Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Club plans to launch an appeal for funds this year to build an urgently needed climbing wall in the Sports Centre . |
| 2 | The government and the ANC proposed after talks last week to hold the two-day planning conference next week , but Mr Meyer said yesterday that the ANC had accepted the new date . |
| 3 | The Bond group of companies last month reported a loss of almost A$1billion last financial year , the worst result in Australian corporate history . |
| 4 | WITH a fine disregard for the dozen Belgian paracommandos stationed on the roof of the United Nations headquarters in Kismayu , a team of Somalis last week chipped a hole in the compound wall and pinched a generator . |
| 5 | Joe McGoran , a local hotelier and member of the Dunoon and Cowal Hoteliers Association , commented : ‘ It is we the hoteliers who spend thousands of pounds each year to bring the tourists to Dunoon and Cowal , not the traders . |
| 6 | In the third and fourth quarters of 1978 the annualised rate of increase of the Retail Prices Index was only 6.8 per cent and real incomes were rising again following the sharp falls of 1976 and 77 ; unemployment , while still very high by post-war standards , was beginning to fall from its peak in 1977 and job vacancies were on the increase ; the balance of payments current account showed a substantial surplus . |
| 7 | Well and then when it was dry , the at the ends there there used to be another long of pins that road to put the ends on . |
| 8 | Thus , in May 1988 , one of the highest turn-outs of Lords this century saw the Government home on the introduction of a flat-rate poll tax , a measure which had caused great concern amongst regular attendants . |
| 9 | The fact that Disney boss Michael Eisner sold a big parcel of shares last week to net a cool £82.6m is also irrelevant . |
| 10 | Dealing with makers Direct selling leads the way to lower prices , Paul Bray reports |
| 11 | In Acts 15 scripture recorded the apostles meeting in synod to reach a common policy about the Gentile mission . |
| 12 | In pairs one partner assumes the role of any one of the people in the photograph and tells the other ( a colleague , friend or relative ) why he is tempted to go on the journey . |
| 13 | Sanger duty is particularly boring because there is nothing else to do but look out of the window , and since it is rarely done in pairs social interaction provides no compensation . |
| 14 | Mark Piller , of Bailey Bridge Road , will appear before magistrates this morning to face a charge of attempted murder . |
| 15 | WHEN delegates of the Whitbread Merit Table clubs took time off from their deliberations over leagues last week to enjoy a day out at the University Match , they took the opportunity to complain to Cardiff about the legions of players who have made the journey to the Arms Park in recent months . |
| 16 | STRONG advertising volumes and strict control over costs last year helped the publishing group , Trinity International , to boost pre-tax profits by 27 per cent . |
| 17 | The news that the Shetland born Chancellor had decided to freeze the duty on spirits this year got the nervous revellers into the mood . |
| 18 | Five ties have been settled on penalties this season following the introduction by the FA of the ‘ eight-day ruling ’ . |
| 19 | At times this anti-realism took the form of an extreme nominalism , according to which the words ‘ man ’ and ‘ triangle ’ are general only in that they are used of a number of different things . |