Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun prp] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The church which Kinloch also provided has in its churchyard a flagstaff from which permanently flies the saltire or St Andrew 's cross , floodlit at night , recalling the vision of a white cross against blue sky which supposedly inspired combined Pictish and Scottish forces to victory against the invading King Athelstan and later became the national flag . |
| 2 | He was the same age as old Jack Ryan and well remembered the smell of the pigs he brought with him into the pub of an evening . |
| 3 | At the post match presentations , Mike Horn collected the team manager 's prize of £400 while the victorious Misses Brown and appropriately named Rich , collected the coveted Vauxhall women 's Trophy and — like the men — a cheque for £2,500 . |
| 4 | Born in 1864 , she was at one time wooed by the future Kaiser William but instead married the Russian Grand Duke Sergei , assassinated by anarchists in 1905 . |
| 5 | The Parafoils , created by Canadian Domina Jalbert and subsequently used for parachuting and paragliding , established that a properly-rigged , fully flexible shape would fill with ram air and fly as a kite . |
| 6 | Oldham are to continue their search for a replacement for the injured Jon Hallworth after also hearing that any move for Grobbelaar — rated at around £400,000 — would be beset by complications . |
| 7 | The giant Eales , the undisputed No 1 line-out specialist in world rugby , will be replaced by the inexperienced Garrick Morgan after finally conceding his shoulder injury would not recover in time . |
| 8 | Colourmasters are one-off photographic copies of paintings mainly in English private collections , a process invented by the late Leo Valla and further developed by Colour Processing Laboratories of Edenbridge . |
| 9 | She reached the busy Jamaica Road and suddenly felt depressed as she hurried across and turned into a quiet backstreet which led to her home . |
| 10 | The pair arrived with money and dispatches written in invisible ink that were to be handed over to one of the leaders of the insurrectionary party in Spain , currently conspiring to get rid of the autocratic King Ferdinand and currently enjoying the support of idealistic and poetical young Englishmen . |
| 11 | In 1988 , offered the honour of taking part in the Lord Mayor of London 's Show and carrying the Burgh Standard , the town of Langholm proudly declined on the grounds that the cherished flag was never displayed other than on Common Riding Day and never left the town , and that ‘ It would be demeaning for the Principals to take part in a ‘ fancy dress ’ parade' . |
| 12 | On July 8 , G-7 leaders met with Russian President Yeltsin and formally endorsed the disbursement of the first tranche of an aid package worth US$24,000 million , first approved in April [ see p. 38888 ] . |
| 13 | However , it is important to realise that double jacquard is quite a different fabric to single-bed Fair Isle and usually requires different yarns . |
| 14 | In a statement to the Rajya Sabha ( the upper house of the legislature ) on May 14 , Home Minister S. B. Chavan said that the larger objective of the LTTE went beyond the establishment of a Tamil homeland in north-eastern Sri Lanka and hence posed a threat to India 's sovereignty and territorial integrity . |
| 15 | A new Pax Europa or even Pax Japanica is difficult to envisage for all sorts of historical and geopolitical reasons . |