Example sentences of "[noun] [num] [subord] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Former Queensland Premier and National Party leader Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen walked free from the Brisbane District Court on Oct. 19 after a jury failed to agree on a verdict in his trial for perjury . |
| 2 | It began inauspiciously with the burning of Bearn , a ‘ patrician ’ of the king in Seletun by the duces ( ealdormen ) Osbald and Aethelheard on 25 December 780 ( ASC D , s.a 779 ) , and it ended with the assassination of the king at Scythlecester ( perhaps Chesters ) near Hadrian 's Wall on 23 September 788 after a conspiracy had been formed by Sicga , Aelfwald 's ‘ patrician ’ and principal lay representative at the legatine council of 786 ( ASC D , s.a. 788 ) . |
| 3 | Earlier this year five other guests were awarded more than £6 million after a jury heard 80 per cent of the rooms in a South Carolina hotel had spyholes . |
| 4 | A CAB driver and an unemployed man will make close to £2.5 million after a jury ruled they wrote the Fifties classic Why Do Fools Fall In Love ? |
| 5 | About 400 people were evacuated from a Royal Air Force base at Stanmore , north London , on June 21 after a patrol discovered a bomb , which later exploded . |