Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | After the FMLN offensive which began 12 days ago and cost an estimated 1,300 lives , the capital was reported calm yesterday . |
2 | The much-praised new ski area at Aonach Mor near Fort William which opened last season has picked up two more awards in the close season , including one for architecture . |
3 | ‘ I mean I 'm hoping to sell her a gorgeous blanket chest I discovered two weeks ago in Shropshire . ’ |
4 | It was prompted by a memorandum from the Union Internationale des Huissiers de Justice et Officiers Judiciaires which reviewed current practice and suggested the introduction of a new mode of service involving direct communication between a huissier de justice in the country of origin and a similar officer in the country of service . |
5 | By 1086 , Droitwich salt was being widely distributed over the Midlands ; King William himself had eighty-five salt pans here . |
6 | In addition to conducting this particular case study I made some visits to another school ( which I have called ‘ Southend ’ ) in the same LEA which had gone through an identical appraisal exercise a year earlier . |
7 | She thought of the purple crimplene trousers with the saggy bum and elasticated waist that her mother put on to keep warm in the factory and the thick support tights she wore all year round , even under her trousers , because she said her legs ached . |
8 | In June 1991 , I and many more OAPs received a community charge payment card which detailed nine payments . |
9 | The polls before the 1970 election may have registered broad support for Labour but as the election result itself showed this support was conditional and unreliable . |
10 | For the first 15 minutes it seemed that Alton would be overrun by an RAF side which included four players who regularly turn out for Alton . |
11 | In the semi-final they meet James Talbot and Michael Nutt of the Old Bleach Club , who will be seeking to gain some compensation after they were in the Old Bleach side which lost this season 's CIS Irish Senior Cup championship final to Carrickfergus by a mere five shots . |
12 | They were helped by a Spring tide which caused extensive flooding and rendered all the fords impassable . |
13 | Three out of the five LEAs in the writer 's sample had developed arts programmes which included this type of teacher . |
14 | Another deaf man , a David Bedwell who had partial hearing , enlisted in the Army Service Corps as a driver , and his deafness cost him his life when he failed to hear three challenges as he was approaching the gates of a barracks . |
15 | Several aspects of the reshuffle , which had been expected for several weeks , were attacked by opposition groups who demanded greater reductions . |
16 | This was due to the lethargy of the central and guberniia authorities who appointed local committee members . |
17 | On the revenue side it meant such devices as changing the weighting of the staff mix so that a greater proportion of unqualified staff were employed than might ideally have been desired . |
18 | This was prompted by an investigation of a food poisoning outbreak which left forty-three people ill . |
19 | The facts involved the sale of a second-hand Mercedes car which developed unusual faults requiring repair for a Mercedes of that age and mileage . |
20 | But although the students ' efforts compared well with other universities and schools , the Bristol team has some distance to go before it can match the efforts of the Japanese motor industry entry which achieved 6,142 miles to the gallon . |
21 | I wanted to get away from the boring white theme , but the only dress I really liked was one by David Fielden which had white fur and beading . |
22 | Moreover , many of those laws on the statute books which empowered colonial administrators to control the printed media remained in force and were used by the new governments after independence . |
23 | It is the last leg of an interview marathon which began this summer , when Cooltempo , anticipating an earlier release for the record , flew a plane-load of Britain 's music press out to meet her in New York . |
24 | , Benjamin Wills ( 1807–1899 ) , Plymouth Brother , was born in Devonport , Plymouth , 12 December 1807 , the only child of Quaker parents , Benjamin Newton , a draper of Plymouth dock who died ten days before the birth of his son , and his widow Anna , a daughter of Roger Treffry of Lostwithiel , with whom Newton lived until the age of twelve . |
25 | As a member of the Historic Rally Car Club he gained 1st place in his class and 11th overall in the series of eight rallies held at Longleat . |
26 | Although the art of painting was not as well developed as architecture and sculpture , there were , nevertheless , a number of Slav artists from the Adriatic coastlands who displayed considerable talent and whose works are to be found in church frescoes and other paintings on both the Italian and eastern shores . |
27 | With a boat neck it had short sleeves , and Kate bit her lip as she realised it was going to have a pretty powerful impact . |
28 | Teague 's career looked all over after the world cup final … but he 's beaten off a shoulder injury and is back at his best … so too is Oxfordshire jockey Richard Dunwoody he rode five winners on saturday … today he won again on the Nicholson trained Now Your Talkin … he 's the top jockey with 40 winners … now he 's talkin … the Williams team from Didcot do n't do a lot of talking apart from Nigel of course but they 've swept the board in formula one this season … |
29 | Bregawn 's temperament got the better of him the following season , and on his racecourse appearances he displayed increasing sourness . |
30 | Bulgaria 's Grand National Assembly on Oct. 24 passed an amendment to the Political Parties Act which debarred all personnel in the Army , police , judiciary , diplomatic service and full-time presidential staff from membership of a political party . |