Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [coord] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 A number of remedies have been added to the materia medica including the bowel nosodes which were first discovered by Dr Edward Bach and later added to by Dr John Paterson .
2 An article about this appeared in The Tiger Rag and a copy was sent to Downing Street and duly acknowledged .
3 At midnight they drank a toast to the New Year , joined hands to sing Auld Lang Syne and then returned to their cells .
4 Mercer , who picked up the injury in the first 20 minutes , was substituted by Andy Goodway but bravely returned in the second half wearing a protective head guard .
5 Christine , who had gained the Brownie Highway Badge , was an excellent writer and reader , and she felt rather grown-up as she wrote out notes for Miss Miggs or carefully read out to her a letter from her nephew .
6 It mounted the kerb , where it struck Miss Chui and then carried on to hit a fence and a lamp-post before coming to rest in the middle of Elmstead Road .
7 Derek McIntosh , the chief executive of Bell Lawrie White but still known to all and sundry as plain Bell Lawrie , is one such person .
8 William Gray , junior , the older son , had a nursery garden in Fulham , at Parson 's Lane , later Peterborough Road , but the better known Fulham garden of the period was the one established before 1700 by the elder William Gray and later taken over by Christopher .
9 It was headed by Professor Godfrey Thomson and already produced tests which correlated very highly with secondary school success .
10 Although nominally neutral , he was a firm supporter of the ruling National Democratic Party of President Hosni Mubarak and well known for his hostility towards opposition groups , in particular towards Moslem fundamentalist parties .
11 Oh yes , one of the , one of the surprises of this was discovering that in fact one of the people who knew Florence Kelly and indeed worked for her for a while , and who herself set up a minimum wage board in Washington , in the District of Columbia , is indeed still alive , and has very powerful memories of , of both the people and the activities of the movement .
12 When , after that , we used to hear controversy about Dr Paisley and later heard about his imprisonment in 1966 , because of that afternoon when we heard the gospel preached with power and conviction , we found ourselves tending to take his side in the controversy .
13 The ROK army had been occupied throughout the winter in containing guerrillas ; they were under the direction of North Korea and occasionally obtained arms supplies from the north , as with a recent arms shipment landed on the east coast , the bulk of which was confiscated before it could be used inland .
14 A detailed site investigation confirmed that the limestone and oil shales had been extensively worked to the east of Straiton Road and also identified a number of coal seams near Lasswade Road which had also been worked .
15 Though he 's still injured , Mick Quinn 's horse trained by Mick Channon and prophetically called Pleasure Ahead — won the 1.30 at Lingfield at 5–1 .
16 The ‘ it ’ which he speaks of suppressing is the Oxford Group Movement formed by Frank Buchman and later known as Moral Rearmament .
17 He 'd worked in Japan and married there , been bureau chief in South Africa and then taken over as the AP 's chief Middle East correspondent in Beirut .
18 Impactive colour also radiates from the papier mache dishes by Sugs Shelton and similarly modelled pop sculpture of groups of ordinary domestic items by Jon Atkinson .
19 Henry took the homage of the barons and knights of La Marche and then returned to Angers to celebrate Christmas .
20 The blissfully peaceful hotels we have selected are all on Mahe Island and well situated for the beautiful beaches .
21 Both had for a period apprenticed their ideas to those of Graham Sutherland and both paid homage to Picasso , Vaughan equating him with Auden and Bartók as an artist who had evolved ‘ a coherent vocabulary of form appropriate to our life ’ .
22 ‘ I was given a chauffeur-driven tour of Beverly Hills and then taken to the famous Sunset Marquee Hotel . ’
23 Best distinguished by its call , a loud ‘ pwit ’ , softer and lower-pitched than Meadow Pipit and usually repeated 2–3 times .
24 George Eliot too is not without sympathy for the picturesque , and admits that ‘ the stray hovel , its old , old thatch full of mossy hills and valleys with wondrous modulations of light and shadow ’ , is an element of joy in landscape to her midland-bred soul ; yet her attack on the picturesque view of the decaying farm , owned by Mr Brooke and ironically known as ‘ Freeman 's End ’ , shows her to be substantially in sympathy with Dorothea .
25 Giving a hint of the rivalry to come , a Central TV spokesman said : ‘ We felt the slot was right for Sir Robin and ideally placed on that particular night .
26 The Board of Education has now given effect to the intimation conveyed by Mr. Acland and vaguely announced by him at the Annual meeting .
27 These are exemplified in the health sector by gleaming tertiary care and research institutes in major cities such as Sao Paulo and poorly equipped or absent health posts in the ubiquitous shanty towns ( favelas ) .
28 The task force was set up after detectives discovered that some of the money had been used to finance drugs and property dealing in the United States and even invested in London 's Docklands , realising millions of pounds in profits .
29 The conclusion he drew , in stark contrast to Haya de la Torre , was that the revolution in Latin America could only be socialist , and that the united front , gradualist tactics advanced by the Comintern ( and by APRA ) were invalid in a continent overshadowed by the United States and deeply penetrated by monopoly capital .
30 At Lefevre , there are new paintings by Sandra Fisher ( 13 May-4 June ) , wife of R.B. Kitaj and formerly represented by Odette Gilbert .
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