Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles Whiteside , of Tivoli Cottages , Moresby , joined Sekers in 1943 as an apprentice overlooker before becoming shift manager and later production manager . |
| 2 | A New Zealander , born in Dunedin and a graduate of Otago University , he went to Merton College , Oxford , in 1934 as a Rhodes Scholar , where he took a First in English . |
| 3 | The report proposes a new structure for the centre , which it says has been underused as a TNO institute . |
| 4 | No 15 , a 2-6-2T loco built in Nivelles , Belgium in 1948 for the Jokioisten Railway in Finland stands stored in Llanfair station yard . |
| 5 | It emerged yesterday that , from the moment Ferranti acquired International Signal and Control two years ago , executives were put on alert about the suspect contracts because , unusually , they involved the granting of credit on open account to sub-contractors and intermediaries . |
| 6 | Shame , his novel of Pakistan , was short-listed for the Booker Prize and is believed by many to be his finest work . |
| 7 | In 1983 , The Illusionist , a novel by Anita Mason , offered a controversial but historically valid perspective on the coalescence of the early Church ; it was short-listed for the Booker Prize , Britain 's most prestigious literary award . |
| 8 | This work led to Helen Chadwick being short-listed for the Tate Gallery 's Turner Prize in 1987 The citation referred to her " striking use of mixed media " . |
| 9 | C. Farries Public Relations and Publicity Awards competition , resulting in the National Library being given a special award for this promotion ; and the SSL was also short-listed for The Scotsman Computer-User of the Year Award . |
| 10 | According to Dolph , The Eleventh Hour , more conspiracy thriller than action flick , fits this gameplan , as does Dark Agnel , a cop caper about intergalactic drug dealers , due for a July release . |
| 11 | Interviewees sometimes think that when an interviewer says to them , ‘ Do you have any questions you would like to ask me ? ’ this is an opportunity to ask how long the holidays are and how soon you would be due for a pay rise . |
| 12 | Are you due for a screen test ? |
| 13 | Mr Burn said Perry 's was due for a design rethink which would ‘ make the two venues most young people 's first choice for a night out ’ . |
| 14 | When you retire , you may be due for a tax rebate . |
| 15 | One enterprising young man gathered 60 ration books into his brief-case and persuaded an RCAF pilot , due for a recognizance flight that day , to fly him several hundred miles across the provincial border to Atlin , B.C. At the friendly invitation of those concerned I went along for the ride and helped my energetic friends load five cases of Johnny Walker , which we transported back to Whitehorse well in time for a Saturday night party . |
| 16 | He read the game appallingly , was caught out several times , and chuffed his way around the back right like a horse that was due for the knackers yard . |
| 17 | He moved to the UK in 1968 following the Russian invasion of Czechoslavkia and joined Bovis in 1971 as a project manager . |
| 18 | The UDA was formed in 1971 as an umbrella group of Loyalists . |
| 19 | But with the business community apprehensive about the election outcome and worried at the prospect of a Labour government there is no comparable improvement in business confidence . |
| 20 | Danzigers had good reason to be apprehensive about the Versailles Treaty arrangements , and they were not alone . |
| 21 | It looks just right for a helicopter man . |
| 22 | I 've left out and altered some things because they were n't right for a court report . |
| 23 | ‘ You are exactly right for a couture model . |
| 24 | ‘ Do n't Cry For Me Argentina ’ is n't quite right for a Falklands Veterans ' meeting . |
| 25 | That lightweight suit with the cream shirt and dark red scarf was just right for a summer evening — smart , but not dressy . " |
| 26 | Simmons suddenly recollected his duties as host , and broke off in the middle of a discussion about whether Botham 's personality was right for the England team . |
| 27 | Yet it is right for the Home Secretary , Kenneth Clarke , to offer a refuge to another 4,000 survivors from the Bosnian detention camps . |
| 28 | It was an immensely brave step for President Yeltsin to take , and on that basis I believe that it is right for the United Kingdom to change its policy on a rouble stabilisation fund — as an indication that we are prepared to support the reform programme that is now in place . |
| 29 | Certainly he believed his action was right for the opinion polls . |
| 30 | Accidental Hero is pure Frank Capra : a brilliantly told comedy about something wonderful happening — its humanism sharpened by a huge dose of cynicism just right for the television age . |