Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun prp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The declaration left open the possibility of bilateral aid , and the West German government subsequently pledged a loan package amounting to US$3,100 million in advance of the Gorbachev-Kohl summit on German reunification in Moscow later in July [ see pp. 37659-61 ] . |
| 2 | THE WORLD 'S most advanced prosthetic arm made its public debut in Glasgow yesterday at the Scottish Naidex'93 exhibition . |
| 3 | THE CHIEF executive of National Car Parks was cleared at the Old Bailey in London yesterday of mounting a campaign of industrial espionage against his main rival , Europarks . |
| 4 | A not insignificant push was given to this development with the decline in morale among expatriate workers in the oil industry following the assassination of a senior oil-company secondee near Ahwaz late in 1978 . |
| 5 | I shall be happy to visit my hon. Friend at Basildon either before or after the general election . |
| 6 | FORMER world snooker champion Steve Davis was dumped from the Dubai Duty Free Classic in Blackpool yesterday by Wayne Jones . |
| 7 | Douglas chased the German back over Edinburgh again for a second time , so low that ‘ grannies ’ fell off chimneys and empty cartridge cases rained in back-gardens . |
| 8 | James Beveridge , 36 , unemployed , of no settled address , was jailed for two years at the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday after admitting making a hoax bomb call to Gatwick airport . |
| 9 | A LORRY driver told the High Court in Inverness yesterday of the night he had been masked , bound and abducted by two men who had threatened to shoot him after his load of spirits , tobacco and foodstuffs had been stolen from Inverness . |
| 10 | Judgment was reserved at the High Court in London yesterday on a claim by Mr Christopher Merlin , aged 48 , and his wife , Christine , of Broughton-in-Furness , Cumbria , that their former home was contaminated with plutonimum dust from the Sellafield plant . |
| 11 | Judgment was reserved at the High Court in London yesterday on a claim by Mr Christopher Merlin , aged 48 , and his wife , Christine , of Broughton-in-Furness , Cumbria , who claim their former home was contaminated with plutonimum dust from the Sellafield plant . |
| 12 | Three organisers of an Acid House party who were jailed for three months for breaching an injunction banning an event in Warwickshire were freed in the High Court in London yesterday after apologising . |
| 13 | A MAN was jailed for six years at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday for his part in attempting to murder a man after luring him into a night of torture . |
| 14 | The brutal ejection of Gandhi on to a station platform in South Africa has been made famous by Sir Richard Attenborough 's film . |
| 15 | Although the Conservatives are seen as the natural allies of nuclear power , the ordering of every commercial reactor in Britain up to the 1980s was carried out by a Labour administration . |
| 16 | JOHN MAJOR came under fresh pressure over Maastricht yesterday as the Labour leader , John Smith , accused the Government of unnecessary secrecy over the legal status of the controversial legislation on the treaty . |
| 17 | THE Mayor of a Lancashire town returned to her old school in Darlington yesterday for a trip down Memory Lane . |
| 18 | The action smacked too much of the grandiose , if futile , gesture of the French nobility at Crécy just over a century earlier . |
| 19 | Above all , they educated and eventually apprenticed young paupers , ensuring in theory that they themselves should not in turn need poor relief in adulthood ; thus Shoreditch had a so-called Nursery at Enfield specifically for the care and education of destitute children . |
| 20 | Serotina ) honeysuckles should ensure a charming display from May through to October . |
| 21 | He had worked in Belfast in the late 1940s , and compared the Labour scene in Derry unfavourably with that of the larger city : ‘ We may pride ourselves on being a city but politically we are still a small Ulster town . ’ |
| 22 | The body was found in a terraced cottage in Cheltenham shortly before lunch time . |
| 23 | THE Government is expected to announce the closure of Portland naval base in Dorset today with the loss of almost 2,000 jobs . |
| 24 | Personal — Call to renew personal faith in Jesus e.g. through prayer/ reading the Bible |
| 25 | The plot , which concerned unseemly and immoral behaviour among the upper classes and their humiliation by their servants , was considered too daringly outspoken ( and doubtless too uncomfortably near the truth ) by those same aristocrats , and a German version had been banned by imperial decree in Vienna early in 1785 . |
| 26 | Brough Park 's leading performer of late , Burnhope Jimmy , will be strongly fancied to win the Long March Stayers Stakes , over 670 metres , having won a similar event at Middlesbrough earlier in the month . |
| 27 | In a famous book ( The King 's Two Bodies ) , E. H. Kantorowicz illustrated his theme of the development of Christ-centred kingship with the depiction of the Emperor Otto III on a page of a gospel book made for the imperial church of Aachen probably in the 990s . |
| 28 | ( ii ) If , as in 1.7.1 S is closed under ρ it follows that ρ\S x S is a binary operation on S. For psychological reasons and to stop pedantry getting out of hand , we replace ρ\S x S by the technically incorrect but intuitively more palatable symbol ρ and speak accordingly of ρ as being a binary operation on S. Thus for s and t in S we write sρt whether s and t are regarded as being in S or in A. |
| 29 | ITALIAN Michele Bartoli clinched victory in the six-day Tour of Sicily yesterday by winning the 187.5km final stage in 4hr 33min 47sec . |
| 30 | One additional patient with HBV alone before the treatment , rapidly developed HBV graft infection as shown by stainable HBcAg in a biopsy specimen taken only six days after transplantation . |