Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ( The five Central Asian republics — Kazakhstan , Uzbekistan , Kirgizia , Tadjikistan and Turkmenia — reached a further agreement on Aug. 14 to set up direct trading links between them and to reduce their dependence on central economic planning . |
2 | Maxwell , a Scot who lives locally , heads a business consortium ready to buy out controversial chairman Stan Flashman for £1 million . |
3 | Smith , a TA corporal in 10 Para and Rennie , a TA sergeant in 15 Para , then returned to Camp Three to pick up extra rope and equipment to push the route further at the next opportunity . |
4 | President Alfredo Cristiani , who had threatened on Nov. 11 to break off UN-sponsored peace talks in Mexico because of the FMLN 's continuing sabotage of electricity installations , said that the government would take action to consolidate the ceasefire , and on Nov. 21 he announced that troops would suspend aerial bombardment and artillery shelling of guerrilla positions . |
5 | Every Saturday night he had played in a tavern , and he 'd been known to take it to protest meetings in Clerkenwell Green to stir up radical fervour with songs . |
6 | Freed from the inconvenience of locating a partner with whom to mate , an oyster first spouts out white spat ripe eggs , then spills milt — to create a progeny of rare independence . |
7 | Draft SAS 470 sets out existing guidance in the new format including consideration of whether disclosure in financial statements is fair and the aggregate effect of uncorrected misstatements , while draft SAS 520 extends the scope of guidance in assessing other people 's work to include experts employed by the auditors . |
8 | If the countries of the EC all give up national power and pass it to the European level , are they all giving up the same thing ? |
9 | A Royal Commission was appointed in April 1990 to draw up national charter to regulate political life [ see pp. 37392-93 ] . |
10 | Channel 4 edits out naked princess cartoons |