Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Visions Revisited ’ , chaired by Kirsty Wark and sponsored by Historic Scotland , marked the beginning of a re-examination of Scotland 's Modern building revolution . |
| 2 | These are replica corals reproduced from samples collected off Florida and sprayed with bright red , white or blue . |
| 3 | Everybody in the region would have to pay a new tax towards a regional assembly based on Tyneside and dominated by Labour politicians . |
| 4 | Counsel for the Crown argued that if the House of Lords so held this would mean that the foreign income of an accumulation trust administered in England and governed by English law to avoid taxation on overseas source income by the simple expedient of appointing one co-trustee resident abroad . |
| 5 | The factual data concern a South African people called , the BaThonga , who had been meticulously studied by the Swiss missionary Junod and described in impressive detail in his classic monograph , published in 1913 , The Life of a South African Tribe . |
| 6 | Medieval Scottish castles were once the homes of kings , queens and local lairds , but a three year ecological survey , commissioned by the Government agency Historic Scotland and undertaken by Northern Ecological Services , is finding new castle inhabitants . |
| 7 | Presented by Richard Cork and narrated by Magenta de Vine , the programmes provide a lively , informative introduction to ‘ The Modern Movement ’ , intercutting live footage of events and scenes which inspired the artists . |
| 8 | In July 1944 he had told the American government and in December 1944 the Soviet government that the left bank of the Rhine ought to be detached from the rest of Germany and placed under French authority , while the Ruhr 's industrial resources should be controlled by an international authority . |
| 9 | Produced by Britain 's David Puttnam and directed by Hungarian Istvan Szabo ( ‘ Mephisto ’ ) with an international cast , it tells the chaotic story of a Paris based production of Wagner 's ‘ Tannhauser ’ by ‘ Opera Europa ’ , where ‘ you can be misunderstood in six different languages ’ . |
| 10 | Support nevertheless remained strong for the FPÖ , which was led by the charismatic Haider and benefited from anti-immigrant sentiment [ see below ] . |
| 11 | The OncoMouse , developed at Harvard University by Philip Leder and Timothy Stewart and marketed by pharmaceutical giant Du Pont , became the first patented animal in 1988 . |
| 12 | It was originally used by the RAF and sold for civil use in 1938 . |
| 13 | Everything collected will be taken to Kostroma by lorry in March and distributed among local schools . |
| 14 | Organised by the RIBA and sponsored by British Gas West Midlands , at the British Gas Conference Centre , Solihull . |
| 15 | From the beginning Jarrad had been run by the same directors as Jesner and run in good faith in what the directors perceived to be in the family 's interest . |
| 16 | An example of this was a long shadowing operation carried out jointly by Venturous and Valiant which started in the Thames and finished in Southern Ireland . |
| 17 | BRITISH troops should be withdrawn from Bosnia by November and replaced by other United Nations forces , the Defence Secretary , Malcolm Rifkind , indicated yesterday . |
| 18 | He had been specifically accused of exceeding his authority ( i ) on Oct. 28 , 1988 , when he ordered police to use water cannon and tear gas against anti-government protesters [ see p. 37093 ] ; and ( ii ) on Jan. 15 , 1989 , when he ordered that demonstrators who did not obey an appeal to disperse should be taken out of Prague and abandoned without personal documents 30-50 km from the city [ see also p. 36400 ] . |
| 19 | Venerated by the Greeks and Romans , educated to Apollo and formed into leafy crowns for poets and triumphant generals , sweet bay is the source of the term " bachelor " for academic honours , from the Roman bacca laureus , laurel berry . |
| 20 | The human diseases are kuru , seen only in the eastern highlands of Papua New Guinea and transmitted by ritual cannibalism , and two rare but worldwide diseases — Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease , usually sporadic , and Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease , usually inherited . |
| 21 | About one hundred sculptures and constructions , the majority loaned by the Fundacio Joan Miró and shown with related drawings and sketches . |
| 22 | Its capital is Tetouan , eleven miles from M'Diq and reached by local bus , taxi or excursion coach . |
| 23 | Again , the imploded drums found at early US sea disposal dump sites were not made to the much tighter standards pioneered in the UK and embodied in current national and international codes of practice . |
| 24 | A year or so later , after Girls Apart had been shown by the BBC and met with outraged protest by the South African Government , we heard a rumour that Sylvia had been killed . |
| 25 | For centuries caravans had carried woollen , felt and sild carpets from China and returned with Indian spices , textiles and , of prime importance , hashish . |
| 26 | They became an essential part of the practices of the Israelite tribes who penetrated to the northern parts of Canaan and integrated with local people . |
| 27 | Organised by Pat Palmer and entered with great gusto by teams from classes , the event was great fun to watch and a great success for Age Concern , Action Research for the Crippled Child and the Medau Society who shared the proceeds . |
| 28 | They admitted findings were complicated by the spewing of volcanic ash from Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines and exacerbated by unusual high pressure weather conditions over Europe . |
| 29 | 2912 built in 1942 was built as a Directors ' Saloon for the LMSR and seconded for Royal Train duty after nationalisation . |
| 30 | This disturbing profile of Afrikaners in their own backyard was drawn by David Dimbleby and directed by London-born but South Africa-educated Francis Gerard who , more than a decade later , makes his feature debut with A Private Life . |