Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] [verb] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His younger sister Sarah had married Alderman Sir Thomas Hankey : his youngest sister Jane was the mother of the second Viscount Palmerston [ q.v. ] , a patron of Nollekens . |
| 2 | Psychology is no more the name of an unique body of theory or inquiry and in physics Newton has given place to Einstein . |
| 3 | Indeed , I understand that the Ping Tiao have claimed responsibility for the act . ’ |
| 4 | In research Bristol has achieved recognition for excellence across all of its six faculties . |
| 5 | Protestors against the logging of the Picton Forests in south-west Tasmania have staged blockades in an effort to delay the timber cutting , resulting in a number of violent clashes with loggers and several arrests . |
| 6 | The League 's bottom club Hartlepool have named Cyril Knowles as manager in succession to Bobby Moncur , who resigned a fortnight ago . |
| 7 | Funny how with all their computers and name-matching , these people never seem to come up with offers of anything one actually wants : Diners Club France has chosen Cardpac , Sema Group Plc 's software package for managing credit cards , to support a ‘ new commercial strategy and to develop its financial and non-financial services ’ in a contract said to be worth between $1.45m and $1.8m : ‘ We will use Cardpac to follow our clients ’ activity and to construct a database segmented by expenses , in order to understand client profiles better and to adapt our offers to their needs , ’ said Rolf Harff , managing director of Diners Club France . |
| 8 | Citizen Kane have recorded Beaver Hunt and two more tracks for their second album . |
| 9 | In the bedroom Maura had dressed Carla in a fairly clean pinafore dress . |
| 10 | As a cadet Eva had taken Colossians 1 verse 18 as her special verse : " That in all things Christ might have the pre-eminence . " |
| 11 | We had bought Rudge Biframe folding mountain bikes specifically to go in the back of the 172 , and trips to the Norfolk Broads , Dartmoor and west Ireland had allowed Anne and I to refine our planning so that not only the flying but — just as importantly for our holiday — the non-flying sections of the trip would be practical and highly enjoyable . |
| 12 | For over 300 years the famous and powerful waterfall at Aberdulais in West Glamorgan has provided energy to drive the wheels of industry . |
| 13 | As in the north-east , both Gwent and West Glamorgan have established institutions of higher education by merging three colleges . |
| 14 | Both Japan and South Korea had expressed reservations about Dunkel 's draft accord on the grounds that it would oblige them to open their rice markets by imposing " tariffication " under which import quotas would be converted into tariffs [ see p. 38602 ] . |
| 15 | In previous talks South Korea had demanded agreement on improving relations before signing a non-aggression declaration , while the North had made a military agreement a priority . |
| 16 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd , Seoul , South Korea has bought Harris Corp 's Harris Microwave Semiconductor on undisclosed terms , saying it has set the stage to produce Gallium Arsenide chips to help strengthen its international competitiveness in telecommunications . |
| 17 | South Korea has committed $5 billion over ten years to investing in new technologies , Ward reminded his audience , and Singapore and Taiwan attach the same importance to staying at the cutting edge . |
| 18 | Prior to his dismissal Garrett had commissioned Vander Schaaf to investigate allegations that the Navy 's own investigation of the matter had been less than thorough . |
| 19 | Thailand is the only country in south Asia to have resisted colonisation and thus has a cohesive language and religion , plus a unique culinary palette . |
| 20 | Native peoples in Africa and South America have employed animal toxins to help them catch prey ; Kalahari bushmen anoint their hunting arrows with the squashed contents of beetle larvae to produce a slow-acting poison , and the Colombian Indians , as described , dip their blow-darts into the secretion of the poison arrow frog . |
| 21 | Even most of South America has conquered inflation and gold-loans have effectively smoothed the market . |
| 22 | THE ‘ HORRENDOUS ’ cost of tunnelling in south London has driven Cecil Parkinson , the Secretary of State for Transport , to consider seriously an alternative route for the high-speed rail link to the Channel tunnel . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , red islands in other places such as South Wales have forced state intervention in the form of major industrial investments . |
| 24 | Aachen , Germany-based Parsytec GmbH 's US subsidiary in West Chicago has announced Parix , the ‘ second-generation ’ parallel Unix-based development environment developed for its indefinitely-forthcoming GC Series of T9000 Transputer-based MIMD supercomputers by Amsterdam-based Associated Computer Experts BV : aimed specifically at scientists and research engineers , it can be used on any Parsytec system with 16 or more nodes , which is hooked up to a Sun Microsystems Inc workstation as a front end ; a Parsytec 62-node MultiCluster I with Parix is from $100,000 . |
| 25 | Immediately before the conference Germany had expressed reluctance to commit further funds to the projects because of the costs of German unification . |
| 26 | On Feb. 25 Soviet Vice-President Gennady Yanayev disclosed that after the start of the land war Gorbachev had telephoned Bush with an appeal to halt the offensive . |
| 27 | CIDER to natural foods group Merrydown has appointed Alan Rutherford ( 41 ) , from Ranks Hovis McDougall 's specialist foods subsidiary Sharwood as sales director . |
| 28 | Candy Morris has amazed doctors at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford.Just two weeks ago her foot was almost severed when she fell into this shredding machine at her own paper baling business . |
| 29 | It was an open secret that following the overthrow of the Shah and throughout the Iran-Iraq war Israel had supplied Iran with weapons to the value of more than $500 million , mainly paid for in oil . |
| 30 | ELECTRONICS group Racal has won orders worth more than £15m to supply high definition colour monitors for NATO aircraft and for Royal Navy frigates . |