Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [noun prp] [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police discovered the Mini van in the warehouse in the nearby City Walls Road while carrying out a systematic search of the whole city . |
| 2 | The research — which will be conducted under the auspices of the Universiti Brunei Darussalam and extends over a two-and -a-half year period — is expected to make a significant contribution to current debates about the exploitation and future of rainforest , and to attempts to place economic values on its component parts . |
| 3 | Miss Braithwaite expressed her appreciation of all the hard work undertaken by the retiring Vice-Chairman , Mrs. Ann McMillan and said how much she regretted that Ann was unable to be present at the meeting because of her admission to hospital . |
| 4 | The nuts and bolts of the deal have been put together cleverly to comply with the 1982 Cable Act and with the specific terms of the 1984 consent decree from Judge Harold Greene that set up the Baby Bells . |
| 5 | Throw out your Brie de Meaux and come out with your hands up ! ’ |
| 6 | She is the Santa Maria del Sud and had recently been brought down under tow from the Argentine naval base near Buenos Aires where she has been undergoing a complete refit . |
| 7 | The mines are occupied by Warlord Urk Grimfang and known ever after as Mount Grimfang . |
| 8 | Lady Ursula Berowne sat immobile in her sitting room on the fourth floor of 62 Campden Hill Square and gazed out over the top boughs of the plane trees as if at some far distant unseeable vista . |
| 9 | He attacked the claims of Prime Minister John Major and Chancellor Norman Lamont that bringing down inflation would get Britain out of the recession . |
| 10 | On Monday , 6 September 1773 , Boswell and Johnson left the home of Sir Alexander Macdonald and set off on horseback to a staging-post near their embarkation point for Raasay . |
| 11 | He had worked along with Lutyens in the office of Sir Ernest George and set up a practice in Bourton on the Hill , Gloucestershire , where he was kept in constant commission by the smart hunting crowd . |
| 12 | BRITISH Muslims are being encouraged to renew their battle against the author Mr Salman Rushdie and to step up their efforts to achieve a ban on his novel , The Satanic Verses . |
| 13 | Benjamin spun on his heel , grabbed a torch from Sir John Santerre and walked down the nave , beckoning me to follow him . |
| 14 | Ami Popper , a 21-year-old Israeli civilian dressed in an Army uniform and carrying his brother 's Army-issue M-16 rifle , drove to the area from his home in Rishon Le Zion and rounded up for a bogus security check a group of Gazans , whom he then sprayed with bullets , killing seven and wounding nine others . |
| 15 | After stopping in Kinshasa , the flight had landed in France and Mike had walked into the recruiting post at Fort St Nicholas and joined up . |
| 16 | Installed in a town house off the Rue St Honoré and accompanied everywhere in his armoured Mercedes by bodyguards armed with automatic weapons , he endeared himself to French society by throwing the kind of party that went out of style with Caligula while continuing to act as front man for the Syrian heroin cartel that underwrote his brother 's fanatical Alawist regime in Damascus . |
| 17 | Remembering Philippe Bonard 's invitation to use the pool whenever she wished , she decided to call in at the Auberge de la Fontaine and pick up her swimming costume . |
| 18 | After mid-morning Sunday mass many come from the church , walk down the short steep hill of Santa Maria in Portico , cross the Riviera di Chiaia and stroll along the Villa Nazionale for a sight of the sea and the majestic sweep of the rocky shore of the Bay of Naples . |
| 19 | Arthur Andersen established the Japanese International Network , serving Japanese-based companies in other countries , in 1983 , and also has its own inhouse operation in Japan itself , which is known as Inoue Saita Eiwa and brings in a fee income of around Y20.5bn a year . |
| 20 | Go on foot from Thomas More Street or Wapping High Street and get there by 9.45am . |
| 21 | I climbed a wall to drink at the beck , sitting for a while on its banks in the sun before walking on up the legionaries ' highway crossing the Burtersett road under Green Scar Mire and heading up towards Fleet Moss and Kidhow Gate . |
| 22 | The sloop apparently ran straight on to the top of the bank under sail in spite of the fact that the top of the bank is 10 m ( 30 ft ) above the level of high spring tides.Jutson ( 1939 ) has pointed to a series of generally narrow platforms cut mainly in almost horizontal rocks in New South Wales and extending up to a height of 10 m ( 30 ft ) or more . |
| 23 | I 'm not here to be a dolly , dabbing his temples with eau de cologne and picking up his wife 's laundry . |
| 24 | They broke into his brand new Ford Sierra Cosworth and raced away with it as he began work on another of his smash-hit Spender series . |
| 25 | From the northwestern end of the Darsena it is a short step — cross Piazzale Antonio Cantore and go right into Via Daniele Crespi , then left into Via Sesto and right into Via San Calcero — to the church of San Vicenzo in Prato . |
| 26 | On June 14 Abdi Uthman Farah , the vice-chairman of the executive committee of the United Somali Congress ( USC ) , which supported Gen. Mohammed Farah Aydid and had not attended the meeting in Ethiopia , pledged that the USC would implement the resolutions of the Bahr Dar accord . |