Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More easily comprehensible is the enormous success Wilcox enjoyed in the following year with Rookery Nook ( 1930 ) , the first of the Ben Travers farces he brought to the screen . |
| 2 | Enthusiasts , such as the Nobel prizewinners who vouched for the SSC 's promise in Washington on April 13th , would point out that the SSC is not meant to boost the superconductor industry — it is meant to find new physics . |
| 3 | Black communities around Pietermaritzburg have seen much of the fighting in a brutal turf war between the ANC and Inkatha supporters which flared in 1986 , deeply dividing black communities . |
| 4 | Because Lysenko , a crackpot geneticist , was the modern pioneer of bending scientific data and bashing professional opponents to suit the reigning political preference — not unlike the EPA administrators who dealt with dioxin contamination by re-writing the reports and intimidating their various authors , Lysenko was so preeminent in this process that common English usage has accorded him an eponymous distinction : ‘ Lysenkoism ’ is now the accepted term for politically enforced manipulation of scientific truth . |
| 5 | That includes striker Tony Cottee , who would have played against Manchester City but for an outburst reported in all the Saturday papers which led to disciplinary action . |
| 6 | On Saturday nights it went on south down to Kythera . |
| 7 | He 's actually back at the working class Blackburn Rovers he managed before that , where he had to scrape for money and look for bargains . |
| 8 | They were the most frequent of the Tyburn rioters who contested with the surgeons ' agents for the bodies of the hanged . |
| 9 | Sailor Malan was one of many South Africans who served with great distinction in either the RFC or the RAF — including such names as Andrew Proctor VC , ‘ Boetie ’ Venter and S M Kinkead from World War I and ‘ Pat ’ Pattle , John Nettleton VC and Edwin Swaley VC from World War II . |
| 10 | HCIMA Members who participated in the Ghana Salon culinaire |
| 11 | How many Northern Ireland Members who agreed with Labour Members and opposed the privatisation of Shorts and of Harland and Wolff would do so now ? |
| 12 | He was one of three England players who complained to the umpires about being pelted by objects . |
| 13 | The Buckinghamshire freeholders who lived in the immediate neighbourhood of the Tory local landowner , Sir John Verney , in fact also tended to poll in favour of the Whigs . |
| 14 | Such attitudes were far removed from the world of the fictional Sir Joseph Bowlem in Dickens 's Chimes short story who boasted ‘ I allow nothing to be carried over into the New Year ; every description of account is settled in this house at the close of the old one ’ , and the real life employee of Manders the Wolverhampton paintmakers who scribbled on the flyleaf of a 1896 catalogue : |
| 15 | In 1714 , the laird of Gleneagles solicited the post of bailie of the regality of Lennox for his son James Haldane , an advocate who ‘ not haveing reccommendation or interest enought to bring him quickly into business … thought this might contribute some thing to it ’ , but the Duke of Montrose kept such appointments firmly in the hands of Graham gentlemen who looked upon him as their chief . |
| 16 | The UN Security Council on Jan. 28 reprimanded Iraq for allowing protestors to assault UN inspectors who arrived on Jan. 27 with responsibility for disposing of chemical and biological weapons stocks . |
| 17 | for example , BBC Television on the evening of the 11 July Day of Action , and the papers next morning , were full of pictures of injured policemen , but the pickets who were injured were hardly mentioned , although among them was a man who had had an epileptic fit , a woman who had collapsed at the rear entrance to the factory and two Yorkshire miners who had to be carried away by their friends . |
| 18 | NRBL ( Paul Roberts , John Lee ) drew 2-2 with Garston Woodcutters who netted through Dave King and Ian Johnson . |
| 19 | He followed this with controversial Fuji commercials which used to social issues of racism and mental handicap to sell camera film . |
| 20 | Highlights include a wood-panelled room from a Mayfair house and a Georgian shop front with its original glass as well as a carved pine chimney piece set with Wedgwood plaques which originated from Belvedere in Kent , rebuilt by James ‘ Athenian ’ Stuart for Lord Eardley . |
| 21 | From the campaign , there are no more worthy candidates for MBEs than those SWP members who put on rowdy demos wherever Major appeared ( the suspicion of collusion still lingers ) ; The Duchess of York , too , deserves an honour ( if that is constitutionally permissible ) for staging a mid-campaign diversion on the day the unemployment figures came out . |
| 22 | Two UN doctors who got into the area recently reported that amputations were being carried out with a carpenter 's saw and no anaesthetic or antibiotics . |
| 23 | In general the West Midlands advisers who responded to the survey did not blame managers for the lack of funds , but nor did they appear optimistic that more money would materialise . |
| 24 | From time to time she acted as research adviser to the Cambridge students who came to her laboratory for instruction . |
| 25 | He wondered what reduced someone to that state , the Lowry figures who mingled with the punks and skinheads . |
| 26 | That 's how many East Germans we deported into the Soviet Union after the war . ’ |
| 27 | The extent to which some villages were involved in the woollen industry by the beginning of the nineteenth century is demonstrated by the 1806 militia returns which survive for the collection of West Riding townships which lay within Staincross wapentake . |
| 28 | Not one of the many East Berliners I spoke to at several crossing points said they meant to stay in the West . |
| 29 | Like many East Anglians who took to the sea he first served on the farm : |
| 30 | The applicant , the chairman of a group of Hong Kong companies which collapsed in 1983 , was charged with various offences arising out of the collapse of which he was eventually acquitted . |