investment . |
| 20 | All United States economic aid to Yugoslavia for the fiscal year 1991 ( amounting to about US$5,000,000 ) , as well as US support for credits in international financial institutions , was frozen as of May 6 . |
| 21 | Among such groups were the Levellers , who emerged as a significant political force in England in the late 1640s . |
| 22 | His remarks gave offence to Bulgaria 's neighbour , Greece , whose ambassador was instructed to protest on the grounds that " the possible recognition of Skopje under the historical Greek name of Macedonia " constituted " an unfriendly stance with negative consequences for relations " . |
| 23 | It 's hit towards the halfway line , Alan the sole defender for Blackburn at the moment , he plays it to his right , forward it goes to now that 's a good ball down the far side of the field , plenty of er men available , 's one of them inside the penalty area , the cross was n't so good from and it 's gon na run harmlessly behind for a goal kick . |
| 24 | His father had been to the Wesleyan Collegiate Institution at Taunton until the age of sixteen , when he had left and gone into the business . |
| 25 | BRITISH Formula One team Lotus went a step further in their revival plans today by announcing a technical partnership with Mugen-Honda for a supply of V10 Grand Prix racing engines in 1994 and 1995 . |
| 26 | A narrow defeat by Hampshire in the final at Lord 's , however , leaves the county still looking for their first trophy since 1982 . |
| 27 | May not Lenin have reacted in private in a way not so dissimilar from Stalin 's overt and more violent reaction to political opposition in Georgia in the same year ? |
| 28 | More than 130 people , mostly Egyptian militants and police , have died in political violence in Egypt over the last 14 months . |
| 29 | The typefaces in our new design are those on this page : a classic cut of Baskerville for the main body of text , and Franklin Gothic for headlines ( in most parts of the paper ) . |
| 30 | Harold Macmillan , for example , never forgot his experience as an MP in the economically depressed north-east of England in the 1930s . |