Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An object 's appearance is the first way we recognise where it comes from : a Volkswagen ‘ Beetle ’ is an instantly recognisable shape even if the VW badge has fallen off the car ; likewise we recognise a Rolls Royce . |
| 2 | Growth in the size of the EEC budget has accelerated in a steady curve over the last three decades . |
| 3 | A Middlesbrough driver has died in a road accident in Kirkby Stephen , Cumbria . |
| 4 | Also in late March fighting had erupted to the north of the Karen heartlands as government-backed Wa guerrillas battled with the private army of " warlord " Khun Sa for control of narcotics routes into Thailand . |
| 5 | The sapling trees had grown tall in the twenty-five years since the Beeching axe had fallen on the single railway track , and , even leafless as they were , they effectively screened the view from the top . |
| 6 | AN RAF veteran has pleaded for the return of six commemorative plates stolen from his Cleveland home . |
| 7 | He was too depressed even to care about travelling back on the tube with his right wrist in a sling during a period which the Tooting Guardian had described as a peak time for knife attacks . |
| 8 | The emollient international posture of Prime Minister Peres contrasted sharply with the toughest crackdown the West Bank and Gaza Strip had experienced since the period 1969–72 . |
| 9 | Data collected by Dr Arne Semb-Johansson of Oslo University show that toad populations on the Hvaler islands in the outer Oslo fjord have plummeted since 1966 . |
| 10 | And even Hoggatt 's Laboratory , blood or no blood , had been part of the village for over seventy years , while Chevisham Manor had stood for nearly three times as long . |
| 11 | The National Trust and the Trustees of Waddesdon Manor had come to the decision that it would be in the best interest of the house for as much work as possible to be carried out at one time , and the range of the repairs is such that the house can not be reopened until April 1993 . |
| 12 | Taylor saw for himself on Saturday how the 24-year-old Aston Villa flyer has matured into a player of genuine international potential . |
| 13 | ( On Jan. 22 Modrow announced that Uta Nickel had resigned as Finance Minister . |
| 14 | The Saul Syndrome had settled upon me and I was wrapped tightly in his mantle . |
| 15 | In the documents that the hon. Gentleman is quoting from , did he notice the statement that unemployment in the TEC area has risen by 81 per cent . |
| 16 | Thus , the Dundee tribunal has decided in the unreported case of Cox v Dundee Corporation ( 1974 ) that a man dismissed following a conviction in the Burgh Court for breach of the peace , for which he was sentenced to thirty days , had been treated unfairly . |
| 17 | More than 300 people were killed and another 430 injured on Jan. 4 when the crowded Zakaria-Bahauddin passenger express hurtled into the rear of a stationary freight train in southern Pakistan . |
| 18 | The ideological basis of Kremlin policy seemed confirmed at this time by Stalin , who declared in a speech in February 1946 that the Second World War had vindicated the Soviet system of government . |
| 19 | She went to work on Friday morning having worked until midnight the night before , and giving serious consideration to finding another job . |
| 20 | The government 's policy of dividing the different ethnic groups among the African population has in some cases encouraged particularist nationalisms , nowhere more so than in Kwazulu , where the ‘ Zulu nationalism ’ of the Inkatha movement has contributed to a polarization of black society in Natal , with highly detrimental effects on the education system and on the lives of young people ( Chapter 13 ) . |
| 21 | The sold-out concert was scheduled to take place at Seattle 's 15,000 capacity Coliseum , however , Nirvana are believed to have pulled out because Kurt Cobain was furious over an interview which appeared in Vanity Fair magazine which revealed that he and his wife Courtney Love had indulged in a drug ‘ binge ’ while Courtney was pregnant ( see last week 's NME ) . |
| 22 | In 1936 as a result of the growing need to supply the every increasing numbers of mines in the area , Howey Bay became known as the busiest ‘ airport ’ in the world . |
| 23 | Mr Cavaco Silva tried put the brakes on his currency by cutting key interest rates by 1 p.c. to just under 18 p.c. and by selling escudos but the pound ended the day less than 1 p.c. away from its floor of 241.5 against the Portuguese currency , despite successful British efforts over the weekend to force Portugal to join at a higher rate than the Lisbon government had planned on Friday . |
| 24 | CHESAPEAKE BAY Has created over a period of about 17000 years . |
| 25 | Thus , while those favourably disposed towards the United States government had fallen to around 52 per cent by October 1956 ( just before the start of the Suez conflict ) 64 per cent continued to think well of the " American people " . |
| 26 | MORE than 800 Lloyd 's of London members on syndicates managed by the loss-making Gooda Walker agency have failed in their legal attempt to prevent Lloyd 's and members ' agents from drawing down their funds . |
| 27 | Eight patients at a Plymouth hospital have died of flu , it is revealed , but hospital authorities say the outbreak is under control . |
| 28 | Trained by John Coleman , the January 1990 Carters Lad-Princess Alucard brindle has raced over distances between 640 and 660 metres and will drop down to 631 metres at the East Boldon circuit . |
| 29 | The self-built homes of Mexico City have increased from 14 per cent of the population and 23 per cent of the built-up area in 1952 to more than half the total population and built-up area today ( Hurtado 1986 ) . |
| 30 | The Kuwaiti Ministry of Public Works says the cost of completing the telecommunications tower in Kuwait City has risen to $175m from $110m : the increase is due mainly to damage done by the Iraqis during their occupation of the country , as well as changes in the project 's specifications and a rise in the cost of raw materials and labour . |