Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an assistant in early 1643 to John Rushworth [ q.v. ] , clerk-assistant of the House of Commons , Mabbott became connected with the parliamentary army secretariat and acted as agent for the army , mainly in London , throughout the civil war and interregnum . |
| 2 | Temple became known as a local Gretna Green and an historian of the time commented , ‘ Many a bad marriage bargain is there slubbered up ( sic ) and grass widows with their fatlings put to lie in and nurse here ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Or there 's the chance Mills got murdered by a sadistic lunatic , ’ Urquhart added . |
| 4 | Dysentery became regarded as a norm of life at Verdun . |
| 5 | The failure of IAEA safeguards , including twice-yearly inspections in Iraq for the pasts 15 years , must lead to the conclusion that the NPT has acted like a cloak of respectability to certain nations which have signed it . |
| 6 | A truly remarkable achievement and one that demonstrates the enthusiasm with which Johnson Matthey has responded to the challenge . |
| 7 | It might be a company with financial problems but ITN has put on a glitzier show . |
| 8 | The art historians and restorers dealing with the St Servatius restoration are pleased with the expertise DSM has brought to the project . |
| 9 | The physical and analytical chemistry department at DSM has looked at the distribution and migration of salts in limestone . |
| 10 | One of the greatest difficulties Denis has faced over the years — and it has increased as the world has turned to harassing the smoker — has been how to keep awake through the after-dinner speeches without the benefit of a cigarette . |
| 11 | Apart from Mrs Thatcher 's unqualified declaration of support , the only other comment on the events in Panama has come from the Spanish Prime Minister , Mr Felipe Gonzalez , who told the Cortes in Madrid that his government ‘ condemned outright all foreign intervention ’ . |
| 12 | On occasions Strach has played on the left — To accomodate Hendrie in the promotion year , and when Batty , Macca had a go at right-back last season . |
| 13 | Unguarded remarks by Truman on 30 November on the possible use of nuclear weapons in Korea precipitated in Westminster what Roy Jenkins has described as a " mood of near panic " far worse than any he experienced throughout his entire political career . |
| 14 | He reveals him to us through the operas , which ‘ lay at the core of Mozart 's life as a thinking artist ’ and on which Mr Till has worked as a producer . |
| 15 | Quizmaster Magnus Magnusson KBE has landed in the hot seat himself . |
| 16 | Clarence has escaped from the Tower , and is crossing the Channel with his brother Gloucester ( later to become Richard III ) . |
| 17 | Just as McBride and Doyle before him , Ciaran Fitzgerald has suffered from the Irish notion that Messiahs work . |
| 18 | Vauxhall has shrugged off the difficulties dogging other car manufacturers to bring the massive investment to its plant at Ellesmere Port . |
| 19 | Vauxhall has shrugged off the difficulties faced by other car manufacturers to bring the massive investment to its plant at Ellesmere Port . |
| 20 | Palace striker Chris Armstrong has confessed for the first time that manager Steve Coppell took a huge gamble signing him . |
| 21 | Palace midfielder Geoff Thomas has twisted knee ligaments but £1 million striker Chris Armstrong has recovered from a ‘ dead leg ’ . |
| 22 | England marksman David Hirst has trained for the first time in five weeks after recovering from a cracked ankle , and is desperate to link up with Chris Waddle . |
| 23 | Moscovici has referred to the second process by which social representations are produced as objectification . |
| 24 | Steve and Stuart are just 2 of the homeless people , Dawn Walker Webb has helped over the past 20 years in Swindon . |
| 25 | Peter Bergg has put in a large number of Press statements reflecting his current activities on behalf of Darlington 's residents but the vast majority have been totally ignored by the Echo 's reporters . |
| 26 | CARL PREAN has written to the English Table Tennis Association asking to be omitted from future ranking lists because of the way they are determined . |
| 27 | D. B. MacDonald has speculated on the difficult question of the origin of this view in Islam and has suggested that it arose from a Muslim heresy ‘ in that dark but intense period of theological and intellectual development which stretched from the death of Muhammad for at least two and a half centuries ’ . |
| 28 | It is hard to imagine the average builder , unskilled in the repair of old buildings , recognising the significance of the two cat skeletons and the pile of old clothes that the Eastons found tucked behind the chimney in the old kitchen . |
| 29 | Forest boss Brian Clough has agreed on a swap deal involving Northern Ireland winger Kingsley Black going to Hillsborough plus £200,000 cash coming Forest 's way . |
| 30 | A farmer from Hereford has come to the aid of children at a Romanian Orphange . |