Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JIM MILLS yesterday resigned as manager of the Welsh Rugby League team in protest at his side 's omission from the World Cup , to be staged in Britain in 1995 . |
| 2 | EEC referendum shabbily confirms that 67 per cent of us say Yes . |
| 3 | Ibn Hajar merely says that alter having served as kadi of Bursa for a while , " he went to Konya and settled there " . |
| 4 | Arnold Toynbee once argued that it is the ‘ barbaric ’ vital periphery that finally topples a declining civilization , but this maxim does not hold for the Russian Revolution . |
| 5 | The Universiade GB board also announced that the immediate cash-flow problems , revealed a week ago , had now been resolved by an injection of funds by Sheffield City Council and that further offers of financial support are to be followed up immediately . |
| 6 | WITH the Bush-Clinton confrontation now resolved and our own Parliament on the brink of a crucial European Community debate today , modern Welsh politics seems tame in comparison . |
| 7 | Peter Barkworth ends his Sassoon evenings by waving triumphantly a battered copy of the memoirs ; even with a more controversial figure such as Lillian Hellman , Frances de la Tour only accepted because she felt sympathetic and compatible . |
| 8 | Scottish football is pockmarked with what the Everton and Scotland winger Pat Nevin once described as ‘ the ego in the boardroom , ’ that irrepressible businessman in the size 48 club blazer who ca n't keep his fingers out of football . |
| 9 | Managing director of ICL Personal Systems David Mills also claims that the Spring collection is well placed to exploit the growing trend towards client-server technology — in fact , the company said it can now offer ‘ everything you need for client-server computing ’ . |
| 10 | ULSTER Unionist MP Ken Maginnis today hoped that the responsibility-sharing policy pioneered in Dungannon Council will continue — despite his future absence . |
| 11 | RCD candidates therefore stood and were returned for all nine constituencies in the Oct. 13 by-elections , despite the fact that these seats had been vacated specifically to induce the opposition to end the ruling party 's monopoly of all 141 National Assembly seats . |
| 12 | This is nothing compared to the violence that could erupt when Israeli troops withdraw from Gaza and the West Bank town of Jericho , leaving PLO fighters newly recruited as Palestinian police to face Islamic and nationalist guerrillas hardened by five years of the intifada uprising against Israel . |
| 13 | The Saturday Review bitterly commented that they had ‘ framed for themselves a rule which we must characterize as both illogical and unfair — namely , of distributing their patronage so that no competitor should net more than one premium ’ . |
| 14 | This was precisely why Edward Irving prophetically saw that the great evil of industrialism ( to use his friend Carlyle 's term ) was that it was godless . |
| 15 | After that one visit to Cheltenham she had known that Lilian Carrow neither liked nor trusted her . |
| 16 | Lutyens had been struck by the emphasis she had placed on the word — and on her choice of it ; chaste was not a word Miss Jekyll usually employed when planning her gardens , and Lutyens bore it in mind throughout — hence the austerity to which he adhered on the terraces . |
| 17 | And very soon after that , Matilda was moved up into the top form where Miss Plimsoll quickly discovered that this amazing child was every bit as bright as Miss Honey had said . |
| 18 | BRISTOL CITY striker Andy Cole yesterday denied that he has been holding back since the club rejected a £600,000 offer from Nottingham Forest . |
| 19 | Trainer David Nicholson yesterday confirmed that the nine-year-old is on course to attempt to emulate Half Free , who gained back-to-back successes in the jump season 's first major handicap chase in 1984 and 1985 . |
| 20 | ‘ Miss Tunstall particularly said that no one was to be admitted to see her , ’ said Baines plaintively . |
| 21 | In fact , Elias Canetti once suggested that if the conductor were to turn fully round during a performance the spell he exerts would be broken . |
| 22 | Sue Cavanagh also discovered that loos are shrinking in size as well as in numbers . |
| 23 | LASMO plc today announced that it has issued US$250 million of perpetual cumulative dollar preference shares in the US public market , with a gross dividend of 10 per cent . |
| 24 | Downing Street today confirmed that the RAF was ready to join in the latest United States plan to airdrop supplies to civilians surrounded by Serbs who are refusing to let ground convoys through . |
| 25 | On Thursday , facing uproar on all sides of the Commons , Mr Major ordered that the mess be sorted out and Downing Street duly declared that there would be extra money for the poor over and above RPI uprating and that it had all been planned before the Budget . |
| 26 | The left-wing Dev Sol group later announced that he had been " punished " for his participation in the 1980 military coup . |
| 27 | Despite the virtual collapse of the communist system in eastern Europe during 1989-90 , the CPV platform confidently predicted that " socialism will recover its vitality , and despite the winding path it will finally score a victory " . |
| 28 | Gregory King also estimated that no fewer than ten million acres of England and Wales were still ‘ heaths , moors , mountains , and barren land ’ , rather more than one quarter of the total area of the country as he reckoned it . |
| 29 | Neil Kinnock also bridged that divide , but John Smith is definably and obviously on the middle-class side of it . |
| 30 | Most of the illustrations were drawn by Lancake ( forty-eight of the first hundred ) , J. S. Miller both drew and engraved a considerable number , while Mynde and Jeffreys appear most frequently amongst engravers . |