Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An active suspension system is designed to keep the McLaren glued to the track by reading the bumps ahead and a radio link enables engineers to tweak the car 's operating systems during the race . |
| 2 | Then the Shah persuaded the Carters to see in the New Year at the palace and the Queen sent the Crown Prince into the Library to organize a smaller party . |
| 3 | The Hussars drew their sabres to drive the unarmed men back into the river , but French artillery had already closed on the southern bank and , as soon as the Hussars went into the trot , the first roundshot slammed across the water . |
| 4 | As the hippies had all but gone the police and the RSPCA pounced on a lorry , inside was a horse which had been badly injured in a road accident . |
| 5 | Pigs too were taken to sanctuaries to recover , as the RSPCA worked at the farms for days on end , work which eventually cost the RSPCA £15,000 . |
| 6 | The NME succumbed to The Smiths success by parading a lengthy Smiths interview by Biba Kopf , a writer not known for his enthusiasm for the Smiths . |
| 7 | Opinion in the Pentagon moved towards the belief that Japan was assuming more importance in global terms and that Japan must remain within the American sphere . |
| 8 | But , in 1942 , the Wehrmacht moved into the whole of our country and things changed . ’ |
| 9 | First mention of the Manor occurs in the Domesday Survey of 1086 ; it later belonged to the Priory of St Andrew , Northampton . |
| 10 | The Chester traincrew concerned were duly relieved about 11.15 am and hitched a lift onto the LM shed from the station . |
| 11 | The Marmorata built into the rocks |
| 12 | Thus last year , the council of ministers of the EEC agreed to a £20 million research programme in materials , parts of which should boost recycling techniques and produce substitutes for the strategically important metals . |
| 13 | All this suggests that lack of competitive pressure felt by US business played an important role in the loss of its pre-eminent position The structure of domestic industry was probably dominated by fewer firms than in Japan or the EEC taken as a whole . |
| 14 | A large number of problems has been encountered , one of the most surprising being the fact that no UK Government department had taken responsibility for enforcing the EEC controls on the sale of protected wildlife specimens . |
| 15 | Tariffs and trade restrictions were to be reduced only gradually , so allowing the EEC to concur with the world organisation , GATT , to which the OEEC states belonged . |
| 16 | The Orient redisplayed in a great , gilded gallery |
| 17 | William 's attempt to achieve a pacification of the Highlands turned into a disastrous tragedy , when the dreadful massacre at Glencoe was carried out in February 1692 because MacDonald of Glencoe accidentally missed the deadline imposed by the government for swearing the oath of allegiance to William by five days . |
| 18 | Even after two Jacobite invasions had failed the Highlands remained in a more or less permanent state of lawlessness . |
| 19 | The La lies on the watershed of the main Karakoram and although we were still politically in India , geographically we had reached the valleys of Central Asia . |
| 20 | In determining whether a haulier is of good repute , the LA looks at the applicant 's conduct generally , not just at any previous convictions he may have . |
| 21 | The result was that the Seayak went for an unscheduled underwater swim round campsite bay . |
| 22 | ‘ A plastic sea kayak ; you must be mad , ’ was a typical comment from a Plas-y- Brenin instructor when the Seayak appeared through the post . |
| 23 | And we see the RAF prepare for a flypast to celebrate their seventy fifth anniversary . |
| 24 | I have served for over 20 years now in the RAF specialising in the field of aircraft maintenance . |
| 25 | It was to be a five day test of military skill and endurance hosted by the RAF conducted in a spirit of international co-operation . |
| 26 | The FPR called for the overthrow of the regime and the return of all Rwandan refugees ( mostly Tutsi who had been forced to flee to neighbouring countries after ethnic clashes with the dominant Hutu over the previous 30 years ) . |
| 27 | ‘ This is him , Fagin , ’ the Dodger said to the old man . |
| 28 | The faction of the SPLA opposed to the leadership of Col. John Garang and led by Lam Akol and Riek Mashar Teny-Durgon [ see p. 38426 ] was now known as the Nasir group , after the eastern Sudanese town in which it was based . |
| 29 | The CMR applies to every contract for the carriage of goods by road in vehicles for reward , when the place of taking over of the goods and the place of delivery , as specified in the contract , are situated in two different countries , of which at least one is a contracting country , irrespective of the place of residence and the nationality of the parties . |
| 30 | John Chadwick ( 1976 , p. 87 ) comments that the word ‘ Athena ’ has a form suggesting a pre-Greek place-name , so it may be that Athena originated as the Potnia worshipped at a place called Athens or something similar . |