Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eliot may have experienced displeasure at racial mixing in After Strange Gods , which he later withdrew from print as ‘ a bad book ’ , but it was no coincidence that in the same year as the performance of The Rock he defended Frazer , but attacked Ezra Pound 's favourite , Leo Frobenius , whose anthropological doctrines of racial purity he found particularly distasteful . |
| 2 | I AM glad you publicised Victoria Stone 's campaign for legislation to prevent learner drivers being supervised by , perhaps , an equally young but recently-qualified driver ( Weekend Guardian , October 28 ) . |
| 3 | Yet somehow she shared Alison Walker 's faith that everything would be all right . |
| 4 | When Connery decided to hang up his licence to kill and super-spy toupee after five successive 007 epics , the producers Cubby Broccolli and Harry H Saltzman chose Big Fry man George Lazenby from Australia as the actor who best filled Ian Fleming 's description of Commander Bond ( save for the Australian accent ) . |
| 5 | We therefore dispute van Maanen 's view that researchers on the police have to be male ( 1981 : 480 ) , in order to be able to participate fully in the masculine occupational and leisure culture of the police . |
| 6 | I read Jemima Harrison 's feature abut her horrific experience at the hands of a brutal rapist with tears in my eyes . |
| 7 | She was able to see Colonel Crossley-Payne 's man at once . |
| 8 | As well as keeping his own large beloved patch looking like the Garden of Eden , he still found time to tend Colonel Murchison 's land at weekends . |
| 9 | On that basis I would be content to say , as we did say at the conclusion of the hearing , that the appeal should be dismissed and that we would affirm Ward J. 's declaration that it would be lawful for the hospital to administer blood to Miss T. |
| 10 | ‘ Is the Reichsführer doubting General Schellenberg 's loyalty ? ’ |
| 11 | 193 for the fourth wicket , with Lamb equalling Colin Cowdrey 's record of six Test centuries against West Indies , ensured a reasonable score , and 358 all out left them with a fair chance of saving the match . |
| 12 | Branch chain isomerism What do you think branch chain isomer ber la la isomerism is Tracey ? |
| 13 | This interpretation , which broadly parallels Bernard Cohn 's argument that the Indian judicial system was manipulated because of culture conflict between British and Indian legal norms , does not explain why Sri Lankans used the courts so often . |
| 14 | A thumping header from Nigel Winterburn 's cross and a firm finish from Wright 's perfect touch rounded off the hat-trick in the second half and made Highbury Campbell 's kingdom for once . |
| 15 | I read Pamela Salvage 's letter ( February issue ) with interest , but her sarcastic final note , of expecting ‘ to see in a future issue a mob-capped housewife riddling a coke boiler , enveloped in clouds of ash ’ left me indignant . |
| 16 | Charles , who shared G.K. Chesterton 's opinion that the temperament is a disease which afflicts amateurs , grunted . |
| 17 | Moreover , it also allowed entry into the policewomen 's world , which , using van Maanen 's logic , would have been denied a male field-worker ( for the difficulties in establishing rapport experienced by a male researcher on the police see Warren and Rasmussen 1977 : 358 ) . |
| 18 | Those killed included Edgardo Sandoval , the leader of the Dobermann riot squad who signed the communique demanding General Noriega 's resignation , and three officers from the elite 2,000 Battalion . |
| 19 | The three appeal judges considered this issue at length and , again , all affirmed Justice Morling 's decision that the advertisement was rightfully to be considered as being published for the commercial gain of the tobacco industry . |
| 20 | President Özal 's brother Korkut Özal , himself a prominent pro-Islamist , had publicly criticized Semra Özal 's move into politics , while the President 's cousin , Husnu Dogan , had been dismissed from his post as Minister of Defence in February , reportedly after voicing similar criticisms [ see p. 38022 ] . |
| 21 | As a mother of adolescents myself , I now find this combination of intolerance and inaction extraordinary , although it would seem to confirm Selvini Palazzoli 's point that the parents in anorexics ' families are both unwilling to assume leadership . |
| 22 | Frankly , I expected Philippa Lowthorpe 's film about love among the over-65s to come out like a cross between Esther Rantzen at her drippiest and Coronation Street at its dopiest . |
| 23 | Duties at 80 per cent on an estate of a million , only reduced by 30 per cent , because of the donor 's death before the end of the sixth year ( to borrow Gerald Venables ' terminology ) would mean that Nigel would be paying more than half a million in estate duty . |
| 24 | It took them until the 100th minute of an enthralling Rumbelows Cup semi-final second leg to finally break down Spurs ' gallant resistance as former Cobh Ramblers player Keane met Gary Crosby 's corner to beat Erik Thorstvedt with a thumping header . |
| 25 | The leaders of two Palestinian factions banished from Jordan after the September 1970 civil war for opposing King Hussein 's rule , George Habash of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Nayef Hawatmeh of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine , returned to Amman on Sept. 15 , 1990 , to attend the Conference of Arab Popular Forces , a gathering of pro-Iraqi radical Arab factions . |
| 26 | In his diary , he records Denis Healy 's description of it prior to his arrival . |
| 27 | The prospect of equalling Gary Player 's record of five victories , and the fact that he has a bye into the second round on Friday , has enticed Ballesteros to make his 14th successive appearance in the World Matchplay . |
| 28 | All specimens were taken using Olympus FB 13U colonscopy forceps at routine colonoscopy , except in two patients in whol ileal specimens were obtained through an ileostomy with the same forceps . |
| 29 | As I arrived , I met Anouska Hempel 's husband , the brilliant financier Sir Mark Weinberg , and later I had the pleasure of having their beautifully mannered nine-year-old son Jonathan , who had just returned for the summer holidays from Ludgrove , sitting next to me . |
| 30 | Using Estée Lauder 's Destination range , which features plums and smoky greys , we showed how good her eyes can look with quite strong colours . |