Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [verb] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — OULTON Park hosts the Rapid Fit Open Formula Ford Championship for Formula Ford 1600cc motors next Saturday with an international field of drivers lining up to prove that they can make the leap into Formula 1 status . |
| 2 | EX-POSTIE Geoff Luxton 's parcel went an extra 10,000 miles — because he was 20 yards out with the address . |
| 3 | The average man 's ejaculate contains an estimated 200,000,000 sperm , although this represents just two per cent of the total ejaculate ; the other ninety-eight per cent consists of the mucus-like semen . |
| 4 | Most probably the boy 's sister had the same biochemical defect . |
| 5 | Almost always considered secondary to his poetry , Masefield 's fiction has the same basic theme , man 's search for beauty — in nature , in ideas and , often , in the ideal of womanhood . |
| 6 | The dispute was triggered by Hong Kong 's decision to allow a top Chinese swimmer , Yang Yang , who had sought political asylum , to travel to the United States . |
| 7 | The dispute was triggered by Hong Kong 's decision to allow the top Chinese swimmer , Yang Yang , who had sought political asylum in the West , to travel to the US last week . |
| 8 | President Assad 's decision to support the United States-led anti-Iraqi alliance after the Iraqi President and Assad 's Ba'athist adversary , Saddam Hussein , had ordered Iraqi forces into Kuwait in August 1990 led to a swift international reappraisal of Syria , a country long ostracised by the West as a sponsor of international terrorism . |
| 9 | HONG KONG — China reacted angrily yesterday to Hong Kong 's decision to move a centrally-located British naval base to an outlying island , a switch apparently designed to undercut any plans China had for a high-profile military presence after 1997 , writes Kevin Hamlin . |
| 10 | Eastern regional sales centre is one of seven centres set up in July this year following Scottish Amicable 's decision to separate the Independent Financial Advisor ( IFA ) and Appointed Representative ( AR ) distribution channels . |
| 11 | But the interesting new question is whether Lynagh 's decision to play the closed Australian season with the Benetton club in Italy will prevent him from becoming the new Wallaby skipper . |
| 12 | Despite this tension , there is also a refusal to examine curricula or practices : student failure , therefore , is the fault of the student 's inability to make the necessary sympathetic adjustment to the requirements of literary judgement ; not the failure of the departments in setting those requirements . |
| 13 | A ship 's figurehead makes an unusual focal point |
| 14 | ( Li had on Aug. 10 stated China 's willingness to sign the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty — see p. 38381 ) . |
| 15 | Haeckel 's hypothesis had no genuine theoretical underpinning — why should the changes in the developing embryo mirror the transitions involved in the evolution of the species ? |
| 16 | Maggie 's heart gave an uncomfortable little thump as those dark eyes were turned on them — no , on her ! |
| 17 | The territory 's ambition to become a major financial centre like Tokyo and Singapore , therefore , came to seem increasingly unrealistic . |
| 18 | Indonesia 's ambition to become the top paper-producing nation is leading to some of the earth 's finest forests being felled , according to a report from an international environmental group , Down to Earth . |
| 19 | An IMF official quoted in the Middle East Economic Digest of Oct. 18 welcomed " the government 's intention to address the outstanding economic and financial issues " and looked forward to future co-operation between Sudan and the IMF . |
| 20 | Bulgaria 's Foreign Affairs Minister Stoyan Ganev met his Greek counterpart Antonis Samaras in Athens on Jan. 11 to discuss Bulgaria 's intention to recognize the breakaway Yugoslav republic of Macedonia . |
| 21 | Sean Walsh 's mind did a slow careful calculation , then he came to a decision . |
| 22 | Here was McCreery 's HQ giving the widest possible interpretation to the term " allied national " to include anyone " born within pre-1939 , frontier of an " Allied country " , which of course would also have covered all Russian emigres regardless of when they had left Russia . |
| 23 | THE Ffestiniog Railway Trust have issued the following statement regarding the FR 's bid to revive the former Welsh Highland Railway . |
| 24 | The releases could be part of China 's bid to sway the International Olympic Committee to award the 2000 Olympics to Beijing , which has made clear it will do anything to win the Games . |
| 25 | We will actively support Britain 's bid to host the 2000 Olympic Games in Manchester . |
| 26 | Delighted civic leaders said the decision would boost the city 's bid to host the 2000 Olympic Games . |
| 27 | Rail developments also form part of Manchester 's bid to host the 27th Olympic Games . |
| 28 | Czechoslovakia 's opposition acquired a colourful new facet yesterday , when a group calling itself The Ladybirds launched its manifesto . |
| 29 | The Spanish Civil War began in July 1936 when a Moorish legion invaded southern Spain in support of General Franco 's attempt to overthrow the socialist-dominated Spanish Republican government . |
| 30 | While Ormrod J. 's attempt to identify a single definitive criterion for the notion of marriage may falter , there must still be certain negative definitive criteria setting the proper limits of the concept . |