Example sentences of "[subord] [pos pn] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( d. 1238 ) , bishop of Coventry and Lichfield , was in all likelihood a native of Stainby , Lincolnshire , where his brothers Gilbert and Master William of Stainby held land . |
| 2 | And he had to put on a brave face as he manned the tombola stall at a primary school Christmas bazaar where his children Adam , seven , and five-year-old Amber were among the revellers . |
| 3 | SCOTTISH orchestras are more successful in winning sponsorship than their counterparts south of the Border . |
| 4 | Heavily based on a slightly stretched platform from Chrysler 's ubiquitous K-car , the Mexican-built Spirit R/T is a boxy four-door , elongated at either end so that it appears rather narrower than its 68.1ins width conveys . |
| 5 | Norman Broadbent has been more successful in offering the benefits of an international network than its rivals GKR , through a combination of its own companies — as in the manner of the Big Four — and membership of a well-known established group ( as with Whitehead Mann ) . |
| 6 | Hacking was much liked by the professional engineers and managers in the industry and faced less initial distrust than his colleagues Citrine and Self , though he was no less committed to a policy of centralisation . |
| 7 | ‘ For 20 years the Childrens ’ Hearing system has progressed very positively and we are doing much better than our brethren south of the Border in looking after the interests of children in Scotland . ’ |
| 8 | Girls on mountains tend to come into contact with more amphibious life than our men folk , on account of our toilet arrangements . |
| 9 | Erm we believe , er if we are to demonstrate to our clients that we are as good or better than our competitives competitors , then we need certification . |
| 10 | You should not normally have to pay more than your rates bill plus £52 . |
| 11 | And I 've got no make-up remover — my make-up 's inches thick — it 'll go streaky in the night — if my eyes water , the mascara 'll run down my cheeks — and I 'll have no mirror to check my face before anyone sees me in the morning . |
| 12 | I do nt even bother reading the Mirror cos its sports pages are so crap . |
| 13 | The course is lined with dusty palm trees ; between races , a lorry sprays the sand track ; and past the finishing line the poor horses , slavering in 100 degrees , are doused with buckets of water until their sides foam . |
| 14 | His father was killed in the Great War and until his mid-teens Albert lived at 93 rue de Lyon ( now rue Belouizdad Mohamad ) with his mother . |
| 15 | Executors we 've dealt with and expenses , alterations I 've just dealt with er Oh if you want to change you mind , and remember a will is only a piece of paper until you die , you can change your mind as often as you like I have made a will in the past Four wills in one year for one of my clients , his right he 's perfectly entitled to do that er and it 's better that you alter it frequently if your circumstances change than that you do n't be aware of how things go in the way that you do n't want them do . |
| 16 | I was merely waiting until your police friends finished their clumsy sweep through the woods . ’ |
| 17 | We are not going to establish British companies across Europe , let alone across the world , if our monopolies legislation disallows mergers of major companies within one industry — the only way they are going to be strong enough to do it . |
| 18 | The Commissioner discussed with me the statement you made to him , and we both feel that it may require action on a number of different fronts , and that it would , therefore , be helpful if our Police Liaison Group handled matters from the start . |
| 19 | We reached our 1987 target and beyond , which delights us , because our Sports Council Grant depends partly on good membership numbers . |
| 20 | Flat expanses of sand conjured up images of the savannah it had once been : giraffes picking leaves from high branches , an antelope grazing , and young zebras running in circles while their mothers eye a drowsy lion in the long grass . |
| 21 | The Davies brothers , Adrian ( who scored 14 points ) and Graham ( four ) , exercised an important creative influence on Cambridge fortunes while their flankers Holmes and Pool-Jones were full of fire and tenacity in the loose . |
| 22 | There is a new self-confidence in unionism , since its talks representatives showed they could face down the opposition , and he is determined to build upon it . |
| 23 | While our sports leaders recognise the contribution they can make to providing a ‘ healthy outlet ’ , they are concerned that , although government looks to them to play this role , it is often not prepared to assist them . |
| 24 | This may well have been the intention , but in fact the implications are clear : demolition rates are too low , compulsory purchase of homes for redevelopment is inevitable in the future ; owner-occupiers can not be trusted to be the final arbiters of whether their homes arc unfit' ; and some existing environments may be so drab as to be not worth preserving' . |
| 25 | My Lords , I er apologise first of all that I was not able to hear some of the earlier speeches in this Debate erm but it does seem to me a most interesting Debate and I have to confess that I always become slightly uneasy er when the great and the good , and I suppose we should collectively cast ourselves in that role of being the great and good of the establishment are all of one view and I wonder whether it is necessarily right and so I begin to question er whether your Lordships enthusiasm for many of these amendments and their attack upon the Government 's proposals is necessarily as soundly based as we might think if we just listen to casually to it all . |
| 26 | ‘ Dr. Roy 's printed case contained detailed arguments in favour of a contract between him and the committee , but before your Lordships Mr. Lightman simply argued that the doctor had a private law right , whether contractual or statutory . |
| 27 | Their draughts of memory were clear and generous but the daughters — in truth Richard 's nieces but brought up as his sisters — thought there were points with which they did not wish to embarrass their mother and after our talks Rhianon wrote : |
| 28 | ICI underwrote massive losses as its Fibres operation struggled hard with a series of ‘ single-minded programmes ’ to secure a future . |
| 29 | Panama suspended diplomatic relations on May 26 , but cited as its reasons Peru 's granting of asylum to alleged military opponents of the Panamanian government , as well as official disapproval of the April coup . |
| 30 | For Kylie , however , there was no looking back , and the future for now meant more work with SAW in London where she was to record an album as soon as her Neighbours commitments allowed . |