Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [conj] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearing Sligo , we passed Collooney , where General Humbert and his French-Irish army had defeated the British . |
| 2 | Milan , with La Scala and its famous fashion shops is another popular excursion . |
| 3 | He could n't see Fernando Serra and his beautiful companion or the crew dispersing for the night . |
| 4 | It is not so much the Western origin of new component technologies as their gestation in the West 's civilian sectors which must pose the most vexing questions for Soviet policy makers and their orthodoxies . |
| 5 | They approached Peter Simpson , then Chairman of Dalton-on-Tees Parish council , who enlisted the support of local plumber Alec Clacher , in collaboration with Tholthorpe farmer Geoff Wood and York-based S/L Jim Cable and his wife . |
| 6 | Touche Ross and GMA secured the consultancy contracts and their $1.2m fees were paid from the British Know-How fund . |
| 7 | This exercise revealed that the elderly in Britain were characterized by less income inequality than their European counterparts . |
| 8 | When Theseus and the other Athenians arrived in Crete they were met by King Minos and his beautiful daughter Ariadne . |
| 9 | Similar confidence in hops extraction is currently running high in today 's brewing industry as the range of hop products and their application increases . |
| 10 | We have chosen two programmes of fifteen minute films featuring these artists : Rhythm Masters ( 1948 ) featuring Stan Kenton , Jack Teagarden , Louis Prima ; Symphony in Swing ( 1949 ) : Duke Ellington , Edwards Sisters ; Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra ( 1949 ) ; Deep Purple ( 1949 ) : Gene Krupa and his Orchestra ; Sweet Serenade ( 1950 ) : Tex Beneke and his Orchestra . |
| 11 | I think you 'd better take your Scots Park jumper and your red cardigan in case you manage to spill |
| 12 | Mrs Kennerley first met Clinton through sister Cheri and her boyfriend , John , who shared digs with the Rhodes scholar . |
| 13 | This followed a parade , at which the Queen presented a new colour and addressed RAF personnel and their families . |
| 14 | At the Church Meeting on the 9th , we appointed Jim Brooks as our new church secretary in succession to Malcolm Brown who had intimated in June his desire to step down from the post . |
| 15 | LEAs showed substantial variations in their approach to curriculum policies and their lack of systematic knowledge of what went on in their schools . |
| 16 | ALISON Hargreaves and her children put in some low-altitude training in Scotland yesterday as they prepared for the high life of the Himalayas . |
| 17 | Between them these men accused Gregory of slandering Chilperic 's queen , Fredegund , and Leudast arrested two of Gregory 's supporters , the archdeacon Plato and his friend Gallienus . |
| 18 | ‘ I could n't have done it without help from a Ministry grant and my brother Matthew . |
| 19 | The whole bar was up on its feet to watch even before she had finished laying down the opening phrases ; by the time she was into the full fury of the aria , with its demanding coloratura decorations , its elaborate breathing technique and its famous placing of the pauses , we were all applauding and whistling . |
| 20 | That 's one of the things , I think , that the Roman Catholics who hanker after the old Latin Mass and its ritual miss the most , and I sympathize with them in the sense that there is n't a great deal of mystery about most of the worship in most of our churches any more , and whilst it 's very right and proper for us to be very busy on practical matters , we must n't forget that there are very mysterious questions about our purpose here , about death and life , which are n't answered simply by doing things and being very busy — in fact , that may be a form of escapism — we need both , and I would hope that there will be room again in Christianity in Europe for worship to become something which speaks to the things I find mysterious , and in that respect I think the interest in spirituality and religious experience , in mysticism , in all those sort of areas about one 's personal religious life , and a lot of it not very orthodox or traditional . |
| 21 | Enter freelance writer Ian Lucas and his enquiring mind . |
| 22 | On one side were the Marxist commandantes , puppets of a giant colonizing power , in their camouflage fatigues and their designer sunglasses , carrying foreign ideology like a loathsome bacillus ; on the other the indigenous peasants , barefoot , in straw hats , driven to the point of taking up arms . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm Sophie Ferguson and my partner here is Joanna Kennedy . |
| 24 | ‘ It occurs to me that one of the cleverest things about Operation Eagle was the way Colonel Steiner and his men were transported to England . ’ |
| 25 | As an illustration take the link between P t and its own past values , … |
| 26 | Analysts reckon AT&T has invested $2 billion in its computer division since its birth , and that it is still losing $200m a year . |
| 27 | Heaven knows who it was who set their mind on heading for that pointy wee soul but , like most hill-walkers , once a route is planned we would sooner see the laws of physics change before our itinerary did . |
| 28 | The vast Kharg Island refinery and its associated depots at Bander' Bushehr in the northern part of the Persian Gulf are the major oil loading facilities for Iran . |
| 29 | Some studies of specific election pledges and their fulfilment by governments have already been made . |
| 30 | Shabba Ranks and his enigmatic manager ‘ The Specialist ’ seem to be in a minority with their enthusiasm for the record . |