Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [vb past] [to-vb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Cockfield Fell managed to escape the 18th Century Enclosure Acts and remains a valuable area of common land .
2 And it may have been pertinent that in the major games ( and Bay of Plenty and Manawatu might rank only slightly below the status ) the home sides tended to dominate the last quarter of each game .
3 In early spring Maud , his wife , suffered her second miscarriage , and with the accompanying trauma it was a wonder James managed to finish the last of his studies at the hospital .
4 A CHILD murderer set to become the first person to be hanged for 28 years has sparked controversy across America .
5 Looking back over the first decade of his regime , in a radio broadcast made to mark the tenth anniversary of the end of the Civil War , Franco crowed ,
6 RUGBY League bosses had to overcome the first major fixture hurdle of the season last night .
7 Liberal attempts to find a middle way between radical demands for outright confiscation of noble land and conservative rejection of land reform failed to save the Second Duma .
8 The speedway fans started a campaign which was backed by the local MP and raised a petition signed by over five thousand names … today the speedway rulers decided to reorganise the first division and keep Swindon in it …
9 Firstly , the rice-salt solution failed to fulfil the second criterion , which demands that the materials needed for preparing the mixture should be affordable by all who need them : The actual components of the mixture were readily available , indeed this was one of the reasons which prompted BRAC to substitute rice for the less readily available gur .
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