Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [prep] [num] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is misleading to regard the Soviet withdrawal from the Porkkala base in 1955–6 as the final stage of a phased withdrawal of Soviet troops from Finland when Soviet troops had at no stage occupied Finnish soil . |
| 2 | Twelve months ago Jamie Spence trailed Colin Montgomerie by ten with a round to go , fired a 60 and won in a play-off . |
| 3 | After two years spent coaching his home village club , the aptly named Furnace , Jenkins was back at Stradey Park in 1982 for a five-year apprenticeship as assistant coach to Alun Lewis . |
| 4 | These treasures came to Elias Ashmole in 1678 on the death of Hester , Tradescant Jnr 's widow , and eventually formed the nucleus of the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford . |
| 5 | They were all out for 93 but the game had to be abandoned with Much Wenlock on 33 for no wicket as rain continued to interrupt play . |
| 6 | Coventry v Arsenal Arsenal return to one of the few grounds where they were beaten last season , with their match winner against Manchester United , Groves , likely to partner Smith up front again . |
| 7 | Outside Germany , a wider public became aware of the younger , refurbished band when Karajan toured the nine Beethoven symphonies in 1961 before the integral recording for Deutsche Grammophon which pioneered the idea of the ‘ subscription set ’ in the new stereo age . |
| 8 | Prost joined the Renault team in 1981 as a replacement for Jean-Pierre Jabouille and had his first success in the rain-interrupted French Grand Prix at Dijon . |
| 9 | Describing the Government 's response to the company 's predicament as inadequate , Mr Gorman castigated the failure of Michael Heseltine , President of the Board of Trade , to intervene and drew attention to his involvement in the rescue of Rolls Royce in 1972 during the Heath administration : ‘ Heseltine was involved up to his neck in saving Rolls Royce . |
| 10 | Slow left-armer Tufnell had just removed opener Navjot Sidhu for 79 in the 13th over of the day , to leave India 174 for two , when Kambli charged Emburey but failed to connect properly . |
| 11 | He beat Boris Becker , the defending champion and a player who had appeared to be relaxed and in comfortable form , and then he beat Emilio Sanchez in one of the most outstanding matches in recent history . |
| 12 | The oldest Best Actor was George Arliss at sixty-three for Disraeli ( 1929 ) , the youngest Richard Dreyfuss at twenty-nine for The Goodbye Girl ( 1977 ) — thus upholding the ancient Oscar tradition that the Best Actors tend to be honoured for their worst pictures . |
| 13 | Such a procedure was well advanced against President Richard Nixon in 1974 for the variety of criminal offences known collectively as ‘ Watergate ’ , when he pre-empted the process by resigning — the first American president to do so . |
| 14 | Diana de Moutis , entrusted with the sale of ‘ La Celestine ’ by its owner Georges Pellequer , contacted Didier Imbert in 1986 in the hope he could help her obtain an export licence . |
| 15 | Lord Scarman 's inquiry was not on the same scale as the famous Kerner Report in 1968 on the US riots , but since the publication of his Report in November 1981 his views and prescriptions have played an important role in fashioning political debate about the riots . |
| 16 | The exhibition ostensibly covers three-quarters of a century of art — from the Armory Show of 1913 to the present day . |
| 17 | His big bang comes at the NEC show in 1992 with the 530bhp twin-supercharged Vantage — but as a Bentley fan he was beaming nonetheless . |
| 18 | His best-known work was the Buxton Memorial Fountain in Parliament Square , which he designed with S. S. Teulon in 1865 as a memorial to his father , Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton , a slave trade abolitionist and prison reformer . |
| 19 | There are a number of different groupings , which may be included under the rubric of social movement : neighbourhood councils , which include the gamut of barrio and community organisations aimed at solving problems of urban facilities and also those that are concerned with living standards , particularly in the form of rising prices of food , transport and other necessities ; women 's movements , which have become particularly prominant in Grenada and Nicaragua , but which also exist in more localised forms in other countries ; human rights groups , which have become so well-known on a national scale in Argentina , but are also active at neighbourhood level as for example in São Paulo , where one was formed in 1978 in the barrio of São Miguel after one of the inhabitants was victimised by police brutality ( Singer 1982 ) ; CEBs , as described in Chapter 4 , are spreading now throughout the continent ; regional movements have emerged in countries where the interests of one region have been subordinated to those of other areas as in Peru ; and political protest groups , which in the extreme become guerrilla groups , such as Sendero Luminoso in Peru . |
| 20 | It was clear that Hannah would not consider moving far from her native heath and after lengthy deliberations , settled on a cottage in Cotherstone which stands five miles away from Low Birk Hatt at one of the entrances to Baldersdale . |
| 21 | This was originally posed by David Singer in 1961 as the problem of whether to account for the behaviour of the international system in terms of the behaviour of the nation states comprising it or vice versa . |
| 22 | The catechumens and candidates have been going through the process known as the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults ( R.C.I.A. ) and in his sermon Bishop Brewer gave an outline of the R.C.I.A. 's activities from its foundation after the Second Vatican Council in 1972 to the present . |
| 23 | One of the kindest and most popular members of the board , which he served with distinction for some 20 years , Mr Scott played a major part in the gradual development of Goodison Park into one of the country 's finest grounds , and also led the battle against hooliganism from the front . |
| 24 | With tours in 18 countries and appearances in the USA and Russia , Art Zoyd ranks as one of the major jazz/rock quartets of the world . |
| 25 | Trading standards officers in Hereford and Worcester area recently seized 4,500 bottles fake Calvin Klein Obsession and also Giorgio 's Beverly Hills fragrances in one of a series of raids . |
| 26 | Since becoming head of the Kimbell in 1980 , he single-handedly built the sleepy Fort Worth museum into one of the most select collections in the country , purchasing a stellar array of old masters , including masterpieces by Caravaggio , Pietro da Cortona , Domenichino , Poussin and Georges de la Tour that would have significantly complemented or filled gaps at the National Gallery . |
| 27 | After taking a degree in Mediaeval History at St. Andrew 's University , in which he specialised in mediaeval medicine , Mark joined ASH Scotland in 1986 as a Project Development Officer . |
| 28 | One wonders how close the cost of Edward 's internment was to the £15 3s. 4½d. paid to Hugh Brice in 1471 for the cerecloth and spices used to embalm his predecessor , Henry VI . |
| 29 | An outstanding sportsman , in 1936 he became Irish universities ' heavyweight boxing champion and two years later he received the first of six rugby international caps for Ireland , touring South Africa in 1938 with the British Lions . |
| 30 | There 's a prize of a Concorde ticket for two for the individual raising the most money overall . |