Example sentences of "[subord] [noun prp] [adj] [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as the early history of the emancipation process is concerned Field 's position is probably stronger than Zakharova 's , for although Nicholas I 's call for a militia gave rise to disturbances among the peasantry in 1855 , although almost all the memoranda which circulated in private during the Crimean War referred to the possibility of peasant risings , and although Alexander II alluded to the prospect of rural uprisings both in his speech to the Moscow gentry and in his comments on the papers submitted to him by Haxthausen , it is hard to prove that rural developments took pride of place among the reasons for setting reform in train . |
| 2 | As the day grew ever nearer the excitement mounted and if November 5th fell at a weekend , we had an added bonus because the whole of Saturday could be spent in topping up . |
| 3 | The visitors led 9-3 when Stuart Laing kicked two penalties and dropped a goal while Simon Aldred replied with a penalty and Collegians took the lead when Keith Black took a quick penalty and ran in from his own half for Aldred to convert . |
| 4 | The company holds the distinction of having catered for every Coronation Banquet since George III came to the throne in 1760 . |
| 5 | Since Evans first dug at the site in 1900 archaeological work has largely concentrated on revealing the remains of the palace of King Minos and other buildings of the extraordinary Minoan civilisation . |
| 6 | When Bathsheba first appeared at the weekly Casterbridge market , where farmers bought and sold their wheat and animals , she caused a sensation . |
| 7 | When Ivan III came to the throne the Kremlin hill was still covered with wooden buildings . |
| 8 | When Edward I succeeded to the throne of England in 1272 , the king of Scotland was Alexander III . |
| 9 | When Mrs Handy went to the sink she must have touched the machine and up to two hundred and forty volts passed through her body . |
| 10 | Spain stood very much where she had done when Philip II came to the throne , except that the Netherlands had broken free and had set up an empire based much more on trade than on overseas settlements . |
| 11 | When Beth first came to the house , the rear garden was derelict . |
| 12 | When Charles II fled across the country after his defeat at Worcester in 1651 , it caused a minor flurry but no more . |
| 13 | When Elizabeth I came to the throne of England in 1558 she and her government in London ruled less land than her predecessors had done for hundreds of years . |
| 14 | And from the crown of the final bend it was murder in the Montjuic stadium as Gunnell first eased alongside the American , then left her for dead down the home straight . |
| 15 | And from the crown of the final bend it was murder in the Montjuic stadium as Gunnell first eased alongside the American , then left her for dead down the home straight . |
| 16 | Thus , he argued , when Henry VIII quarrelled with the pope over his marriage , he was able to use a pre-existing anti-clericalism as a stick with which to beat the church , and when he subsequently embarked on the official Reformation , the greater part of the political nation readily gave him their support . |
| 17 | When Henry VIII acceded to the throne , James let himself be drawn into a dubious alliance with the French king Louis XII , and after Henry had invaded France wrote him a brash letter demanding a cessation of hostilities . |