Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [pron] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I mean I 'm hoping to sell her a gorgeous blanket chest I discovered two weeks ago in Shropshire . ’ |
| 2 | In June 1991 , I and many more OAPs received a community charge payment card which detailed nine payments . |
| 3 | This was prompted by an investigation of a food poisoning outbreak which left forty-three people ill . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Her achievements are detailed in a section of the Good Health exhibition at the Dorman Museum which charts 100 years of health care in Middlesbrough . |
| 6 | On March 20 Junzo Okudaira was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment after being found guilty of planting a car bomb which killed five people outside a US servicemen 's club in Naples in 1988 [ see p. 35989 ] . |
| 7 | Now , firms do go bankrupt , we know that , er , but in this case , the sort of , of the thing they 're trading in , is , is far more precious than er , holidays abroad , or , or three piece suites you ordered six months ago , |
| 8 | After gaining a doctorate in Chemical Engineering he spent three years lecturing at University College , Swansea and then , in 1967 , he became Professor of Chemical Engineering at Bradford University . |
| 9 | Lastly , positively the last Reading gossip … après gig , KINKY MACHINE got goaded by THE WONDER STUFF into having a series of marathon challenges which involved one roadie eating 70 pickled onions in an hour . |
| 10 | A TRANMERE man who attacked two sisters at a party told police he remembered little or nothing about it because of the quantity of drink he had consumed . |
| 11 | J. deFeo , the influential West Coast painter who died six years ago , was introduced to New Yorkers in one of Dorothy Miller 's legendary ‘ Americans ’ shows at the Museum of Modern Art over thirty years ago . |
| 12 | The Police Complaints Authority is going to investigate three complaints against officers involved in the Hillsborough football disaster which killed 95 people last April . |
| 13 | From the mid-1970s the Committee and its officers were engaged in a process of sponsoring debate and planning , including through such conferences as one on school experience and the assessment of practical teaching , held in York in October 1976 — a pioneer conference from which emerged a CNAA-funded research project which reported three years later . |
| 14 | On the stock list we found four carriages additional to the ones already mentioned , plus three trams , a luggage van and a BUT trolleybus , ex-London Transport , which saw service in Spain after trolleybus services ended in London . |
| 15 | Lewis 's , a provincial chain of department stores which employed 3,400 people , is in the hands of the receivers . |
| 16 | Derek McLean , fund manager of Abbey Life Investment Services which provides two gilt and fixed interest unit trusts , said : ‘ We have included short dated index-linked gilts in our Capital and Reserve Trust . |
| 17 | Stars from The Mikado and the Yeoman of the Guard , the 2 light operas the company are performing in Oxford this week , took time away from rehearsals to launch the new Royal Mail stamps which depict 5 Gilbert and Sullivan favourites . |
| 18 | The surprise payment was hailed as a triumph by the receivers of the Belfast car company which collapsed ten years ago . |
| 19 | In the Silk Cup trophy class which had 36 starters the winner was William Funnell of Great Britain with Comex and Gerry Mullins from Ireland stayed in the Ribbons taking fourth for Ireland with Pallas Green . |
| 20 | You also find air taxi and charter companies , including the evocative Fieldair Freight which operates three Dakotas on regular freight runs from Wellington . |
| 21 | Identifying now v=2xy with the potential and u=x2-y2 with the field lines we get two sets of orthogonal hyperbolas . |
| 22 | The Chelsea defender was stretchered off the Anfield turf on September 5 following a challenge with the former Reds ' striker , suffering cruciate ligament damage which required one operation , with further surgery likely . |
| 23 | It is proving a delight to use ; on my fist attempt I punched two cards in quick succession without making a single mistake and with no strain to my hands — despite the instructions for the punching being written in Japanese only ! |
| 24 | ‘ The machine originally comes from the States and is powered by a 20cc chainsaw engine which does 300 miles to a gallon of fuel . |
| 25 | The bill is expected to sweep aside restrictions under the 1981 British Nationality Act which require six months prior residence before the granting of citizenship . |
| 26 | The bill is expected to sweep aside restrictions under the 1981 British Nationality Act which require six months prior residence before the granting of citizenship . |
| 27 | At the last council meeting we did two things or two things have happened . |
| 28 | Alan Bateman , the school board chairman , a medical equipment engineer who has two children at the school , said : ‘ We have no fears about running the school . |
| 29 | Er , we swopped our sharing expense on the er , Sp Spanish financial daily er , with cash for a twenty five percent stake in the Group and er , one of the things this er , does is to give us a stake in , in Marca , which is the second biggest newspaper in Spain and incidentally has the same social and economic profile as El , The Times of Spain er , and it 's a sport paper which sells seven days a week , two hundred and thirty four thousand circulation and its nearer , nearest competitor sells one fifty thousand . |
| 30 | Despite his withdrawal , Perot had spent some $500,000 per month maintaining a skeleton campaign structure which included 64 offices across the country , and his supporters had filed petitions ensuring that his name had been included on the ballot in every state . |