Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHEILA lived in a cottage on the rocky shelf of a mountain . |
| 2 | The Great Earth Mother Mafulke lived in the Underworld and tended the enormous fires which blazed there . |
| 3 | In 1878 she published a novel Change upon Change ( American title , A Reed Shaken by the Wind , 1873 ) and in 1872–3 made her first visit to North America . |
| 4 | William read through the article , finding two literals , while she finished the last page . |
| 5 | Countries making commitments in August to the multinational force , apart from the USA and those European and Arab countries as described above , included ( i ) Canada , a NATO member country , which announced on Aug. 10 that it would send two destroyers and a supply ship , to arrive by September ; ( ii ) Australia , whose Prime Minister Bob Hawke announced after a telephone conversation with Bush on Aug. 10 that two frigates and a supply ship would be sent ( a decision endorsed by the Cabinet on Aug. 14 ) ; ( iii ) Pakistan , which had some 90,000 nationals working in Kuwait , and whose President Ghulam Ishaq Khan said on Aug. 13 that it would send troops to protect the Moslem holy places , with a first contingent to leave on Aug. 17 and a total commitment expected to number 5,000-8,000 ; and ( iv ) Bangladesh , which on Aug. 15 announced a commitment in principle to send troops to Saudi Arabia numbering some 5,000 in all . |
| 6 | Gerald fought to the bar for a couple more glasses and generously shared the bottle . |
| 7 | Born in 1927 , Denis Serjeant qualified as an architect the hard way , by taking external examinations whilst articled to an Oxford architect . |
| 8 | The negative views B. S. Johnson expresses above are fairly widely shared : Malcolm Bradbury points to the existence of a general critical assumption that after the work of the modernists , the ‘ experimental tradition ’ in Britain may simply have lapsed ( Bradbury 1973 : 86 ) . |
| 9 | Mr. Occhi got into the taxi , took £1 out of his wallet and gave it to the appellant who then , the wallet being still open , took a further £6 out of it . |
| 10 | The range of options offered at Napier contributes to the breadth of course curriculum and provides a necessary flexibility in choice of subjects studied . |
| 11 | Kolchinsky asked with a frown . |
| 12 | At the head of Loch Torridon , the main road coming from Kinlochewe turns along the south shore for Shieldaig , first passing through the settlement of Annat . |
| 13 | At an earlier hearing , defence solicitor Colin Nott failed in a bid to have the ban lifted , but successfully appealed at the High Court the next day to have the bail condition lifted so his client could see the baby under supervision . |
| 14 | Jerome crept to the foot of the steps , and there halted , baulked , rather , like a startled horse , drew hard breath and assayed to mount , and then suddenly threw up his arms to cover his face , fell on his knees with a lamentable , choking cry , and bowed himself against the stone of the steps . |
| 15 | Thus the mental horizons of labourism ( by which Nairn refers to the tradition of independent working-class representation ) were severely circumscribed . |
| 16 | They could see Mr Flood fussing round the window of his shop as if he were still worried about what they could have found so amusing in its contents . |
| 17 | Armstrong zipped through the City with more than usual aplomb , which made me think that Duncan the Drunken had given him a tuning . |
| 18 | Alexandra plunged into the wastepaper basket to retrieve the torn envelope . |
| 19 | This obstinate refusal to be a conformist explains not only the difficulties of integration that Nizan experienced within the party , but also — and this needs stressing — underlines the extent to which he succeeded in retaining intellectual autonomy and integrity within the party itself . |
| 20 | Laquer refers to the Reformation because of certain similarities between the problems caused by the Reformation and the Cold War . |
| 21 | Jonathan charts the painful break with union which it seems remains his first love — while Corrigan delves into the psychology of a man who temporarily split up with his wife , Karen , as a result of the grinding pressures of the modern game . |
| 22 | Cynthia Iliffe shared with the Board a feeling that it could be rather ‘ a hybrid sort of degree course at first ’ , but Pocock and the Board really believed in it , understood that the Crick model of a discipline-based degree had provided it with an academic foundation , but even then ‘ we talked a lot about integration ’ . |
| 23 | The Venezuelan poet Juan Liscano sits by the sea and tells us that Europeans ‘ tend to classify us as exotic birds-parrots , or toucans … ’ |
| 24 | The attack by Gilbert Wakefield [ q.v. ] there on public worship roused her to its defence in Cursory Remarks on an Enquiry into the Expediency and Propriety of Public Worship ( 1792 ) , using the pseudonym ‘ Eusebia ’ . |
| 25 | As well as the frequency spectrum , one can define wave number spectra — Fourier transforms of the space correlations . |
| 26 | Three years after his return from Aden , Nizan got to the heart of his dilemma when he proclaimed : I came very close to being a bourgeois … |
| 27 | In response , however , Polycarp turns to the crowd in the amphitheatre and shouts out the words which the Proconsul has invited him to repeal as if they applied to the audience in the arena . |
| 28 | Her car was ploughed into by 19-year-old Howard Sloane , whose Seat Ibiza skidded on a corner , said prosecutor Derek Halbert . |
| 29 | He singled out as the most significant object , a bronze mace 13½ ″ long in the form of the club of Hercules surmounted by a panel of figures in solid relief . |
| 30 | Balcerowicz announced at a meeting of the Interim Committee of the IMF Bank on May 8 , 1990 , that Poland would seek a new agreement with its commercial and government creditors to cut Poland 's debt-servicing obligations by 80 per cent . |