Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Test and County Cricket Board working party led by Mr Mike Murray , the Middlesex chairman , suggested scrapping three-day matches in favour of 17 four-day games for each county . |
| 2 | Jill wanted to get Bill a birthday present , so she went and found her piggy-bank ; she shook it , but there was no noise ; she would have to make Bill a present This example comes from work in artificial intelligence ( Charniak , 1972 ) which is concerned with the attempt to translate the significance of ordinary utterances into an explicit representation that might be used by a computer to produce " intelligent " responses . |
| 3 | And in this connection , the award this year goes to Catherine who already has got a fairly formidable pedigree in the movement , shop steward , member of a branch committee , trades council , young members ' advisory committee , the National Committee but I think best thing so far , she 's actually chaired the T U C young members ' conference and that 's an achievement for this union as well . |
| 4 | All the more dispirited as they entered Blue Horizons , they discovered that somehow Joe 's dabs , bought with enthusiasm this morning to prepare for luncheon , failed to seem so attractive . |
| 5 | For the most part this description advances by paraphrase and quotation , so that de Man 's own voice is relatively silent and unintruding . |
| 6 | Is this where the National Dock Labour Board came into existence ? |
| 7 | The proposal was later made public in a joint statement by seven prominent members of the Israeli opposition Labour Party headed by Yossi Bellin , a former close aide to the party chairman Shimon Peres . |
| 8 | This does n't mean to say that that we ca n't invite other people to a special once a year meeting of this transportation working party to deal with cycle issues . |
| 9 | About 13 per cent of the US$520 million earned by Mexico from fishing each year comes from tuna sales . |
| 10 | A RECENTLY opened saleroom is having to introduce an extra auction this week to cope with demand . |
| 11 | It took a stranger some time to fall in love with its harsh outlines and stark , black trees . |
| 12 | The HC line complements the Organiser at the high end of the market , and generated £2.6m turnover this year compared with £900,000 in 1991 . |
| 13 | POLARITY THERAPY This system looks at imbalances in your energy systems and tries to release blockages by therapeutic touch , diet , exercise and counselling . |
| 14 | ‘ Because that 's the effect this place has on people — at least on some people . ’ |
| 15 | ACTION in the second round of the Mobil/Top Gear British Championship gets under way in Carlisle this morning for the one-day Pirelli international , writes Steve Fellows . |
| 16 | The term hard look evolved by way of contrast with the previous standard of review generally employed by United States ' courts which was narrow . |
| 17 | Figure 4.9 Anxiety related to buses |
| 18 | The term formative assessment refers to assessment which looks forward to pupils ' future learning , as opposed to summative assessment which looks back at what pupils have already achieved . |
| 19 | The Bashkir Revolutionary Commission resigned in protest at this ‘ Russian chauvinism ’ and the ‘ Imperialistic tendencies of the Russians which hinder in every manner the development of national minorities ’ . |
| 20 | September 7 : Taiwanese Air Force TF-104G Starfighter spun into sea off Yunlin . |
| 21 | Pavement widening at Juniper Green Dissatisfaction expressed by Dr. Neil and Scott and Councillor Mrs. Brereton . |
| 22 | Pavement widening at Juniper Green Dissatisfaction expressed by Dr. Neil and Scott and Councillor Mrs. Brereton . |
| 23 | The 100 top economic thinkers challenged the Fed to lower interest rates and urged the White House to mandate new tax credits for business investment alongwith a $50 billion public works programme . |
| 24 | It is a college preparatory school headed by Dr Norman A Palmer . |
| 25 | Cars of a different vintage will be among the attractions at Prescott Hill near Cheltenham this weekend as the speed hill-climbing season gets into gear . |
| 26 | The measures , among those originally proposed by the government in July [ see pp. 38289 ; 38338 ] , were passed after negotiations , mediated by Shehabuddin Ahmed , between the ruling Bangladesh National Party ( BNP ) and the opposition Awami League led by Sheikh Hasina Wajed . |
| 27 | CLIVE ALLEN scored twice , but Trevor Morley was sent off as European football last night returned to Upton Park for the first time in 11 years . |
| 28 | In fact at present much land taken for chalk extraction is lost to agriculture permanently . |
| 29 | A complicating factor in all this was that despite the opposition of the Eastern District Council , expressed both before and after the decision had been taken , Cambridge University Extra-Mural Board resolved in December 1955 to withdraw its resident tutors from some of the counties it served . |
| 30 | Tea/supper Wholemeal bread spread with Flora margarine and a small jar of ham paste and topped with two sliced cold Pork sausages ( left over from Thursday ) with mustard . |