Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [subord] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps like Tony Prosser I might be allowed to conclude by citing the words of Edward Sparer when assessing the future after the failure of the US sequential test-case strategy : |
| 2 | These two elements of a manager 's job were picked out by the US organisational psychologists Robert Blake and Jane Mouton as characterising the leadership role , following studies they made in the oil industry soon after World War 11 . |
| 3 | During the 1770s and 1780s the Congregationalists built more chapels in south Yorkshire than did the Methodists , but significantly they erected no new buildings between 1836 and 1851 , whereas at that time the various forms of Methodism were building chapels enthusiastically . |
| 4 | The judgment for the plaintiff was upheld by the House of Lords , but Lord Cairns L.C. rested his decision on the ground that the defendant had made a ‘ non-natural use ’ of his land , though he regarded the judgment of Blackburn J. as reaching the same result and said he entirely concurred in it . |
| 5 | To a very large extent , Hound Tor represents the archetypal hamlet described by Harald Uhlig as representing the original west European type of settlement — what would be called a drubbel in Germany or claehan on the Celtic fringes — a hamlet inhabited by relatives , working the land together . |
| 6 | The DSS argued that intention did not matter and under legal aid regulations they were entitled to treat Mr Saunders as having a notional £407,000 . |
| 7 | Commenting that he did not read this extract from the judgment of Dixon J. as displacing the general principle stated by Fry J. in Bainbrigge v. Browne , 18 Ch.D. 188 , 196 , Fox L.J . |
| 8 | Mr Price said her statement described Mr Robson as having a swollen hand and scratches on his face . |
| 9 | The circumstances of Goldberg 's case and of the present case were distinguishable from those of The Palermo , and of Watson v Cammel Laird in the way indicated in Watson v Cammel Laird when explaining the decision in Chadwick v Bowman . |
| 10 | Two episodes in particular are mentioned by Mrs Whitehouse as exemplifying the series ' worst qualities . |
| 11 | For a moment another thought crossed my mind — that if I lived in the United States while undertaking an ‘ experiment ’ I might be sued if I failed . |
| 12 | The grade point average and the development of educational testing may in this sense have as much of a backwash effect on the teaching and learning process in the United States as does the public examination system in Britain . |
| 13 | Michael Heseltine , the former British Defence Secretary , warned the Royal Institute of International Affairs on 23 November that the Soviet Union had identified environmental anxieties in Western Europe and the United States as offering an opportunity for mischief-making . |
| 14 | Moreover he was the very fisherman who was mentioned in Our Watering Place as mending a little ship for a boy . |
| 15 | Mark Pitman , who ended the five win run of Young Hustler when riding The Illywhacker to victory in the £25,000 Cavalier Chase at Worcester yesterday . |
| 16 | Watkin would have pride of place as St George while Ranulf the rat-catcher eagerly agreed to put on a costume and act the role of the dragon . |
| 17 | A SWORD used by poet Lord Byron while rallying the Greeks against the Turks in the 1820s fetched £30,000 yesterday at a London auction . |
| 18 | But it would be a mistake to assume that Prime Ministers are necessarily mouth-pieces of their Lord Chancellors when making the most senior appointments . |
| 19 | ‘ But I 'll tell you this , I 'd rather go 12 rounds with Lennox Lewis than face a 25-yarder from our full-back Clive Freeman ! |
| 20 | When the chronicle describes " Osman Ghazi as having no gold and silver in his possession at his death and as rejecting new taxation on dealings in the bazaar as a violation of the our source appears to intend to criticize his own period by setting the first Ottoman ruler as an ideal example . |
| 21 | But there was more to Diana Spencer than met the eye . |
| 22 | He also faced the increasingly urgent problem posed by the slow progress of the scholarly revision of the general catalogue of printed books , which , seriously disrupted by the war , had only reached a point early in the letter D. When reporting the matter to the trustees in 1953 , Oldman had to recommend one of two courses : either , having attempted to secure more staff , to press on with revision , or ( as was vigorously advocated by F. C. Francis , the senior of the two keepers serving under Oldman ) , to terminate the work and then reprint volumes photolithographically together with the unrevised remainder , but with accessions from 1905 to 1955 intercalated . |
| 23 | In seminars held there last Thursday and Friday two groups of scientists announced what may turn out to be the first evidence of CERN 's greatest discovery yet , a particle known simply by the letter W. If proven the discovery will vindicate all those who pushed for the means to make it possible . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's a pity , ’ said trainer Tim Forster when told the news . |
| 25 | Husameddin uses this statement to link Molla Fenari with the turbulent political scene toward the end of Mehmed I 's reign , writing that because of his predilection for mysticism ( with particular mention of the " [ Molla Fenari ] attracted the attention of the ulema and men of state , since there were those [ of them ] who saw the statements of Molla Fenari as influencing the actions and feelings of the Melamis and Hurufis who were making their appearance in the regions of Rumeli and Anadolu . " |
| 26 | By twelve , I had learned how to bargain with the suppliers at Covent Garden while displaying a poker face , later selling the same produce to the customers back in Whitechapel with a grin that stretched from ear to ear . |
| 27 | The victim came from Milton Keynes as do the two men accused of his murder . |
| 28 | At one point during the campaign , he said he would appoint a peace envoy to Northern Ireland if elected a controversial idea which drew a sharp response from Ulster Secretary Sir Patrick Mayhew . |
| 29 | Tass quoted Gen Grachev as saying the Georgian air force had painted seven Su-25s in Russian colours and was using the planes to bomb populated areas . |
| 30 | And as our Mick has often said , there 's more to Master Joe than meets the eye . ’ |