Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immediately after Christmas , despite the truce , he gathered a large army and threatened to invade unless Henry either returned Gisors or forced Richard to marry Alice . |
| 2 | On the other hand , there is nothing here to show necessarily a diminution in Offa 's enthusiasm for an archbishopric of Lichfield or lessening regard for Hygeberht . |
| 3 | He looked out of the window at the trucks lumbering through the mist , down the road towards Algeciras or heading east towards Malaga . |
| 4 | I began broadcasting when I was twenty-one — it was what I wanted to do more than anything , if you do n't count an early ambition to be Hopalong Cassidy or Flash Gordon — and I do n't think I 've had many happier moments than acting in my first radio play . |
| 5 | The ever broadening range of involvement by government departments makes it difficult to trace the evolution of policy through Whitehall or to interpret decision making in development planning , and researchers are presented with a bewildering complexity of sources which hinders efficient and economic research . |
| 6 | The pubic or ‘ crab ’ louse is one of three members of the family Pediculidae , a sub-group of the Anoplura or sucking lice , to be of clinical interest to men . |
| 7 | This was the Falkland Islands in the distant southern Atlantic , where Callaghan managed to deter , or dissuade , the Argentine military junta from taking naval action in the vicinity of the Falklands or occupying South Georgia . |
| 8 | Atlantic Conveyor , a converted merchantman , did not carry either Abbey Hill or chaff launchers . |
| 9 | But I have more chance of improving that than knocking 10 years off Gregory or adding speed to Fox . |
| 10 | HMIs are allowed to inspect any school , private as well as maintained , and all colleges of further and higher education maintained by LEAs or receiving money from public funds , but not universities ( except by invitation ) . |
| 11 | Like our Jag or get money back |
| 12 | Grass stains on polyester cricketing flannels can be removed with Swarfega or methylated spirits . |
| 13 | This ran the full length of one side and was used for village functions like the Mell or Harvest Supper , and the Christmas party . |
| 14 | Moreover the novel takes up the remark to Katkov that the criminal ‘ himself morally demands ’ his punishment ( which on its own might mean no more than that Dostoevsky had been reading Hegel or popularized Hegel ) , and builds some marvellous effects upon it . |
| 15 | Santa Special trains travel the full five miles of the line , customers can join trains at Keighley , Haworth or Oxenhope stations for a one-hour return steam train journey . |
| 16 | Try them with Soave or Pinot wines or if you prefer a red Valpolicella or Bardolino . |
| 17 | Among the more sophisticated proposals are those put forward by Barnes and Barr that make provision for tied bursaries to protect shortage subjects and for positive discrimination by means of ‘ bonuses ’ on top of the standard bursary for particularly disadvantaged students . |
| 18 | European diplomats say that Reginald Bartholomew , the under-secretary of state for security assistance , has warned them against doing anything with the WEU that undermines NATO or freezes out the Americans from security talks at which they think they are entitled to be present . |
| 19 | A statement issued last night by TEC chief executive John Howell said : ‘ It should be understood that Freshfayre ( Mr Bell 's company based at Skelton , East Cleveland ) were initially contacted by Cleveland Compact as part of their normal canvassing campaigns ( Compact is a branch of the TEC that places job adverts in schools ) . |
| 20 | These are in new towns like Milton Keynes that prohibit TV aerials or in valleys that can not receive signals at all . |
| 21 | Its most naked forms are such comfortably remote places at Tokyo , Houston and Los Angeles , but it is only a spattering of Victoriana and Wren that obscures London 's conformity to the model . |
| 22 | The Poles constructed 200 kilometres of dockside railway and a new line from Gdynia to Bydgoszcz that avoided use ( and payment ) of the old German railway . |
| 23 | She did n't need to ask ; there was an aura about Dana that made Claudia feel she was a grey shadow of her twin . |
| 24 | Measuring chlorophyll a in water samples as an index of phytoplankton abundance , Minns ( 1977 ) found it already plentiful under the ice by mid-May and reaching peak values in late May and June ; Kalff et al . |
| 25 | how we would accommodate much more with a very tight greenbelt on the erm the sites that we 've actually allocated on our side of Ryedale and take account of greenbelt so . |
| 26 | ANTRODUODENAL MOTILITY : FASTING AND FED PATTERNS |
| 27 | This includes Night Goblin Netters and Squig Hunters . |
| 28 | They are dependent on the goodwill of DHAs and trust boards . |
| 29 | Buffalo and sweat baths |
| 30 | The failure of the CPT , Apto 's successor , which had the endorsement of the activist wing of the Roman Catholic Church and of the leading CNT and CUT labour confederations , to emulate the May success was attributed to its failure effectively to mobilize its supporters , which in turn was felt to stem from its mistaken belief that the Colorados were a spent political force . |