Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [conj] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tories may have shaken up British Telecom because they dislike a state-run monopoly that seems to care more for itself than its customers ; but the main impact on BT has little to do with monopolies or state ownership . |
| 2 | But we also want people to understand what is happening in places like Latin America so they have a better awareness of why Oxfam is trying to help . |
| 3 | To ironic press cheers , copper Nigel squatted down to immobilise Bryan 's hired Astra after it collected a succession of parking tickets — and Bryan then had to call in an executive minicab to whisk two companions off to lunch . |
| 4 | Shortly after my return , the Governor was to make a tour of Central Burma and it seemed a great opportunity for me to gauge conditions outside Rangoon , so I was invited to accompany him . |
| 5 | There airport bookstalls play the role of the railway bookstalls of Victorian Britain and they carry a far wider range of books than those of England 's railway stations today . |
| 6 | So I have painted a picture of an island Shangri-la , a Mediterranean Utopia and I make no apologies . |
| 7 | Having had three reviews printed and received a veiled death threat from The Godfathers , I was already something of a celebrity in my native Wigan when I took the train to Commonwealth House . |
| 8 | The Turks took advantage of the situation to reoccupy Serbia and they exacted a terrible vengeance on the helpless Serbs . |
| 9 | If Leland had gone there , he might well have described the eastern Weald as he did the Forest of Dean : ‘ more fruitful of wood and grass than corn ’ with ‘ many iron mines and forges ’ ; yet although he judged it self-sufficient in corn , Dean was very much poorer than the Weald . |
| 10 | Only , we work the Good Friday but we have the Tuesday off |
| 11 | We took off into the last of the evening sun in poor visibility and I do not recall seeing any of the aircraft that took-off in front of me rise in the evening murk , I was too busy putting the nose down and squeezing a bit more speed out of the lumbering Whitley as we cleared the boundary . |
| 12 | Schofield was an inspirational leader in this summer 's Ashes tour when he took over from the injured Hanley and he played the game of his life in the second Test win in Melbourne . |
| 13 | BRITISH Airways yesterday became the latest casualty of Black Wednesday as it revealed the slumping pound had helped cause profits to crash 80 per cent in the third quarter . |
| 14 | Cruising Altitude passed the pacemaking Floyd as they crossed the final hurdle and he looked all set for a comfortable victory . |
| 15 | We pray for the governments and peoples of eastern Europe as they enter a new era ; for Africa , that its peoples may be delivered from fear , oppression and famine , especially in Ethiopia and Sudan ; for the Israeli and Palestinian people that they may honour each other and seek the common good ; |
| 16 | ‘ We must catch Black Michael before he kills the King . ’ |
| 17 | Derek Cook went close with a looping shot on 70 minutes , then blasted over from eight yards a minute later ; those misses might have demoralised Coleraine but it had the opposite effect . |
| 18 | The Association proved to be more resilient than the defunct N.D.D.S. although it led a precarious existence for a number of years before becoming established . |
| 19 | An army was dispatched under the Count of Wissenland to intercept the advancing Orcs before they reached the capital . |
| 20 | The good , the bad , the criminal , the religious Nicodemus that we saw a few weeks ago , all are sinners . |
| 21 | Amongst the most important of these carefully plotted works are : de Falla 's The Three-Cornered Hat ( 1919 ) which originally accompanied a mime play and so fascinated Diaghilev that he commissioned the composer to enlarge it for Massine 's ballet ( see page 59 ) ; Vaughan William 's Job , commissioned by Diaghilev , was unused until de Valois created her important ‘ Masque for Dancing ’ ( 1931 ) ( this marked the inaugural performance of what has become The Royal Ballet ) ; Arthur Bliss ' Checkmate ( 1937 ) was choreographed by de Valois after both composer and choreographer had worked on the plot ; Prokofiev 's Romeo and Juliet was composed with the help of a Shakespearean theatre expert and has been used notably by Lavrovsky , Ashton and MacMillan ( see page 26 ) ; and Ashton provided a roughly outlined plot for Hans Werner Henze 's score for Ondine ( 1958 ) . |