Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [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 | Originally a triple-purpose breed , it is often used as a suckler cow which has excellent fertility and calves easily ( the pelvis is unusually wide ) , with enough milk for her fast-growing , early-maturing calf . |
| 3 | The Royal Bank 's participation was the brainchild of Bill Speirs , a lecturer in management at Sheffield University who has close ties with the Branch . |
| 4 | As Lester Korn — never at a loss for a quote — told Fortune , ‘ Business has become too complicated , and the stakes have become too high , for a board chairman who needs executive talent to rely on his friends or his friends ’ recommendations . |
| 5 | ‘ I mean I 'm hoping to sell her a gorgeous blanket chest I discovered two weeks ago in Shropshire . ’ |
| 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 | In June 1991 , I and many more OAPs received a community charge payment card which detailed nine payments . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Preliminary results indicate that an assessment instrument which links specific aims and the actions necessary to achieve them can help to overcome this problem . |
| 11 | At very high frequencies difficulties arise through the skin effect which restricts current flow to a region near the surface of a conducting medium . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But against that , a version of Hendrix 's ‘ Manic Depression ’ is a cerebral card trick which warrants polite applause and scant gut reaction . |
| 14 | They were helped by a Spring tide which caused extensive flooding and rendered all the fords impassable . |
| 15 | As a car driver I have conflicting reactions to hitchers . |
| 16 | While such tests should ideally sample structural , semantic and pragmatic aspects of language , this is seldom feasible and frequently language screening occurs as part of a more general screening assessment which considers other aspects of a child 's social and psychological functioning . |
| 17 | The unit allows messages of up to 55 characters to be printed and has a repeat function which means repetitive text need not be re-keyed . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This was prompted by an investigation of a food poisoning outbreak which left forty-three people ill . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Ms Patti Rundall , of the Baby Milk Action Coalition which opposes unnecessary use of infant formulae , said : ‘ We are delighted with the ruling , but Boots has not been chastened . ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 27 | Liz Earle 's book Vital Oils ( Ebury Press , £6.99 ) features a healthy eating plan which replaces saturated fats with pure , unprocessed oils — testers found their scalps became less flaky and , in some cases , dandruff cleared up . |
| 28 | At last it has been recognised that there are many females within the club scene who have true potential . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Until recently SRC had been owned and operated by Gerald Bull , a Canadian artillery expert who had close links with the Iraqi regime , being a friend of Brig. -Gen . |