Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [noun] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 WITH the Bush-Clinton confrontation now resolved and our own Parliament on the brink of a crucial European Community debate today , modern Welsh politics seems tame in comparison .
2 The purchase of the Stockholm group already means that more than 60% of Wolters Kluwer 's activities are now outside the Netherlands , an objective that the company had originally set out to achieve in 1994 .
3 Suddenly the Nightingale Gallery outside creaked and sang .
4 The Sussex man noticeably slowed as Hall continued to switch the play .
5 The McKinsey-GE matrix also recognizes that in many businesses investment decisions can not be made simply upon information about market growth and the current share held .
6 we will not be satisfied by the PLO leaders simply kissing and making up .
7 The Saturday Review bitterly commented that they had ‘ framed for themselves a rule which we must characterize as both illogical and unfair — namely , of distributing their patronage so that no competitor should net more than one premium ’ .
8 Despite the virtual collapse of the communist system in eastern Europe during 1989-90 , the CPV platform confidently predicted that " socialism will recover its vitality , and despite the winding path it will finally score a victory " .
9 The July communiqué also announced that the next KPRP congress , due before the end of the year , would be postponed .
10 One of the parents involved in the Orkney case actually asked that the hearing should be held either that day or the next , to comply with this section of the Act .
11 The South Africans therefore demanded that they should do the job , and the UN 's representative agreed .
12 Thus the QLF structure above survives if and only if the constraints on the third argument of pick-up2 and on the only argument of jack2 are consistent .
13 In 1967 the Rover name almost disappeared when it merged with Leyland Motors .
14 The Copenhagen school therefore says that it is at this stage that results get fixed and knowledge is established .
15 Perhaps some wore jackets this time and perhaps some restaurants pampered their customers with radiant ceiling heating slanting down on their open galleries , but the Tivoli lights still swung as gently in the trees , the musicians played as sweetly , and the Pantominteatret still stood in all its glory , its magnificent ‘ curtain' of a peacock with fan-shaped tail unfurled waiting dramatically against a sky of indigo velvet for the second performance of the evening .
16 After World War II the Crown in Parliament of the United Kingdom well understood that it could no longer govern the King Emperor 's non-British , any more than his British subjects who were not represented , and could not be represented , in Parliament .
17 The United States soon followed and , by Act of Congress , the Smithsonian Institution became in 1879 the US National Museum .
18 The United States also argued that Cuban assertions of independence and declarations of neutrality in the Cold War , most notably by Raúl Roa at the United Nations General Assembly on 24 September 1959 , had potential security implications .
19 Japan had allowed the United States largely to provide and pay for its defence .
20 THE United States yesterday alleged that planes that bombed targets in eastern Bosnia last weekend flagrantly violated a UN no-fly zone and said two Americans are part of a UN team located near the target area .
21 The United States yesterday said that lifting the arms embargo on Bosnia to allow Muslims to defend themselves was an option .
22 The United States then argued that if the European members of NATO were unwilling or unable to strengthen the alliance , then this would have to be achieved by permitting West Germany to rearm .
23 In October–November 1962 the world seemed on the brink of nuclear war when the United States suddenly discovered that the USSR was trying to position medium-range missiles in Cuba .
24 Reminding the Assembly that the Soviet Union had stopped production of chemical weapons , Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze on Sept. 26 proposed that the Soviet Union and the United States bilaterally reduce or destroy their chemical weapons ; and that they renounce use of such weapons , under any circumstances , as the first step towards their global elimination .
25 The first Presbyterian services in Portadown were held in the basement of a building where the Ulster Bank now stands and then in 1822 the first church was built in Edenderry on the site where the lecture hall now stands .
26 It follows from the above case that Reg 2(1) of the UK Regulations does not comply with Community law , since the UK Regulations currently state that ‘ undertaking ’ includes any trade or business but does not include any undertaking or part of an undertaking that is not in the nature of a commercial venture .
27 The BSA report also reveals that despite the slump in the construction trade , private sector builders started work on 6,199 new houses last year , up 12.1pc on 1991 .
28 The Fulton Report therefore suggested that the PESC system should adopt programme analysis and review ( PAR ) — a technique by which individual programmes selected by Cabinet could be systematically analysed .
29 [ In 1931 Andrew Mellon was accused by Congressman Louis McFadden of cheating on his 1931 income tax return and in March 1934 the Roosevelt administration duly announced that it would seek criminal tax evasion charges for $1.3 million .
30 Though Wallace was inclined to draw his line round some of the islands with a blacker and firmer pencil than are modern zoologists , nevertheless the Wallace Line still stands where he put it , as the division between the two regions .
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