Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subsequently Foley became a well-known midlands ironmaster . |
| 2 | The abduction sparked a house-to-house police search in the Willenhall area of Coventry . |
| 3 | With some 275,000 employees nationwide , British Telecom faced a massive communications job when they needed to explain the introduction of a new technical system to every manager in the company . |
| 4 | The 1983 Act established a Public Accounts Commission . |
| 5 | Five Ethiopians hijacked an Ethiopian Airlines plane soon after it left Addis Ababa airport on Aug. 28 . |
| 6 | The shocking discovery prompted a massive police operation clearly remembered by a retired policeman who was a young constable on duty in Spennymoor on the night of the slaying . |
| 7 | While Jinny served the tea Mrs Bennet brought a tall clothes maiden from the wash house and draped a sheet over it to give Anne and her mother some privacy . |
| 8 | Two men and a woman armed with grenades hijacked an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 727 airliner on a flight from Dire Dawa in eastern Ethiopia to Addis Ababa , the capital , on Sept. 4 and forced the pilot to land in Djibouti [ for Aug. 28 hijacking see p. 39042 ] . |
| 9 | No wonder Roman needed a public relations expert . |
| 10 | The strikes had taken on an important political dimension when workers formed a free trades union ‘ Solidarity ’ , and in 1981 it seemed that Soviet tanks would be needed to restore order . |
| 11 | BOXING : Mexico 's Ricardo Lopez won a unanimous points victory over Domingo ‘ Pretty Boy ’ Lucas of the Philippines in Mexico City last night , to retain his WBC straw-weight title . |
| 12 | The Office of Fair Trading recommended a full monopolies inquiry because of the potential impact of the purchase on Bupa 's buying-power when seeking bed-space in private hospitals . |
| 13 | The Open Champion described a delayed rules decision as ‘ pathetic ’ after alleging that home favourite and joint halfway leader Ernie Els had breached regulations when he used his putter to brush away a beetle on the second green . |
| 14 | Breaking with precedent , Rodríguez named a senior police officer , Commissioner-General Germán Franco Vargas , rather than a member of the military , as the new Chief of Police . |
| 15 | The police earned their keep with arrests 20 per cent up at 5,006 , but figures highlighted a varying police approach . |
| 16 | Yawl ran an excellent Oaks trial in Wednesday 's Tripleprint Lupe Stakes at Goodwood , rallying bravely to go down by a head to Gisarne . |
| 17 | Delegates including Western human rights activists and diplomats attended a human rights conference in Tehran on Sept. 9-12 , which was described by some commentators as an indication of the Iranian government 's desire to end its international isolation . |
| 18 | The City of London anti-apartheid group claimed that 30 protesters infiltrated a private sports club in south-west London where the South Africans were staying on Sunday night . |
| 19 | In August Hi-Tec bought a Dutch sports clothing company Beheermaatschappij Copex in a profit-related deal worth up to £7.7m . |
| 20 | BRITISH Airways launched a new fares war yesterday by slashing the cost of winter flights . |
| 21 | TESL was run as an alternative methods course for a few years , until TEFL/TESL became a combined methods course in 1986 . |
| 22 | Second , while two thirds of respondents espoused an open systems policy , in reality few are adopting it — again , open systems is regarded as a technology to keep the computing professionals amused rather than something that will show real business benefits . |
| 23 | Relations with Russia worsened after Georgian forces seized a Russian arms depot in southern Georgia on Nov. 2 . |
| 24 | The British Labour government introduced a statutory incomes policy in 1966 . |
| 25 | A PATIENT who disappeared from her hospital bed sparked a massive police siege last night . |
| 26 | He chose a good day to raise the matter , because only yesterday the hospital opened a new out-patients department . |
| 27 | In an effort to retrieve the lost ground the Democratic majority within Congress approved a civil rights bill in 1990 which was vetoed by Bush [ see p. 37769 ] . |
| 28 | The Western alliance appeared to be in total disarray as the USA supported a United Nations resolution calling for a cease-fire in Egypt , which her allies reluctantly accepted . |
| 29 | US Senator Larry Pressler , author of a 1985 amendment to the 1961 US Foreign Assistance Act under which aid to Pakistan had in October 1990 been barred [ see pp. 37764 ; 38726 ] , said in Delhi on Jan. 11 that he would oppose extending the amendment to India as he did not think that the country had a nuclear weapons programme . |
| 30 | When bad weather threatened an American Airlines flight from Chicago to New York the pilot , it emerges , offered his passengers the choice : shall we turn back or go on ? |