Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The situation that produced it was comparable to that which was to lead to a similar agreement between the returning Dutch and those who had proclaimed the Republic of Indonesia : in both cases neither side was prepared , there and then , for all-out war when the last British forces left Indonesia or when the Chinese armies in Tonkin were finally persuaded to leave . |
| 2 | Mr Nicholas tried to obtain an order from the court for the purchase of his shares in Magnetics or that the company be wound up . |
| 3 | I said today to my right hon. Friend the Member for Sparkbrook that if the Oliver Twist story were translated from the workhouse to a prison , the person who drew the short straw and was sent to protest about the food would come within the net of the Bill . |
| 4 | When the Prime Minister said on Tuesday that if the Conservatives were re-elected they would not increase VAT , was he giving the House and the country a categorical assurance ? |
| 5 | But Rowland 's offer has been dismissed out of hand by Brent Walker and unless the bond holders , owed £102m in all , agree to the restructuring plan involving BW 's 47 bankers it would appear that the directors will have no other alternative but to put the company into receivership . |
| 6 | Ease Gill Beck rises on the slopes of Crag Hill and after an uneventful early passage meets limestone on the 1200-ft contour , whereupon its flow becomes extremely erratic ; its rocky channels are tortured by fissures and crevices that take much of the water . |
| 7 | I 've been so miserable thinking the letter had gone to Richard and that the damage was done and could n't be undone ! |
| 8 | Pacepa argued that Ceauşescu was hand-in-glove with Brezhnev and that the split between Romania and the Soviet Union was a deception agreed by both parties to cheat the West . |
| 9 | They said that they were members of the MRF and that the Thompson had been issued to them by the RUC 's own Special Branch at Castlereagh , Belfast . |
| 10 | Mr Cairns , a former Ulster teacher now lecturing in Japan who is home on a study project , said : ‘ They went for a meal to McDonalds and when the girls said they would take a taxi back to the Young Women 's Christian Association the boys told them not to take a black taxi because they were too expensive . |
| 11 | However , the Ryder Cup is back in the States and if the match were ever extended to , say 24 players , instead of 12 , then I have not the slightgest doubt that America would win every time . |
| 12 | However , the Ryder Cup is back in the States and if the match were ever extended to , say 24 players , instead of 12 , I have not the slightest doubt that America would win every time . |
| 13 | He told me that the telephonist at the police station had received a telephone call from a man saying that an escaped prisoner , a Lawrence er was to be found at er the home of a David and that the er Lawrence was in possession of a hand gun . |
| 14 | ‘ Liverpool had also bought Mark Wright and when a club has spent more than £5m they are bound to be looking to recoup some money . |
| 15 | This predicted with remarkable accuracy that the Government had decided to scrap SERPS and that the task would be transferred to private schemes and companies . |
| 16 | As a basic point , you should enquire whether the scheme is contracted in or out of SERPS and whether the intention is that it should remain so in the future . |
| 17 | Appeal from county courts and the High Court lies to the Court of Appeal ( civil division ) , which is presided over by the Master of the Rolls and where the other judges are Lords Justices of Appeal ( of whom there are some thirty ) . |
| 18 | In 1941 Peggy married Campbell Secord and after the war had to abandon her Medau teaching to live abroad . |
| 19 | Scotland have claimed pushover tries against the Welsh on their last three visits to Murrayfield and though the Welsh front-row emerged with considerable scrummage plaudits from their tussle with England , I have observed before in these columns that Martin Bayfield is not in the same league as Paul Ackford as a scrummaging lock ; Jason Leonard , too , hardly seems to be at the peak of his powers following the bone-graft operation in his neck during the close season . |
| 20 | Middleton said he had not arrived in Jedburgh until after the crime had been committed and was being made the scapegoat . |
| 21 | Oh it could be stormy right enough but well the steamer might call at Rousay at that time and they would land the goods in Rousay the perishables for Wyre and when the weather abated we would get it from there . |
| 22 | Newcastle 's Robert Lee tangled with Millwall substitute Alex Rae and right-back Ken Cunningham and when the winger went down linesman John Jones immediately signalled a foul . |
| 23 | And there is evidence to suggest that sustained aerobic walking not only increases BMR but that the increased BMR continues permanently . |
| 24 | So worried was the United States allies that the British prime minister flew er to the Unites States , to Washington , to er tell President Truman that if the United States used atomic weapons in that war , then this would seriously affect the alliance , the , the NATO alliance . |
| 25 | Even the stationmasters ' uniforms reminded the traveller of Waterloo or Victoria except that the fez replaced the cap . |
| 26 | The force facility can be used as often as required for a particular SPR , for example , if a user does not wish to take responsibility for the SPR or if a user accepts the SPR but at a later date passes the work onto someone else . |
| 27 | It was announced in February that since the adoption of the law on joint ventures in January 1989 [ see p. 37012 ] 2,799 permits had been issued for foreign companies , which had contributed US$374,000,000 in initial capital . |
| 28 | It was clear to Alexei that if the Merkuts did not wish to see Jehana given in marriage to Artai , there were reasons which had nothing to do with the suitability of the match . |
| 29 | From time immemorial it was a commonly held belief in Gaelic Scotland that where a disease occurred there would be found growing in the locality of its prevalence a plant which would cure that disease . |
| 30 | Between 1100 and 1200 , when popes and emperors , locked in a power conflict , were both fortified by the lawyers , it was Bologna that provided the think-tank for both the combatants , papalists and imperialists . |